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Lalya Gaye
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Artist Lalya Gaye Viktoria Institute 2002
Artist Lalya Gaye Viktoria Institute 2002
Born
Geneva, Switzerland
Occupation(s)Digital media arts, interaction design
Years activeas an artist, designer and researcher since 2002
Websitehttp://lalyagaye.com/

Lalya Gaye is an international digital media artist and interaction designer with a background in science and engineering. Currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, she is the founder and director of the interdisciplinary digital media arts practice and digital innovation consultancy,[1] which produces public space installations, designs interactive products and engages local communities with digital creativity.[2]

Early Life

Lalya was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1978, the daughter of a Senegalese-Malian father and a Swedish mother, both ILO (International Labour Office) officials, and the youngest of 8 children on her father's side. Her father was a trade unionist who was instrumental in setting up the African Trade Union Movement, and her mother is a feminist human rights activist. She spent her childhood and early student years in Geneva before moving to Stockholm, Sweden and then living in Dakar, Senegal, Göteborg, Sweden, Providence, RI in the USA and finally Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. Her early love for all things mundane, urban, sci fi and hiphop/drum-n-bass have had a significant impact on her art practice, prompting her to use digital technology as a malleable material which weaves into the physical world and everyday life. [3]

Career

Lalya received a B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Geneva in 1999, and a M.Sc.Eng. in Electroacoustics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm in 2002. She worked for several years (2002-2006) as a researcher at the Future Applications Lab[4], Viktoria Institute, in Göteborg, Sweden, while working on a PhD in Applied Information Technology at the University of Göteborg. Future Applications was an innovation-focused research lab in Interaction design, Mobile Technology and Human-Computer Interaction. During her time there, she was at the forefront of locative media arts and interactive music research, in particular through the collaborative projects Sonic City [5] [6], Tejp and Context Photography, and through acting as a steering committee member of the International Mobile Music Workshops series - one of the main locative media arts festivals and conferences of the time.

Lalya is an executive member on the board of the Artists' Union England, the first and only union representing visual artists in England.[7]

In 2006 Lalya was on the executive committee of the NIME conference, the leading conference on alternative musical interfaces.[8]

Projects, workshops and exhibitions

  • Archive Cut-N-Pasting: workshop at Newcastle City Library on 11 July 2015 delivered for Newcastle Libraries' Commons are Forever project. Lalya facilitated the remix of public domain images into new artwork, to be published in turn under an open license[9]
  • In 2012, Lalya Gaye and her piece Arbre à Palabre (realised during her residency at Rhode Island School of Design) was one of 10 featured artists in Stigmart/10 Annual Review of Contemporary Arts as one of the most promising contemporary artists under the age of 36. http://stigmart.weebly.com/2012-issue.html
  • Yellooooow Splitch* installation mentioned in Göteborgs Posten http://www.gp.se/[10]
  • Sonic City 2002-2004 was an arts project that explored mobile interaction and wearable technology for generating music in everyday life. Managed by Lalya Gaye (Viktoria Institute)[11] and Ramia Mazé[12].
  • The touring installation and performance piece "Oh My Home - Lost & Found" (part of the EU's "Culture Europe" programme Corners[13] and realised with artists Saadia Hussain and Ixone Ormaetxe) has been presented at Kosovo's Dokufest festival, Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival, as well as featured in Swedish, Kosovar and Northern Irish media (national television and local press).[14]
  • The installation Cycles of Brass (realised with Swedish artists Alexander Berman and Filip Strebeyko) which was commissioend for the Durham Brass Festival in 2014 was featured on the popular blog about creative digital technologies, Creative Applications [15]

Herstory

Lalya's work explores the poetic and creative space between the physical and the digital, and works primarily with light, sound, steel, everyday objects, urban space and interactive electronics.[16] Through Attaya Projects and the various collaborations that this platform affords, she and her teams produce among other things public space art installations, design interactive products and provide consultancy in digital innovation. Lalya's work has been exhibited among other places at NIME[17], the Festival of Light in Lyon [18] , France, Dokufest in Prizren [19], Kosovo, and the DLI Art Gallery in Durham [20], UK. She is involved with multiple local festivals and workshops and is taking part in the European project Corners[21] with ISIS Arts. Her work has also been featured in a variety of publications such as The Wire or El Mundo [22].

References


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  1. ^ http://www.attayaprojects.com/ Attaya Projects
  2. ^ http://www.digitalmedialabs.org/artist/lalya-gaye/ Lalya's biography on the Arts Council England-supported Digital Media Labs
  3. ^ Live interview at Dorkbot-GBG by the local Swedish Radio SR P4 Göteborg http://sverigesradio.se/goteborg/
  4. ^ http://futureapplicationslab.blogspot.co.uk/
  5. ^ https://www.tii.se/projects/sonic-city
  6. ^ http://www.leoalmanac.org/l-a-re-play-volume-21-no-1/ L.A. Re.Play: Mobile Network Culture in Placemaking (2016) section - "Sound Cartographies and Navigation Art: In Search of the Sublime" by Ksenia Fedorova
  7. ^ http://www.artistsunionengland.org.uk/
  8. ^ http://www.nime.org
  9. ^ https://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/19605859675/in/photostream/, Newcastle Libraries Flickr account: Artwork created during Archive Cut-N-Pasting workshop
  10. ^ Yellooooow Splitch* installation mentioned in Göteborgs Posten http://www.gp.se/
  11. ^ https://www.viktoria.se/
  12. ^ https://www.tii.se/projects/ittextiles
  13. ^ www.cornersofeurope.org
  14. ^ http://www.cornerslive.org/en/Longform/15/327/Oh-My-Home---Lost-And-Found.htm
  15. ^ http://www.creativeapplications.net/news/cycles-of-brass-by-attaya-projects/
  16. ^ http://stigmart.weebly.com/2012-issue.html One of 10 featured artists in Stigmart/10 Annual Review of Contemporary Arts
  17. ^ http://www.nime.org/
  18. ^ http://rbth.com/articles/2012/10/03/the_circle_of_light_made_moscow_nights_even_brighter_18793.html the Festival of Light in Lyon
  19. ^ http://dokufest.com/2015/
  20. ^ http://www.dlidurham.org.uk/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx
  21. ^ http://www.isisarts.org.uk/our-programme/residency-programme/corners/106
  22. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4u2uAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=The+Wire+lalya+gaye&source=bl&ots=Y6ckNMI94U&sig=mVYLKn-rWincZq_90KcDRVeud1k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX-c_ny6nLAhVHRhQKHZLJCG0Q6AEIOzAF#v=onepage&q=The%20Wire%20lalya%20gaye&f=false United We Act. A scoping study and a symposium on connected communities By Joëlle Bitton, Andreia Cavaco, Lalya Gaye, Ben
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