https://danieloduntan.com Daniel Oduntan Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:35:24 +0000 https://danieloduntan.com en https://danieloduntan.com/home Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:32:08 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/home About Bio ︎ Subscribe to newsletter Dark Daniel Oduntan He/HimInterdisciplinary Media ArtsExplorative Participation Designinfo@danieloduntan.com +44 07852542236 London, UKPortfolio available upon request. https://danieloduntan.com/home-dark Mon, 24 Oct 2022 04:27:16 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/home-dark About Bio ︎ Subscribe to newsletter Light Daniel Oduntan He/HimInterdisciplinary Media ArtsExplorative Participation Designinfo@danieloduntan.com +44 07852542236 London, UKPortfolio available upon request. https://danieloduntan.com/about-2 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:40:47 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/about-2 About Daniel Oduntan is an interdisciplinary media artist and designer working across sound, visual art, performance media, print, and installation. The core of Daniel’s work centres on questioning spatial reality. Utilizing storytelling as a means to amplify unseen ideas, archives, memories, and technology. His work frequently incorporates participatory themes to foster real-time dialogue and live archiving. Narrating stories from emerging realities and, ultimately, crafting new audio-visual languages in public spaces. Daniel supports creative strategy for community groups, artists, institutions and brands; using exploratory art to create insights into better participation methods.&nbsp;︎Back Subscribe to newsletter Dark Daniel Oduntan He/HimInterdisciplinary Media ArtsExplorative Participation Designinfo@danieloduntan.com +44 07852542236 London, UKPortfolio available upon request. https://danieloduntan.com/soul-complex-unfinished-RD Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:35:24 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/soul-complex-unfinished-RD Daniel Oduntan b.1983 <img width="1840" height="1232" width_o="1840" height_o="1232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdfa1f5f19321d8c7c0e2b1f8f4fa761f76b4165596fb95901c02bb0518a45bd/30pics-for-lights-on.jpg" data-mid="182553096" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fdfa1f5f19321d8c7c0e2b1f8f4fa761f76b4165596fb95901c02bb0518a45bd/30pics-for-lights-on.jpg" /> Artist Bio Daniel Oduntan is an interdisciplinary media artist and designer occupying the spaces between visual arts, sound and performance media. An intuitive creative born in Camberwell to parents from Nigeria, Ogun State and whose first job as a young teen was pulling out the stalls on East Street Market. The core of Daniel’s work is asking questions of his spatial reality, which encompasses the built and the multi-sensory environment. Daniel's practice is idea first, medium second, which allows him to create in a style described as explorative participation design: a method of research and speculation to build inclusive futures. From working professionally at the V&amp;A Museum within their digital media and publishing department; leaving in 2019, Daniel has since gone on to work for The Bartlett School of Architecture, The Mohn Centre for Children’s Health and Wellbeing, Warp Records and The Design Museum to name a few. Soul Complex Unfinished Soul Complex Unfinished is an interdisciplinary art project that scans the past and present cultural landscape of Southwark and looks to ponder how spacial design can play a part in better supporting current and future diaspora community archives as well as unfinished art works from Black diaspora residents. Abandoned in 2012 and re-visited 2022 the project itself is made up of analogue photography, short film, sound compositions, voice notes and video art. The following articles speak to the insights and process from Daniel’s research and development process on the ‘I Create’ fund. Daniel Oduntan, Soul Complex Unfinished R&amp;D (2010-12), (2022-23), colour, print, sound, mixed media installation.︎ <img width="2432" height="1452" width_o="2432" height_o="1452" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b85997789cc02fe87ecbb30a52951a619c7f7cb82c14cb066353efa4601a4d83/Screen-Shot-2023-03-14-at-12.11.36.png" data-mid="182553253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b85997789cc02fe87ecbb30a52951a619c7f7cb82c14cb066353efa4601a4d83/Screen-Shot-2023-03-14-at-12.11.36.png" /> Back Subscribe to newsletter Dark Daniel Oduntan He/HimInterdisciplinary Media ArtsExplorative Participation Designinfo@danieloduntan.com +44 07852542236 London, UKPortfolio available upon request. https://danieloduntan.com/about-dark Mon, 24 Oct 2022 04:31:31 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/about-dark About Daniel Oduntan is an interdisciplinary media artist and designer working across sound, visual art, performance media, print, and installation. The core of Daniel’s work centres on questioning spatial reality. Utilizing storytelling as a means to amplify unseen ideas, archives, memories, and technology. His work frequently incorporates participatory themes to foster real-time dialogue and live archiving. Narrating stories from emerging realities and, ultimately, crafting new audio-visual languages in public spaces.Daniel supports creative strategy for community groups, artists, institutions and brands; using exploratory art to create insights into better participation methods.