Andrew Gracie (b.1967, London, UK)
Artist, researcher. Graduated in 1991 with a BFA from Liverpool Polytechnic School of Art (UK). He focuses on contemporary media arts including sound, video and installation, placing special emphasis on the link between biological and technological systems. Gracie has a special interest in studying organic intelligence, emergent systems and new kinds of evolutionary synthesis. His works have been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Bluecoat Gallery (Liverpool), the Green Room (Manchester), the Manchester Museum (Manchester), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), the Performance Space (Sydney), the Observatori (Valencia), Centro Historico (Mexico), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Mejan Labs (Stockholm), COMAFOSCA (Alella) and Galeria Kapelica (Ljubljana). Gracie has been part of numerous festivals, among them: Visionfest (Liverpool, 1997), digitalsummer (Manchester, 1998; Manchester, 2002), ISEA (Nagoya, 2002), The Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool, 2002), Artbots03 (New York, 2003), Organismos: esto es Vida (Madrid — Barcelona, 2004-05), AV Festival (Sunderland, 2006), BIOS4 (Seville, 2007), Ars Electronica (Linz, 2007) and in Lille’2004 – Cultural Capital of Europe. He has delivered a wide range of presentations and lectures at international contemporary art symposia as part of Transmediale (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), FLAIRS (Florida), Futuresonic and Dias de Bioarte (Barcelona). He is the author of several articles on adaptive and intellectual qualities of artificial systems. Gracie has won several awards such as artist residencies and honorary mentions at VIDA 9.0 (Madrid), an international competition on Art & Artificial Life, and at Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, 2007).