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Born and raised in Rhode Island, USA
Currently a Visiting Research Fellow
Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Tim is an artist, educator and theorist working with the cultural issues of ecological restoration, natural regeneration and the form and function of post-industrial public space. He is currently working on a monograph on previous work that draws together ideas about art, ecology and aesthetics. He has also begun to organize a critical reader that examines the critical response to work in art and ecology. New writing on 3 Rivers 2nd Nature will be published in RACAR: The Canadian Art Review, it is complimented by an article on Nine Mile Run by Lora Senechal Carney.
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 Eden3- the ethical aesthetic impulse for a book on Embodied Values edited by Emily Brady and Pauline Pheminster.
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.