&nbsp;︎ Back Subscribe to newsletter Light Daniel Oduntan He/HimInterdisciplinary Media ArtsExplorative Participation Designinfo@danieloduntan.com +44 07852542236 London, UKPortfolio available upon request. https://danieloduntan.com/bio Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:52:37 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/bio Bio Daniel Oduntan is an intuitive creative whose journey spans across participatory methods and interdisciplinary art. Rooted in a background of sound engineering, he graduated from the London College of Music &amp; Media in 2007. Since 2010, Daniel has made significant contributions to the visual arts and heritage sector, serving as an editorial photographer and creative director for commercial and grassroots community projects. His early visual work earned him a nomination for best British emerging artist by the Mica Gallery in 2012. Daniel's artistic journey is deeply rooted in his diverse experiences within multimedia and contemporary media culture. His tenure as a multimedia assistant at the V&amp;A Museum, specializing in digital media and publishing until 2019, marks a significant milestone in his artistic evolution. This role not only equipped him with technical skills but also provided insights into the intersection of art, technology, and culture. Drawing from his Nigerian heritage and immersion within Black diasporic media, Daniel's perspective is deeply influenced by an awareness of the systemic limitations within Western narratives and imagination. Through both institutional and independent projects, Daniel continues to explore the intricate dynamics between traditional and digital mediums, drawing inspiration from his experiences and observations of contemporary societal narratives. In recent years, Daniel has been commissioned to produce cross-disciplinary art projects and&nbsp; workshop talks for institutions such as the Tate Modern, UCL Bartlett, The London College of Fashion, Warp Records, The Design Museum, and Publicis London.&nbsp;︎ Back Subscribe to newsletter Dark Daniel Oduntan He/HimInterdisciplinary Media ArtsExplorative Participation Designinfo@danieloduntan.com +44 07852542236 London, UKPortfolio available upon request. https://danieloduntan.com/bio-dark Mon, 24 Oct 2022 04:45:44 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/bio-dark Bio Daniel Oduntan is an intuitive creative whose journey spans across participatory methods and interdisciplinary art. Rooted in a background of sound engineering, he graduated from the London College of Music &amp; Media in 2007. Since 2010, Daniel has made significant contributions to the visual arts and heritage sector, serving as an editorial photographer and creative director for commercial and grassroots community projects. His early visual work earned him a nomination for best British emerging artist by the Mica Gallery in 2012. Daniel's artistic journey is deeply rooted in his diverse experiences within multimedia and contemporary media culture. His tenure as a multimedia assistant at the V&amp;A Museum, specializing in digital media and publishing until 2019, marks a significant milestone in his artistic evolution. This role not only equipped him with technical skills but also provided insights into the intersection of art, technology, and culture. Drawing from his Nigerian heritage and immersion within Black diasporic media, Daniel's perspective is deeply influenced by an awareness of the systemic limitations within Western narratives and imagination. Through both institutional and independent projects, Daniel continues to explore the intricate dynamics between traditional and digital mediums, drawing inspiration from his experiences and observations of contemporary societal narratives. In recent years, Daniel has been commissioned to produce thought-provoking cross-disciplinary art projects and deliver workshop talks for institutions such as the Tate Modern, UCL Bartlett, The London College of Fashion, Warp Records, The Design Museum, and Publicis London.