Fieldwork

Welcome to Fieldwork, a new collaborative artwork by John Rogers & Amy Tavern. Presented both online and as a gallery presentation, Fieldwork touches on space and movement, experience and memory; exploration and journeying told through interactive maps, first-hand accounts, film, images & objects. The first gallery-based presentation of the project took place at SÍM Studios in Reykjavík 101 with a

n opening on June 18th and opening hours on June 19 and 20. The large basement workspace was transformed into a multimedia installation, with the artists in residence for the three days of the show to work on the ongoing project and welcome guests. The online presentation can be viewed by anyone with an internet connection, opening up the project to an international audience. It is centred around a customised Google Map, through which viewers can trace the steps of the artists' journeys, reading blogs about sites visited, and exploring landscapes and found objects, all pinned using GPS coordinates. The project is also expressed through various social media platforms such as Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram and Google+, offering cues for the viewer to engage on a continual basis as Fieldwork develops. http://fieldworkk.tumblr.com
https://twitter.com/fieldworkk
http://instagram.com/fieldworkk_
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100633434073269348652/posts
https://soundcloud.com/fieldworkk
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMvxHZE4fR7U-DCfjIXPVSQ

Artist Biographies

Amy Tavern is an artist from the United States. Her work is based on memory and, although autobiographical, refers to shared experience and universal themes. Amy has exhibited nationally and internationally with solo shows in the US, Belgium and Sweden. She has taught and lectured across the US and in Europe and her work as a metalsmith has been included in numerous publications, most notably, the cover of Metalsmith Magazine. Through the creation of objects and spaces, Amy strives to make the fleeting more permanent, preserving her memories and connecting with her audience. http://www.amytavern.com

John Rogers is an English artist making multidisciplinary work relating to experience, memory and self, using online, social and collaborative approaches. Fieldwork develops aspects of Rogers' recent work, such as the online project Things, a 100-part blog telling the artist's autobiography through pictures and accounts of objects, and Real Life, a 2014 paperback and e-book based around capturing the visceral, moment-to-moment nature of the human thought process. Rogers has exhibited widely, including shows with Ikon Gallery, e-2, AAS, The Centre of Attention, Impressions Gallery, This Is a Magazine, DUMBO Festival and Fierce!