Digital Arts Residency

Electric Greenhouse

Electric Greenhouse is a digital arts residency. The Greenhouse offers artists creative space and free access to B3's Media Lab. As well as this access, in order for the artists to realize their projects they will receive bespoke training, support and mentoring by industry specialists. 

At the end of each residency a showcase event was organised and members of the industry were invited to view the work produced.

Electric Greenhouse 2 took place between February and April 2006. The selected artists, Mayling To, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa and Joe Walsh have showcased their work-in-progress at B3's Electric Avenue Studios and are currently developing their projects.

Electric Greenhouse took place between January and March 2005. The residency saw artists Harold Offeh, susan pui san lok and Elkin Calderon develop projects, which have now been exhibited nationally and internationally. At the end of 2005's residency their work was showcased at various events and locations including the ICA. 

The residency is currently being redesigned, Electric Greenhouse 3, will be launched in April 2007.

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See below for more details on the residency artists

Electric Greenhouse 2 - Artists

Mayling To received a MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2001. Her work engages primarily with personal narratives within a manipulation of power structures, often where systems of representation and interaction are at play.

Joe Walsh is a London-based artist. He studied at Goldsmiths College and has shown work in Miami, Japan, Berlin and London. Walsh's previous work has appropriated styles and performances from cinematic films, including the work of Mike Leigh, Charlie Chaplin and 70's pop videos.

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa's practice utilises and combines drawing, text, installation, photography, sculpture, video and performance. Emma's work will be appearing in a forthcoming exhibition in Seoul, South Korea and she is currently investigating the associative power of "the sound of gesture" as a means to consider the nature and action of the collective memory.

Electric Greenhouse 1 - Artists

Elkin Calderon studied fine art at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, specialising in electronic media. His work is expressed in combining different media: video, painting, animation and text based work. Mucho Pollo Pa'esa Olla, a short film based on a real life Columbian scenario, was shot during the period of his residency.

Harold Offeh graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001. For the residency his project 'Anthems' deconstructed some of the absurdities of symbols of national identities, exploring the gap between individuals and the collective ideals of the nationalistic songs.

susan pui san lok is a Research Associate in Visual Culture at Middlesex University. Golden (Vistas) was developed during the Electric Greenhouse residency. Her work considers San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge as a symbolic frontier, both of diaspora and the west, from three different perspectives.