
CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS:
Social activation through online interactive animated surveys and socially engaged projects accessed through websites
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All work © Dane Watkins

A large scale mural for Filwood Green Business Park designed to reflect the park's narrative and green credentials.
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Commissioned by Filwood Green

A survey to reveal inhabitants dreams and form a visual and psychological representation of where they live.
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Commissioned by Mercurial Wrestler and the Creative Innovation Centre, Taunton

State of the art net tech that examines every aspect of your lifestyle and generates a unique psychological and demographic consumer profile.
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Commissioned by turbulence.org and funded by National Endowment for the Arts

Tablet interface for householders to analyse their household energy consumption and the electricity generated by solar panels.
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Commissioned by Western Power

A profile builder that creates a composite image like an identikit, but instead of photographs Iconikit uses a database of curious drawings that expand upon the usually limited options within questionnaires.
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Commissioned by You and Your Work Performance Festival

Electric Footprint was developed during a Science City Bristol Residency, hosted by Knowle West Media Centre. The residency was initiated to explore the converging worlds of digital media, metric information and live data.
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Knowle West Media Centre, Science City Bristol, Bristol City Council and ACE

Part of the Quality of Experience programme a 9 month pilot project to investigate the development of artists' practice in audience development and social engagement through collaborative research between the artist and arts organisation.
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Commissioned by Arnolfini, Bristol

The Dodo Survival Test was developed to encourage dialogue at CU Expo 2011 a conference showcasing exemplars in community-university partnerships worldwide.
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Commissioned by DodoLab, Canada
Animated Bayeux Tapestry figures designed for the Digital Trail Guide, handheld devices equipped with GPS technology for visitors to explore the Blackdown Hills in Somerset UK.
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Commissioned by the Forestry Commission
View the original Blue Circle survey...
Commissioned by Render, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada

Data visualization of weather condition codes.
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Commissioned by New Eyes, Somerset UK
The highs and lows of a relationship in a week of animated messages.
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Commissioned by Hull Time Based Arts
Love is met head on in a complex tangle of emotions.
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Produced during residency Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences Japan
Recieve a free animation designed specifically for your personality.
View the original Hippo Skull survey...
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Produced during residency Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences Japan
The sort of things you might have on a found on a PDA (like a smart phone but wthout the connectivity!)
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Produced during an exStream residency at Hull Time Based Arts
Animated objects in a cycle of self abuse. Produced at The Engine Room, Bridgwater and PVA MediaLab and Shown at The Watershed, Bristol.
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Funded by an Arts Council England - South West individual artist award

Find your perfect partner, because you can always do better.
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Produced during a Clark's Digital Bursary at The Watershed, Bristol
Formal animated portraiture.
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Funded by an Arts Council England - South West individual artist award
A lot of idling with sudden bursts of activity.
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Commissioned by Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service for the front of their new Fire Stations

An anti-film where the hero never gets the call to adventure.
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Produced during an EMARE residency at Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.

An interactive feedback and evaluation unit.
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Commissioned by Radiator 02, Nottingham Uk
Some handy objects. Handycom was chosen as a Di-Da Web page for arteleku.net, presented in the garage 2002 festival, shown at LA Freewaves 2002.