Steve Crozier CV - 34 Mivart Street, Easton, Bristol BS5 6JF. Tel: 07748707000
Artist investigating urban space, open source technologies, climate change, creative mapping,Popular education and critical pedagogy,Peak oil strategies and supply lines, alternative economies, Xchange and everyday life. References Meave Haughey, ACE : meave.haughey@artscouncil.org.uk | 01216315712 Rob Hewitt, BCC : Rob_Hewitt@birmingham.gov.uk | 01213032713 Ongoing ProjectsResearch into the individualisation of climate change, investigating the contradictions between the personal and the collective in an era of projected eco-systemic failure see websiteFunded By Self October 2007 - Lima:LondonParticipated as an artist in a 10 day 'lab' working with Peruvian and European performance artists investigating the themes of 'Globalisation and the City'. Created videos for live vj-ing during the performance,a 40 minute piece in a disused RAF aircraft hanger. see documentationFunded By NWT/LOT Theatro July 2006 - September 2007 - South AmericaTravelling and working in South America for over one year. Whilst away created "Argentina sin Alambres: New Enclosures & Open Alternatives".Hand drawn and scribbly, looking at Argentina, art and autonomy, which was Xchanged with approximately 40 individuals and collectives for other cutural produce. see the website Funded By Brave New Brum July 2006 - "Peak Oil - A User's Guide"Published using Mute's Print on Demand (POD) service, a book of 108 pages of Peak Oil explorations with photographs, illustrations and incisive texts looking at this phenomena from more than just a geology perspective. Peak Oil is about all sorts of Power.It is a collective manual exploring Peak Oil incorporating documentation from the Peak Oil Olympics, Bristol UK 2006. see the website Funded By ACE July 2006 - Peak Oil Olympics1 Day and 1 Night of games and challenges investigating supply lines in a Peak Oil world. In the urban wilds of Bristol we played and collectively located : Food :Water : Shelter: Communication: Heat see the websiteFunded By ACE February 2006 - Feeling PeakyArt Research group POPEX (Peak Oil People investigating Economies & Xchange) make urban and rural artworks about the theory of peak oil. Involved designing graphics and posters, researching the location of oil and gas pipelines in and around Bristol for a future projects and a presentation at the Cube Cinema. see POPEXFunded By Brave New Brum January 2006 - TreeGen - Redefining the nature of intellectual propertyWebsite using on and offline street media exploring issues of intellectual property and biotechnology. Created hoax patents for indigenous uk plant species, designed to be attached to trees, looking at the privatisation of folk technologies. Featured in Interlude magazine and Do It Yourself Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid Day (DIY DNA DAY) at the Cube Cinema. see Treegen websiteFunded By Brave New Brum June - December 2005 - Brave New BrumBrave New Brum was a collaboration between A2:RT and The Real Monument Company. It questioned the process of regeneration by touring Birmingham in a mobile media lab, and looked at postive alternatives to prestige redevelopments by running creative participatory workshops on mapping, open source alternative tourist guides, autonomous energy, wild food walks, seedbombs, drystores, peak oil, creating alternate realities out of cardboard boxes, a treasure hunt with a twist, and quite a bit more.Check here for summary of my involvement in the events and projects and check out the Brave New Brum website, as there's loads there.Funded By Arts Council England June 2005 - Borderlines - Refugee Week 2005A collaborative project creating a 32 page publication about asylum and refugee experiences, created entirely using open source DTP software. Borderlines is published under a Creative Commons license.I designed the final publication as well as creating content.Funded by Celebrate Sanctuary January 2005 - DIY Culture festivalI did workshops on lowtech computing and subvertising at this self organised, entirely unfunded weekend of autonomous and sustainable shebangs.No funding - Mutual aid via donations November 2004 - Technique over Technology WorkshopIf technology is considered as a mediation device to mitigate against loss or unwelcome facilitation of exploitation then any departure should be a step towards freedom and wealth. Presented workshops as part of the event focussing on non narcotic mind alteration.Photos here. Hosted by irational.org at the Cube CinemaNo funding October 2004 - D:tour - Climb Spaghetti JunctionClimbing and mapping around, about, over and under,discover alternate routes, explore urban body mind environment. Duo from Irational.org came to play, about 20 people turned up. View some photosSelf funded. September 2004 - January 2004 Mapping Greets GreenAs part of the collective I created and implimented partipatory workshops with older people looking at local histories and Xchanges in Greets Green, an area being 'regenerated' in Birmingham. I edited the audio and made a blog and compost installation.looking at the dirty side of regeneration.Funded by tHE PUBLIC June 2004 - Mapping Asylum.Refugee Week 2004We encouraged members of Birmingham's refugee communities to use voicemail to communicate emotions, feelings, memories and expectations as they re-visit their first experiences of Birmingham's urban environment.As they moved around the city a map emerged that charted the refugees and asylum seekers experience of the city, re-tracing their initial encounters with the city. I designed and implimented participatory workshops based on psychogeographic principles,and helped record and edit audio, and created the final interactive visual map and website.Funded by Celebrate Sanctuary Urban D:tour - 31st May 2004Many people joined us for a day of disreputable and diversionary street theatre in the heart of 'Europe's new shopping capital'.Click here for the full
