Biography
Owl Project is a British artists' group directed by Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall and Steve Symons. They create music-making instruments and machines that combine electronics and software with older techniques such as green woodworking and wooden water wheel building.
This craft-based approach to designing their own interfaces and objects has resulted in a distinctive range of musical and sculptural instruments that critique human interaction with computer interfaces and our increasing appetite for new and often disposable technologies.
They have performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including Share Festival, (Torino, Italy), Les Urbaines Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland) and SARC, (Belfast, Ireland) as part of ISEA 2009.
In 2009 they won Urbis' 'Best of Manchester Award' and were selected for the Arts Council's 'Artists taking the lead' North East commission. One of twelve extraordinary commissions that will be created by artists across the nation, as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
