Dave Evans

At White Wizard I have set up a round-the-clock online audio stream that plays an evolving and randomly selected series of audio works by artists and musicians. This includes music, ASMR, spoken word and field recordings up to now. Content is accepted by submission.  The stream also piggybacks events from which it broadcasts live. My…

I’m presenting a paper titled Becoming Invisble: Towards a Digital Ascetic at Kings College as part of (In)Visible Cultures conference organised by the Center for Media and Creative Industries. It draws parallels between the tensions inherent in the 11-12th century catholic church, between form of life as advocated by St Francis and rule of life…

Earlier this year I wrote a text inspired by a 1980’s twilight zone episode called Wordplay. In it a salesman loses his grip on language, words stop meaning what they are supposed to and mean other things. Apart from being hilarious, it was interesting to me as it looks at what happens when concepts become…

So the investigation into visualising variability continues with these short videos of women demonstrating how to exercise using resistance bands. The stretch of the band is no different, for me to the expansion/contraction of the central ‘image’ in the Met work  of 18,000 images in size order (although nothing really expands, the screen is fixed…

For a good portion of the summer I’ve been exploring simple actions/reactions ‘mediated’ by objects. Now have a big backlog of footage that appears to be breaking down into short videos. Here is a short compilation of four. Part of the challenge, like working with a sheet of blank paper, tinfoil or a piece of…

I’m running a reading group on the 24th of August at Bluecoat, and I’ve selected a text from The Piracy Project called ‘Quitting: A Conversation with Alex Koch on the Paradoxes of Dropping Out by Stephen Wright & Alex Koch with a response by Brian Holmes‘ (click text for link to pdf) I was in…

I’m running a reading group at the Bluecoat as part of their resource show. It’ll access the texts from two of the shows archive, The Serving Library and and publishing’s The Piracy Project, that focus on how we can avoid the affective implications of digital media. We’re starting with Sci Fi writer Bruce Sterling’s 90’s…