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Stanza is an internationally recognised artist, who has been exhibiting worldwide since 1984. His artworks have won twenty international art prizes and art awards including:- Vidalife 6.0 First Prize Spain. SeNef Grand Prix Korea. Videobrasil First Prize Brazil. Cynet Art First Prize Germany. Video Brasil First Prize. Share First Prize Winner Italy: Stanzas art has also been rewarded with a prestigious Nesta Dreamtime Award, an Arts Humanities Creative Fellowship and a Clarks bursary. Numerous commissions include work for Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Watermans Art Centre, FACT, and the Open Data Institute.
Stanza’s art is about the patterns and hidden values within systems and networks that can be disclosed through artistic practice. Interlocking environments and variables in these systems create other lenses and create difference in given situations. Stanza focuses on the things that change, the flow and interlocking systems by using data that describes our experience of real space. Data is made malleable by Stanza in systems that can be mediated by all, with varying visualizations communicated over the internet and represented onto different display systems.
(source: http://www.stanza.co.uk/about/statement.html)