Whomp

Real-time sculptural light installation using live audio feed and generative video in VDMX in The Carpet Shop, Peckham.

The event raised over £1000 for Medical Aid for Palestinians and JMB Educational Fund. Photos by Amy Fern Photography

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CRYPTID – Joey Holder

Lighting intervention, sequencing & video design for Joey Holder for a solo show at Two Queens, Leicester and Art Basel, Paris 2023. 

Two Queens: Synchronised 2ch video, 4ch audio, 8ch lighting – custom firmware with ESP32

Art Basel: Synchronised 6ch video & 2ch audio

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Vibrant Matters at the V&A Museum

Exhibition for Digital Design Weekend. Interactive installation of dynamic artificial entities.

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Conditions – RCA 2023

Conditions Documentation
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Morphodynamic Regulator
Morphodynamic Regulator
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Emergent Forms
Emergent Forms
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Chaotic Anemometers
Chaotic Anemometers
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This project was created at The Royal College of Art as part of my MA in Information Experience Design, 2022-2023. View the RCA project page here. 

Conditions is a network of installations with multiple channels of interconnection. The work oscillates between constructed and emergent, object and process, animate and inanimate, and natural and artificial. The machines see and communicate with each other, and their behaviour is both controlled and unpredictable. The apparatus interface with some of the core processual dynamics of complexity science, which is the study of how individual components interact to form complex, often unpredictable, systems. These processes include self-organisation and emergence and chaos: the same processes that underpin life.

LiDAR sensors measure audience proximity to the installations where, at a certain distance, audience members can stimulate specific conditions for the machines to operate far-from-equilibrium, a term which describes the constantly changing dynamics of natural phenomena in complex systems.

The work explores the complicated relationship between humans and nature, and favours systems thinking in which humans are integrated within the natural world. Through integrating dualisms and presenting tensions between untamed and contained numerosity, the work aims to expose the structures and biases that have separated humans from nature. The vessels enclosing natural processes suggest frictions between control and chaos, and the human endeavour to represent, encapsulate and isolate natural phenomena. Every experiment, action and observation has an effect – even admiration can yield unintended consequences – therefore, by adopting a bottom-up, systems approach Conditions ask audiences to attune to underlying processes and interact with the world through fluid perception and responsible mediation.

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Ceremony of Obsolescence

Video installation and performance film for the closing exhibition ‘Not Happy’ at One Thoresby Street studio & gallery.

Duration: 13:55
Resolution: 3840×1080 (2 channel)

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Wigflex City Festival

Installation for the Multimodal stage at Nottingham Contemporary for Wigflex City Festival on 5th May 2019.

Acts included: Young Marco, James Holden & The Animal Spirits, Bufiman aka Wolf Muller, Yazmin Lacey, Chai Larden & Soul Buggin’

Projection and light animations were all generated in real-time with VDMX, responding to both live audio input and performance input from a custom Touch OSC controller. Seven fadecandy micro-controllers were used to pixel-map the video data using Syphon & Processing.

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Vice x Desperados – Reclaim The Club Nottingham

I was involved with a film by Vice, sponsored by Desperados, which covered alternative approaches to modern ‘club’ culture in Nottingham. Featuring an event which took place in Nottingham Contemporary art gallery in collaboration with Wigflex. The event featured a geodesic dome with a live performance of analogue audio-visual synthesised 360° projections and sounds by myself (pictured below).

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Lace Unarchived

4 channel video installation for ‘Lace Unarchived’ exhibition at Bonington Gallery, Nottingham in 2018. CNC cut plywood enclosure with 24 broadcast CRT monitors.

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