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, member of the board of directors of The Public-gallery (UK), Noordkaap 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:

External supervisor PhD thesis, Mirella Misi, Federal University of Bahia-Brazil, dept. Performing Arts (2008-present)
Co-organisation workshop, Urban Space, Time to Play, E-Arts, Shanghai, China 2008
SHARE festival 2008 jury member for exhibition and competition.
ACM Multimedia 2007 Interactive Arts Program Exhibition
Boardmember ISEA NL (2007-2008)
Advisor for professional practice at Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen (2007-present), The Netherlands.
Workpackage leader Ways of Working for platform Creative Industries (IIP-Creative) (2007-present), The Netherlands
Organiser and moderator, conference at Zone V2_ (2007) MOCA, Tapei, Taiwan.
Master thesis supervision of Jelmer Witkamp, master student PSAU (professional school of the arts Utrecht), Utrecht school of the Arts, University Utrecht.
Board member of ISEA international (2003-2006)

Publications:

Lecture E-mobilArt, University of applied Art, Digital Art dept. Vienna, Austria 2009

Presentation seminar Choreography as Research, Danslab, The Hague, The Netherlands 2008

Paper ‘Cultuur Lokaal-transformations in the cultural sector ‘ td-conference Zurich, 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’, University of Hasselt, Belgium (in print, expected in early 2009)

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, Austria 2008

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 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