Gary JC
Lives & works in Birmingham, UK
CV
Education
MA (Composition & Sonic Art) - Oxford Brookes University
BA University of Witwatersrand
PHD (current) University of Birmingham, UK
Exhibitions, Research & Performance
2023
Mosquito Lightning - Epilogue / Essay covering our conceptual art project and exhibition at Goodman Gallery - in Infrastructures of Security by Prof. Martin Murray (University of Michigan Press - African Perspectives Series)
FORM Journal - 'Archived Futures: Digging In The Crates Of Always'
https://www.villa-legodi.com/journal
Spectral Karaoke - Experimental / Improvisation Collective.
2022
Nirox Arts (UNESCO Cradle of Humankind) - Artist in Residence
Bohlale Ba Maka - Nirox Arts - In Collaboration with Napo Masheane, Carla Busuttil & Thulisile Binda.
Waveforming Research Unit - A founding member of BIMM Birmingham’s first postgraduate Research Unit, lead by Dr. Paul Rogers.
Mini-BEAST Concert Series, University of Birmingham - Performance, lecture and curated show covering Artificial Intelligence in music composition, performance and production.
2021
Schemata 2.0 / Ident - Organised by Corsica Studios. On online digital exhibition. ‘Putting my left foot inside the right side of my smile’ - as part of SoBir Kollektiv. https://newart.city/show/corsica-schemata-ident
Alluvium Journal - 'Archived Futures: Digging In The Crates Of Always'
https://www.alluvium-journal.org/2021/06/04/archived-futures-digging-in-the-crates-of-always/
Always The Land - Film and Performance (with Carla Busuttil) - Recent Activity, Birmingham & Stryx Arts, Digbeth.
2020
Transmediale, Berlin - Presentation of 'Anyone Can Play AI' as part of 'Adversarial Hacking in the age of AI' Humboldt University - organised by http://kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de/.
The Future Of Indeterminacy. University of Dundee. 'Probability # Potentiality': Machine Learning’s failings in Music. https://indeterminacy.ac.uk/conference-panels-9-10-videos/
2019
CTM Festival - 'De-Composing Infinity' Researcher Discourse. Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
Embassy Art Museum, Beijing - 'One Double One' and 'The Credo' - part of African Art Week, curated by Megan Mace.
'Skillz 2.0: Anyone Can Play AI' - Presentation at IASPM Punk Scholars Conference, Newcastle University
2018
Audiograft Festival - The Re-Animation Of Polly Tacks
Fusion Art Space, Oxford, UK
Reading International Fringe - Erosion Seems Impossible, Until The Land Is Gone & Tell Me What I Want, What I Really Really Want. Part of group show at Rising Sun Art Centre, Reading. Curated by Simone Hesselberg. Supported by Arts Council England.
Scenes From A Chasm - (June 2018) - Curatorial project. Group show at Cuchifritos, New York. Supported by Arts Council England and British Council.
2017
The Sound of Memory - Group show & research symposium - Goldsmiths University & Whitechapel Gallery, London
Artists Alliance Curatorial Award - Scenes From A Chasm - Essay & Curated show, 2018 in NFP space, Cuchafritos, New York
2016
[inside] OUTSIDE - Oxford Brookes MA Festival - Ovada Warehouse, Oxford
The Listening Booth, George Arts - Compose a Piece / Write a Song / Produce a Track / Smash out a Tune
Film & Performance Night, Modern Art Oxford - Solo/Protest/Solo & Mogul
Mosquito Lightning - Film and Installation (in collaboration with Carla Busuttil and Chris Saunders) at: Choice. Click. Bait - Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, and Josh Lilley Gallery, London
2015
Ajos Dance Company - Performance of Afrochunk - Oxford Museum
Workbench, Milan - Performance (with Carla Busuttil) of Medallionaire.
Outburst Festival - Pegasus Theatre, Oxford - Plastic Dreams (White Performance)
Videovada - Ovada Space, Oxford - Plastic Dreams (White Performance) & The Hordes.
2014
The Credo - Film presentation (in collaboration with Carla Busuttil) at:
A Change of Tongue - Space K, Seoul, Korea
Nirox Winter Sculpture Fair, Nirox Foundation, South Africa
Joburg Fringe Film Festival, South Africa
2013
No More History - Film presentation (in collaboration with Carla Busuttil) at:
Post-National Bliss - Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
Generation V - Josh Lilley Gallery, London
Video, Video, Video (curated by Rory Bester) - The Bioscope, Johannesburg
2012
Aktive Raume - Gallerei Cubus-M, Berlin, Germany
Eye of the Geiger - Sound accompaniment/installation with Tor Seidel
Awards & Achievements
Artists International Development Fund Grantee, 2018
Artists Alliance Curatorial Award, 2017
Santander Research Grant, 2015
Joburg Now Residency, 2015
