Dr Ian Biscoe
Dr Ian Biscoe is a visual and performance artist, director, producer, entrepreneur, designer and engineer with degrees in architecture and landscape architecture. His research practice brings together the arts and technology, with a transdisciplinary approach that draws on his background in science, systems integration, technology, architecture, performing and visual arts, design and business.
His research around the fusion of art, science and technology, includes the study of cognitively enabled built environments, and X Reality networked performance – the subject of his PhD thesis. His design and entrepreneurial background brings experience from fields as diverse as aerospace and avionics, process control systems, mobile content delivery, and electronics in toys.
At DAE, Dr Biscoe’s research into Transdisciplinary Design Networks (TDN) focuses on technological and societal connectivity, investigating how macroscopic thinking can be leveraged to address the global system-of-system challenges we all face. The TDN research programme builds on his existing original research in the use of X-Reality networked environments in art practice and education to investigate issues around planetary analysis, comprehension, design and communication.
Dr Biscoe’s recent projects are infused with theories of space and time, exploring themes of identity, freedom, truth, responsibility and connectivity. His work is typically produced in collaboration and realised in multidisciplinary formats. His projects employ a variety of movement, music, sound, painting, live video, photography, film and scenography; blending analogue and digital techniques. A summary of his recent projects, research and educational activities can be found at studiobiscoe.com.
In addition to his research activities, Dr Biscoe designs and produces The Stage - a digitally mediated theatre for performing design and designing performance - at Dutch Design Week. He has also devised and leads the Digital Focus module [Interactivity, Performativity, Hybridity] for DAE’s 4th year BA programme, which sees students actively participate in advanced digitally themed research for one semester. He has also designed and directs the Trans Realities Lab at DAE.
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