This was done with the assistance of a Wellcome Trust award for art (£38,000), an artwork called Stutterer, most recently exhibited at The Sanger Institute near Cambridge. This has led them to take up further interdisciplinary research opportunities and in 2014 they were invited to work with computational biologists Professor Barton and Dr Scurch in the eminent School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, to develop work using the human genome as an artistic material. Then in 2012, he joined the Nuclear Culture research project () established by Dr Carpenter (Goldsmiths University London): a widely interdisciplinary project hosted by Arts Catalyst London including artists, scientists, activists, and members of the UK’s Nuclear Submarine Dismantling Project Advisory Group set up in 2006 to discuss the decommissioning of our current fleet of nuclear submarines and as such has been highly innovative in combining research with public engagement, knowledge exchange and national policy direction.
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Working with a number of organisations (Channel 4 Television, Animate Projects, New Media Scotland, and Creative Scotland) he developed Flat Earth Trilogy (/trilogy.html) a series of experimental documentary artworks exploring how the worldwide web is changing our understanding of what a documentary can be.
This combined the three principle strands in his research an interest in using live information as a material component of an artwork a more general look at the growing relationship between physical and digital space and how the internet is altering our understanding and interpretation of factual information.įrom 2007 – 2012 Thomson built on the work done under this AHRC grant. In 2007 Thomson successfully completed an AHRC small grant in the creative and performing arts in collaboration with SCEMFA and the British Film Institute, London. At the same time he began working collaboratively on individual research with Alison Craighead (Reader in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Westminster and Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London) under the name Thomson & Craighead (These two working relationships remain at the heart of his research practice to date.
Beginning in 1995, Thomson set up The Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) (with Professor Collins bringing together artist-researchers predominantly based at the Slade working digitally on the cutting edge of contemporary art practice.
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