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about
 

Ami Clarke is an artist, writer, and educator, working within the emergent behaviours that come of the complex protocols of platform capitalism in everyday assemblages, with a focus on the inter-dependencies between code and language in hyper-networked culture.  My research focus’ on algorithmic governance and performative modes of production from a feminist post-human position. I utilise various digital media, often distributed, with aspects of live programming, to produce video/sound and spoken word performance.  My work is conceptually framed in ways that means critique is articulated through it’s production, drawing out the new (old) behaviours emerging from human engagement with technology through performative modes. 

 

She is also founder of Banner Repeater; a reading room with a public Archive of Artists’ Publishing and project space, opening up an experimental space for others, on a working train station platform at Hackney Downs station, London.  Ideas that come of publishing, distribution, and dissemination, that lead to a critical analysis of post-digital art production, are shared in her practice as an artist and inform the working remit of Banner Repeater. 

 

Recent and forthcoming writing includes: ‘covfefe: language within a meme economy’, “Text as Market” Artists Re-thinking the Blockchain, “The Currency of Data” Sonic Acts journal, ‘Ami Clarke: Author of the Blank Swan’ with Elie Ayache.

Her work is included in Information edited by Sarah Cook (2016) - an art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation, from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices - Whitechapel Documents in Contemporary Art and MIT press series.  See here for more details: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/information. 

She has recently exhibited/performed work at/for:  Uncoded: Crafting Intelligence - DC Contemporary, The London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery (artists were selected from over 2,600 entries by a panel of experts including collector Maria Bukhtoyarova, artist Shezad Dawood, curator and art historian Christine Eyene, gallerist Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja, with Whitechapel Gallery curators Emily Butler, lnês Costa and Wells Fray-Smith), Pumphouse Reading Group: Covfefe: Language in a meme economy, Artists’ publications as instructions, scores and manuals; AWP Symposium (2018) The Tetley Leeds, ODD catalyst, Bucharest (2018), ORGASMIC STREAMING; LUX / Chelsea Space (2018), HereNow art/tech res SPACE (2018), Xero Kline and Coma (2017), NEW WORLD ORDER, Gallery, Filodrammatica, Rijeka (2017) and Aksioma, Ljubljana (2017), Furtherfield gallery (2017), StudioRCA Riverlight (2016), Centrespace Dundee (2016), ICA (2016), Wysing Arts Centre (2016), Hayward Gallery (2015), Museo Del Chopo, Mexico City (2015), Cuss Group SA, Ithuba Gallery (British Council connect_ZA) (2015), David Roberts Arts Foundation (2015), Camden Arts Centre (2015), The Container, Tokyo (2013).


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Ami Clarke teaches at Central Saint Martins Masters of Fine Art, and across the UK, with a focus on post-digital strategies in network culture, and a summer school at CSM on Post-human studies - "Art after the internet".  She taught the critical studies seminar series: Post-digital art: Hybrid Strategies in Networked Culture at Goldsmiths BA Fine Art and Creative Computing BA 2016-18.

employment / teaching posts

 

Central Saint Martins University of the Arts, 

MA Fine Art Associate Lecturer, 2014-23

Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, 

MA Fine Art Associate Lecturer, 2019-23

Goldsmiths University of London Critical Studies 

BA Fine Art Associate Lecturer, 2016-18

CSM, BA Fine Art, Critical Studies Associate Lecturer, 2014

CSM, BA Fine Art, 4D pathway, 2014

CSM, BA Fine Art, Critical Studies Associate Lecturer, 2014

 

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​published:

 

Language In A Meme Economy

by Ami Clarke

Digital Ecologies - The International Journal of Creative Media Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.202016 | Issue 5 | October 2020


The Currency of Data

Sonic Acts Academy publication - Q and A with Ami Clarke

by Marija Bozinovska Jones

 

Text as Market

by Ami Clarke 

published in Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain.

published by Furtherfield and Torque. Editors, Ruth Catlow, 

Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner. 

(pre-order) https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/100826

 

Ami Clarke: Author of the Blank Swan

published by Banner Repeater 2015

Low Animal Spirits by Ami Clarke.  

Journal of Visual Art Practice

Volume 15, 2016 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14702029.2016.1228759

 

Information

edited by Sarah Cook (2016)

an art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation,

from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices

Whitechapel Documents in Contemporary Art and MIT press series. 

See here for more details: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/information.

 

The Clearing "[...] Cryptic architecture, where form no longer reveals function.

