Professor John Hyatt
Experimental Painting
I am currently experimenting, based upon some findings from my Leonardo Project, with a double spiral brushstroke and the movement of water (hence a lot of watercolours). Also, like Leonardo, these are investigating an attitude to Nature, including harmonising my body through Veganism and consideration of the ethical use of materials. [More Details...]
folly
I Chair the Board of folly, based in Lancaster, and this very much, for me, continues the work I did as Director of ISEA98 (the ninth International Symposium on Electronic Arts).
folly is a leading digital arts organisation developing and delivering content through the presentation of a distributed programme of workshops, events, exhibitions, research and consultancy work. [More Details...]
Horse and Bamboo
I am on the Board of Horse and Bamboo Theatre company. Horse + Bamboo create visual theatre in which music and story-telling is central. [More Details...]
Invest to Save: Arts in Health
I Chair the Steering Committee for this Research. The Invest to Save: Arts in Health Programme is a 3-year HM Treasury funded project aimed at strengthening the capacity of the North West Regions’, Arts and Health community through networking and training opportunities and building the evidence base as to the effectiveness of creativity, culture and the arts on health and economic outcomes. [More Details...]
ISEA98 Revisited
In 1998, I directed (in collaboration with FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, and Liverpool John Moore's University) what remains the UK's largest event exploring art and new technology, ISEA98, the ninth International Symposium on Electronic Art. I remain connected to ISEA (the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts) as a part of its Board of International Directors. [More Details...]
John Hyatt Experimental Music
I have been making various experiments with sound outside of the collaborations which I undertake. I will be releasing an album of this work in the New Year. [More Details...]
Manchester's Tilted Windmills
This was a millennium project for Exchange Square in Manchester, the site of the IRA bombing. After winning a competitive bid to design a Public Art piece for the newly built square, designed by Boston-based architect, Martha Schwartz, I installed five, ten-metre high, stainless steel motorised double windmill sculptures that can still be seen on site. [More Details...]
Music and Health
Arts for Health, within MIRIAD, has been involved in a collaborative music exchange programme with Dublin and Paris, putting musicians into hopitals in three countries. This year we held a European Seminar, July 3, 4, and 5, 2006 at the Maison de la Radio
Studio 106 “Sacha Guitry” - Paris, France:
Music in hospitals: Exchanges and comparisons between artistic practices. [More Details...]
The Asia Triennial
I am leading the research for a collaboration between MIRIAD and the Manchester-based Asian Art Agency, SHISHA, to stage the UK's first ever Asian Art Triennial. This will take place in Spring 2008 in six major Manchester art galleries. [More Details...]
The Avenue of the Giants
This is a Public Art Policy document and set of ideas that I wrote, as Chair of the Manchester Oxford Road Public Art Sub-Committee, for the Manchester Oxford Road Cultural Consortium.
Continuing my work to support the development of a cultural infrastructure in Manchester (significantly between 2002 and 2005 as a Director of CIDS (CULTURAL INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT SERVICE), Manchester), it outlines a strategy for the development of Public Art (in its broadest sense) across six strands of activity. [More Details...]
The Cave
This is an artist collaboration with the Chinese artist/curator Huang Zhuan. We are planning a two artist joint show based around the idea of Plato's "Cave" to be shown in both China and the UK. [More Details...]
The China Project
I have been pursuing a dialogue with Chinese artists for some years and have supervised Chinese PhD research students, including Dr Zhou, Tongyu (graduated 2006) and current students; Zhang, Shibin (investigating Chinese women's art) and Eunice Chan (investigating the relationships between aesthetics and health).
A recent research trip to China, with Dr. [More Details...]
The CREATRON project
CREATRON is a project between MIRIAD, Paris and Nancy. It links scientists from the French North East with artists and designers in MIRIAD on projects involving new technologies. [More Details...]
The Illustrated Work Zone
Many will know what I mean when I say there is a state, a place in the mind, that - when everything is going well - the artist, the musician, or the repetitive labourer (all of which I am) finds himself. It is the Work Zone. [More Details...]
The Leonardo Project
I know - it is so uncool to be researching Leonardo and I guess I could write the true "da Vinci Code". I am doing the former but not the latter. [More Details...]
The MIRIAD Project
This project brings together academics from a range of art and science related disciplines and forward-thinkers from any other areas of life and knowledge to explore the benefits of working across subjects. The most recent event brought together artists and scientists to discuss commonalities and differences. [More Details...]
The Oxford Road Project
This project is a collaboration across Mancunian institutions to raise the consciousness of the history and creativity of Manchester Oxford Road. It documents the fact that many of the major ideas and innovations of the Twentieth Century were made on Oxford Road. [More Details...]
The Suns of Potto
This is a trio of musical collaborators, myself, Eddie Fenn (previously of Mark Riley and the Creepers) and Gary Lomax (previously of Victor Drago). The collaboration predominantly improvises whole songs and instrumentals from scratch. [More Details...]
The Three Johns
The Three Johns has been an ongoing project for the last 25 years. It is a legendary band and one of John Peel's favourites. [More Details...]
Tmeses
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Tmeses was a show that I created for Tmesis, a Manchester bar/gallery. [More Details...]