Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver
Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver
Research Assistant
Digital Economy
Bio
Magda originally joined UCF as a research assistant working within iRes Research in Network Art research cluster. She is now based within AIR Digital Economy Research Centre, currently working on an AHRC funded projects: Rural Connective, a new initiative, a partnership between University College Falmouth, dot.rural (The Rural Digital Economy Research Hub) at The University of Aberdeen and BT; and University of the Village. Universities Connecting with rural Communities where she is a member of the research team. University of the Village was a pilot research project undertaken in collaboration between University College Falmouth, University of Surrey, University of Glamorgan and British Telecom, and rural communities in Cornwall, Surrey and Wales; it is currently entering its next stage of development funded by BT .
As a research assistant in the Digital Economy research centre she has initiated a programme of talks in the series Digital Economy: Research in Practice which presents research projects and practices related to Digital Economy theme, at the UCF. She has been also involved as a project manager working with SME's funded within AIRBT Feasibility fund.
Magda is a PhD candidate at the department of Aesthetics and Communication at the Aarhus University in Denmark and she is also an independent curator. Her curatorial work and research is concerned with projects that utilise online networking tools such as wikis, Skype, iChat, in an innovative and critical way, and recognise the value of collaborative and participatory practices of audiences/users of those projects and technologies. She is particularly interested in current developments in the field of curating and theory around curating, and the influence of networked and participatory technologies on curatorial practice. Projects include a series of collaborative curatorial events, common practice/language and common practice/code, in Arnolfini/Bristol (2010) and online, and playing practice (2009). She also curated exhibitions such as Participation (Falmouth 2007) and co-curated (with Kate Southworth) (IN)visible networks exhibition commissioned for the international conference Networks of Design. Annual International Conference of the Design History Society (Falmouth 2008).
Magda is also an associate curator at KURATOR. She was part of the curatorial group within Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium developing the programme of activities and commissioning work around the British Art Show7 in Plymouth in 2011.
She has organised talks, artist residencies, symposia and curatorial events and regularly contributes to international conferences, festivals and symposia such as Transmediale (Berlin 2013, 2012), Precarious Times/ British Art Show7 (Plymouth 2011), Rewire (Liverpool 2011), Media Art Biennale WRO14 (Wroclaw 2011), Transbiotica/Textures (Riga 2010), Spectres of Utopia (Lublin 2010), Aesthetics in Times of Emergency (Plymouth, 2010). Her recent publications deal with issues related to her current research on contemporary art and digital culture.
She has lectured on art and media courses at UCF.
Before joining UCF Magda was a creative producer/project manager at a Warsaw based e-marketing and web agency K2 Internet (currently K2) with clients such as Nokia, Philips, Ford and others. In 2002 and 2003 she led projects which received advertising awards in professional festivals in Poland.
For detailes of curatorial projects and PhD project visit:
www.thecommonpractice.org
www.kurator.org
Publications
(2011) 'Sustainability of Labour in Organized Networks' in Acoustic Space No. 10: Networks and Sustainability. Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch, Raitis Smits. (eds.) Liepaja: LiepU MPLab; Riga: RIXC. ISSN 1407-2858. Article also available here
(2011) 'Interfacing the Common: Curatorial System as a form of Production on the Edge' in Nyhedsavisen: Public-Interfaces, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund , eds., Arhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University. pp 16-17. Article also available here, ISBN: 87-91810-18-3
(2009) ‘Virtual Networks, Social Fabrics’ with Soenke Hallmann, and Scott Rigby. in Hackney, F., Glynne, J., Minton, V. (eds) Networks of Design. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society (UK) University College Falmouth, 3-6 September, Universal Publishers, ISBN: 1599429063
(2008) Distributed Art of Invisible Networks in Techsty #5 (article translated into Polish: 'Rozpowszechniana Sztuka Niewidzialnych Sieci: Komentarze na Temat Polityki Sieci')
Conferences and symposia
12/2012 curatorial EGO, Aarhus Kunstbygning/Aarhus University, Aarhus (DE)
11/2012 researching BWPWAP, Leuphana University in Lüneburg/transmediale 2013 (DE)
09/2012 dOCUMENTA(13) Erkki Kurenniemi: Online Archive workshop
02/2012 in/compatible research practices panel at transmediale 2k + 12, (invited panel discussion moderator)
09/2011 'Knowledge commons or souls at work. Curatorial systems and questions of contingency' conference paper at Rewire, Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Liverpool John Moores University Art and Design Academy (UK)
05/2011 'Practice in Common, the Right to Fork and how to Curate without (en)closure', symposium paper at 14 Media Art Biennale Wro 2011 Alternative Now, Wroclaw (PL), as part of the panel Common Courtesy: Agency and Enclosure on the Commons, co-organised with researchers from KURATOR/Art & Social Technology Research Group
01/2011 'Interfacing the Common: curatorial event as a system of production on the edge', conference paper at the Public Interfaces, Center for Digital Urban Living and DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre), Aarhus University,
07/2010 'Utopia or Dystopia? – Immaterial and Digital Commons’, conference paper at Spectres of Utopia, 11th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (PL).
