Research
Dr. Barbara Rauch
Subject Area:
Fine Art (FADE project)
Computer-mediated Art (SCIRIA unit)
Peer Esteem
Professional qualification
Rauch holds a BA in Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art, Stuttgart, Germany (1995), an MA in Digital Art from Middlesex University, CEA (1998) and a PhD from the University of the Arts London (2005). Her PhD thesis is entitled 'Natural and Digital Virtual Realities - a practice-based exploration of dreaming and online virtual environments' and is available through the British Library in London and as reference only at Camberwell College of Arts Library.
She currently is a visiting senior fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, FIS, University of Toronto.
Awards
2007 Co-applicant Research Grant: The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking, AHRC. (As co-applicant and co-investigator she conducts several case studies with an emphasis on 3-dimensional prints and screen-based works.)
2008 Mapping Virtual Emotions: 3D-surface capturing of animated facial expressions in animals and humans, AHRC, Small Grant award in the Creative and Performing Arts.
1996 Ministry of Culture (Germany) award to work abroad for one year as an artist.
Residencies
2007 - The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
1996 - 1997 Research Centre, CAiiA, University of Wales, College Newport.
1992 - 1995 Intramedia School, Prof. Milan Knizak, Academy of Fine Art in Prague.
External Teaching/Examination
Supervision at NCAD for PhD candidate A. Folan
Director of studies at Camberwell College of Arts for P. Brown,
Visiting Lecturer at various London art colleges including Camberwell College of Arts; Chelsea College of Art & Design; London College of Printing; The Slade, UCL; Goldsmiths College; and London Metropolitan University, occasionally at Brighton University, Kent Institute of Art & Design and University of the West of England - Multimedia studio; and at international level at Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Stuttgart and FIS, University of Toronto.
Current Research
Current position and statement
Dr Barbara Rauch is an artist practitioner and academic with a fulltime research position.
She is the holder of a 2-year AHRC research grant, 'The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking' (together with Prof P. Coldwell, FADE). As co-applicant and co-investigator she conducts several case studies with an emphasis on 3-dimensional prints and screen-based works.
As deputy director at SCIRIA, Rauch leads on the 'Virtual eMotions' research group. The group investigates emotions and in particular human facial expressions. The project is a continuation of an AHRC funded research project, 'Mapping Virtual Emotions: 3D-surface capturing of animated facial expressions in animals and humans', that was completed in June 2007.
Research interests
Rauch's research is practice-based; her art practice is concerned with contemporary technology-assisted art. It combines consciousness studies with digital art theories and practices. Much of her work uses computers and data capture technologies.
Research Outputs
Her papers have been published and presented at international conferences as diverse as Art & Design Practice and History, Museology and Consciousness Studies. Rauch presented at numerous international conferences including: CADE, MutaMorphosis, Consciousness Reframed, ISEA, Impact, Toward a Science of Consciousness, Centre CATH and the AHRC workshop at Goldsmiths convened by J. Haworth.
Exhibitions
2007 'Digital and Physical Surfaces', Triangle Building, Chelsea College of Art & Design.
2007 Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2006 'Worlds_of_Thoughts', Triangle Project Space, Chelsea College of Art & Design.2006 '12 Views', Northampton University Gallery, UK.
2006 '(Remote) Mind' exhibited at 'TRACE', Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University Greenwich, London, UK.
2005 'Neither here nor there' exhibited at 'Elles sont passees par ici.', Loguivy de la Mer, France.
2004 'Transparenzen', Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany.
2004 '(Remote) Mind' exhibited at 'Machinista Festival', Glasgow, UK.
2004 'Beyond the Digital Surface', Casamia art space M-Post, Seoul, South Korea.
2003 'Emotive Recall' exhibited at 'Mind Bunker', Wrexham Art Centre and Science and Art Festival, Wales, UK.
2003 'blank_notion', Milton Gallery, St Paul's School of Art, London, UK.
2002-2003 Co-curated and created 'tête-à-tête' installation for 'Digital Responses', V&A, London, UK.
2001 '(Remote) Mind' exhibited at art.tm Gallery, Inverness, Scotland.
Conference Contributions & Publications
2007 'Physical & Digital Surfaces', Triangle Project Space, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK. Exhibition 21-23 February symposium 22 February. Convenor. Publication of Proceedings, ISBN 13 978-1-84638-040-2
2007 Re-Reading McLuhan, An International Conference on Media and Culture in the 21st Century, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 14 - 18 February, video conference, McLuhan program fellows, presentation title: 3D emotions. Book Chapter by R. VanBoeschoten in print.
2007 The First Summit Meeting of the Planetary Collegium, 'Reviewing the Future: Vision, Innovation, Emergence', paper Mapping Virtual Emotions, Montreal, Canada. April 19-22. Publication of abstracts, ISBN 978-1-84102-168-3. Proceedings pending.
2007 MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, international conference, paper: The Art of Creating Moments of Stillness in a Volatile World. Prague, Cz (co-author with Dr D. Harrison), November 8 - 10. http://mutamorphosis.org, book of abstracts.
2007 CADE, conference paper: Digital Daydreaming as Stillness: a 'disappearance' from the everyday into the art. Perth, AU (co-author with Dr D. Harrison), 12 - 14 September 2007. ISBN 1 74067 530 4, proceedings.
2007 A Merging of Mindsets Through Collision and Collusion' in Technoetic Arts. A Journal of Speculative Research. Volume 5 Issue 1, pp. 55 - 65. Cover Date: January.
2006 'A Merging of Mindsets Through Collision and Collusion' at Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. 8th international research conference., Plymouth.
2006 'The Virtual and the Real' at Toward a Science of Consciousness, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
2006 'Virtual Realities' in Creativity, Technology and Embodied Mind: DVD proceedings of a workshop on 'Freedom and Constraint in the Creative Process in Digital Fine Art'.
2005 'Digital Surface within Fine Art Practice' at Digital Surface within Fine Art Practice' at Tate Britain. Proceedings: 'Creativity, Technology and Embodied Mind: proceedings of a symposium' editor Dr John Haworth. Manchester Metropolitan University.
2005 'The Ethics and Politics of Virtuality and Indexicality' at Centre CATH, AHRC Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds.
2004 'Infobodies' at ASD, conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004 'Contemporary Art Practice and Online Virtual Environments' in: Beyond the Digital Surface - Conference Proceedings, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea.
2003 'Emotive Recall' at Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, Charles University, Prague.
2003 'Digital surface of Thought' and 'Emotive Recall' presented at Digital Surface conference, Tate Britain, and published in: Digital Surface within Fine Art Practise, CD-Rom, NCAD, UIAH + LI
2003 'tête-à-tête', in: Digital Responses, CD-Rom, V&A, London.
2002 'Physical Chat II' at Consciousness Reframed, Curtin University of technology, Western Australia. Biennale for Electronic Arts.
2002 'Physical Chat I', Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.
2002 '(Remote) Mind' at 'Towards a Science of Consciousness', University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
