Paul Moore
My creative practice attempts to challenge the primacy of the visual by developing sound compositions and installations which address disruptive subjects. Often this is done by creating an interaction between sonic and visual materials, as in the most recent exhibition, The River Still Sings, produced as a contribution to the 2013 UK City of Culture programme in Derry.
My most recent work has been grounded in the artistic manipulation of big data, articulated through project designs which allow an interface between analogue and digital technologies. This shift in creative practice has been informed by the work of Chris Anderson and the emergence of the so-called ‘Maker’ movement.
The exhibits emanating from this process have tended to address contested spaces, for example post- conflict Namibia, community tensions in Northern Ireland, and, in a forthcoming installation, collective memory of the Bloody Sunday events in Derry. These interventions in contested spaces are based on the conviction that there is no sound which is neutral or pure, and that all sound is heard as cultural memory. Sound carries what might be termed ‘echoes of the sacred’ which makes the sonic the perfect space for both analysis of shared cultural belief and disruptive intervention.
Biography
Paul Moore joined the University of Ulster in 1999. He was awarded a personal chair in 2009 becoming Professor of Creative Technology. He is Director of the Research Centre for Creative Technologies (RCCT) and was the Northern Ireland Content Board member at Ofcom 2007-12, and was a member of the government’s Digital Economy Working Group in 2010. He has published widely in a range of journals/books and has exhibited in a number of commissioned gallery spaces in London, Coventry, Belfast, Derry, Lough Neagh, and the National Gallery of Namibia. Internationally Paul’s consultancy work in the creative industries has been based largely in South Africa and Namibia. He was a visiting professor at City Varsity College in Cape Town and was an honorary research fellow with the University of Coventry. In his spare time he is a freelance broadcaster with BBC Radio Ulster and has written and presented a range of documentaries for BBC national radio.