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Dave McNicol

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:03:47 +0000

ModdAR

An augmented-reality application aims to develop for us a future vision of automobile design and customisation. We are given a user-controlled virtual layering – a composite image mixing both real-time video and 3D computer-generated graphics. The project explores how the use of these technologies can simultaneously generate context and material awareness – bridging the gaps between virtual and physical space. User-interaction is paramount. Creating and sharing personalised designs, through a sense of play and experimentation is at the heart of this interaction.

John O’Shea

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:08:34 +0000

‘Escapement’ is an interactive installation work which dramatises the everyday enactment of legal process.

The gallery visitor is invited to place themselves ‘in the dock’. Through this action an electro-mechanical apparatus is activated which re-constitutes, in physical form, an aggregated stream of UK court proceedings data.

Oliver Marchant

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:03:21 +0000

A collection of film-based pieces exploring the ways in which the future is imagined, and the ways in which these visions can fade in the face of real events. We are presented here with questions of reality and truth in filmmaking, and are asked to question existing relationships between image and sound. A sense of the technological possibilities currently at the disposal of the filmmaker are evoked. This is an excursion into “performance-cinema”, probing into the death of pop in an isolationist, future society.

Thomas Gray

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:59:40 +0000

By reworking and reconceptualising both architectural space and street furniture, ’11th October’ responds to issues of solitary experience, moments of serendipity and space attachment in the urban context. The work comprises a visual response which alludes to a narrative and memory of a specific route taken through Newcastle on 11th October, 2005.

Joey Scully

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:47:35 +0000

Site is an Interactive architectural installation exploring issues of open and fixed locative networked communications. We are invited to participate in an action that situates us within both spatial and logical networks, opening a dialogue around the perceived efficacy of mobile devices and architectural affordances at the terminal-points of our built spaces and cities. We interact through our own, familiar devices to effect a model of user-generated architectural variation.

Travis Roush

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:04:29 +0000

Poppa is Post-Pointillism Pop-Art. Present-day reality television mentoring and memory association re-rendered as visual apparatus. Poppa is a box displaying nine separate squares of time-lapsed video recordings. Poppa is available to us only if we wish to interact. Visual content is absent outside the apparatus, and connecting to Poppa is free of imposition. Unlike traditional art objects, the Poppa system lives without its viewers, without its audience. Nothing is in the box but an invitation to our media-memory. Our reality is in there, if we can remember.

Davy Smith

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:43:34 +0000

Ghost Trap is a mixed media sculptural installation that invites us to become captured. Upon Ghost-Trap’s activation, a process is instigated that projects our human aura, both into the gallery and online space.

Software is developed to represent and capture the Auras encountered, including the artistic aura arising from within the work, and the physical aura that imperceivably surrounds us. In a continuous process, this software applies standard mathematical functions to biofeedback data, creating a visually accessible archive of information, often disregarded through scientific enquiry as supernatural or anomolystic. However, a record of this experience is available within the digital archive, permanently, but always posthumously. As Roland Barthes said, “that rather terrible thing which is there in every photograph. The return of the dead”.

Davy Smith’s current research blog can be found here

Abraham Thomas

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:10:42 +0000

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Are we part of the machine? Through this performance project, we reflect upon the relationships between man and machine, with audio shaped by granular synthesis and visuals inspired by the authenticity and liveness of performance practice. We find here a simultaneous exploration of synthesized tools sets – the efforts of commercially available, branded software and hardware along with open-source technologies are set to work on inexpensive computing hardware. Witness the live workings of electrons, photons and code.

Peter J Evans

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:02:39 +0000

A drawing machine is created which endlessly erases itself, all its marks exist only momentarily; watching the present fall into a trace of the past, effecting how the future will appear on top of it. The piece is a visual embodiment of a material reality, a meditation on existence as we experience it. Each moment leaves its mark but is erased at almost the same time, a trace of its existence is left, but the mark as it happened is no longer present. An encapsulation of the processes of growth, erasure, and repetition which we find ourselves in.

Evans’ artistic practice has at its core a fascination with what the writer Russell Hoban described as “the moment under the moment”; the hidden movements that influence all aspects of life as it travels through space and time. Mountains into grains of sand. One becomes the other.

Image: The moment under the moment, 2006, 4 colour lithograph printed at Hole editions, published by Amino.

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