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      Mr Nic Sandiland

      ROLE: Associate Senior Lecturer
      DEPARTMENT: Visual Arts
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 6689
      EMAIL: N.Sandiland@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        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 (recent)

        Exhibitions:

        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:

        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

        Conference papers and presentations:

        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.

        Qualifications:

        BSc Electronic Engieering, PGCE


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Physical computing, video, choreography, installation, live art.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Nic Sandiland's research explores new choreographic forms through installation, performance and film. Over the past 20 years he has directed many movement-based projects focusing on simple pedestrian choreography. 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 has drawn on cinematic techniques, such as slow motion and moving camera mechanisms as ways to elevate the mundane and often overlooked choreography of everyday life.

        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 Artsdepot 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 artists Gary Stevens and Imogen Stidworthy.

        Publication Feed

        The Hum

        Sandiland, Nic and Wendy, Houston and Maria, Oshodi and Donald, Hutera and Pete, Phillips and James, Keane (2017) The Hum. [Performance]

        'Exposure' working title sharing of practical research in March 2018

        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.

        Close Distance

        Woodhouse, Angela and Broadhead, Caroline and Sandiland, Nic (2017) Close Distance. [Show/Exhibition]

        Disappearing Acts

        Sandiland, Nic and Flexer, Yael (2016) Disappearing Acts. [Performance]

        Weighting

        Sandiland, Nic (2015) Weighting. [Show/Exhibition]

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        Nic's research is regularly funded through Arts Council England

      • Engagement &
        Impact

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