Anne Nigten (PhD)

Anne Nigten (PhD) is the director of The Patchingzone, a praxis laboratory where Master, PhD students and professionals work together on meaningful creative content. Prior to her current position Nigten was the manager of V2_Lab, the aRt&D department of V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Nigten is lecturing on research and development in the interdisciplinary field from an art perspective. She is adviser for several media art and science initiatives in Europe, board member of Noordkaap foundation and Impakt foundation, The Netherlands. She completed her PhD at the University of the Arts London (UK), and frequently publishes papers on art, engineering and (computer) science collaboration and software development. Before her current position at V2_ she has been working as an independent media artist, and simultaneously fulfilled several management jobs for the media art sector in the Netherlands.

A selection of Nigten's current and recent advisory and jury work:

Jury member ACM Multimedia 2010 (NL), ISEA 2010 Ruhr (DE), TEI Explorations conference (US), 2009

External supervisor PhD thesis, Mirella Misi, Federal University of Bahia-Brazil, dept. Performing Arts (2008-present)

Coordinator Ways of Working for platform Innovation Platfrom, ICT Creative Industries, IIP-Create, (2007-present), The Netherlands

Co-organisation workshop, Urban Space, Time to Play, E-Arts, Shanghai, China 2008

SHARE festival 2008 jury member for exhibition and competition.

Publications:

Upcoming: keynote speaker at TD-conference Zurich, organised by Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Switzerland, september 2010

Upcoming: presentation Mobile city, organised by the Mobile City and Virtual Platform, Shanghai, August 2010

Presentation, at new media and writing seminar organised by KunstFactor, (NL), June 2010

Keynote lecture in (Un)limited Design conference organisd by Premsela and Waag Society, (NL), June 2010

Chair, seminar: Up-cycling , Stroom, The Hague (NL)

Presentation and workshop i.c.w. Kristina Andersen, Andreas Zingerle, Pinar Temiz, ICT-Delta conference, Rotterdam, (NL) 2010

Guest lecture, 'Processpatching as the creative method in the Patching Zone projects' MA program Hanze Hogeschool, Groningen (NL), 2009

Essay 'The Art of Uselessness' and discussion moderation, Move festival Halle (DE), 2009 ISBN 9783000289729

Presentation 'Methodology applied in the Go for IT! project, TU/e dept. Industrial Design, Eindhoven (NL), 2009

'Processpatching, defining new methods in aRt&D', PhD thesis,(full colour), Lulu publishing ISBN 1409299260

Paper and publication,ISEA conference and proceedings 2009, University of Ulster, Interface dept. Northern-Ireland (UK), 2009

Presentation and discussion forum, ICT-Delta-conference, Utrecht (NL), 2009

Presentation 'Creativity and co-creation', University Maastricht and Bonnefante museum (NL), 2009

Guest lecture, 'The ephemeral as ‘the
artist’s material’, collisions between the real and the virtual ? Hoghe schule fur gestalt, media art dept. Offenbach, (DE), 2009

Guest lecture 'How to Processpatch' Vienna, University of applied art, (AT) 2009

Lecture E-mobilArt, University of applied Art, Digital Art dept. Vienna, (AT) 2009

Keynote seminar Choreography as Research, Danslab, The Hague, (NL) 2008

Paper ‘Cultuur Lokaal-transformations in the cultural sector ‘ td-conference Zurich, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Switzerland 2008

Lecture, Urban Space, Time to Play, E-Arts, Shanghai, China 2008

Presentation ‘Methodlogies of Cultuur Lokaal’ i.c.w. Kristina Andersen, Mirella Misi, Vivian Wenli Lin, pre-ISEA symposium, University of Belfast, Interface dept. Northern-Ireland 2008

Essay ‘Doctors have to deal with aesthetics’,in Space Cowboys (van Klaveren, Hendriks eds.) University of Hasselt (BE) ISBN 9789033473777

Presentation and discussion, ‘Encounters between R&D and aRt&D: The art of the accident? ‘ i.c.w. Jan Misker at Pixel Space conference, Ars Electronica Festival Linz (AT) 2008

Several articles in 'Buiten Spelen' (Kuiper, Rijken eds.) Haagse Hogeschool and Waterwolf publishers (NL) 2008, ISBN 9789031183420

Presentation and discussion mini-summit, ASEF, Singapore 2008

Essay ‘Innovative patches; stitching together methods and approaches to build experiences, Anne Nigten, Jughwa Mah (editor) published by Korean National Art University (2008), Seoul, South-Korea.

