'Digital Degeneration and Random Synchronisation

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Glasgow School of Art, Macintosh Building, June 2006

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This installation is a product of my interest and research into the relationships between music and image, analogue and digital technologies, loops, environments, and a fascination with surface and decay, and seemingly random patterns and synchronisations.

The soundtrack was provided on headphones, that was decayed over space and through use of different recording devices and Cd players.

The video was spread over several monitors, some broken but with the images reflected. Image was on looped edited footage of puddles, it was deteriorated through the use of old monitors, and transmission equipment.

As a project, this was very physical and process based. The installation provided an immersive experience between music and image in a converted cupboard space, cleaned up, but still displaying functionality with pipes and vents also occupying the space.

'Between'

Solo Exhibition, March 2006

When i first started experimenting with video editing software, i began by manipulating and enhancing existing patterns, synchronisations and rhythms that exist in the many structures of everyday living. In this video i was manipulating the manner in which car lights and their movement seem to pulse. I also drew on my own personal experience when in public spaces alone, sensory overload and lightheadedness make everyday walks seem so fast, loud and disorienting.

The video installation was projected onto a wall above the bottom of a stairwell, speakers were installed and cds were provided so the viewer could choose to have a different experience of the work with each artist's music providing a soundtrack, where synchronisations between image and sound alter and distort the narrative constructed by their relationship.

CD's chosen were ones i was listening to a lot at the time of editing the video for installation. These were mainly instrumental, atmospheric or haunting, but all with interesting rhythms and moods. Autechre, Portishead, Boards of Canada, Hood and Godspeed You Black Emperor! were some of the choices.

'Skinflick'

6 Monitor Video Installation at a live DJ set.

Collaboration with Nok La Rok, Visual Artist and Techno DJ

Skinflick, presented by Squareroots at the Carnival Arts Centre, Glasgow.

We used old television sets, and video players (pre 90's or earlier) arranged in a hexagonal shape, with the TVs on top of grey plinths. The aesthetic of the equipment was an important part of the piece and as such was not concealed.

The installation could be viewed from all around the nightclub floor and seating area, and it became absorbing as synchronicities with the music playing would vary constantly.

I showed footage of the car light sequence reedited from the 'Between' installation, and edited footage of puddles.

Nick showed a video feedback loop, very faded footage of a man dancing on Miami beach and video of 80's girls dancing naked. The video on the latter two was washed out distorting the colours itself and also through altering settings on the television monitors.

'Breathing Space'

Solo Installation, April 2006

This piece was based upon mundanity, disfunction and anxiety .

As the light got darker outside the room began to glow, ebb and flow like the slow hypnosis created by televisions slowly strobing in peoples living rooms.

I like to use old or broken equipment in a sculptural way, i am not so keen on the use of the traditional plinth and like to show the workings of a piece as part of the aesthetic.

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