Posted on: September 27, 2012
Posted on: April 7, 2016
This paper by Takashi Ikegami and Takashi IIashimoto is proving to be a key point of reference regarding my research into the act of destruction as a creative process and the aesthetics of malfunction and destructive, chance based actions. With regards to their experiments with self-replicating tape loop systems Ikegami and IIashimoto interestingly distinguish the difference between ”active mutation” and ”passive mutation”. The former being ”deterministic mutation” caused by the technology (in this case the tape… read more
Posted on: April 7, 2016
Radio News is a site-specific art installation consisting of approximately twenty digital alarm clock radios. (depending on the installation space). The radios are arranged into suspended columns of differing heights, and receive transmissions containing individual words cut from the latest global financial news headlines. These words are spoken by a remote synthetic voice and broadcast at randomly generated frequencies via a digitally controlled FM radio transmitter. This results in a frequency controlled three-dimensional sound diffusion system, where synthetically… read more
As an intermedia artist and creative technologist, I have worked for a variety of different institutions, companies, agencies, individuals and organisations. My practice-based research explores past and present futures, working with sound, open source hardware and software, radio transmissions, live data and custom digital processing techniques it seeks to exploit both emerging and near-obsolete technologies in order to create visual and sonic artworks that challenge popular aesthetics. Influenced by fields including cybernetics, artificial intelligence and science fiction, the resultant works are often realised by exploiting a technology's perceived failings in order to expose otherwise hidden content, or to generate initially indeterminate output that can be used as a foundation for further research and exploration. I am currently a research fellow based at the University of Nottingham's Mixed Reality Laboratory.
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