Cosmic Reach: Chrome extension net art
Cosmic Reach takes the form of a Chrome browser extension that triggers a random image search each time a new tab is opened. This image is pulled from the search term ‘reaching’, generating… Continue reading
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[TELE]: culture in quarantine
On 23 March 2020, the UK was put into lockdown as a response to the international COVID-19 pandemic. People were told to stay at home and self-isolate, with strict restrictions on going outside… Continue reading
E-houses without doors: the circular economy and cargoes of e waste
Concealed within their familiar glossy casings is an intricate network of precious metals, rare earth elements, minerals, finite resources, arsenic and mercury. The most positive interpretations of contemporary technological forms imbue them with… Continue reading
Watchtower in surround sound
A surround sound 5.1 extension of Watchtower, with 12’30” minute film. A full password-protected video version is available online for producers and programming teams. Contact for me access.
Living in an Inbox
Living in an Inbox is an immersive and interactive video installation that uses projection mapping and eye-tracking to explore digital addiction through advertising, the search for comfort in familiar routines, quick fixes and… Continue reading
+++ Legacy
Photographs and digital collage, various dimensions. Keywords: environmental art, climate change, plastic, legacy, blood, stone, Scotland landscape. Markers of time, tools with which to observe astronomical events, monuments to death, sacrifice or ritual.… Continue reading
An Inward Outlook: loneliness and the weather
An Inward Outlook: loneliness and the weather was broadcast on Radiophrenia in May 2019 from Centre of Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Addressing how social isolation is arguably increasing in a paradoxically networked society whilst… Continue reading
Digital warmth: climate change and social isolation
Addressing how social isolation is perhaps increasing in a paradoxically networked society whilst climate change highlights a global connection of environmental responsibility to one other, Kin’s video and sound installation Brewing questions our… Continue reading
Eye in the Open Sky
Eye in the Open Sky channels ideas around light, surveillance and landscape, referencing Virilio’s seminal text Open Sky and the disappearance of the horizon in communication cultures of acceleration. The projected visual shows… Continue reading
The effect of smartphones on mental health
Hold Me is a video installation that looks at intimacy within our use of digital technology. It’s estimated that we touch our phones around 200-300 times a day, indicating a close physical relationship… Continue reading
Shower room / Shroud
Between 2008 and 2012, GCHQ intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of people as they had personal video chats with their friends and family via Yahoo. The NSA uses a plug-in… Continue reading
Terms & Conditions, + All Eyes on You, Dead Weight and Tetris
From Jan-Feb 2017, I was artist-in-residence at The Auxiliary in Stockton. During that time, I focused on building a body of work that looked at our increasing use of digital (communications) technology, how… Continue reading
Watchtower
A lighthouse shines its all-seeing eye into the vast ocean, beaming a ray of light into the unknown to avert risk and protect from danger. This audio-visual installation using sculpture and projection, film… Continue reading
The self, the cell, more, new
When over 1 million selfies are taken and shared online each day, the Internet reveals itself as a widely used tool of identity construction, particularly for young people whose fixation with this… Continue reading
Urban landscape / alone in a crowd
Medium: Acrylic paint, polyfiller, tape, polystyrene, pencil and a compass on hardboard. 60cm x 90cm Living and working in the City of London can be a strange experience. During the week, 330,000 people… Continue reading
Dead pigeons and chandeliers
During October 2015, a new interactive work called Dead Pigeons and Chandeliers was displayed as part of the Poor Door exhibition at A-Side B-Side gallery in Hackney. The work depicts one of the… Continue reading