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Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art (2017)
Journal Article
Dillon, T. (2017). Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art

This article draws on repair practices within the arts, media and academia. Taking Mierle Laderman Ukeles, MANIFESTO FOR MAINTENANCE ART 1969! as a starting point the paper discusses what Schulz (2017) has referred to as the ‘turn’ towards repair. Em... Read More about Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art.

Are You Still Watching? (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Dillon, T. Are You Still Watching?. [http://www.polarproduce.org/works/are-you-still-watching/]. Performed at Arnolfini, Bristol. 20 October 2017 - 20 October 2017. (Unpublished)

Are You Still Watching? draws on the histories of CCTV installation, animal mythology and critical-eco narratives to explore and speculate on the continued normalisation of machine vision and surveillance technologies within our urban spaces.

Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, October). Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art. Presented at Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, Norway

Aesthetics of Repair (Migratory Art) Invited Panel at Screen City Bienalle Migrating Stories, Stavanger 12-31 Oct, 2017 Stavanger, Norway From cultures to aesthetics of repair: departing from the notion of cultures of repair (Peter Weibel, Glo... Read More about Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art.

Sound of the breakdown (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, September). Sound of the breakdown. Presented at ISSTA International Festival and Conference on Sound in the Arts, Science and Technology (ISSTA 2017), Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

forthcoming

Reimagining the art institution as an open source civic organisation (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, June). Reimagining the art institution as an open source civic organisation. Presented at ISEA 2017, Manizales, Colombia

Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is an encompassing term, which refers to the licenses associated with making the source code that is the instructions and language per se, which define how software works and is made available for others to rea... Read More about Reimagining the art institution as an open source civic organisation.

Sonic city folklores: The noise, the unheard & the Reenacted (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2017, March). Sonic city folklores: The noise, the unheard & the Reenacted. Presented at PLASMA, Department of Media Study University, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Sonic City Folklores: The Noise, The Unheard & The ReEnacted took a journey through four city-based works “star gone tones” (2005), “seeing at a distance” (2006), “sounds like here” (2012) and “Canary Songs” (2016), as well research into the artistic... Read More about Sonic city folklores: The noise, the unheard & the Reenacted.

Hospitality and ownership of spaces (2017)
Book Chapter
Dillon, T. (2017). Hospitality and ownership of spaces. In L. Manach, & S. Pop (Eds.), Creativity in Urban Context (101-107). Future DiverCities

How can art open up new forms of hospitality and commoning in the city? Dillon’s URBAN HUT taps into this question of living art shaping civic reality in the city.