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Digital 3D Media Technician / Sculptor / Modeller / Misc

CRT installation of the RGB [Post-Warhol] video at Firstsite, Colchester.

The Andy Warhologram at Firstsite, Colchester.

Documentation of the M1 video displayed in triptych across three CRT TVs on a landscape plinth.

Documentation of the TFHDR projection as part of the degree show installation.

Documentation of the HVGS installation.

Documentation of the VJing workshop at Firstsite, here using some of my Warhol imagery, led by Liam Roberts and Frazier Merrick, with fellow Digital Factory resident Sian Fann.

Documentation of the installation of the Feedback film in Project Space 5, testing and rehearsing potential ideas.

Documentation the EchoReFlex Event, and were mostly taken by me using a timer, but also with some assistance from the crowd.

Micro projections of my films (a variation of Field, and Drive), through a magnifying glass. “To use a magnifying glass is to pay attention, but isn’t paying attention already having a magnifying glass. Attention itself is an enlarging glass.” [Bachelard, 1958: 158]

Documentation of the Pause event; private view and performance.

Documentation of the first hour of my three hour performance, ‘A Better Place, A Non Place’ for the Museums at Night event at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.

Displaying ‘Disinterred’ on every computer screen in Media Lab 1.

In this initial arrangement of the stablised, refilmed smart-phone footage, I examined the “bewildered herd” of London’s hyper dynamic crowds, remediated through the reprocessed footage filmed directly from the micro display screen, amplifying the structure of the digital video format.

Just a Day was a daylong exhibition at Firstsite, in which I displayed my video made from every image of Colchester rephotohraphed from Google, from which I, and members of the audience (and my peers) drew from onto a large black board, intermittently throughout the day.

Within the consumerist overload of online media, “the new challenge is to share this information with one another, to manage it thoughtfully, and to transform it into knowledge inside billions of individual brains.

Images taken on a screen displaying a video piece created by desynchronising the display of a distorted slideshow of images (originally as part of the ‘Cultivator of Decay’ photo shoot). The footage was created by stretching out the distance between the frames, making the program compensate for the shift.

Scanned computer monitor displaying a looping animation cutting between frames of a television turning off and a figure watching it, with the phrase “Can You Ever Switch Off?” superimposed across the the length of the animation.

Scanned face with phone displaying photograph. Tip of the hat to Rene Magritte’s ‘Son of Man‘ painting, and the title to ‘The Human Condition‘