Article ‘Manufacturing Transdisciplinairy Collaborations’, Anne Nigten, proceedings Share festival Italy 2008.

Essay ‘Participatory design in interactive art’, Anne Nigten, Urban press, Performing arts journal December issue 2007

Interview ‘Best Practices; culturele sector gaat tot het uiterste’, Surf magazine December 2007 by Marielle Schipper-Heester, The Netherlands.

Article ‘Innovative Patches’, Anne Nigten, proceedings of ISAT2007 conference by KNAU, Seoul, South-Korea.

Article ‘The Patchingzone; piecing together knowledge, methods and experiences’ , Anne Nigten (2007) in Proceedings 3rd cycle conference organised by Hogeschool van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Interview ‘Experiments in art and technology’, online magazine Digicult, Italy

Poster ‘Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality art explained in terms of sensory-motor coordination’ Michel van Dartel, Jan Misker, Anne Nigten., Jelle van der Ster (2007). In: Luciani A. and Cadoz C. (eds.) Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces, Grenoble, France

Essay 'Art as Boundary Object?' in (un)Common Ground,Creative Encounters Across Sectors and Disciplines, C.Brickwood, B.Ferran, D.Garcia, T.Putnam eds.,BIS Publishers 2007, (NL) ISBN 9789063691660

Interview 'Case Study: The Creative Laboratory'in The New Media Handbook, A.Dewdney, P.Ride eds., Published by Routledge 2006, (UK), ISBN 0415307120

Essay ‘Play’ in IEEE Multimedia, Nov. 2006 first author in collaboration with Simon Jones.

Paper "aRt&D methods: Processpatching", Close Encounters SLSA conference, 2006 Leiden (NL)

Essay ‘Artists as Processpatchers, Techniques and Method’, in Art Research published by the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, 2006, Intermedia dept., published by Jelenlét (HU) ISBN 9632296966

Essay "Playing the Collision Game" in GameSetandMatch II, Kas Oosterhuis,Lukas Feireeiss eds., published by Delft University of Technology 2006, (NL) ISBN 9059730364

Essay ‘Blurred Disciplines, Expressive Software’ in aRt&D, Research and Development in Art published by V2_ / NAi publishers (NL), 2005, ISBN 9056623893

Co-editor with J.Brouwer and A.Mulder of ‘aRt&D, Research and Development in Art’
published by V2_ / Nai publishers (NL), 2005, ISBN 9056623893

Paper ‘~worn~’ Wearable Futures conference, i.c.w. M. Fuller and K.Andersen (UK), 2005.

Paper ‘Tunnels, Collisions and Connections’, web publication, panel moderation, ISEA 2004,
Tallinn / Helsinki / Stockholm (S)

Essay ‘Interdisciplinary practice: On-line participatory environments’, in Interventionen by Institute für Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, published by Springer Verlag, 2004, ISBN 10321130587

Essay ‘How do we make art of databases?’ in Making Art of DataBases, J.brouwer, A.Mulder, eds., published by V2_ NAi, (NL),2003, ISBN 9056623099

Essay ‘Human Factors in Artistic Research and Development in Multi-and Interdisciplinary Collaborations’, in a Guide to Good Practice, L.Goodman and K.Milton, eds. published by Office for Huamnities Communication Kings College London (UK) ISSN 1463-5194

Presentation and publication CODE conference Cambridge (UK),2001.

Publication ‘Artistic Software’ proceedings Do It Yourself festival and conference
Transmediale 2001, (D) ISBN 3000085467