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CATCH | BOUNCE
Published June 14, 2017 - No Comments
Catch|Bounce is an installation of five works presented at the Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool, that propose a radical rethinking of thenotion of the digital as a term defined solely by entrenched techno-computational narratives. It seeks to question preconceptions about digital art pra ...
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32 Bit Drop
Published November 10, 2015 - No Comments
Public Action 17 Aug 2014. 32 tennis balls dropped at the intersection of Eichendorffstrabe and Schlegelstrabe, Mitte, Berlin. Excerpt from Post Screen Not Displayed. “Waiting Practice 32 exists as a still image from a public action that took place in Berlin in August, 2014. The art ...
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Double Dribble
Published November 8, 2015 - No Comments
A six screen responsive video work shown here as a short single screen video. Double Dribble runs on 6 wall mounted flat screens arranged as a grid with vertical pairs separated by a space equal to that of the screens. Motion analysis software detects the presence of a viewer and activates ...
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Waiting Event: 64 Bytes
Published December 13, 2014 - No Comments
A project for The Post-Screen Festival, Lisbon Portugal, 2014. Recently while perusing the mail archives of –emprye, I was drawn in by a conversation between Rob Myers and Timothy Morton in which Myers somewhat provoca ...
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Three actions in 56 bytes.
Published August 14, 2014 - No Comments
Titled in reference to Allan Kaprow’s Eighteen Happenings in Six Parts this installation operates around a series of actions undertaken as mathematical sets that involve bouncing a ball, drinking glasses of water and pumping up tyres. These actions are not undertaken as performance b ...
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nCompass
Published August 7, 2014 - No Comments
Berlin 2013 a 2.6m pole operating as a digital compass is balanced on the artists head. The compass is set to the bearing of a section of the Berlin wall along Bernauer Strabe. If the pole deviates format eh bearing the lights at the end of the pole switch off. The work explore the ...
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Interview with a Chainsaw.
Published August 6, 2014 - No Comments
Interview with a Chainsaw: An Object Oriented Exploitation Manual. Abstract A critical reflection framed within the construct of the ‘interview’ the text seeks to understand how the subject shifts position under non-anthropocentric models such as those proposed by Speculative Realism. ...
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Leaking Into Ourselves
Published August 6, 2014 - No Comments
Leaking Into Ourselves (2014). Still image from video. Leaking Into Ourselves is one of a series of Studio interrogations aimed at exposing the digital within sculptural practice. (See PhD abstract.) Excerpt from catch/bounce: Stack Overflows and Digital Actions. This essay contextualises ...
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Catch 32 Bit
Published August 6, 2014 - No Comments
Catch 32 Bit is one of a series of Studio interrogations aimed at exposing the digital within sculptural practice. (See PhD abstract.) Excerpt from catch/bounce: Stack Overflows and Digital Actions. This essay contextualises Catch 32 Bit within the context developing notions of digital mov ...
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Conversations with Stones
Published July 10, 2012 - No Comments
In collaboration with Phil Dadson. Performed as part of the Australasian Computer Music conference, in, July 7 2011. Conversations with Stones was an analogue / digital conversation between the artists, cen ...
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Double Dribble

Published November 8, 2015 at 4:05 am - No Comments

A six screen responsive video work shown here as a short single screen video. Double Dribble runs on 6 wall mounted flat screens arranged as a grid with vertical pairs separated by a space equal to that of the screens. Motion analysis software detects the presence of a viewer and activates pairs of videos to […]

Waiting Event: 64 Bytes

Published December 13, 2014 at 2:53 am - No Comments

A project for The Post-Screen Festival, Lisbon Portugal, 2014. Recently while perusing the mail archives of –emprye, I was drawn in by a conversation between Rob Myers and Timothy Morton in which Myers somewhat provocatively declares that he is ‘watching Raiders of the Lost Ark […]

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