Dr Jane Grant

Qualifications

PhD 

Teaching interests

Staff serving as external examiners

I am External Examiner on the MA in Digital Arts at Greenwich University.

Research interests

SelectedPublications/artworks

Currently working with Paul Broks (neuroscientist) on an immersive theatre project, The Dead 9wt) on the experience of Alzheimers. 

Currently working on an artists book, How to Disappear, 2020 - ongoing. 

Oxford Handbook of Sound Art editor and contributor, Oxford University Press, New York, (edited byJane Grant, John Matthias, David Prior, introductory essay written by Jane Grant, John Matthias and David Prior) published 2021.

Encyclopaedia of New Media Art, 3 volumes, Bloomsbury, Chapter on Sound and Sonification, 2023. 

Between Us: Desire, touch and seduction as immaterial agents in augmented sonic artworks, single authored chapter, Ubiquity: Journal of Pervasive Media, Volume 7, Issue 1, Dec. 2020. 

Between Us, Augmented Reality (Magic Leap) Immersive artwork, exhibited at ISEA Korea, 2018 and Watershed, Bristol, 2018, narrative, soundscape. 

SWCT Immersion Fellow, 2018, developed work with Magic Leap leading to Between Us. 

this excited surface, site-specific sound installation, Plymouth Camera Obscura, Jane Grant, BalanceUnbalance 2017. 

Fathom Atlantic, Devil's Point, Plymouth, as part of the Atlantic Project, international multi sited exhibition, 2018.

Fathom, (site-specific sonic artwork) Jane Grant, John Matthias, Royal William Yard, Plymouth, commissioned by the River Tamar Project, 2013.

Selected artworks:

Solo exhibitions:

Leaving Earth (digital/CGI film) at Peninsula Arts Gallery (2010).

Still (video installation) at Chapter, Cardiff, (2000).

Memento Mori, (sculpture, photography, installation) at Spacex Gallery and ExeterMuseum and Art Gallery (1994).

Aufstiegen, (sculpture/site specific) Helibronn, Germany, (1996).

Selected group exhibitions:

this excited surface, site-specific sound installation, Plymouth Camera Obscura, Jane Grant,BalanceUnbalance, (2017).

Fathom, (site-specific sonic artwork) Jane Grant, John Matthias, Royal William Yard, Plymouth, commissioned by the River Tamar Project (2013).

Fathom (documentary) Jane Grant and John Matthias (2015) ‘It Sounds like Art’ Kasa Gallery,Sabanci University, Istanbul Curated by Lanfranco Aceti, April, 2014.

 Fathom shown at: ‘It looks likeArt’ OCR (Operational and Curatorial Research in Contemporary Art) May 15th–June 30th 2014 Online, Curated by Lanfranco Aceti

Plasticity, (participatory sonic artwork) Jane Grant, John Matthias, Kin and NickRyan, exhibited at the BFI as part of the onedotzero festival, (2011) GoogleCampus London (2012) and HWK, Institute for Advanced Study in Germany (2012).

Moon as transmitter, Jane Grant, sound installation/performance at Musica Nova,Dundalk, Ireland (2012).

Ghost, (site-specific sonic installation) Jane Grant, ISEA 2011, IstanbulBiennial (2011).

Soft Moon, sound-work as part of Specimen exhibition curated by Yuko Shiraishi, Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, May (2011).

The Fragmented Orchestra, Jane Grant, John Matthias, Nick Ryan, at FACT (Foundation for Art andCreative Technology), Liverpool and 23 sites across the UK including:

National Portrait Gallery, Watershed, Bristol,Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Roundhouse, London, Gloucester Cathedral,Gloucester, Kiosk,West Pier, Brighton, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Yorkshire,Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, Everton Football Club, Goodison Park, Liverpool, SonicArts Research Centre, Belfast, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University ofBirmingham, Centre for Alternative Technology, Macyhnlleth, Wales, Centre forAlternative Technology, Macyhnlleth, Wales, Landscove C of E Primary School,Kielder Observatory, Black Fell, Northumberland, Institute of Psychiatry, KingsCollege, London, Verbal Arts Centre, Belfast, The Hidden Gardens, Glasgow,Stephen Lawrence Centre, London, Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, Scotland,Blueprint Studios, Manchester, Rochelle School, London, St Andrews Church,Fulham Fields, London, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth,(2008/2009).

Running Piece, Jane Grant, at Multichannel at Artsway, (2008). Threshold, Jane Grant, Just World Order, Artsway, (2008).

Untitled (Room Piece), Jane Grant, John Matthias, SANExpo, Sonic Arts Network, Plymouth,(2007).

Dogs in Cars, Waiting, (16mm film) Jane Grant at Screen, selected exhibition of national andinternational artists and filmmakers Forest of Dean, (2000).