report Tools and techniques - April /May 2004A day of exploring open source multimedia tools, hosted by Open Advantage. Workshops with Jono Bacon showing Blender and Gimp , with me demoing Kino and Cinelerra. As open source is boring just referencing itself and computer screens, we organised a pirate radio scanner workshop with heath bunting from irational.org.It scans for radio, records and restreams the output, so the local is accessable via the web. See Scanner for infoFunded by Open Advantage Network Firewall : Community Mapping - March/April 2004Emotional Mapping : young adults with housing needs. Tales of newts, sticklebacks, falling and pissing in the river, buried treasure, tarzans, dens, fields, parents and stepparents,,,This was our first mapping project informed by pschogeography and the development of our ideas through contacts with other collectives. It was exhibited as part of the FEED festival, and had an intense impact on particants and observers. We traced the participants emotional journeys through the urban space of Birmingham using pencil, paper, photography and voicemail. I worked with the young people in participatory workshops and designed and built the website: View it here Funded by Arts Council England and St Basils. Borderphonics - November 12th to 16th 2003Borderphonics was a co-operative web radio project by artists, activists, and collectives .It focussed on identities contemporary politics and practices, and on border zones, migrations, social filters, and counter-politics of control technologies. I contributed audio files from the Network:Firewall project which were remixed and streamed live.Self funded. Inner City Life - Youth Festival - October 2003In collaboration with St Basil's Resettlement Centre I designed and helped produce a CD-Rom with some of the young people talking about their housing needs in the past, present and future.It wasn't happy in parts and it was emotional and empowering. The Cd was shown on the 24th October as part of the Youth Festival.Funded by St Basils. Collective Manouvers - Bristol Summer Games, Urban Olympics - October 2003."Achieving social and culture generation via movement." For three days Bristol City was an Olympic arena for collaboration and competition. Collective Manouvers was a congregation of local and international cultural collectives, exploring universal urban architecture and furniture.As part of the collective I designed and participated in happenings. This event was integral to developing both collective and personal practice. It introduced us to many other collectives with inspired ways of being.
Tools & Techniques - September 2003I participated in discussions, workshops and demos looking into using Linux for creative multimedia tasks. Topics covered included Blender, the 3D graphics app, DadaImc, Indy media software, Linux audio, GIMP for graphics, and Cinelerra for Video. In collaboration with Lowtech, Sheffield.Self funded Network: Firewall - Refugee Week - June 2003'Border Crossings and Leaving Home - Birmingham Refugees tell their stories' was a project that developed my practice in many ways. - As a collective we recorded video diarys with local asylum seekers and refugees, looking at the broader issues of migration. Read reports and download stuffThe event was important to me as it expanded the themes of open source and social justice by applying them to everyday life. A substrand of Refugee Week included - 'BorderXing / Detour' - Heath Bunting and friends came to talk about Border crossing at Vivid, 1pm. It was followed by a Detour in and around Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham. Funded by Celebrate Sanctuary Freegeek visit - March 2003Went to Portland to research Freegeek, a community based computer recycling scheme. It's a veritable hive of activity, and they have an interesting scheme where volunteers work 24 hours in exchange for a 'Freekbox'.Check out thereport and photos from the visit. Funded by Birmingham Film Festival Grow your own media lab!From 25th November - 20th December 2002. This was our first event. I helped design and run a series of workshops at Vivid.We had the space for a month under after recieving a HOTHAUS bursery. As part of the collective I talked about how to install Linux,tactical media, social technologies and the creative use of open source. James Wallbank from RTI hosted digital camera workshops, and the London Genderchangers did a women + tech event.Read all the reports + documentation from the lab! Supported by Vivid |