Professor Tom Corby

Biography

Tom Corby studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in 1991, returning to complete a PhD in 2000. He is an artist and writer interested in issues around climate, data and systems and is co-founder and director of the 'Experiments in Art and Science' [EAS] research group with Neal White and Nicola Triscott. His artwork (in collaboration with Gavin Baily ) has been exhibited worldwide at numerous festivals, galleries and museums including at the Institute of Contemporary Arts; Victoria and Albert Museum; Tate Online; Arts Catalyst Project Space; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Transmediale; ZKM, ISEA; Ars Electronica; the Madrid Art Fair, and the Intercommunication Centre Tokyo (ICC) amongst many others.

Artwork has been featured in: Art and Ecology Now, Andrew Brown (2014, Thames and Hudson); Weather as Medium, Janine Randerson (MIT Press, 2018); Museum and Archive on the Move; Oliver Grau and Walter de Gruyter (GmbH & Co KG 2017); Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica', Klaus Dodds, Alan D. Hemmings, Peder Roberts (Edward Elgar Publishing, 27 Jan 2017); 'Digital Aesthetics' Sean Cubitt in Christiane Paul (ed), A Companion to Digital Art, (2014, Blackwell, New York), The Fundamentals of Digital Art, Richard Colson (2007, Ava Publishing) Net.art 2.0, Tilman Baumgartel (2002, Nurnberg: Insititut fur moderne Kunst). Reviews include: Art Review, La Republica, El País, The Guardian, Art Monthly, Artist Newsletter. Awards for practice include: FILE Festival Digital Language 2010, Sao Paulo; jury nomination at the 10th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2007; honorary mentions at the Prix Ars Electronica 2006, 2000, Linz, and nomination for the International Media Art Award 2000, at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe; Artist in Residence, Institute of Contemporary Arts 1999.



Research statement
My current art practice explores climate change, extractivism and geographies of conflict and takes the form of large-scale screen and physical installations. This work seeks to articulate and make tangible, relationships between social, political and technological worlds, and contrasting traditions of landscape in friction with anthropogenically shaped environmental realities. Some recent blog posts on these topics can be found here:

https://www.manifest-data.org/post/covid-19-climate-change-and-the-viral-imaginaries-of-crisis,
https://www.manifest-data.org/post/the-earth-archive
https://www.manifest-data.org/post/everything-is-changing-everything-is-connected



Research grants
AHRC Materializing Data Embodying Climate Change £868,442.89 (2019 in progress)
NERC Summer of Science Grant (COI-Investigator) £7500 (2015)
AHRC Research Grant I Stood Up to Violence (Principal Investigator) £25,000 (2014)
AHRC Digital Transformations Award (Principal Investigator) £80,000 (2014)
AHRC Unbox Fellowship, National Institute of Design, India (2014)
AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship (Principal Investigator) £177,752 (2010)
AHRC Network Award (Principal Investigator) £24,414 (2010)
AHRC Research leave (Principal Investigator) £21,825 (2006)
AHRC small grant (Principal Investigator) £4,358 (2005)

Other grants
Arts Council Grants for the Arts Award: £10,000 (2015-16)
Arts Council Grants for the Arts Award: £14,000 (2009)
British Council Artists Award, London: £900 (2008)
British Council Artists Award, London: £900 (2008)
British Council Artists Award, Berlin: £6,500 (2006)
British Council Artists Award, Sao Paulo: £686 (2003)
British Council Artists Award, London: £900 (2008)
British Council Artists Award, London: £900 (2008)
British Council Artists Award, Berlin: £6,500 (2006)
British Council Artists Award, Sao Paulo: £686 (2003)