Previous and current projects: 2000: '64 samples' Arts Council of England commissioned work at 'Wired and Dangerous' Digital Arts Conference, Leicester UK 2001: 'club confessional' at The Junction, Cambridge UK and Pop Centrum 013, Holland 2002-?: 'Remergence', a proposed group project using infra-red sensors

background info: Emerging in 1999 from a residency at Loughborough University Computer Science Department's Creativity and Cognition Research Studios, The e-artlab seeks to create situations where art emerges from data gathered from the environment and the interactions of participants. It also grasps opportunities for digital art in urgent, spontaneous or unusual public situations. The artists wear theatrical lab coats and identification badges to provoke issues around authority, privacy and data protection. Paradoxically, the aim is also to invite public access to the processes involved (we could have said 'make process transparent', but we avoid artspeak because this website is for participants). e-artlab seeks to make serious-yet-playful comments on the electronic gathering of private information, and to undertake work where the outcome is defined only as a series of possibilities, allowing public situation and participation to mould the work. 64 samples took an audio sample, a protrait image and a small piece of personal data, and synthesised the data as a live 'performed' virtual object. club confessional' used video and audio taken from a soundproof booth (a white cube on the dance floor) on three club nights in the UK and Holland, separated the video and audio, and mixed it back into the club environment. Through incorporating input from and explorations in computer science (especially human-computer interaction) the Emergency Art Lab was formerly associated with the Creativity and Cognition Research Studios in the Computer Science department which was then based at Loughborough University.

contacts: Emergency Art Lab www.e-artlab.com Dave Everitt: daveeveritt.org/art.html Mike Quantrill Mike's CCRS page collaborators: as emergent conditions demand collborators to date include: 64 samples Matt Rogalsky Pip Greasley Lizzie Muller With Carrie, Robin, Chris and other staff at the Junction