Ian M Clothier is a Senior Academic at Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, Director of Intercreate Research Centre (intercreate.org) and founding Director of SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand).
He has been selected and exhibited at Taranaki culture at Puke Ariki, New Zealand, ISEA 2008 Singapore symposium, net.NET at The JavaMuseum, for Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival in the USA, ISEA 2006 San Jose exhibition, Graphite at the University of Otago NZ, the First International Festival of Electronic Art in Rio de Janeiro, Fair Assembly atZKM, New Forms Festival in Vancouver, ISEA 2004 Tallinn/Helsinki exhibition, ReJoyce in Dublin and Wild 2002 in the Tasmanian Museum. Thematically projects involve notions around cultural hybridity and nonlinearity, and more recently these are united within notions of integrated systems.
Cultural projects include the hybrid micronation The District of Leistavia, where online response and voting forms were used to create the Leistavian Constitution and query cultural identification. Nonlinear projects include Haiku robots, the augmented reality project branch on branch v3.1, and A Wandering Rock based on the chapter of Ulysses which utilised movement sensors. His written work has been published in journals including Leonardo, Convergence and Digital Creativity and he has selected for and given many conference presentations.
RESEARCH OUTPUTS
Research Publications and Presentations
Books & Monographs
Clothier, I. (2008). SCANZ 2006. Intercreate Press. New Plymouth, New Zealand.
Clothier, I. & Lane, T. (2008). Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand. In S. Brennan & S. Ballard (Eds.), The Aotearoa digital arts reader (pp. 97-103), Auckland, New Zealand: Clouds.
Clothier, I. (2007). Formen der Reprasentation: Hybride Kulturen, Nonlinearitat und creative Verfahren (Forms of Representation: Hybrid Culture, Nonlinearity and Creative Practice). In Kroncke, M; Mey, K & Spielmann, Y. (Eds.) Kultureller Umbau: Räume, Identitäten, Re/Präsentationen (Cultural Reconstruction: Spaces, Identities, Re/Presentations). Bielefeld: Transcript.
Journal Publications
Clothier, I. M. (2008). Leonardo, Nonlinearity and Integrated Systems. Leonardo (41), 49-55.
Clothier, I. (2008, Winter). Second cultural identification.Te Iarere Wavelength, 3, cover.
Clothier, I. (2006, November). Hybrid cultures: what, where and how about us? Te Iarere Wavelength Issue 1, Spring 2006, 33-47.
Clothier, I. (2005). Created identities: hybrid cultures and the internet. Convergence, 11 (4), 44-59.
Conference Presentations
Clothier, I. (2008). On integrated systems: hybrid culture and nonlinearity. Paper presented at ISEA 2008 Conference. Singapore.
Clothier, I. (2008, February). SCANZ and DMAP, a digital strategy fund educational resources project. Paper presented at Tending Networks: Aotearoa Digital Art Symposium, Christchurch. Tending Networks: Aotearoa Digital Art Symposium, Christchurch.
Clothier, I. (2007, July 2-5). Multiplicities in contemporary art. Paper presented at ANZAAE, Wellington.
Clothier, I. (2005, March 19). Remoteness, Hybridity, Power and Freedom. Paper presented at re:mote, Elam School of Fine Arts. Auckland.
Exhibitions, Catalogues, Competitions & Performance
Clothier, I. (2008, April). Artist and exhibitor. Te Ara O Te Ora exhibition. Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford.
Clothier, I. (2008). Artist and exhibitor. Taranaki Gate. Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford.
Clothier, I. (2007). Art.data/branching. New Plymouth: Intercreate Press.
Clothier, I. (2006, March/April). Roll over Oe sun, roll over Oe rain. Exhibition in the online Ecopoetics category of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival 2006. Ithaca College, New York.
Clothier, I. (2006, August). Interrogating the invisible. Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art and Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. San Jose, California.
Clothier, I. (2006, August). Quest for success participant (C5 project). Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art and Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. San Jose, California.
Clothier, I. (2006, June). Exhibition. In between.TeWa Gallery, Wanganui.
Clothier, I. (2006, March). Exhibition. Silicon chips are made of sand.Quay Gallery, Wanganui UCOL.
Clothier, I. (2005). The District of Leistavia. At prog:ME, First International Symposium on Electronic Art. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.progme.org/e_home.htm
Clothier, I. (2005). The District of Leistavia is You. On-line curated exhibition ‘Fair Assembly’. ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Germany. http://makingthingspublic.zkm.de/fairassembly/
Clothier, I. (2005). Exhibition of international magazines. Wayleave. Magazzini Generali, Rome.
Clothier, I. (2005, November). Introducing the District of Leistavia. Graphite 2005 Art Show. University of Otago, Dunedin.
Edited Online Publications
Clothier, I. (2007). Created identities: hybrid cultures and the internet (revised with images) online at http://www.hz-journal.org/n11/clothier.html
Clothier, I. (2006, November). Author. Hybridity and creativity. http://www.aen.org.nz/journal/1/2/clothier.html AEN Journal (Aotearoa Ethnic Network).
Clothier, I. (2005). Commentator on Australian email list Empyre.
Clothier, I. (2005). Editor and contributor to various publications. http://www.art-themagazine.com/
Clothier, I. (2005). Noboru Tsubaki: Genre Jumping, Fluxus and Hybrid Influences in Japanese Culture. http://www.art-themagazine.com
Clothier, I. (2005). John Himmelfarb. Visual essay. http://www.art-themagazine.com
Clothier, I. (2005). 4 HitlabNZ Artist Projects. Visual essay. http://www.art-themagazine.com
Scholarly Activity
Professional Practice: Achievements & Distinctions
Clothier, I. (2008). ITPQNZ Degree Accreditation Panel Member.
Clothier, I. (2008). Panel member on Leonardo Education Forum at ISEA 2008, Singapore.
Clothier, I. (February 9, 2007). Art Technology.Presenter at Human Interface Technology Lab NZ (HIT Lab NZ) consortium meeting. University of Canterbury, Christchurch.
Clothier, I. (2006). InteractiveCitycuratorial committee member second call, for theThirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art and Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. San Jose, California.
Clothier, I. (2006, July). SCANZ International residency and workshop co-organiser. Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, New Plymouth.
Clothier, I. (2006, August). Panel member. Pacific Rimnew media summit– invisible dynamics groupconference presentation. Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art and Zero One San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. San Jose, California.
Clothier, I. (2005, February). Research Fellowship finalist, HITLabNZ Converge 05 Artists’Fellowship.
Clothier, I. (2005, February 27). Panel discussion participant for Summer Forum: New Languages, Technologies and Identities. Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth.
Clothier, I. (2005). Award finalist. Vodafone Digital Art Awards – Net.Art Category. Disruptiv Gallery.
Clothier, I. (2005). Member of Curatorial Committee of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit (part of the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge).
Contribution to Research Environment
Clothier, I. (2008). Research Co-ordinator, Faculty of Art, Commerce and Technology, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki. New Plymouth.
Membership of Institutional Research Committee
Clothier, I. (2008). Committee member and Te Iarere Wavelength Committee member.
Clothier, I. (2007). Committee member and Te Iarere Wavelength Committee member.