&nbsp;︎ Back Subscribe to newsletter Light Daniel Oduntan He/HimInterdisciplinary Media ArtsExplorative Participation Designinfo@danieloduntan.com +44 07852542236 London, UKPortfolio available upon request. https://danieloduntan.com/selected-works-dark Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:41:50 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/selected-works-dark Selected Works What stories do the spaces in between spaces bring about? A lot of my work looks into using exploratory art to create insights in response to participation methods. Whether investigating the process of regeneration in the built environment; the notion of investment and memory loss, time poverty within the creative industry, AI facial recognition and the policing of black bodies or how spatial design can play a more active role in community archives. I’m interested in cultural and social duality and my response to this within a black postmodernist media and afro-surrealist perspective.Daniel Oduntan&nbsp;︎ Staying Power And Other Dreams, 2018 <img width="394" height="308" width_o="394" height_o="308" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a440aa6ce418b899f5a67d4c492abfab927b4f4fac17cc90ab74fa569a31b674/S_P_O_D_1.gif" data-mid="165662079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/394/i/a440aa6ce418b899f5a67d4c492abfab927b4f4fac17cc90ab74fa569a31b674/S_P_O_D_1.gif" /> <img width="750" height="750" width_o="750" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4126f17812f7d2219720542bc525a6c0dea1d00bccaf1e5f8145e4c06798dc5/staying-power.jpg" data-mid="165662075" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/c4126f17812f7d2219720542bc525a6c0dea1d00bccaf1e5f8145e4c06798dc5/staying-power.jpg" /> ‘Staying Power and Other Dreams’ was a live sound archive event that re-purposed audio interviews from Black British photographers featured in the 2015 V&amp;A and Black Cultural Archives 'Staying Power' exhibition. The installation added a very personal commentary on the subject of black visual art and memories. I used archival material such as recorded interviews and photographs from the exhibition, together with my own video footage, personal voice notes and record collection to expand untold stories from the Staying Power photographers and add new narratives to the archive; similar to how mixtapes add new meaning to individual songs in relation to how they are laid in context to one another. The long term goal for this was to produce an open call and extend the archive to present day creatives. Laarin Aaye [between space], 2021 <img width="750" height="614" width_o="750" height_o="614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d778aef4c0a1155721bdfe904ce586b151b8e30cb1ea23f174d46933c8b4071/IMG_4776.PNG.jpeg" data-mid="165664498" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/3d778aef4c0a1155721bdfe904ce586b151b8e30cb1ea23f174d46933c8b4071/IMG_4776.PNG.jpeg" /> <img width="600" height="490" width_o="600" height_o="490" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/974925b4f2c5a71b8a0c659c44994072fe88b469958506ab5dd37b7e0fd0eefe/Between-Space-Clip-final.gif" data-mid="165664490" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/974925b4f2c5a71b8a0c659c44994072fe88b469958506ab5dd37b7e0fd0eefe/Between-Space-Clip-final.gif" /> Laarin Aaye [Between Space] is an audio visual play that I wrote and directed, featuring multidisciplinary artist Chisara Agor. ‘Laarin Aaye’ tells the story of a Nigerian night shift worker from Peckham coming to terms with the price of migration, colonial history and cultural duality for herself and also her British born daughter. Incorporating the use of video installation and channel mixing, my goal was to highlight the physical but also emotional space created during the piece with live video composing. It’s been performed in 2021 as part of a two day theatre festival with Dropped Tea and Theatre Peckham as well as in London Design Festival 2022 at the Livesey Exchange. Free Form Frequency @ V&amp;A, 2018 <img width="827" height="640" width_o="827" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b302cbccc8f478f46a1e77657fe403729c1109146ee384f62c9961606848413/FlvN9yoWYAYjFdY.jpeg" data-mid="165973653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/827/i/0b302cbccc8f478f46a1e77657fe403729c1109146ee384f62c9961606848413/FlvN9yoWYAYjFdY.jpeg" /> Free Form Frequency @ V&amp;A&nbsp; was an experimental sound and architecture initiative that took place in the main entrance of the V&amp;A every first three Friday evenings of the month. Ran as a consortium of creative practitioners with myself as creative director we invited DJs, emerging musicians, visual artists, designers and producers to respond to their surroundings and explore how architecture shapes our perception of sound and engagement. By facilitating an ongoing collaboration between the museum and the wider cultural community, the goal was to investigate how sound inspires broader creativity and builds community. The foyer became both canvas and instrument as our guests probed the relationship between sound, space and design using elements such as photography, film, projection mapping and augmented reality. The aim was to also help broaden access to the V&amp;A’s collection by repurposing the V&amp;A archive. We believed there was a gap in the programme for this kind of event – an interdisciplinary play area where anything could happen. The programme was designed to