Lalya Gaye

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Lalya Gaye
Born1978 (age 4445)
Alma mater University of Geneva, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
University of Gothenburg
Known for interactive art, locative media, digital art, interaction design
Website lalyagaye.com

Lalya Gaye (born 1978) [1] is a digital media artist and interaction designer whose early work was influential in the field of locative media. Currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, she is the founder and director of the international and interdisciplinary digital art practice Attaya Projects. [2]

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Early life

Lalya Gaye was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1978, the daughter of a Senegalese-Malian father and a Swedish mother (both International Labour Office officials), and the youngest of 8 children on her father's side. Her father was trade unionist Abdou Salam Gaye - a key figure in the African Trade Union Movement [3] - and her mother is a feminist human rights activist. She was classically trained as a dancer in her youth and has been DJing since her teens.

Education and career

Mostly active as a digital media artist, Lalya also has a background in engineering, physics and interaction design, and extensive experience in interdisciplinary collaborations, academic and practical teaching, as well as project management.

She received a B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 1999, and a M.Sc.Eng. in Electroacoustics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in 2002. She first started an art and design research career at the research group Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, in Gothenburg, in Gothenburg, Sweden - a research lab in Interaction Design, Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Technology and Human-Computer Interaction. [4] While in Gothenburg, she also worked on a PhD in Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg, taught at the Interaction Design programme at Chalmers University of Technology, was a founding member of the Swedish art group Dånk! Collective and freelanced for organisations including Medialab-Prado. [5]

Work

While a researcher at the Future Applications Lab (2002-2006), Lalya was at the forefront of locative media arts and interactive music research. Notable projects include the pioneering locative media arts project Sonic City, [6] Tejp, and Context Photography. [7] She was also active in the field as a steering committee member of the International Mobile Music Workshops series [8] (one of the main locative media arts festivals and conferences of the time), as a member of the 'metareviewer' (editorial) program committee of the 2006 NIME conference, the leading conference on alternative musical interfaces, and through co-running dorkbot-gbg, the Gothenburg branch of the international dorkbot movement.

While at Culture Lab (2010-2012), her research focused on designing for creative uses of digital technology for social inclusion and community work, and resulted in an AHRC-funded conference, an exhibition as co-curator and a book as co-editor about Connected Communities. [9]

Lalya Gaye has exhibited, lectured and performed internationally. Her work - as well as the work produced by her digital media arts practice Attaya Projects - has been featured at the NIME conference, Dokufest, Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival, the DLI Museum & Art Gallery, Brass International Festival and Northern Design Festival among other places. Her work has received grants from among others the AHRC and Arts Council England, has been commissioned by international festivals such as Festival of Lights (Lyon), and has received extensive press coverage through the years. Attaya Projects was featured in both 2014 and 2015 in the Hannah Directory of "people doing great things in the North of England" as one of the best creative practices in the North of England. [10] [11]

Notable projects

Sonic City

Sonic City (2002–2004) was a locative media art project that explored mobile interaction and wearable technology for generating music in everyday life. The project was led by Lalya Gaye (while at the Viktoria Institute) and Ramia Mazé (while at The Interactive Institute), and included wearable artist Margot Jacobs (also at The Interactive Institute) as well as sound-artist Daniel Skoglund from 8Tunnel2. Turning the urban environment into a digital music interface while walking through it, Sonic City was one of the pioneer projects of the mobile music field and contributed to establishing it. The project has been well-published and well-cited in academia, received a lot of attention in the new media arts scene, and has received extensive media and blog coverage. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Among other places, Sonic City was presented at e.g. NIME and Cybersonica, and was demoed EU's IST 2004 event in The Hague as an example of innovative European research. It was featured in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac special issue on locative media, [17] and discussed in a number of books [18] [19] [20] and leading publications about sound, technology and urban space as a "classic" [21] in terms of digital technology and sound creatively redefining public space.

Locative media projects

Art installations

Other work

Alongside her art practice, Lalya is currently a member of all-female North East England DJ collective Montoya. [30] She is an executive member on the board of the Artists' Union England [31] - the first and only union representing visual artists in England.

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