Fee Plumley
{{Short description|British-born digital artist, technology evangelist, and digital consultant}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
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{{BLP sources|date=November 2012}}
Fee Plumley is a British-born digital artist, technology evangelist, and digital consultant. She lives in Australia and is a citizen. She worked for the Australia Council for the Arts on its "Arts content for the digital era" program, producing initiatives such as Geek in Residence and the Digital Culture Fund.{{Cite web |url=http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/news/items/pre-2010/supporting_a_new_breed_of_digital_pioneers |title=Supporting a new breed of digital pioneers |access-date=26 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026172650/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/news/items/pre-2010/supporting_a_new_breed_of_digital_pioneers |archive-date=26 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|title=Geeks, tweets and bums on seats|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/geeks-tweets-and-bums-on-seats-20100709-103g8.html|accessdate=10 October 2012|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=10 July 2010}}{{cite news|last=Douglas|first=Tim|title=Tweet puts Techno-Priscilla on bus |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/tweet-puts-techno-priscilla-on-bus/story-fn9d3avm-1226427577894|accessdate=10 October 2012|newspaper=The Australian|date=17 July 2012}} {{subscription required}} Since 1997, she has collaborated with Douglas Rushkoff.{{cite news|title=The artist as media activist|url=http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/opinions/arts/the-artist-as-media-activist-189279|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121230121539/http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/opinions/arts/the-artist-as-media-activist-189279|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 December 2012|accessdate=10 October 2012|newspaper=artsHub|date=16 May 2012}} She is a regular guest on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Download this Show on Radio National, where she talks about datamining.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/downloadthisshow/ep26/4143834|title=Australian Spy Laws, Andable and the Death of Digg|date=20 July 2012|website=ABC Radio National}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/downloadthisshow/ep34/4247094|title=What really happened to Charlotte Dawson?|date=6 September 2012|website=ABC Radio National}}
Career
Plumley got her creative start working in the theatre industry in North Wales, London, Leeds, and Manchester.{{cite web| last=Frauenfelder| first=Mark| title=Power to the Mobile People| url=http://thefeaturearchives.com/topic/Content/Power_to_the_Mobile_People.html| publisher=The Feature Archives| access-date=10 October 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225048/http://thefeaturearchives.com/topic/Content/Power_to_the_Mobile_People.html| archive-date=3 March 2016| url-status=dead}} She was a stage manager and a props artist in the United Kingdom. In 1996, she used the internet for the first time, invited to use it by a landlord in Brighton. Unhappy with her work in the theatre, she explored how to use the internet as art. Her work brings together literature, performance, and technologies such as mobile phones, social media, augmented reality, and Arduino. Her work explores "how creative people use technology to connect themselves and their ideas to other people".
=Projects=
==the-phone-book==
In 2000, Plumley started the-phone-book Limited with animator and filmmaker Ben Jones. The project was partially funded by the Arts Council of England. The company sought to "explore new technologies as they emerge and see what they can offer creative minds". Their program focused on creating platforms, running commissions, and educating artists and the public about how to use mobile phones to create and share their art. This included using mobile phones for creative writing, using 150 characters or less, similar to the Twitter platform.{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Russell|title=Why I like wireless writing|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/why-i-like-wireless-writing/article1334410/|accessdate=10 October 2012|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=7 May 2003}}
==''reallybigroadtrip''==
In the first half of 2012, Plumley successfully crowdfunded {{AUD|27,000}} through the website Pozible to fund a three-month cross-Australia road trip and art project. Plumley was {{AUD|10,000}} short of her {{AUD|25,000}} goal until Hugh Jackman, Amanda Palmer, and Neil Gaiman tweeted their support for the project. The project was successfully funded with a {{AUD|2,000}} above the target being donated.
The goal of the project is to collaboratively make and share digital art with Australian and international "nomads" in residence and the people they meet along the journey. Plumley used the funding for travel costs and to purchase a bus which was outfitted with technological equipment, becoming a mobile workshop, exhibition space for art, technology lab, and home for Plumley during the project.
reallybigroadtrip is partnering with other artists in Australia and organizations to hold meet-ups organized via Twitter, collaborative sessions, screenings, and workshops.{{Cite web|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2012/07/12/kickstarting-your-arts-projects-now-pozible-online/|title=Kickstarting your arts projects now Pozible online|date=12 July 2012|website=Crikey}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.reallybigroadtrip.com/ reallybigroadtrip official website]
- {{Twitter}}
- [http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/dart-with-julianne-pierce/4175474 DART: What's Hot in the Digital Arts] featuring Plumley's reallybigroadtrip on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Category:British digital artists
Category:Australian digital artists
Category:Women digital artists
Category:Technology evangelists
Category:Theatre people from Greater Manchester
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Australian women computer scientists