As an active networker-builder with a background in engineering, hard science, and the arts, John Hopkins practices a nomadic form of performative art and teaching that spans many countries and situations. He has taught workshops in more than 20 countries and 50 institutions across Europe and North America. Recent streaming performance nodes include Berlin, New York, Sydney, Helsinki, Riga, Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Santa Barbara, Winnipeg, San Francisco, and, of course, online. He studied film with renown experimental film-maker Stan Brakhage in the late 1980’s. He was recently artist-in-residence at the Sibelius Academy’s Center for Music and Technology in Helsinki, Finland.
During his residency at Pixelache, John developed the Neoscenes workshop, exploring network media, organised in collaboration with MUU gallery.
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Date: March 21-31 (with break on 24-25 March)
Location: MUU Gallery & Media Base, Lönnrotinkatu 33
A workshop byJohn Hopkins
In the ubiquity of networked media spaces where we distribute our wireless lives, what happens to our creative processes? How may we build a functioning architecture of participation for productive collaboration and interaction between the Self and Others?
This dynamic workshop will bring participants to a new state of awareness about their own creative practice. It will accomplish this through an exploration of human collaboration and connection within the...