sit within the wider strategy of the V&amp;A's Residency programme, helping to boost audience engagement with practitioners both internally and externally. It was hoped to also be an informal element of the Learning department’s strategy – one that is perhaps more accessible and flexible than existing activities. Design Museum, Designer in Residence; Cynthia V. Lusilu, 2021 <img width="2479" height="3508" width_o="2479" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c60c7e4bf714b3e38ff4b2d8b0387cc9adc55d24028639b552f728ca08df1224/Daniel_Oduntan_Black_Spaces_Contact_Sheet_01.jpg" data-mid="165688622" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c60c7e4bf714b3e38ff4b2d8b0387cc9adc55d24028639b552f728ca08df1224/Daniel_Oduntan_Black_Spaces_Contact_Sheet_01.jpg" /> <img width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1b4c57b2e4cd33cd3397c8300b8fc4420ef2c59428935e6ebae21babaf3197f/design-book.gif" data-mid="165688583" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/a1b4c57b2e4cd33cd3397c8300b8fc4420ef2c59428935e6ebae21babaf3197f/design-book.gif" /> Collaboration and photo essay commission with designer in residence Cynthia V. Lusilu. Centred on an ongoing research project around mental wellbeing and black diaspora communities within the borough of Lewisham, a series of creative imagery was produced for the 2020/21 Designer in Residence publication. Working alongside Cynthia this called on many problem-solving skills as well as logistics in planning so as to accommodate and uphold social distancing guidelines and health and safety procedures. I used long exposure in all the shots as well as layering to ensure that no faces if present could be identified. Black Orpheus, Comuzi Lab, MYOM, 2021 <img width="540" height="479" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/450/i/7d6ddb048c9073ab4b742e1e2353e1ebc980d5f3f7d726bbc5118bb865c65b8a/ezgif-7-f6263bf418.gif"> <img width="540" height="540" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/7bc34c92bc36bd3fc1226a4b3c8b91d95999cc565f4e6be29965d1aae04c7bd6/ezgif-7-a53efddb69.gif"> Black Orpheus was my response to a brief set by Comuzi Lab while partaking on the Make Your Own Masters program. Black Orpheus is a digital media and mass surveillance AR project that attempts to disrupt discriminative and flawed facial recognition technologies that&nbsp; affect&nbsp; black people (Trident , Gang Matrix, COMPAS) by repurposing underused Public Access black cultural media and art archives for personal use and metadata location mapping. After recent concerns over facial recognition technology and it’s policing of black people in 2020, as well as recent reports from the UK data watchdog declaring that the Metropolitan Police gang matrix operation, dating from 2011 breached several data protection laws, I sort to explore the dangers of facial surveillance technology in a predominant white industry, as well as asking the question “Do black people need to create new digital universes?” Sensing the City, UCL (Performance Lab), 2022 <img width="4793" height="6738" width_o="4793" height_o="6738" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03a964d758bb6a3f21254a3c5af3e70ec666dfd93f045be79624afb41c799d96/SSDD_SensingTheCity_A1_2.jpg" data-mid="165690801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03a964d758bb6a3f21254a3c5af3e70ec666dfd93f045be79624afb41c799d96/SSDD_SensingTheCity_A1_2.jpg" /> An experimental collaborative project with the University College London (Performance Lab), The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, Pempeople and The Ubele Initiative. Screened as part of the London Design Festival and Southwark South Design District, this video was the result of a series of on-line open-call participatory workshops with young people from Peckham and Brixton, centred on the theme of regeneration and housing within South London. Lead and facilitated in parts by poet and performance artist Kat François and myself, we experimented with poetry, spoken word, digital storytelling and creative mobile media/filmmaking in an attempt to explore new ways of amplifying voices and challenging current participatory design methods. Did We Leave The Lights On, 2018 <img width="3000" height="2235" width_o="3000" height_o="2235" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9046a14d13ba83f65d43bb6c3986cc08e9fca0c0a7f9f35dd2d71b6d1223f9c3/Did-We-2.jpg" data-mid="165691666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9046a14d13ba83f65d43bb6c3986cc08e9fca0c0a7f9f35dd2d71b6d1223f9c3/Did-We-2.jpg" /> What is the price of creativity? And can everyone afford it? Shot entirely on a mini DV camcorder and using candid voice notes as commentary, Southwark-born artist and director Daniel Oduntan ponders the issue of practice and sustainability for low-income artists in a post-Brexit world. In the film, Oduntan explores the link between social housing and creativity among the diaspora in Southwark. The role these communal spaces play in the arts and how the arts