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Over the last decade I have developed a number of pieces of work around a core theme of memory, often from the alternative viewpoint of loss or dysfunction. | |
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UrbanScape:21st Century Landfill Exhibition at the
Mafuji Gallery, July 2000 |
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Peace in our time #1 |
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This site will change your
life... 1998
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In-between A data-shadow, an identity that exist only within
information space. This was done by subscribing to newsletters and
magazines, opening accounts, e-mail etc., creating an information
presence. This was an exploration of the information space where all our
identities are being mapped. The WWW was used to archive the physical
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1996
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series of monochrome digital prints, produce for the museum of hygiene
exhibition. |
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diem (digital image enhancement and manipulation) 1996
A series of video prints, this piece utilises
pseudo-scientific, digitally enhanced faces. Allied with MRI scans of
the brain it explored the notion of truth and information in imagery. |
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Collaboration 1995 This was the second WWW piece that I produced.
Collaboration examined that concept of humanity through the role of
wartime collaboration, specifically in France and Jersey and took the
form of a courtroom trial. |
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timeritualsuicide Conceived originally as a work for the small screen,
it developed into a sound installation with video projection. Meaning
had been stripped from the images to disjoint them from the relationship
to the soundtrack. This was symbolic of the breaking with reality
suffered by those with mental disorders. The soundtrack tracked the slow
sink into despair and eventual suicide. |
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1994
Playing with a browser and some text. |
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The Gift Old family photographs were animated and sound effects added, to describe a series of gifts, including, The gift of tongue, The gift of roses, A natural gift for construction and A gift to the whirlwind. This is gift as curse, the tainted gift of the gods. Again a study of mental disability this time exploring in more detail the notion of tainted gift. |
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310 This tells a fictional story woven around the last
soviet citizen, Sergei Krikalev, who was stranded in space while the
last Russian revolution took place. Old digitised footage of space
training and other scenes of people and crowds were used to illustrate
the narrative. A soundtrack in Russian of the count from 1 to 310
dictated the length of the piece (the number of days the cosmonaut was
stranded in space), this was complemented by speech in English and
Russian. This again was authored on, and designed to be run, direct from
computer. |
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Remembering/Forgetting 1994 An episodic piece created on an Apple Macintosh computer and designed to be projected as film. Sections included: #2 Rapid text shown over a photographic background to a soundtrack of Maurice Chevalier singing "I remember it well". #3 A woman speaking in Polish talks about having her child stolen by the Nazi's and his eventual return. Period film and photographs are displayed throughout. #4 The translated text of the previous piece is shown. There is no soundtrack. #5 A series of jokes about memory/ forgetfulness are shown in a similar form to the text from the previous piece. |
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The Camera of My Family This work is a multimedia family album. Created in
HyperCard it allows the user to navigate personal histories by clicking
on the people in the photographs. Family members then talk about their
lives and their memories. |
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Dysfunctions A series of digitally altered photographs, using the
direct method of creating physical disabilities, alluding too mental and
family dysfunction. These included Loss of Vision, Loss of
Sound and Loss of Stillness. The series progressed into a
combination of photograph, screenprint and text. |
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Do I belong to some ancient race? A sculptural piece made of bronze, glass, water, and
LCD monitors. The monitors played video images, dealing with notions of
humanity, technology and other worldliness. Some of this imagery was
developed in to a series of large-scale photographs. In both this and
piece and Leaving this world behind the sense of wonder and other
worldliness were of prime importance. |
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Leaving this world behind A multimedia sculptural installation in which a room
was filled with water to a depth of 3", in which sat a draped
figure. Slides, some with text, were projected on the walls of the room
while a soundtrack played. The idea's explored dealt with notions of
faith and purity and included imagery from deep sea and space travel and
the search for the Holly Grail. Peripheral pieces, screenprints, bronze
and resin casts were also produced. |
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