bio
This blog is created by paula roush, founder of msdm and artist and lecturer of digital media in the AME Arts, Media and English Department at the London Southbank University.
She joined the AME Digital Photography course in August 2006, as senior lecturer. Since 2006, she is also the module coordinator for Thinking Practices: Critical Dialogues in Art and Media in the MA Art and Media Practice, department of Media, Art & Design at the University of Westminster, London.
Previously, she lectured in Art in Community Settings at the Birkbeck College (Arts Management Course) and worked with art and media organisations as artist and curator in a range of new media art projects. Funding sources have included Arts council England, Gulbenkian Foundation UK, and Space Media Arts.
Paula is a graduate from the University of Lisbon (licenciatura Social Psychology), the Emporia State University (MA Fulbright scholar), South London Gallery (PhD as a work of art), and the Bauhaus Kolleg (Event City Post-Graduate Programme).
Current interests include the areas of sociable media and networked art practices.
Ongoing academic project: the LSBU funded Teaching and Learning Innovation Project on social media in learning.
Latest art projects: the book browser landscapes and the installation soundtrack for a cctv presented as part of the Voyeur Project Vew in Dec-Jan 0708.
msdm artworks have been included in exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Exerngrass, Vienna; K3 Zurich; Space, London; EV+A, Limerick; Heimat Moderne, Leipzig; P74 Gallery, Ljubljana;Prague Biennale, Institute of International Visual Arts, London; Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen and Living Art Museum, Reykjavik.
email: [msdm-at-msdm dot org dot uk]
Awards
2007: London South Bank University Learning & Teaching Project Innovation Scheme: Using social media- free-to-use software in learning and teaching
2006: Gulbenkian UK/ Instituto Camoes Portugal: Project Welcome Goodbye Adeus Obrigada- Journeys, dislocations and imaginary nations
2005: Arts Council England Grants for The Arts: Project ‘What are we doing, What’s Happening to Us? What Needs to Be Done? I Prefer Not To!’, London.
2004: Arts Council England Grants for The Arts, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and South East London Foundation Neighbourhood Renewal Fund: Project SOS:OK;
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Instituto das Artes, Instituto Camoes Portugal, and Portuguese Embassy Cultural: Project Post Script- Portuguese Live Art in the Age of Scripted Reality (curator)
2003: Meta-Syste[r]m, Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimedia, Lisboa
2000 Bauhaus Dessau Scholarship, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation,
Millennium Awards Fellowship, Peabody Trust, Millennium Commission,
1999: London Arts Boards Regional Challenge/ New Audiences Programme: Temporary Homes.
1995: Artist in Residence Bronx River Art Centre, NYC
1991: Fulbright Scholarship, Institute of International Education/ Comissao Cultural Luso- Americana, Portugal-USA
Exhibitions
Solo/selection
2007 Soundtrack for a cctv, voyeur project view, Lisbon, Pt
2006 arphield recordings, tagged project at space, and welcome goodbye adeus obrigada, stockwell tube station, london
2005
Collaborative Aesthetics in a Self-Centred World, paula roush & eva rudlinger, ASC Studios, London, UK
Space Protocol, msdm & artes non-decorativas, Rael Artel Gallery, Parnu, Estonia
msdm Protest Academy, Heimat Moderne, Experimentale 1-general panel, Leipzig, Germany
msdm What are we doing? What is happening to us? What needs to be done? I prefer not to, Elastic Residence, London, UK
2004
SOS:OK Save Our Souls: Zero Killings Emergency Biscuit, Coleman Project Space, London, UK
Exercise SOS:OK, Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bowville, Bow Festival (Bow Wireless commission), London, UK
2002: msdm Out/sourcing, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
GROUP/selection
2007 Vtape, Hospital Julio de Matos, Lisboa, PT Destinations, Area 10, London, UK Ear Appeal, Kunsthalle Exerngrass, Vienna (Oct 2006)
Love & Anarchy, K3 Zurich, Switzerland
Tagged, SPACE Media Arts October
Welcome Goodbye adeus Obrigada, The Blue ElephantTheatre, London
Give(A) Way, Limerick Art Biennale, Limerick, Ireland
Public Services, P74, Ljubljana/ Sparwasser, Berlin
2005
Global Tour Project, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Public Services, Pavel Haus, Laafeld, Austria
Disobedience, Play Gallery and Kunstraum Bethanien, Transmediale 05, Berlin, Germany
2004
Perfectly Placed, South London Gallery, London, UK
Meeting Point, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose Azeredo Perdigao, Lisboa, Portugal
2003
Contested Space, Spacio Alcatraz Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, Italy
Prague Biennale 1, Galleria Nazionale Veletrzni Palac, Prague, Czech Republic
2002
Europe cc. changing cities 05, Haus der Architektur, Graz, Austria
Contemplation Room, Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Saturday Broadcast, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
Event City, Mousonturm, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany
2001
City Stripping, GAK: Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen ,Germany
Urban Detours, Event City III, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany
Polyphony, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000
Event-City I, The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau, Germany
RKD-K [arca-de-cay], the Arcade Project. The Brixton Arcade and The Trade Apartement, London, UK
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