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Dr. Sven Anderson

Assistant Professor (School Office - Creative Arts)
      
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Dr. Sven Anderson

Assistant Professor (School Office - Creative Arts)

 SVEN.ANDERSON@tcd.ie

 


Dr. Sven Anderson is an artist, researcher, and lecturer based in Dublin. He is Assistant Professor of Film and Course Director of the M.Phil in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices at Trinity College Dublin. Anderson's research and practice explore the intersection of digital arts, sound studies, experimental film, and critical spatial practices. He holds a BA from Cornell University and a PhD from the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) at Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin). In 2021, he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship (IF) to develop action-led research advancing the emergent field of urban sound design with the London-based research organisation Theatrum Mundi. Anderson is the co-editor of the books States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape (Actar, 2021) and Signal Spectre System: A Late Evening in the Future (Verlag Fur Moderne Kunste, 2018). He has developed courses at Trinity College Dublin and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and has delivered lectures at universities and design institutions around the world. Anderson co-curated Entanglement, Ireland's pavilion for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2021). Working with Heneghan Peng and Gustafson Porter + Bowman, he developed proposals for the Pulse National Memorial and Museum (Orlando, 2019) and the UK Holocaust Memorial (London, 2017). As an artist, Anderson has over 20 years of experience leading international projects and research that explore digital arts and sonic practice in the context of architecture and urbanism. His work ranges from multichannel video systems and urban sound installations to self-initiated artist placements and public services, creating platforms to sustain collaboration between artists, architects, regional authorities, and local communities. Anderson's work has been exhibited at major arts venues from the Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin, 2018) to Secession (Vienna, 2019) and is featured in the permanent collections of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Office of Public Works (OPW).
  Architecture and Urbanism   Art & Technology   Arts and Humanities Policy   Arts Education   Critical theory   CULTURAL DIVERSITY   Digital Media   experimental urbanism   Film Studies   Humanities   Installation Art   interdisciplinary collaboration   Participatory Research Methods   public space   research infrastructure   Sound Art   Sound Studies   Technology and Society   Urban Planning/Policy   Video Installation   Visual Arts
Project Title
 Sound-Frameworks: Collaborative Frameworks for Integrating Sound Within Urban Design and Planning Processes
From
2021
To
2023
Summary
Sound-Frameworks is an action-led research project that explores how to introduce critical considerations of sonic experience within the design of the public realm. Sound-Frameworks enacts a discursive space to accelerate dialogue between artists, architects and urban designers and to advance an understanding of how sound and listening can influence the design of urban territories. Hosted by Theatrum Mundi (UK), Sound-Frameworks is supported by partnerships with Arup (UK), UrbanIdentity (CH), Struer Kommune (DK), the University of Oxford Faculty of Music (UK) and the Sound Studies Lab at the University of Copenhagen (DK). This project received funding from the European Union"s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101032632.