Contiunuum, (video installation) Jane Grant, Green Room, Digital Summer,Manchester, (1998).

Kissing the Dust,(sound, photography, 16mm film) Jane Grant, Ajamu, Michael Robertson,Walsall Museum and Arts Gallery, Huddersfield Museum and Art Gallery,Oldham Museum and Art Gallery (1997).

(Untitled), (sculpture) Jane Grant atNewyln Gallery, (1996)

Awards:

PRSFoundation for Music, New Music Award, 2008, the most financiallysignificant award for music in the UK and likened to the Turner Prize forMusic.

PrixArs Electronica 2009, Honorary Mention, Hybrid Arts Category.

Wellcome Trust, Engaging People Award, 2009.

Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts ‘ highly commended’ for The Fragmented Orchestra, 2008.

ArtsCouncil of England, 2008.

ArtsCouncil of England 2010.

Sponsorship for The Fragmented Orchestra from: Kin, Bowers and Wilkins, FACT, Samson, Be Broadband, Fibox, MGB, Feonic.

Selected Individual awards andgrants:

AHRC,Principle Investigator, Threshold - Merging the Human Voice with Neurological Time Patterns. Awarded Nov. 2006.       

British Council Travel Award, Aufsteigen. 1996.

Arts Council Award for 16mm film Dogs in Cars, Waiting, 1997.

Sponsorship,Sony, for Still, solo exhibition, 1999.

Selectedpublications:

The Anomaly: noise, ghosts and the multiverse, single authored paper for ISEA Hong Kong, 2016.

 The Undivided Mind, Special Edition, (guest editor), Introduction (JaneGrant) The Undivided

Mind, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research,Volume 13 number 3, Intellect Books, 2016.

Fathom:surfaces, symmetries, arrivals and departures, Jane Grant and John Matthias. Special Edition, Leonardo ElectronicJournal, Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics: The Third International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture, forthcoming, 2016.

The Stone Sky: Dwelling and Habitation on Other Worlds, Jane Grant, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research,Volume 12 Issue 2-3, Dec. 2014.

Fathom: A sonic surface bordering underwater and acoustic worlds, Jane Grant, John Matthias, Simon Honywill, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Volume, 2 Issue 1, March2014.

Soft Moon: Exploring Matter and Mutability in Narratives and Histories of the Earth-Moon System, JaneGrant, Leonardo Journal Volume 46, Issue 5, 2013.

 Hearing Things: inside outness and sonic ghosts, Jane Grant, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Volume 9Issue 2-3, May 2012.

Matter and mutability: presence and affect in other worlds, Jane Grant in Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Volume10 Issue 2-3, Dec. 2012.

Shifting Topographies, Sound and The Fragmented Orchestra, Jane Grant and John Matthias in Spatialities, The Geographies of Art and Architecture, edited by Judith Rugg and Craig Martin, Intellect Books, 2011.

Between Oneand Zero: noise, ghosts and plasticity, Jane Grant - ISEA International Proceedings of the 19th InternationalSymposium of Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney, Dec. 2013.

Heliosphere –intensities, the ionosphere and the solar wind, Jane Grant, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Volume11 Issue 2, Sept. 2013.

Plasticities and Ghosts:Relationships between Stimulus and Memory in Noisy Networks, Jane Grant, John Matthias, Leonardo Music Journal, Oct2013.

Neural Ghostsand the Focus of Attention, Jane Grant,ISEA Istanbul, conference proceedings, https://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper/neural-ghosts-and-focus-attention, 2011.

SoundNavigations: distances, proximities and neural fields – Jane Grant, John Matthias and Matt Wade. CR12,PRESENCE IN THE MINDFIELD: Art, Identity and the Technology of Transformation,Lisbon, November, 2011.

Noise: networks, sensation,experience, Jane Grant, Making Reality Really Real, TEKS, Norway, November,2010.

 Leaving Earth, Jane Grant, catalogue accompanying exhibition, with essays from Professor Liz Wells, Professor Arthur I. Miller, Dr. Ian Crawford, Dr. Katherine Joy, May 2010, published by University of Plymouth Press, 2010.

The Fragmented Orchestra, Dan Jones, Jane Grant, John Matthias, Tim Hodgson,Nick Ryan, Nicholas Outram, NIME, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2009.

The Fragmented Orchestra, Jane Grant,John Matthias, Nick Ryan, in HUMAN FUTURES, Art in the Age of Uncertainty, edited by Andy Miah, Liverpool University Press, 2008, http://humanfutures.wordpress.com/

Hearing Thinking, Tim Hodgson, Jane Grant, John Matthias, Eduardo Miranda, Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops, Springer Verlag, 2009. http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/SPNM_12_08.pdf

Translating Consciousness intoMusic, Jane Grant, John Matthias, NickRyan, in New Notes, Dec. 2008.

