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Late at Tate Britain
I am building a machine with Krieder + O’Leary for the next Late at Tate Britain on the 1 February 2013. It’s a 2.5m-long camera which scans the border between the public and hidden spaces of the...
View ArticleTalk with Natalie Jeremijenko and Kasia Molga
I am privileged to be giving a talk with Natalie Jeremijenko and my friend Kasia Molga tomorrow evening at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston. Please do come if you’re in town! Here is the press release:...
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Moai
One of my favourite items in the British Museum is the Moai. It is in the Living and Dying room. Moai in British museum. Photo from Bytes Daily. I spent a few days on Easter Island in 2005. It’s a...
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Here
Richard McGuire‘s Here (1989) is a fantastic example of non-linear storytelling. Chris Ware cites it as a major inspiration – this can be particularly seen in Ware’s Building Stories, and the Big Tex...
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Nybble at the V&A Museum
This weekend (20-21 September 2013) the garden of V&A Museum will be transformed into a large computing device by Ollie Palmer – and a troupe of “human-computers”. In 1948 Alan Turing designed the...
View ArticleThomas Feuerstein Psychoprosa
I gave a talk at the University of Innsbruck the other day, and on my day off I went to see the Thomas Feuerstein exhibition Psychoprosa. Unfortunately the show has now finished, but I made this video...
View ArticleLearn Italian
My friend Fiona Williams (who kindly helped me film the Nybble video) made a lovely stop-motion film about the now-probably-obsolete method of learning Italian by cassette. She filmed it in a...
View ArticleSupermoon
Like thousands of people around the world, I took a time-lapse of the super blood moon. This was from our porch in Chicago, although doesn’t feature anything that is remotely identifiable.
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One man and a gun
Note: This article is cross-posted on Medium. Recently, the research and development company Battelle released a video of what is claimed to be the first non-ballistic anti-drone gun, the...
View ArticleNybble video
I just realised I never posted about the making of the video for my Nybble project! It took a long time for me to get round to re-editing, since myriad other projects came up in the time after the...
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Residency at Palais de Tokyo
Palais de Tokyo by Hervé BRY I am very happy to announce that I have been selected as artist-in-residence at the Palais de Tokyo. From November 2015 to June 2016, I will be living and working in...
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Bioart book
Ant Ballet has been featured in William Myers‘ book BioArt: Altered Realities, recently published by Thames and Hudson. The book is a compendium of projects from sixty artists, collectives, and...
View ArticleCall for actors
I am producing a short film which requires two actors. It will be filmed in Paris in the first two weeks of March, and each role will require 2-4 days of filming (to be confirmed). Female / male actor...
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Do Disturb
I will be showing my film 86400 and performing 24fps Psycho at the Do Disturb Festival at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in a couple of weeks. This is very exciting, as both works have never been shown...
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Lundi du Pavillon
Parisian friends! I will be presenting 24fps Psycho and the wider project that it is part of at the Palais de Tokyo’s Lundi du Pavillon on 18 April 2016. 24fps Psycho is a project that replaces every...
View ArticleScriptych collaboration
The French Audiovisual Archives (INA) made a lovely short film about the collaborative process Simon Valastro and myself used to make Scriptych, a performance at the Opéra National de Paris earlier...
View ArticleA cybernetic argument against post-truth
As far as I see it, the Trump team’s rejection of facts, and the idea that we live in a post-truth world is nothing more than a refusal to engage in conversation with any other entity. It is a lazy and...
View ArticleRock music
Whilst in Korea last year, I came across this incredible rock playing an instrumental version of Celine Dion’s Oscar-winning My Heart Will Go On. Hold me, Jack.
View ArticleLogic by Machine
We don’t talk about computers like we used to. Whilst writing up my PhD thesis, I came across this teaser video for my Nybble project. It was designed to elicit the interest of potential dancers and...
View ArticleSynchronised cinema
The first known use of multiple cameras and multiple screes, Thompson said, was in 1896 in a process called “Cineorama.” Ten cameras were mounted . in a balloon. As the camera ascended the Paris...
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