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Hidden In the 2nd Hand Market, Birmingham
August 22nd, 2018 by adminThe Wholesale Markets in Birmingham shut down in July 2018, Friction Arts documented the last year of the markets, and created a performance based on that work for a closing celebration. I was asked to make a piece responding to my memories of the markets, I decided to celebrate the carboot sales that used to […]
Harmonic Portal, Lumiere Festival, Durham, Uk
November 22nd, 2017 by adminHarmonic Portal is a new work commissioned for Lumiere Festival Durham, 2017 http://www.lumiere-festival.com/durham-2017/ There are 5 pieces arranged around the walls of St Godrics Church, Castle Chare, Durham, each is a portal into the surface of the wall, the light amplifies surface details due to the angle of incidence and feels like a magnifying glass […]
Treehugger, Marshmallow Laser Feast
February 1st, 2017 by adminI was rather happy to be invited to help marshmallow laser feast complete their latest VR project. I’ve got the VR bug now!
System 100, Flatpack Festival 10
May 19th, 2016 by adminFor Flatpack 10 this year, I showed Frequency Response #3, and also debuted Brian Duffy’s new work Instead of Instead of Faint Spirit For the past 5 years Brian Duffy (Modified Toy Orchestra) has been writing an analogue love letter to the memory of Trish Keenan entitled “Instead Of Faint Spirit”, using only a Roland System 100 […]
Pixel Flow
February 16th, 2016 by adminAnother project with Claudia Paz StudioPixel Flow explores the senses of the visitors in a surrounding space generated by light and sound that allows them to express freely. The feeling of being wrapped in a spiral of light pixels and sounds is activated by the natural flow of the body. CREDITS Design & Concept:Claudia Paz […]
Harmonia Project – 59Productions, Edinburgh Festival 2015
February 16th, 2016 by adminI was asked to join the project as developer and animator as they wanted to include 3d scans, brainwaves and other biometric data captured from the choir. So I oversaw the 3d shoots, wrangled the massive amount of data and we all got animating! Also fun was that the music wasn’t recorded until 36 hours […]
Frequency Response #1-3
November 1st, 2015 by adminFlatpack Festival asked me to become Artist-In-Residence in the Photonics Department of Aston University, to make a response to the work they do there. My piece would appear in the run up to Birmingham Library’s Light Fest, as part of an all-day event highlighting the research work of the Department which featured lectures and demonstrations.Initially […]
Fibre Optics as Sensors
June 26th, 2015 by adminSomething I had no idea about was using fibre optics as sensors, which given my use of sensors in much of my work is something I’m going to be looking at, I had a really good chat with Michal Zubel, who as one strand of his research is working on some low budget implementations of […]
Nespresso Vienna
March 17th, 2015 by adminAnother invitation from Strukt to work on a project in January led to a rather interesting project tracking, masking and projecting onto dancers and some mapped columns on the set. Nespresso – “Pixie” Launch Event from Strukt Studio on Vimeo. There is a making of on the Strukt page as well as some more photos […]
Marshmallow Laser Feast approached me to join the team for this augmented reality web advert, they wanted to do all the CG fx in the real world, in realtime, mapped to a free roaming camera. We used vvvv and vux’s DX11 pack to provide 3 HD outputs from each of 2 PC’s, rendering unto 8million LIDAR […]