Sean Dockray
(Lecturer)
Sean Dockray is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. His work includes interactive installations, video, writing, architecture, radio broadcasts, data visualization, performative lectures, and computer programming. With a focus on social systems, time, and impermanence, Dockray's practice often emphasizes an active, critical engagement with technology. He is a member of the research group the Institute for Advanced Architecture, one of the directors of Telic Arts Exchange, a media art gallery, and a partner of the newly formed design collaborative MARKET. Between a BSE in Civil Engineering and Architecture from Princeton University and an MFA from UCLA (Design|Media Arts), Dockray worked for Plumb Design in New York and consulted for a variety of cultural producers including Laura Kurgan Architecture, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Not a Cornfield public artwork, and the Milosevic trial video archive.
Collaborative work with the Institute for Advanced Architecture (a research and design collective devoted to expanding the field of architecture's possibilities and exploring the relationship between technology and space) has included a monthly radio program, an analysis of the American Funeral Home, an invisible ADA-compliant ramp design, a participatory mapping installation, an online text-trading group, and the infrastructure of the group itself.
Sean will be speaking this spring at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia; writing an essay for online journal Viralnet on the relationship of place, sound, and vision; and exhibiting at the Armory in Pasadena, Gigantic Artspace in New York City, and ESL in Los Angeles; he is organizing a symposium on "immaterial architecture" for the fall of 2006; and he is building a radio station time capsule which will begin broadcasting in 2056.
http://spd.e-rat.org
http://la.advancedarchitecture.org
http://www.telic.info