can be a path to healing and progress for residents. Will the falling numbers of affordable homes bring an end to this creativity? If so, what will take its place?We hear from several Southwark residents, many of whom are from working class backgrounds and live in council housing. There’s photographer and illustrator Harry Alemu, product designer and creative technologist Alex Fefegha, artist/songwriter Joy Crookes, Tate curator Peju Oshin, Pempeople founder Nicholas Okwulu, sociology grad Saffon and IT teacher and social advisor Moses Alemu. Layered with an original soundtrack of unfinished demos and sketched ideas from Daniel, ‘Did We Leave the Lights On?’ is a snapshot of Southwark now and a prologue to Oduntan’s forthcoming photography project, Soul Complex 2010—2012. – Amar Patel 23 Mag | London Comucation College, 2022 <img width="3897" height="2763" width_o="3897" height_o="2763" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8daba164e8d85a54e2a8476b1c92ec1b08056de0602300cf42098676b7ddd48/Mag_23_LCC_Issue_online_Daniel_Oduntan_1.jpg" data-mid="178029312" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8daba164e8d85a54e2a8476b1c92ec1b08056de0602300cf42098676b7ddd48/Mag_23_LCC_Issue_online_Daniel_Oduntan_1.jpg" /><img width="3897" height="2763" width_o="3897" height_o="2763" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/665d5a66a48ad62919cb5fe23de7edfde2e63b324ac8b2bd4822ffdb2a003c32/Mag_23_LCC_Issue_online_Daniel_Oduntan_1.jpg" data-mid="178029334" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/665d5a66a48ad62919cb5fe23de7edfde2e63b324ac8b2bd4822ffdb2a003c32/Mag_23_LCC_Issue_online_Daniel_Oduntan_1.jpg" /> Wysing Arts Centre 2023 Residency&nbsp; <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/979ec5aa7957404f7d5217bf2634adfc5973937c96dda79890c266d873f82778/wysing_2023_asset.jpeg" data-mid="178031270" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/979ec5aa7957404f7d5217bf2634adfc5973937c96dda79890c266d873f82778/wysing_2023_asset.jpeg" /> Daniel Oduntan, Wysing Arts Centre 2023 Residency Selected Talks / Panels / Workshops&nbsp; London College of Fashion:&nbsp;Time Poverty and Work Status WorkshopFour Cornerse WIP presentation, 2022 Place/Change Making: Peckham Platform, 2022A Cultural symposium: New Currency, 2022 Africa in Motion: Elder’s Corner Q&amp;A with Dir Siji Awoyinka 2021 London College of Fashion: Research Symposium 2021 Spatial Imagination: Black Artistry and Space 2021 British Council: Creative Hustle 2020 Royal Museums Greenwich Youth Collective 2020 Selected Exhibitions / Screenings / &nbsp;Residencies&nbsp; London Design Festival,&nbsp;Laarin Aaye [between space], 2022 London Design Festival, Soul Complex Unfinished AR Tour, 2022 180 Studio, Reference Point, Future Talks Residency, 2022 Black Bussniess Incubator, Somerset House, 2022 We Are Parable / Channel 4, Momentum Residency, 2022Make Your Own Masters, Somerset House 2021 London Design Festival, Sensing the City Screening, 2021 V&amp;A Friday Late, No Place Like Home Screening, 2019 Tate Exchange, Southwark Untold Screening, 2019 Abuja Art Week Screening, Nigeria 2019 Here East, 64 Bits co-curation, 2017 Otchere, Icons of Wu co-curation, 2016 Mica/Saatchi Gallery, My Place on the Isle, 2012 Back Subscribe to newsletter Daniel Oduntan He/HimInterdisciplinary Media ArtsExplorative Participation Designinfo@danieloduntan.com +44 07852542236 London, UKPortfolio available upon request. https://danieloduntan.com/contact Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:34:42 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/contact Daniel Oduntan +44 07852542236info@danieloduntan.com Portfolio available upon request. Return https://danieloduntan.com/sensingthecity Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:22:17 +0000 Daniel Oduntan https://danieloduntan.com/sensingthecity Sensing the City: Young People and Regeneration in London “Cities are forever changing but who is the change for? How do young people feel about the regeneration of their neighbourhoods? How can we ensure young residents have a voice and are heard in critical planning decisions that affect their lives and their communities?”&nbsp; An experimental collaborative project with the University College London (Performance Lab), The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, Pempeople and The Ubele Initiative. Screened as part of the London Design Festival and Southwark South Design District, this video was the result of a series of on-line open-call participatory workshops with young people from Peckham and Brixton, centred on the theme of regeneration and housing within South London. Lead and facilitated in parts by poet and performance artist Kat François and myself, we experimented with poetry, spoken word, digital storytelling and creative mobile media/filmmaking in an attempt to explore new ways of amplifying voices and challenging current participatory design methods. Learn more about this project ︎︎︎here Daniel Oduntan homepage&nbsp;︎︎︎︎