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Sequence at the V&A
Categories: Exhibitions“Sequence” is currently being exhibited at the V & A Museum in London, as part of the London Design Festival. A new virtual reality experience has been created using an Oculus Rift, and Alex’s Fugio art software, as part of the ongoing Sequence project using the data and footage from the project. It will be…
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Toy Hack Digital Metropolis
Phoenix Brighton received a Brighton Digital Festival Education Award to work with Alex May and Exploring Senses who created a two day workshop for thirty 13-19 year olds to hack toys, build a cardboard city for them to live in, create animations about them, and finally use Alex’s video mapping software to create a digital metropolis. The workshop…
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Data Body As Artifact: ISMAR 2015, Fukuoka, Japan
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Art That Makes Itself – Symposium Videos
Categories: TalksFrieder Nake keynote: Paul & Daniel Brown: Where to now The Digital Revolution? Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Jim Boulton, Nico Macdonald, Alex May Maggie Boden, Douglas Dodds & Ernest Edmonds
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Art That Makes Itself – Symposium
Categories: TalksBrown & Son: Art That Makes Itself Symposium Saturday 16 May, 2pm – 6.45pm Concerns of different generations, tribes and networks who make up digital culture, the challenges and opportunities for making and conserving generative artworks and rapid developments in digital image-making since the late 1960s are among the themes of a symposium on 16…
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Just 40
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Bacteria Light Lab at Wellcome Collection
Categories: ExhibitionsOver the bank holiday weekend the Wellcome Collection ran a four-day event featuring a wide range of performances, exhibitions, and workshops exploring light. Alex took part as a member of the Bacteria Light Lab, with video mapped projections of historical films, and the video art piece (above) he created with artist Anna Dumitriu, featuring high resolution…
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My Robot Companion at NESTA’s FutureFest
Categories: ExhibitionsFutureFest is Nesta’s weekend festival of radical ideas, compelling talks, and immersive experiences to inspire, excite and challenge perceptions of the future. The most recent festival took place in March 2015 in London. My Robot Companion was on show with its “familiar head”. This video gives a taste of what occurred during the event, including…
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TEDxBucharest – Creating Digital Art for Posterity
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My Robot Companion on BBC 4 Tech (Arabic)
Categories: MediaAlex May and Anna Dumitriu were interviewed for BBC Arabic’s flagship technology program 4 Tech about their ongoing collaborative art project My Robot Companion. The segment starts about 7 minutes in and lasts for about 6 minutes.
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Computer Arts Society Talk
Categories: TalksAlex will be giving a talk at Phoenix Leicester at 6:30pm on 11th March 2015, introducing his art practice, the software he has created, the aims and challenges behind their development, and his grassroots approach to digital preservation for artists. The Computer Arts Society (CAS) promotes the creative uses of computers in the arts and culture.…
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Emergency Index: Volume 3
Categories: MediaAlex’s Painting With Light performance at Tate Modern is featured in the amazing latest edition of Emergency Index. “While we argue about what performance documentation might mean, every year countless performances are lost to history. In book form, Emergency Index attempts to capture a broad snapshot of the “state of the field” of performance, as it exists right…
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New Exhibitions in 2015
Categories: ExhibitionsTwo new exhibition dates: A new version of “Super-Organism” (above) has been commissioned by the Eden Project in Cornwall to feature in their new “Invisible You. The Human Microbiome” permanent exhibition that will be open from April 27th. The ever uncanny and ethically challenging “My Robot Companion: Familiar” (right) – last exhibited in this form at the V&A in…
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Bournemouth University Workshop
Just spent two very enjoyable days running a Painting With Light video mapping workshop at Bournemouth University. As with every workshop, new behaviours emerged such as three participants projecting on the same space (exciting and very confusing for all involved), there was a sound reactive installation combining Max/MSP and Painting With Light’s OSC control facility,…
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