Funding Agency
The European Commission
Programme
Horizon 2020
Project Type
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship (IF)
Person Months
24
Project Title
 Collection
From
2021
To
Summary
Collection is a composite body of work centred on a six-channel outdoor sound installation at Glebe House and Gallery accompanied by a limited edition vinyl double LP. The material for the work is drawn from the late painter Derek Hill"s music collection, exploring resonant forms developed from passages of opera music that feature specific voices. Featured in the permanent collection of the Office of Public Works (OPW). Presented in a second version in the context of the installation This Voice (2022).
Funding Agency
The Office of Public Works
Project Title
 Entanglement
From
2020
To
2022
Summary
Entanglement was Ireland's pavilion for the 17th International Architecture Biennale at Venice. A large-scale immersive media pavilion exploring the relationship between architecture and data infrastructure in Ireland. Disseminated through three exhibitions with leading contemporary art venues. Curated and developed by Annex (Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Dona Lally, Clare Lyster and Fiona McDermott).
Funding Agency
Culture Ireland & The Arts Council of Ireland
Project Title
 When I Go Home, I Cut Through
From
2019
To
Summary
When I Go Home, I Cut Through is a 32-channel video installation and synchronisation system that reveals fragments of video captured in Tallaght juxtaposed with captions composed of extracts from the book Step by Step: Everyday Walks in a French Urban Housing Project published by the urban sociologist Jean-François Augoyard in 1979. The arrangement of the image shifts different portions of video out of line with their true position within the frame, resulting in a signal-space in which changes in light and distributed motion emerge via an otherwise disparate subject. This work was acquired for the permanent collection of the Arts Council of Ireland in 2019.
Funding Agency
Rua Red
Project Title
 A Visibility Matrix
From
2018
To
Summary
A Visibility Matrix is a collaboration between artists Sven Anderson and Gerard Byrne, taking the form of an algorithmic multichannel video and sound installation with contributions from over 70 artists and filmmakers around the world. Disseminated through four exhibitions with leading contemporary art venues. Editors: Matthew Bakkom, Victoria Brooks, Moritz Fehr, Igor Grubic, Dan Kidner, Nikos Papastergiadis und Oraib Toukan. Contributors: Daniel & Marie Law Adams, Rosa Aiello, Matt Bakkom, Rosa Barba, Eric Baudelaire, John Beattie, Ericka Beckman, Maeve Brennan, Andreas Bunte, Duncan Campbell, Matija Debeljuh, Dennis Del Favero, Willie Doherty, Jeanette Doyle, Moritz Fehr, Diego Ferrari, Darko Fritz, Rene Gabri & Ayreen Anastas, Mariam Ghani & Chitra Ganesh, Ross Gibson, Judith Goddard, Jennie Guy, Louis Haugh, Kathy High, Klara Hobza, Jere Ikongio & Katja Kellerer, Ivan Marusic Klif, John Lalor, Charles Lim, Jeanne Liotta, Lovid, Hrvoje Mabic, Nicholas Mangan, Fiona Marron, Ed Mattiuzzi, Peter Maybury, Ronan McCrea, Conor McGarrigle, Toni Mestrovic, Abinadi Meza, Suzanne Mooney, Nadija Mustapic, Arnont Nongyao, Tadhg O"Sullivan, Dietmar Offenhuber, Matt Parker, Jack Phelan, Piyarat Piyapongwiwat, Jason Quinlan, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Lucy Raven, Ben Rivers, Karl Ingar Røys, Adam Sekuler, Craig Smith, Michael Bell Smith, Sean Snyder, Stephanie Spray, Danae Stratou, Daniel Von Sturmer, Jose Carlos Teixeira, Leslie Thornton, Gabriele Trapani, Sara Velas, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Grace Weir, Jeremy Welsh, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Tintin Wulia.
Funding Agency
The Arts Council of Irleland

