Newcastle University

Lise Autogena is an artist, living in London, and a lecturer in Fine Art at University of Newcastle. She came to England from Denmark in 1987 to pursue a career as a glassmaker for which she gained an international reputation. She studied Fine Art at Surrey Institute (1991), MA Art and Architecture at UEL Architecture School (1993) and MA Fine Art Curating at Goldsmiths (1996).From 1994 to 1997 she curated a cross-disciplinary art venue ‘Autogena Projects’ from her home in Neal's Yard, Covent Garden.

She has since 1991 worked with Joshua Portway, developing complex multimedia projects that have explored how our human experience is affected by the economical, geographic, technological and societal systems that surround us. Often involving complex technologies and visualisation of realtime data streams, their multilayered installations explore a sense of global presence, time and human interdependence.(Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium, Most Blue Skies, The Sound Mirrors Project, PING and The Thor Heyerdahl Globe).

Their work has been shown at Tate Britain, Copenhagen Climate Summit, The Barbican, The Gwangju Biennale and Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Arts Centre. In 2004 she co-founded CRIR, an international research facility enabling research into the free town Christiania in Copenhagen, and she is among the co-founders of a new floating community on the river Thames in London.

http://www.autogena.org/

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