Personal Website (with documentation of all works) www.nicsandiland.com
Curriculum/Subject Area Sound, Video, Interactivity, Performance within a Fine Art context
Public output from research and scholarly activity
The Hum, a smartphone-based site specific work which questions and elevates these inadvertent acts of choreography. Funded through Arts Council England
2020 Swindon Dance
2018 Colchester Arts Centre
2018 Lancaster Arts
2018 Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth
2018 Winchester Hat Fair
2018 Stockton International Riverside Festival
2017 Brighton Festival
Weighting A kinetic video installation investigating the relationship between digitsed and physical immediate movement funded through Arts Council England
2016 Dance East, Ipswitch
2016 MK Gallery Milton Keynes
2016 The Place Theatre, London
2016 The Point, Eastleigh
2015 The Emporium, Brighton
Trip Hazard A reactive video installation drawing from slapstick genre of 1920s silent films Supported by The BBC and The Arts Council England
2014 Cinedans, Amsterdam
2013 The Place Theatre London
2013 University of Bedford
2013 The Dome, Brighton
Points of View A reactive video installation progressing the experimental spirit of John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
Commissioned by The Barbican Arts centre and The Cunningham Company
2011 Barbican Centre, London
Everything Looks Beautiful in Slow Motion, a window-based interactive installation set in the context of a shopping centre or high street shopping area. Commissioned by Dance Digital and funded by Arts Council England
2013 City Moves, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen#
2011 Brighton Festival, East Sussex
2010 Dance Digital, Chelmsford
2010 Fuse Festival, Strood, Kent
2006 Sadlers Well's Theatre (smaller format, non-window installation)
Gravity Shift a video installation looking at how we might read gravity through witnessing another body
2013 The Place Theatre, London
2013 Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds
2012 British Dance Edition, Stratford, London
2011 The Lightbox Gallery, Woking
2011 Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam
2011 Digital Futures in Dance commission, Bournemouth
2010 DRHA conference Brunel University
2010 Otter Gallery, University of Chichester
Bypasser, a window-based interactive installation set in the context of a shopping centre or high street shopping area.
Commissioned by Dance Digital and funded by Arts Council England.
2010 Chelmsford, Essex.
2010 Stone Squid Gallery, Hastings.
Orbital A reactive video installation relating the movements of a projected dancer and depicted background to the movement of the public around the projection.
Commissioned by Woking Dance Festival and funded by Arts Council England
2013 City Moves, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
2012 Somatics& Technology Conference, Chichester University
2012 British Dance Edition, Stratford, London
2011 The Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn
2010 Oxford City Gallery, Oxford
2010 The Lightbox, Woking
2010 The Place Theatre, London
2010 Stone Squid Gallery, Hastings
SPDT, interactive work
2010 Stone Squid Gallery, Hastings.
Heat Exchanger an installaiton focusing on the viewer's stillness as an active engagement.
2010 Stone Squid Gallery, Hastings.
Dimmer. reactive installation
2010 Stone Squid Gallery, Hastings
Remote Dancing an interactive installation, collaboration with choreographer Rosemary Lee and composer Graeme Miller,
Funded by Arts Council England under the Capture 3 commissions
2009 Noorderzon festival Groningen, Netherlands
2007 New Moves festival Roubaix, France
2007 Aberystwyth Arts Centre Wales
2006 Centre National de la Dance Paris
2006 Quay gallery Isle of Wight
2005 Bunker arts Slovenia
2005 Nott Dance Nottingham
2005 Spring Dance Festival Utrech
2004 Royal Festival Hall, London
2004 Metropole Galleries, Folkstone
2004 Lyric Hammersmith, London
2004 ICA, London
Films:
The People, a 3 minute dance film with text by Wendy Houston
2018 Lightmoves Festival, Limerick
Dancing Parallel, a 10 minute dance film
Commissioned by English National Ballet, Scottish Ballet and National Dance Theatre Wales
2012 Theatre Royal, Glasgow
2012 Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
2012 Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London
Exosphere, a short film by Nic Sandiland with Simon Aeppli
2012 – permanent ReelDance Moving Image Collection (MIC) housed at the University of New South Wales, Sydney
2022 Joint Paper with Dr Yael Flexer Imagining Otherwise at Chichester University
2016 Joint Paper with Dr Yael Flexer Disappearing Acts presented at Terror on Tour conference at Chichester University
2013 Paper Modulation in Interactive Installation presented at Affective Experiences conference at Parasol Unit, London produced between City University, Middlesex University, UCL and Kings College London
2013 Paper Modulation in Interactive Installation presented at Corporeal Computing conference at University of Surrey
2012 Presentation as part of Research Working Group as part of Somatics& Technology conference, Chichester University
2011 Modulation of Movement and Composite Choreography presented at Digital Futures in Dance Conference, Bournemouth
2009 Presentation entitled: Victorian film mechanisms and physical interaction at Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Tel Aviv University.
BSc, PGCE, PhD by Public Works
Interactive art, physical technology, video, choreography, installation, performance.
Nic Sandiland is a UK-based artist whose work explores new choreographic forms through installation, performance, and film. He originally trained as an electronics engineer before studying dance and performance in the late 80s.
Over the past 30 years, he has made movement-based works focusing on the choreography of the everyday. He is particularly interested in engaging the everyday movements of the viewer in a choreographic context and since 2000 has increasingly employed interactive digital technology to do this. Recent work draws on facial and body recognition systems, exposing the political issues that accompany such AI technology through public-facing interactive installations.
He has made work in London, Europe, and South East Asia and has presented at theatres, art galleries, and many unusual venues. His film work has been shown worldwide and has been regularly broadcast on UK TV (Channel 4).
His work has been commissioned by such organisations as: the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Arts Centre, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, and The Brighton Festival and he is a regular collaborator with choreographers Yael Flexer and Rosemary Lee. He has also worked as an interactive technology designer with companies such as Station House Opera and Blast Theory; and artists Gary Stevens and Imogen Stidworthy, and as a producer and editor for Extant Theatre, the UK’s leading professional performing arts company of visually impaired artists and theatre practitioners.
Nic has taught workshops on digital technology and dance around the World including Bangalore, India, and Seoul, South Korea. He also taught video production at London Contemporary Dance School on their MA dance for camera programme.
Sandiland, Nic (2023) Accenting agency: duets within interactive video installation. [Doctorate by Public Works]
Woodhouse, Angela and Broadhead, Caroline and Sandiland, Nic (2018) 'Exposure' working title sharing of practical research in March 2018. In: Exposure - research using a thermal imaging camera, 23 April 2018, Coventry University.
Sandiland, Nic and Houston, Wendy and Oshodi, Maria and Hutera, Donald and Phillips, Pete and Keane, David (2017) The Hum: Audio App and related Films. [Portfolio/Project/Collection]
Sandiland, Nic and Houston, Wendy and Oshodi, Maria and Hutera, Donald and Phillips, Pete and Keane, James (2017) The Hum. [Performance]
Sandiland, Nic (2017) Hum films. [Film/Video]
Nic's research is regularly funded through Arts Council England
Digital Consultant for Cheshire Dance Agency - advising on a development budget of £400K
Technical Producer for Extant Theatre Company - Britain's leading professional performing arts company of visually impaired people
