Listening In…

I have been working with arts organisation At the Library and Sefton Libraries to develop a programme of events that explore how ‘listening in’ can help us empathise with other things and people. I was inspired by a chapter on ‘over-hearing’ in Brandon LaBelle’s Sonic Agency – Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance. Given that…

Peripheri.es – Mundane Audio

I am often filled with concern that the broadcasts lack the monumentality that Art requires. Even within the narrow confines of the parctice of ‘life casting’ as an artistic practice, these occasional broadcasts don’t have the discipline of their antecedents – like Franco and Eva Mattes ‘Life Sharing’ or Stelarc’s Ear on Arm or the…

Peripheri.es #1

In early 2022 I was commissioned by Bluecoat to complete a piece of work I began in 2018, during a residency at Signal Culture in Owego, upstate New York. The partially completed work was a sleeveless denim jacket that had solar panels sewn onto the back to power a Raspberry pi, which then broadcast a…

My PhD Thesis

I have finished and passed my PhD in the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths and finally gotten round to posting a copy of it here for anyone interested. I found it really difficult taking the practice based route – and got a lot from reading other practice based PhD’s – so here’s mine. In simple…

Project for a New Physical World

“A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object. It occupies all of the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or a reverse projection of the object blocking the light.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow…

Radical Networks 2019 – NYC

It was great to get the chance to present a paper, Inforegions – Creating Infrastructural Communities, at this years Radical Networks in NYC. I was mostly reflecting on the surprising direction that the artist’s residency at Edge Hill station had taken me and looked towards bioregionalism as a way of processing the realisation that our…

Signal Culture – Owego NY

I got to spend two weeks as a toolmaker resident at Signal Culture in Owego, upstate New York. I spent the time working with flexible, waterproof solar panels, made by powerfilm, sewing them into a demin jacket, like a Battle Jacket, so they charge a lipo battery which in turn powers a pi zero, via…