☼ Sam Skinner
About
♖︎ Torque 2
☁︎ The New Observatory
☺︎ Opticon
☂︎ Typemotion
☜︎ Torque 1
✲︎ Furtherfield
✄︎ Brighton Greenway
☯︎ The Grundy
♘︎ Thamesmead Festival 2015
♥︎ Algorithmic Condition
✏︎ Publishing
⚘︎ Moorings Underpass
⅋︎ RTM.fm
✌︎ Branch Lines
✎︎ Bruchstückes
Tate Liverpool, 7th & 8th February, 2015. A newspaper on privacy and surveillance produced with gallery visitor contributions over two days. Occupying the Claude Parent installation, La colline de l’art, during The Serving Library exhibition. Talks by Erica Scourti and Prof Christian Fuchs.
200 screen printed flyers produced. 5000 newspapers printed and distributed the following week. Download PDF.
Co-produced with Nathan Jones as part of Torque #2 The Act of Reading. In collaboration with Tate Collective. Designed by Mark Simmonds.
Hello!
I'm an artist and curator – my practice is focused on relations between technology, media, and community. I employ a range of processes from historical research to printmaking, curation to mural making, publishing to workshops.
I recently relocated to Oxford where I'm working on a number of new projects including: exploring the realtionship between the senses and books for a forthcoming exhibition at the Bodleian Library; researching the long term impact of social distancing and how the arts may be used as part of a restorative process; curating a library themed exhibition at Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool School of Art; and a project investigating AI, decentralisation, and publishing.
I co-direct Torque , an experimental digital literacy and publishing project. Our most recent book was Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain produced in collaboration with Furtherfield . I was co-chair of Working Group 1 of the COST Action on New Materialism , between 2014-18, and co-edited the project almanac , which I'm developing for the new Matter journal, based at the University of Barcelona. My most recent paper entitled 'Community' co-written with mirko nikolić was published in Philosophy Today . I was research associate at Kingston School of Art for the Algorithmic Condition project, and have taught at Ravensbourne and Lancaster Universities.
In 2019 I completed a PhD based between Manchester School of Art and FACT , Liverpool, which investigated the history of the old Liverpool Observatory. My research translated into a group exhibition entitled The New Observatory at FACT, co-curated with Hannah Redler of the Open Data Institute, and an artist book, Obs, published by Broken Dimanche .
I previously lived and worked in Thamesmead, South East London, where I collaborated with TACO! to develop RTM , a new community radio station in the area. I also produced a number of projects with Peabody locally, including a culture guide, arts participation survey, arts festivals in 2015 and 2016, and a tile and lighting installation.
I have a BA (LJMU) and MA (Sussex) in Art History.
For further details and up-to-date info please get in touch.
mail@samskinner.net @samwskinner
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