Dane Watkins - Index of Work

Blue Circles - (web survey) 2008
Are you a Blue Crcle or a red square?
• Funded by Render, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada.
Blue Circles was developed in collaboration with Professor Marcel O'Gorman in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery.
The students at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and the results ordered into league tables and posted on the notice boards.

www.bluecircles.org

Disorder - (web survey) 2007
An episodic survey of personality dysfunctions.
• Funded by Cywaith Cymru.
Galeri Caernarfon, Wales and the Spark radio show, CBC, Toronto have been surveyed..

http://www.deepdrizzle.net/disorder

Partly Cloudy - (linear movie) 2007
Data visualisation of weather condition codes.
• Funded by a New Eyes commission.
Shown at the Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton, UK.

http:/www.eatmydata.co.uk/PartlyCloudy

officious - (six screen installation) 2004
The sort of things you might find on a PDA.
Produced during an exStream residency at Hull Time Based Arts.
• Shown at the EICH gallery, Hull 4.6.4 - 11.6.

http://www.officious.co.uk

 

 

autoerotic - (six screen installation) 2004
Animated objects in a cycle of self abuse.
• Funded by an Arts Council England - South West individual artist award.
• Produced at The Engine Room, Bridgwater and PVA MediaLab, Bridport, UK.
• Shown at The Watershed, Bristol 28.10.4 - 11.11.4.

http://www.autoerotic.co.uk

 

The Call of the Dead - (web project, animated gif) 2007
An animated comic strip of a Zombie love story.
• Produced during a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, USA
• A "Tugboat Presents:" promotion

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/TheCallOfTheDead/

Love Match - (interactive movie for the Pocket PC) 2004
Find your perfect partner, because you can always do better.
• Produced during a Clark's Digital Bursary at The Watershed, Bristol.
• Key partners include Mobile Bristol and The University of the West of England.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/LoveMatch

 

Empty Days - (web project, Flash 5) 2003
An anti-film where the hero never gets the call to adventure.
• EMARE residency, 6th October until 6th December 2003.
• Produced at Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
• Presented at d-motion, Halle, Germany.

http://www.emptydays.co.uk

 

Target Art - (Perspex, computer, monitor) 2003
An interactive feedback and evaluation unit.
• Commissioned by Radiator 02.
• Installed in the foyer of Broadway Cinema, Nottingham.
• Shown at Prater in Berlin, June 2003, as part of the trampoline event.
• Shown at Stills gallery, Edinburgh, October to December 2003.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/targetart

 

Intimate Connections - (mobile phone animations, animated gif) 2005
The highs and lows of a relationship in a week of animated messages .
• Commissioned by Hull Time Based Arts.
• Distributed during gage05 festival
.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/intimateConnections

 

Mobile Phone Stories - (mobile phone animations, Flash Lite) 2005
Love is met head on in a complex tangle of emotions.
• Produced during residency Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences Japan.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/4286/Eweb

 

The Hippo's Skull - (mobile phone animations, Flash Lite) 2005
Get a free animation designed specifically for your personality.
• Produced during residency Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences Japan.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/hippoSkull

 

The Hero's Journey - (mobile phone animations, animated gif) 2005
Animations optimised for the Japanese mobile phone network.
• Produced during residency Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences Japan.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/TheHero

 

Handy Hands - (web project, Flash 5) 2001
Some handy objects.
• Handycom was chosen as a Di-Da Web page for arteleku.net.
• Presented in the garage 2002 festival.
• Shown at UCLA EDA Space as part of LA Freewaves 2002.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/handyHands

 

Portraits - (double screen installation) 2004
Formal animated portraiture.
• Funded by an Arts Council England - South West individual artist award.
• Produced at The Engine Room, Bridgwater and PVA MediaLab, Bridport, UK..
• Presented at the LabCulture symposium.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/portraits/portrait1.swf 353 KB
http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/portraits/portrait2.swf 188 KB

 

ClipArt - (web project, html) 2002
Website of free gifs and animated gifs.
• Funded by South West Art.
• Matrix Reflective practioner bursary.
• Supported by PVA MediaLab, Bridport, UK.

http://www.pva.org.uk/clipart

 

PassingTime - (web project, Flash 5) 2002
Slightly interactive web movie.
• Funded by and shown at ‘Burning Bush 2’ in Dundee.
• Co-funded by New Media Scotland.
• Shown at The Watershed, Bristol.

http://mediascot.org/host/art/dane

 

Jigsaws - (web project, Flash 5) 2002
Three interactive jigsaws.
jiggy a fully functioning digital jigsaw with a conclusion.
JigSawed has no sense of closure.
cheat can only be completed through email.

 

Gramophone - (web project, Flash 5) 2002
Traditional media player for computers.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/gramophone

 

 

Boil-in-the-Bag Restaurant - (web project, Flash 5) 2002
Eat out in complete privacy.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/Restaurant

 

them - (web project, Flash 5) 2001
A catalogue of conspiracies.
• Featured on Boston CyberArts on-line Gallery.
• Shortlisted for the virose links award, Portugal.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/them

 

Machine Corporation - (web project, Flash 5) 2001
Guarenteed to change your life.
• A collaboration between Dane Watkins and the writer geniwate.
• Featured in ‘inflect’ an e-journal, University of Canberra Centre for Writing.

http://www.eatmydata.co.uk/MachineCorporation

 

 

him - (web project, Flash 4) 2001
Interactive web movie.
• Shortlisted for the eliterature 2001 poetry awards.
• Published in Eastgate Systems Ltd Reading Room.
• Shortlisted for The Lite Show 2001, Part of Boston CyberArts 2001.

http://www.eastgate.com/ReadingRoom.html

 

 

help - (web project, Flash 4) 2000
Interactive web movie.
• Published in Eastgate Systems Ltd Reading Room.
• Exhibited in the Web Racket show:
Contemporary Interactive Web Art at the DeCordova Museum, Massachusetts, 2002.

http://www.eastgate.com/ReadingRoom.html