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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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Four Current Exhibitions
Categories: ExhibitionsWith various exhibitions coinciding, Alex is showing work in four shows simultaneously on November 8th, 2014. “Room 40” is a new video sculpture created for the Networked Bodies event and exhibition at Watermans in London (7th-9th November) “The Institute of Unnecessary Research Meets The Egyptian Bioart Club” is on show at House 31 in Dubai’s Al Fahidi Cultural Quarter…
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Super-Organism: The Living Microbiome
Categories: ExhibitionsThis video artwork by Alex May and Anna Dumitriu was commissioned by The Wellcome Collection for The Evening Standard “1000” award ceremony at The Francis Crick Institute. It juxtaposes close-up high definition macroscopic video footage of the growth of colonies of bacteria with images of the parts of the human body from which they were…
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Upcoming events for October and November 2014
On October 28th Alex will be giving a talk at The Lightbox in Woking about his art practice and the challenges of creating and preserving digital art. Book a place here. The talk coincides with the ongoing exhibition at The Lightbox that features ‘Shadows of Light‘, which will be on show until the end of October.…
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Aesthetica Magazine Interview
Categories: MediaAesthetica Magazine interviewed Alex May about his art practise in advance of Kinetica Art Fair 2014. Kinetica Art Fair Artist Interview: Alex May “He captivates viewers by painting with digital video footage in real-time onto physical sculptures with synchronised audio and interactive technology.” Related: Kinetica Art Fair 2014 installation
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My Robot Companion on BBC World Service Click
Categories: MediaHARR1, Anna Dumitriu, and Alex May are featured on BBC World Service Click’s coverage of the Brighton Digital Festival. You can listen to the program here.
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Painting with Light: Video Sculptures: Open Call for Artists
For “Painting with Light: Video Sculptures” at Phoenix Brighton Alex May plans to create a new installation stemming from a participatory workshop with artists, from diverse backgrounds, including those who typically work with traditional art media such as painting and sculpture. The aim is to push the boundaries of this innovative medium and create new…
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HARR1 at Fabrica for Brighton Digital Festival 2014
An Afternoon with HARR1: a Brighton Digital Festival conversation event took place at Fabrica on the 3rd of September 2014. Hosted by Lorenza Ippolito, in conversation with artists Alex May and Anna Dumitriu, visitors were introduced to, and interacted with, HARR1 (Humanoid Art Research Robot 1) and held a lively discussion covering a wide range of topics including robot carers…
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