The privilege of the outsider: reconciling public art and planning

David Cotterrell received an MA in Fine Art: Combined Media from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1997. He is an installation artist working across varied media including video, audio, interactive media, artificial intelligence, device control and hybrid technology. 

His work exhibits political, social and behavioural analyses of the environments and contexts, which he and his work inhabit.  Recent work has involved research into computational models of conversational speech, an artificially intelligent pedestrian urban population and a self-sustaining gridlock generator.  He has been recently working in Shanghai, China on research into the impact of population expansion with the support of an Arts Council England and British Council award.

Over the last 10 years, his work has been extensively commissioned and exhibited in North America, Europe and the Far East, in gallery spaces, museums and within the public realm.  David has also been a consultant to strategic masterplans, cultural and public art policy for urban regeneration, healthcare and growth areas.

David researches and teaches at Sheffield Hallam University.  A book on his recent work has been published by Black Dog Publishing, entitled 'The Impossible Project' (ISBN 1 901033 73 2) and further information on recent projects is available through his artist and gallery websites: www.cotterrell.com and www.daniellearnaud.com