A research project and critical intervention reflecting on Scottish identity as manufactured by mid-nineteenth century writers, such as J.M. Barrie. In Cultural Memory Studies – An International and interdisciplinary handbook (2010), Astrid Erll asks what kinds of cultural memory are produced by literature and film. Cultural memory is based on communication through media via a […]
Archives: Projects
Self in the City: Cybernetic Auto-ethnography
In her article, Beginning to explore City Spaces, Roanna Heller recalls a summer spent in Berlin: ‘There I had lain on my back in Maur Park, on short, dry grass absorbing the city through my limbs’ (Heller: 2005, 133). She goes on to explain how unappealing her hometown of Sheffield felt upon her return, and […]
Coin Operated Futures
Inspired by books such as Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism (2009), Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism (2016), Naomi Kline’s Shock Doctrine (2008), and even Naom Chomsky’s Profit Over People (1998), ‘Coin Operated Futures’ reflected upon the neoliberal power and the pro-corporation subsystem of allowing the interests of business to dictate global policy making, or simply the actions of […]
Drawing Machine
This research project examined the issue of Scottish national identity using a theoretical framework drawn from Cybernetics and Postcolonial theories. Specifically it focused on the construction of the historical relationship between Scotland and England through the process of manufacturing myth. It showed that the relationship with England has played a role in authoring past models of […]
System Assembly 1.0
This sculptural assembly system was made from two dimensional redwood triangles. The triangles slotted together to create a 3D form. The permutations of the configuration were countless, meaning that each time to form was assembled, the sculpture would take a new and unique shape. To understand the relevancy of this to an art practice, originality, […]
Art of the Matter
Held in Edinburgh’s Urbane Art Gallery, Art of the Matter: Showcased artists that have successfully made use of science and or technology for the making of their work. With technology being found in almost all aspects of our daily lives the parallels between art and science are becoming ever closer. Highlights of this exhibition, which ran […]
Victorian Bar
An interesting project proposal came from Dr Thora Hands recently. She wanted to create a range of photographs that helped to imagine the experiences of Victorian drinkers. Specifically, Dr Thora asked, if the people who propped up bars in the 1870s different from those that frequent pups today? These images step into Victorian pups to […]
ZeroEd
ZeroEd, was a pop-up group show held in a vacant office space in St Enoch’s Square in Glasgow. Myself with David Eaton, Jamie Cooper and Ellis Luxembourg displayed a variety of works in response to the Mark Fisher book, Capitalist Realism (2009). A more detailed analysis of the research method can be read here.
Random Grid Generator
These images were produced by firstly cutting up photographs of the work, Untitled System Self Assembly, into a number of equal sized squares. The small squares were then arranged into a composition by running a small piece of code I wrote in Processing. The resulting images were digitally printed on to film, and then screen […]
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