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Born and raised in Rhode Island, USA
Associate Dean, School of Art and Design
Professor of Art, Ecology and Planning
University of Wolverhampton, UK
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Tim is an artist, educator and theorist working with the cultural issues of ecological restoration and the form and function of post-industrial public space. In his current role he is charged with research and development. He is the founding director of the Black Country Centre for Art, Design, Research and Enterprise. Tim is currently preparing a book proposal on art and 21st century environmental challenges. He is also working on developing an international research network focused upon the potential for aesthetics to contribute to the emancipation of people, places and things.
Born and raised in Tokyo Japan
Doctoral Researcher, Grays School of Art
Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen, Scotland
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After ten years as a researcher at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Reiko began working with Dr. Anne Douglas on a PhD at 'On the Edge', Grays School of Art. She is currently examining the inter-relationships between people and trees. She has begun a series of interviews with Helen and Newton Harrison concerning the Serpentine Lattice, and is immersed in Joseph Beuy's 7000 Oaks project. Reiko published an article on artist leadership titled "The Journey" for a-n magazine, March 2007.
Tim Collins and Reiko Goto have recently initiated a new body of work that returns to a purer form of poiesis while retaining the dialogic and transformative intent of work from the past ten years. The first project under development in this new series is A Biogenic Interface: the Secret Life of Trees. This is a research, exhibition and performance program whereby artists and musicians work with technologists and scientists to reveal the biogenic interaction of trees with the changing atmospheric chemistry and climate of cities. They are also working on a paper titled Eden2 - the ethical aesthetic impulse for the Embodied Values workshop at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
Tim and Reiko were researchers in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University from 1997-2005. Working with an interdisciplinary collaborative team, they directed 3 Rivers 2nd Nature; a five year project with artists, scientists, designers and students working together on issues of public space and ecology along the post-industrial waterfronts of Allegheny County, PA. In fall 2005, they organized and initiated a series of public programs called the Monongahela Conferences and an exhibition titled: Groundworks, curated by Grant Kester of UC San Diego. The exhibition examined international approaches to art, ecology and planning. Prior to that, Collins and Goto co-directed the Nine Mile Run project. They lived in San Francisco California from 1982-1993, where they exhibited at Capp Street Project, Intersection for the Arts and Southern Exposure, amongst others. They first began to share a studio in 1985. They initiated their first collaborative project in 1987.