boredomresearch lassen sich vorwiegend von der Diversität der Natur inspirieren. Mithilfe computergestützter Verfahren erarbeiten sie ähnlich vielfältige Formen. Am Computer simulieren sie natürliche Muster, Verhaltensweisen und komplexe Formenspiele, die sich im Laufe der Zeit verändern. boredomresearch haben sich dabei einer Reihe von Techniken, wie generativer Software, 3-D und Computer-Modellierung bedient, um gänzlich neue Bildelemente und -kompositionen zu entwerfen.

boredomresearch ist der Titel des gemeinsamen Projektes der britischen Künstler Vicky Isley (*1974) und Paul Smith (*1975). Alle ihre Arbeiten sind am Computer erstellt und umfassen interaktive Online-Projekte, sowie generative Objekte und Prints. Ihre Arbeiten wurden in die Sammlung des British Council aufgenommen und erhielten lobende Anerkennung von der transmediale.05, Berlin (2005) und der VIDA 7.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Madrid (2004). Die Arbeiten von boredomresearch wurden bereits weltweit ausgestellt, u.a. im Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (2012); im KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn, Estland (2011); im Today Art Museum in Beijing (2010); im LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial in Gijón, Spanien (2010); auf dem STRP Festival in Eindhoven, Niederlande (2009) und am Instituto Itaú Cultural in São Paulo (2008).

EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN
2005-17
Paisley Pearls, Paisley Museum, Glasglow (2016-17);
Fragments, DAM Gallery, Berlin (2013);
By This Time Next Year, Georges House Gallery, Folkestone (2011);
Brilliant Cloud, DAM Gallery, Cologne (2011);
Brilliant Cloud, Millais Off-site Project Space, Southampton (2010);
Chasing Stillness, DAM Gallery, Berlin (2009);
Tumbling Dream Chambers, DAM Gallery, Berlin (2007);
Theatre of Restless Automata, Peterborough Digital Arts (March 2006); New Greenham Arts, Newbury (2005); HTTP, Islington, London (2005) and Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (2005).

