FESTIVAL UM \\ People, Place and Distributed Communities

PANEL DISCUSSION
People, Place and Distributed Communities
21/06/2008 // 11:30 – 13:30 // Clube Português de Artes e Ideias // Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, 29, 2o [ao Chiado]

AS PART OF: FESTIVAL UM// international festival for experimental and mixed media
// Lisbon, Portugal, 19-22 June

organized by Teresa Dillon

The panel discussion “People, Place and Distributed Communities” addressed the forms of movement and architectures for participation, which emerge through bottom-up and ground-level initiatives, from independent artist groups and communities,that often address concerns with local context and resources and their expansion to a more global reach (facilitated by digital media).

FESTIVAL UM \\ Panel speaker’s bios

PANEL DISCUSSION // People, Place and Distributed Communities
21/06/2008 // 11:30 – 13:30 // Clube Português de Artes e Ideias // Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, 29, 2o [ao Chiado] PART OF: FESTIVAL UM// international festival for experimental and mixed media // Lisbon, Portugal, 19-22 June // organized by Teresa Dillon
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SPEAKER’S BIOS
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Teresa Dillon
IRE/UK – artist-researcher-director, Polar Produce + N.I.P. + UM festival
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Teresa Dillon is an independent researcher; artist, performer and director of distributed and local group networks and collectives.

Teresa Dillon’s work focuses on the exploration of human, socio-cultural and economic relations, behaviours and forms of communication that emerge within and between different systems and ecologies. Drawing on a variety of technologies and methods, she creates work, which combines pop, DIY, low and high art aesthetics.
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Over the years, her approach has led to a broad body of work from location or site-based, performances and installations, to academic and applied research and interface design, to the curation and production of public art events and programmes, as well as music, sound art and writing.