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Details Date
Keynote respondent. Artistic, Architectural and Political-Economic Performance. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg. 2023
Peer reviewer. Seismograf. 2023
Guest critic. The Bartlett School of Architecture. University College London. Design for Performance & Interaction MArch. 2022
Selection panel. The Arts Council of Ireland. Visual Arts Project Award. 2022
Peer reviewer. The Journal of Artistic Research. 2021
Peer reviewer. Cities and Health Journal. Taylor & Francis. 2019
Peer reviewer. Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design. CRC Press. 2019
Session chair. Sounding Out the Space: An International Conference on the Spatiality of Sound. Session: Sound in Urban Space. Technological University Dublin. 2017
Selection panel. St. Catherine"s National School. Rush, Co. Dublin. Per cent for art commission. 2017
Panel member. Globale: Next City Sounds. Panel: Current Perspectives on Acoustic Planning. ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. 2015
Keynote artist. The Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association. 2012
Editorial board member. Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture. 2011 - 2014
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Medium Basic
Details Date From Date To
Research associate. Theatrum Mundi. 2023 Current
Co-founder and member. Annex. 2019 Current
Member. Réseau International Ambiances. 2015 Current
Company secretary. Art School. 2014 Current
Co-founder and editorial board member. Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture. 2011 2013
Co-founder and co-director. Soun.Din. 2001 2003
Sven Anderson, The City as Sonic Medium: Reappraising Urban Sound Design in Times of Crisis, The London Conference of Critical Thought, London, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Beyond Standards: In Search of Heterogeneous Approaches to Sound in the Design and Planning of the Public Realm, Internoise: The 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, Glasgow, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI
Sven Anderson, Chloe Brenan, Karl Burke, Adam Gibney & Theo McNab, 'I Am Sitting in a Room', Solstice Arts Centre, 2022, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED  URL
ANNEX (Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster, and Fiona McDermott), Ibiye Camp, Cihad Caner, Tianzhuo Chen, Stine Deja, Constant Dullaart, Lo-Def Film Factory, Alaa Mansour, and The Underground Division, 'abandon all hope ye who enter here', Transmediale (Berlin), 2022, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED  URL  URL
Sven Anderson, 'Collection', 2 x Vinyl LP. Edition: 300. Commissioned by The Office of Public Works (OPW), 2022, -, Music Production, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster & Fiona McDermott (eds.), States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape, Barcelona, Actar, 2021, 324pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Excessive States: Not a Cloud, But a Void in, editor(s)ANNEX , States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape, Barcelona, Actar, 2021, [Sven Anderson], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, 'Collection', Glebe House and Gallery, Donegal, 2021, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Alan Butler, David Capener, Donal Lally, Clare Lyster, and Fiona McDermott, 'Entanglement', The 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2021, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED  URL  URL
Sven Anderson, Integrative Sonic Urbanism: Artist-Led Strategies for Urban Sound Design in the Contemporary City, The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (Technological University Dublin), 2021, Thesis, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Alex Cao (Arup) and Yi Chen (Bartlett) - Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Andrea Cetrulo (Theatrum Mundi) - Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Andres Bosshard - Survey Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Angus Deuchars (Arup) - Survey Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Arnthrudur Gisladottir (NIRAS) - Survey Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Claus Falk-Petersen (Struer Kommune) - Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Daniel Blyth (Publica) - Survey Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Elahe Karimnia (UWE Bristol) - Survey Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Gorm Haldor-Jorgensen (Harman) - Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Sven Anderson, Sound-Frameworks: Hani Salih (Quality of Life Foundation) - Survey Interview, Zenodo, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Visual Arts Bursary Award. The Arts Council of Ireland. 2023
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship (MSCA IF). Society and Enterprise Panel. The European Commission (EC). 2021
Visual Arts Bursary Award. The Arts Council of Ireland. 2021
Represented Ireland in the 17th International Architecture Biennale at Venice. With Annex. 2019
The National Pulse Memorial and Museum International Design Competition. Shortlisted proposal. Orlando, USA. With Heneghan Peng Architects and Gustafson Porter + Bowman. 2019
The UK Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition. Honourable mention. London, UK. With Heneghan Peng Architects and Gustafson Porter + Bowman. 2018
Engaging with Architecture Award. The Arts Council of Ireland. With The Office for Subversive Architecture. 2017
Open Call Project Award. The Arts Council of Ireland. With Gerard Byrne. 2016
Engaging with Architecture Award. The Arts Council of Ireland. With The Office for Subversive Architecture. 2016
Strategic Project Award. 'The Office for Common Sound'. Wicklow County Council. 2016
Curatorial Bursary Award. The Arts Council of Ireland. 2016
Public Art Commission. 'Tolka Nights'. The Office of Public Works (OPW), Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council, Meath County Council, and Create. With Matt Green, John D'Arcy, Jennie Guy, Conan McIvor, and Stuart Sloan. 2015
Resident Artist. The Fire Island National Seashore. The US. National Park Service. 2014
The European Soundscape Award. Issued by the European Environment Agency (EEA). 2014
Public Art Commission. 'The Manual for Acoustic Planning and Urban Sound Design'. Dublin City Council. 2013
Visual Art Bursary Award. The Arts Council of Ireland. 2013
Visual Art Project Award. The Arts Council of Ireland. 2012