They seem to contain the codes of some mysterious mental process" J.G. Ballard

The Atrocity Exhibition 1969. http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/002/articles/aclarke/index.php


Banner Repeater: An interview with Ami Clarke 

Ashley Janke May, 2017  http://temporaryartreview.com/banner-repeater-an-interview-with-ami-clarke/

Interview with Banner Repeater’s Ami Clarke (Founder/Director) 

http://fadmagazine.com/2016/08/09/interview-banner-repeaters-ami-clarke-founderdirector/

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Artists talks / symposiums / workshops

Climate Emergency launch – University of Creative Arts, Epsom 2019

End-of-the-World Trade: On the Speculative Economies of Art and Extractionb – symposium – Goldsmiths Visual Cultures 2019

Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines – Bath Spa University 2019

Pumphouse Reading Group: Covfefe: Language in a meme economy 2018

Artists’ publications as instructions, scores and manuals; AWP Symposium The Tetley Leeds, 2018

De-leb writing workshops - collectively authored science fiction – Banner Repeaterb 2018

Rethinking Interaction Roundtable – Mayday Rooms 2017

Unnaturally Occurring Compliance PhD Symposium – University of Reading Department of Art 2017

Rethinking Digital Interaction Roundtable – Mayday Rooms 2017

Contingency of writing at Re-learning to Read w Torque - Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool 2017

BookBlast digital archive w Beau Geste Press - CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain Bordeaux 2017

RCA Eady Forum – talk and workshop 2016/17

Cold Bodies, Warm Machines – Art, Technology And The Posthuman, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf 2016

Thinking through the Block – workshops on blockchain tech, Banner Repeater, 2017

Publishing as Process – Dundee Contemporary, Cooper Gallery 2016

Elie Ayache (The Blank Swan) and Ami Clarke in conversation, Technology Now, ICA 2016

Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Masters Rietveld Academie - talk and workshop 2016

Artists talk - MFA Critical Studies Royal College of Art 2016

Artists talk - MFA Curating at Goldsmiths University of London 2016

Wysing Arts Centre – The Practice of Theories - performance of LAS / Error-Correction 2016

Thinking Through Publishing – symposium – with Flat Time House and Banner Repeater, Central Saint Martins, 2016

Publishing as Process: Art, Text and Distribution at Camden Arts Centre, London. 2016

Sustainable Publishing as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row

Liquidity – symposium, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2015

‘Thinking with Algorithms: Cognition and Computation in the Work of N. Katherine Hayles' - Global geopolitics, security & political theory - Gala Theatre in ass with Durham University 2015

Headstone to Hard Drive, Monument to Folly – Symposia addressing issues of exteriorisation, technique and technology as they affect, inform and construct the visual arts. CSM 2015

Publishing as Process – On the relation between art, text and technology, Goethe-Institut – Lunch Bytes series, Goethe Institut, 2015

Diagram Research Use and Generation Group – ICA – Symposium – Plague of Diagrams 2015

Publishing, distribution, disemination seminars with Isaac Olvera, Museo Del Chopo, Mexico City 2015

Turf Projects & Croydon Tech City, Debate & Discuss: 

How Art and Technology are connected? What is the nature of the relationship between Technology and Art Today? 2015

Artists talk - Kent University, MA Fine Art, 2015

The Artists Book at Parasol Unit – during the exhibition: Shinro Ohtake. 2015

York St John University, Artists talk and Banner Repeater, 2015

Artists discussion – Tabularium curated by Alana Kushnir, Slopes Gallery, Melbourne. 2015

Artists talk - University for the Creative Arts, MA Fine Art, 2015

Post-digital publishing, exploring alternative networks of distribution talk, CSM UAL, 2014

Artists talk - Slade School of Fine Art, BA Fine Art, 2013

Artists talk - Royal College of Art Critical writing in Art and Design MA, 2013

Artists talk - University of Reading BA Fine Art, 2013

Artists talk - MA Photography, School of Fine Art, Kingston University, 2013

Artists talk - Birkbeck University of London, MA in Curating 2013

Artists talk - University of Greenwich, 2013

Artists talk - Bournemouth University of Art, BA Fine Art, 2013

Appropriation Beyond the Object talk with: Ben Vickers, Helen Kaplinsky and Ami Clarke. 2013

Publishing Forum: The Binder and the Server; post-digital publishing. Copeland Book Market 2013

Hardcore Software presents Piracy Today, artists talk and panel discussion. The Barbican 2013

Post-digital Publishing, Artists talk and panel discussion. G39, Cardiff 2013

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