06/2010, ‘Sustainability of Labour in Organised Networks’, conference paper at Textures, 6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and Art, Stockholm School of Economics, Riga (LV). This paper is also available here
05/2010 respondent to a keynote paper by Prof. Malcolm Miles, symposium Aesthetics in Time of Emergency, University of Plymouth, Plymouth (UK)
06/2009 ‘Playing practice. Investigation into transdisciplinarity through a research led curatorial event’, symposium paper at Across the Divide: inter/multi/trans-disciplinarity, Learning & Teaching Day, paper, University College Falmouth (UK)
09/2008 Virtual Networks, Social Fabrics, forum panel organiser and panelist, Networks of Design. Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, University College Falmouth (UK)
10/2007 ‘New Models of Curating? Possibility of Non-Curating in the Network Society’ symposium paper at Knowledge Lab 9:Art, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University (UK)
As a research assistant in the Digital Economy research centre she has initiated a programme of talks in the series Digital Economy: Research in Practice which presents research projects and practices related to Digital Economy theme, at the UCF. She has been also involved as a project manager working with SME's funded within AIRBT Feasibility fund.
Magda is a PhD candidate at the department of Aesthetics and Communication at the Aarhus University in Denmark and she is also an independent curator. Her curatorial work and research is concerned with projects that utilise online networking tools such as wikis, Skype, iChat, in an innovative and critical way, and recognise the value of collaborative and participatory practices of audiences/users of those projects and technologies. She is particularly interested in current developments in the field of curating and theory around curating, and the influence of networked and participatory technologies on curatorial practice. Projects include a series of collaborative curatorial events, common practice/language and common practice/code, in Arnolfini/Bristol (2010) and online, and playing practice (2009). She also curated exhibitions such as Participation (Falmouth 2007) and co-curated (with Kate Southworth) (IN)visible networks exhibition commissioned for the international conference Networks of Design. Annual International Conference of the Design History Society (Falmouth 2008).
Magda is also an associate curator at KURATOR. She was part of the curatorial group within Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium developing the programme of activities and commissioning work around the British Art Show7 in Plymouth in 2011.
She has organised talks, artist residencies, symposia and curatorial events and regularly contributes to international conferences, festivals and symposia such as Transmediale (Berlin 2013, 2012), Precarious Times/ British Art Show7 (Plymouth 2011), Rewire (Liverpool 2011), Media Art Biennale WRO14 (Wroclaw 2011), Transbiotica/Textures (Riga 2010), Spectres of Utopia (Lublin 2010), Aesthetics in Times of Emergency (Plymouth, 2010). Her recent publications deal with issues related to her current research on contemporary art and digital culture.
She has lectured on art and media courses at UCF.
Before joining UCF Magda was a creative producer/project manager at a Warsaw based e-marketing and web agency K2 Internet (currently K2) with clients such as Nokia, Philips, Ford and others. In 2002 and 2003 she led projects which received advertising awards in professional festivals in Poland.
For detailes of curatorial projects and PhD project visit:
www.thecommonpractice.org
www.kurator.org
Publications
(2011) 'Sustainability of Labour in Organized Networks' in Acoustic Space No. 10: Networks and Sustainability. Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch, Raitis Smits. (eds.) Liepaja: LiepU MPLab; Riga: RIXC. ISSN 1407-2858. Article also available here
(2011) 'Interfacing the Common: Curatorial System as a form of Production on the Edge' in Nyhedsavisen: Public-Interfaces, Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund , eds., Arhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University. pp 16-17. Article also available here, ISBN: 87-91810-18-3
(2009) ‘Virtual Networks, Social Fabrics’ with Soenke Hallmann, and Scott Rigby. in Hackney, F., Glynne, J., Minton, V. (eds) Networks of Design. Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society (UK) University College Falmouth, 3-6 September, Universal Publishers, ISBN: 1599429063
(2008) Distributed Art of Invisible Networks in Techsty #5 (article translated into Polish: 'Rozpowszechniana Sztuka Niewidzialnych Sieci: Komentarze na Temat Polityki Sieci')
Conferences and symposia
12/2012 curatorial EGO, Aarhus Kunstbygning/Aarhus University, Aarhus (DE)
11/2012 researching BWPWAP, Leuphana University in Lüneburg/transmediale 2013 (DE)
09/2012 dOCUMENTA(13) Erkki Kurenniemi: Online Archive workshop
02/2012 in/compatible research practices panel at transmediale 2k + 12, (invited panel discussion moderator)
09/2011 'Knowledge commons or souls at work. Curatorial systems and questions of contingency' conference paper at Rewire, Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Liverpool John Moores University Art and Design Academy (UK)
05/2011 'Practice in Common, the Right to Fork and how to Curate without (en)closure', symposium paper at 14 Media Art Biennale Wro 2011 Alternative Now, Wroclaw (PL), as part of the panel Common Courtesy: Agency and Enclosure on the Commons, co-organised with researchers from KURATOR/Art & Social Technology Research Group
01/2011 'Interfacing the Common: curatorial event as a system of production on the edge', conference paper at the Public Interfaces, Center for Digital Urban Living and DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre), Aarhus University,
07/2010 'Utopia or Dystopia? – Immaterial and Digital Commons’, conference paper at Spectres of Utopia, 11th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (PL).
06/2010, ‘Sustainability of Labour in Organised Networks’, conference paper at Textures, 6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and Art, Stockholm School of Economics, Riga (LV). This paper is also available here
05/2010 respondent to a keynote paper by Prof. Malcolm Miles, symposium Aesthetics in Time of Emergency, University of Plymouth, Plymouth (UK)
06/2009 ‘Playing practice. Investigation into transdisciplinarity through a research led curatorial event’, symposium paper at Across the Divide: inter/multi/trans-disciplinarity, Learning & Teaching Day, paper, University College Falmouth (UK)
09/2008 Virtual Networks, Social Fabrics, forum panel organiser and panelist, Networks of Design. Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, University College Falmouth (UK)
10/2007 ‘New Models of Curating? Possibility of Non-Curating in the Network Society’ symposium paper at Knowledge Lab 9:Art, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University (UK)
