boredomresearch

Collaborating as boredomresearch, Southampton-based Vicky Isley, born 1974, and Paul Smith, born 1975, have gained an international reputation for investigating the creative role of computing. boredomresearch aim to create engaging digital artworks, developing themes and crossing boundaries between science, art, and technology. All their art is computer-generated and includes interactive and public works of art, online projects/environments, prints, and generative objects, which have been shown both nationally and internationally at events such as FILE Prix Luz in São Paulo (2010), SIGGRAPH08 in Los Angeles (2008), the Computational Aesthetics Eurographics Workshop in Banff (2007), ACE in Hollywood (2006), the Third Iteration Conference in Melbourne (2005), Transmediale.05 in Berlin (2005), NOW in Nottingham (2004), Data:base in Dublin (2003), the Electrohype Biennale in Malmö (2002), the Garage Festival in Stralsund (2002), and within online exhibitions such as ComputerFineArts.com, Vida 7.0, the Art & Artificial Life International Competition, soundtoys.net, mobilegaze.com, and Dots & Line, a BBC online exhibition.