‘Body In Pieces’ Public Exhibition UCL

Looking Back stepping forward

Winter seems to be as good a time as any to consolidate, organise and prepare. I’ve been sifting through all the stuff I’ve been up to over the last few years with a view to organise it all into a story other people can understand and that will help me to move forward. I didn’t reckon on the difficulty of this task.

I’m an artist doing a lot of multidisciplinary, multi media + new technology stuff that is all connected but in complex and subtle ways.  However our world of ‘work’ is ruled by sound bites, titles and the 10 second pitch. A world in which ‘artist’ doesn’t seem to be informative enough.

“Oh your an artist! what kind of art do you do?”

I never want to pin myself down with a five word answer.

Then yesterday my friend and colleague Katharina reminded me of 80’s movie      ’Secret of My Success’ and said;

“Everyone does stuff that is complex and unexplainable, boring and important. If you try to explain what you do most people switch off. In the world of work and networks something will become real ONLY when it has a label, sign or badge.”  

I’ve always ignored labels. I’m one of those people that tend to relate to someone at face value rather than relate to their status/position. But Katharina made me realise these labels are actually imagined and then made real, like little pieces of art. 

Vitruvius De Architectura - Book II

The human figure as the principle source of proportion among the classical orders of architecture.

A new position

Leonardo Fellow of the Digital Humanities Centre, Nottingham University

(Source: nottingham.ac.uk)

"interface. noun
1. the surface, place or point where two things touch each other or meet
2. a common boundary between objects or different phases of a substance
3. the place situation or way in which two things or people act together or effect each other or the point of connection between things
4. a common boundary shared by two devices, or by a person and a device, across which data or information flows, for example, the screen of a computer"

� Oxford Concise English Dictionary 10th Edition