Invited lectures and talks:

 Non-locality and longing: ghosts,doppelgangers and the practices of imagination, Jane Grant at Frontiers of Life: terrestrial and extra-terrestrialprospections, convened by Istvan Praet, Roehampton University, June 2015.

NeuroArts, Jane Grant at Cognitive aspects of aesthetics inthe arts, convened by Jason Kass, London College of Fashion, June 2015.

Jane Grant presentation atCurating the Immaterial: Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art, curated and convened by Lanfranco Aceti, Courtauld Institute of Art, May 2014.

Other Worlds, Jane Grant, paper and panel discussion Jane Grantwith Rob La Frenais, Professor Chris Welch (International Space University Strasbourg) and Professor Phillip Gross, Jane Grant Cosmographies, July2014.

Other Worlds, Jane Grant, at Expanded Narrative Symposium,convened by Emma Whittaker, Plymouth University, Nov. 2013.

Ghost, presentation, Jane Grant at State of Mind: aConsciousness Expo organised by the Sackler Centre for ConsciousnessScience, June 2012.

Closer: amobile neural field, Jane Grantand John Matthias, at Sound and Physical Interaction,

Musical Instruments for MobileSystems, convened by Atau Tanaka, CultureLab, Newcastle University, June 2012.

The Fragmented Orchestra, Jane Grant and John Matthias, Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency: Beyond the Relational Aesthetic Paradigm, Plymouth University, June, 2010.

Leaving Earth, artists talk, Jane Grant at Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University, May 2010. The Fragmented Orchestra, for The Whitehead Lectures, with John Matthias, Goldsmiths College, London, October 2009. The Fragmented Orchestra, Jane Grant and John Matthias Royal Observatory Greenwich,

Festival of Time, November 2009. The Fragmented Orchestra, Jane Grant and John Matthiasat Critical Spatial Practices, seminar, RIBA, London, June 2009.

The Fragmented Orchestra, at Wellcome Trust Super Club, with John Matthias and Nick Ryan,March 2009.

The Fragmented Orchestra, at the Voices Festival, with John Matthias, March 2009.

Big Screen, presentation The Fragmented Orchestra, with John Matthias,Bristol, March 2009.

Artists Breakfast with Daniel Glaser, David Toop and Robert Worby, FACT and FACT TV,December 2008.

Radio 3 interview, Music Matters – Music and the Brain, special edition, 2008. Exploring Consciousness Symposium, lecture, University of Plymouth, October 2008.

Reviews and Interviews:

Sky Arts at the New Music Award (Documentary)Sky Arts 1 September 2010.

The Guardian Guide (Preview) ’24 Fragments’February 21st 2009.

Shock of the New - The Future of Music? It might be... The Fragmented Orchestra, Euan Ferguson, Observer,Feb. 2009.

Fragmented Orchestra's pulsating electronic brain fires David Stubbs's synapses at Liverpool's FACT, David Stubbs, The Wire Issue 300February 2009.

BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, Interview with Evan Davis, April 22nd 2008. 

Is this the future of Sound Art? Ned Beauman (Feature), Dazed and Confused, Dec 2008.

Noises off, Alfred Hickling (Feature) The Guardian 19th December 2008. Liverpool ends year on a cultural high with The Fragmented Orchestra, Richard Morrison (Feature), The Times 13th December, 2008.

The Times ‘top 5 things to do this Christmas’December 18th 2008. Putting the pieces together, (Feature) Pro Sound Europe, July 2008 SimonDuff THE news 22nd May 2008.

BBC Radio Devon (Interview) Breakfast Show,April 23rd 2008.

University of Bristol Public Engagement Stories:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/publicengagementstories/stories/2009/59.html Yoyopop! - http://www.putsonline.co.uk/yoyopop/music/037-the-fragmented-orchestra/Watershed - http://www.watershed.co.uk/dshed/nature-mind SelectedConference Presentations:

Mutability, celestial surfaces and sonic boundaries: New forms - Fathom, Plasticity and Soft Moons, Jane Grant, Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era, Shanghai, China, Nov. 2015.

The Anomaly: on what it isnot to see - noise, ghosts and the multiverse(s),Jane Grant, at The Undivided Mind conference, Plymouth University, July 2015.

The Stone Sky, dwelling andhabitation in other worlds, Jane Grant, at Fak’ugesi:Digital Africa Conference convened by Tegan Bristow, Wits University, SouthAfrica, 2014.