AUSGEWÄHLTE GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN

2019
Gallery 80, Southampton City Art Gallery 80th Year Exhibition, Southampton
Event 2, Royal College of Art, London
Shenzhen New Media Arts Festival, Cultural Complex of Pingshan New District, Shenzhen
2016-18
Seeing Systems ArtScience Museum, Singapore (3 – 31 August 2018);
CAS50: Fifty Years of The Computer Art Society Lightbox Gallery, Leicester (21 May – 13 June 2018);
The Women of Wray Castle: Convention and Control Wray Castle, Cumbria (2 March – 25 November 2018);
Both Sides Now 4 – UK Tour Phoenix, Leicester (29 March 2018); Fabrica, Brighton (27 March 2018); SOAS, University of London (9 March 2018) and HOME, Manchester (2 December 2017);
SUBMERGED SciArt Center Online Exhibition (9 Nov 2017 – ongoing);
Artience Daejeon 17 Silent Signal, British Council Exhibition, Daejeon Artist House, Daejeon, South Korea (15-24 September 2017);
Balance Unbalance Plymouth UK (21 – 23 August 2017);
Our Friends Electric QUAD Gallery Derby (1 July  – 10 Sept 2017);
Future Emerging Art & Technology (FEAT) Exhibition, LifeSpace Dundee and BOZAR, Brussels (14-30 Sept 2017);
ISEA 2017 Manizales, Colombia (2017);
3rd Culture Film Festival, Loft22 in Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong (2017);
Lumen Prize Exhibition, tour in 2017 includes: Winter Lights Festival, Canary Wharf London; FQ Projects Shanghai and Creative Tech Week, NYC (2017); tour in 2016 includes: Berlin Electronic Visualisation of the Arts Conference, State Museum of Berlin (2016); Caerphilly Castle, Wales (2016) and Lumen Winners Gala, Hackney House, London (2016).
Data Aesthetics Exhibition, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam in conjunction with ACM Multimedia conference and Waag Society (2016);
Festival of Endless Gratitude, Copenhagen (2016);
Alt-w Exhibition, Edinburgh Art Festival (2016);
Science of the Unseen, SIGGRAPH 2016 Online Exhibition – Anaheim, California (2016);
Glasgow Science Festival, Scotland (2016);
Digitra Exhibition, Treviso ricerca arte, Treviso Italy (2016);
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts Festival, Austria (2016);
Balance Unbalance Exhibition, Colombia (2016);
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany (2016);
Silent Signal Animate Projects Exhibition supported by the Wellcome Trust touring to QUAD, Derby; Vivid Projects, Birmingham; Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton; Wellcome Collection, London; LifeSpace, Dundee and Phoenix, Leicester in the UK (2016).
Moving Image NY, Waterfront New York Tunnel, New York (2016);
International Image Festival, Cultural and Convention Center Theater, Manizales Colombia (2016).
2013-15
Transitio_MX, Festival of Electronic & Video Art, National Arts Centre, Mexico City (2015);
ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Art, Vancouver Canada (2015);
BIOART Exhibition, Gwacheon National Science Museum, Seoul Korea (2015);
ACM Creativity and Cognition Exhibition, the Glasgow School of Art (2015);
Transmission Symposium, Bournemouth University (2015);
A EYE: An exhibition of art and nature inspired computation, AISB (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour) 50th Convention, Goldsmith University London (2014);
Automatic Art, GV Art Gallery, London (2014);
Intuition and Ingenuity: An Art Exhibition in Celebration of the Life of Alan Turing, Bletchley Park (2013).
2010-12
Soft Control:Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious, Kiblix, Maribor, Solvenia (2012);
Gateways, House of Electronic Arts, Basel Switzerland (2012);
Intuition and Ingenuity: An Art Exhibition in Celebration of the Life of Alan Turing, touring in 2012 to Phoenix Square, Leicester; Robert Gordon University Library Gallery, Aberdeen; AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012, Birmingham; V&A Digital Design Weekend, London; Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield; Lighthouse, Brighton and Kinetica Art Fair, London.
Uncontainable:Broken Stillness, ISEA, Istanbul (2011);
Gateways, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn Estonia (2011);
Current, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston (2011);
Broken Stillness, Salisbury Art Centre, Salisbury (2011);
Electrohype Biennial 2010, Ystad Art Museum, Ystad Sweden (2010-11);
Urban Topos/Edge City, Today Art Museum, Beijing (2010);
File Prix Luz, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2010);
NETinSPACE, MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2010);
El Proceso como Paradigma, Laboral, Gijon (2010);
On the Edge of the World, John Hope Gateway Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh (2010);
E-volve, DAM Gallery, Cologne (2010).
2007-09
British Science Festival, Guildhall, Guildford (2009);
Pattern Recognition, The City Gallery, Leceister (2009);
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2009);
SALON Exhibition, The Study Gallery, Poole UK (2008);
SIGGRAPH08, Slow Art Gallery Exhibition, Los Angeles USA (2008);
Art.ficial Emotion 4.0: Emergence!, Instituto Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo Brazil (2008);
CAe2008, Computational Aesthetics Exhibition, Lisbon Portugal (2008);
Holy Fire:The Art of the Digital Age, iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels, Belgium (2008);
Digital Media Intervention, Headquarters former Valencia University, Spain (2008);
Follyplay, Event Burnley Youth Theatre, Lancaster (2008);
NETworking, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2008);
Velocity, Digital Art Festival, Folly Lancaster (2007);
Digiville, Lighthouse, Brighton (2007);
CAe2007, Computational Aesthetics Conference & Exhibition Banff Centre of Arts, Alberta Canada (2007);
Digital Aesthetics 2, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston (2007);
Enter Festival, Unknown Territories Cambridge (2007);
Web Biennial 2007, Web Based International Contemporary Art Exhibition (2007).
2004-06
Natural Habitats, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo Amsterdam (2006);
TAGGED , Space Media Arts, London (2006);
SIGGRAPH06, Intersections Art Gallery Exhibition, Boston USA (2006);
Unnatural Selection, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, open exhibition (2006);
ACE 2006, Leonardo exhibition, Hollywood LA (2006);
SIGGRAPH05, Los Angeles International New Media Festival (2005);
New Forest Pavilion, Artsway Group Exhibition, Venice (2005);
Hands Free Series, Dorchester Arts Centre (2005);
Dots & Lines, BBC Online Sound Exhibition (2005);
Transmediale.05, international media arts festival, Berlin, Germany (2005);
FILE04 , International digital festival, Brazil (2004).
2002-03
Data:Base , New Media Event, Dublin (2003);
Theory of Catastrophe, SCAN launch, Southampton (2003);
Aquanox, All Change, Islington, London Canal project (2003);
WinterWonderland, Lighthouse, Poole (2002);
Electrohype Biennial 2002, Malmo, Sweden (2002);
Power to the People, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener Exhibition, Canada (2002);
Garage, Festival for art, Music and Film, Stralsund, Germany (2002);
SoundToys, Convergence exhibition, New Media Centre, ICA, London www.soundtoys.net (2002);
SoftForm, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Canada, www.hiveprojects.com/softform (2002);
Matter & Memory, Montreal, Canada www.mobilegaze.com/m+m (2002);
Possible not Probable, G39, Cardiff (2002);
minus20, Gasworks Gallery, London (2002).