The Fragmented Orchestra, Rhizome review, Sept. 2009, http://rhizome.org/editorial/2923

We are the real-time experiment – TWENTY YEARS OF FACT – 1989 - 2009, entry, The Fragmented Orchestra, LiverpoolUniversity Press, 2009.

Translating Consciousness intoMusic, Jane Grant, John Matthias, NickRyan, in New Notes, Dec. 2008.

The Sound of Music, interview and feature on AHRC grant, PODIUM, AHRC, Winter, 2008.

BBC News, April, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7359289.stm Arts Council Online review, http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/takeitaway/news/147/read/

Fathom: surfaces, symmetries,arrivals and departures, Jane Grantand John Matthias, Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics: The ThirdInternational Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections ofArt, Science and Culture, Istanbul, 2014.

Fathom, Jane Grant at CAC (Computer Art Conference and design for All) convened by Guto Nobrega, Federal University of Rio deJaneiro, Brazil, Sept. 2014.

Heliosphere: Intensities,the ionosphere and the solar wind, Jane Grant, DI-EGYFEST 01(Digital Egypt), April, 2013.

Between Signal and Noise: potency, potentiality and the uncertain moment, Jane Grant at Mutamorphosis II: Tribute to Uncertainty, CIANT:International centre for Art and new technologies, Prague, 2012.

Between one and zero: noise, ghosts and plasticity, Jane Grant, ISEA,Sydney 2012. Matter and mutability: presence and affect in other worlds,

Sound navigations: distances, proximities and neural fields,Jane Grant at the Skilled Art conference, Lisbon, November, 2011.

Matter and Mutability:presence and affect in other worlds, Jane Grant at Transcultural Tendencies, Transmedial Transactions, ConsciousnessReframed, Shanghai, China, August 2011.

Neural Ghosts and the Focus of Attention, at the NeuroArts Panel, ISEA Istanbul,September 2011.

Neural Ghosts and the Focusof Attention, at the NeuroArts conference, Universityof Plymouth, February 2011.

Noise: networks, sensation,experience, Jane Grant, in Making Reality Really Real, TEKS,Trondheim, Norway, November 2010.

Teaching:

UWIC, BA Fine ArtSculpture Dept. 1996-1998 P/T

Plymouth University,BA Media Arts 1996-1998 P/T

Plymouth University,BA Visual Arts 1998-2003

Plymouth University,BA Media Arts 2003 – ongoing

Plymouth University,headed up and wrote with a team BA Sonic Arts 2005

Plymouth University,Principle Supervisor Planetary Collegium 2009 – on-going

Plymouth University,Principle Investigator CogNovo Marie Curie Doctoral Programme 2013 – on-going.

7 PhD completions

12 PhD examinations

Conferences and panelsorganised:

The Undivided Mind (conference), Plymouth University, July 2015.

NeuroArts, (panel) ISEA Sydney Australia, 2013

NeuroArts, (panel) ISEA Istanbul, September 2011

NeuroArts, (conference), Plymouth University, February 2011.

Other research



Grants & contracts

Sponsorship for Ghost : Bowers and Wilkins and Cycling '74, 2011.

I have received grants and awards for the collaborative work The Fragmented Orchestra with John Matthias and Nick Ryan from the following:

PRS Foundation for Music, New Music Award, 2008, the most financially significant award for music in the UK and likened to the Turner Prize for Music.

Prix Ars Electronica 2009, Honorary Mention, Hybrid Arts Category.

WellcomeTrust, Engaging People Award, 2009.

Arts Council of England, 2008.

University of Plymouth, 2008, and 2009.

 Also sponsorship for The Fragmented Orchestra from:

Kin

Bowers and Wilkins

FACT

Samson

Be Broadband

Fibox

MGB

Feonic

 Individual awards have included:

AHRC, Principle Investigator, Threshold - Merging the Human Voice with Neurological Time Patterns. Awarded Nov. 2006.       

British Council Travel Award for Aufsteigen.

Arts Council Award for film Dogs in Cars, Waiting.

Sponsorship, Sony, for Still, solo exhibition.

University of Plymouth for Soft Moon, 2010.

For the collaborative project developing the Neurogranular Sampler with John Matthias, Kin, Tim Hodgson, Eduardo Miranda, Proof of Concept Award, University of Plymouth.

Conferences organised

Conferences and panels organised:

Haunted Geologies, conference, invited speakers, Prof Deborah Dixon, Glasgow University and Prof Iain Stewart, University of Plymouth, 2019. 

The Undivided Mind (conference), Plymouth University, July 2015.

NeuroArts, (panel) ISEA Sydney, Australia, 2013.

NeuroArts, (panel) ISEA Istanbul, September 2011.

NeuroArts, (symposium), Plymouth University, February 2011.

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