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Baden Pailthorpe

Baden Pailthorpe Work from Cadence I – IV “The institution of the military is steeped in performative traditions, rituals and practices. Indeed the collective military body can be thought of as being characterized by a carefully calibrated choreography of movement. Cadence (2013) is a series of four new-media artworks whose subject sits between war and performance. […]

Philipp Ronnenberg

Philipp Ronnenberg Work from Post Cyberwar Series “Post Cyberwar proposes three appropriate methods to prepare for the time after a cyberwar: Introduction An Internet kill switch is a countermeasure against cybercrime; it is based on the concept of activating a single shutting-off mechanism for all Internet traffic. The theory behind a kill switch is the creation […]

Conall McAteer

Conall McAteer Work from Holier Than Thou “Holier Than Thou is a series composed of edited and overlapped candid images of religious iconography taken in the context where photography is restricted or forbidden. Describable as an act to control their reproduction and veneration as the church had previously held jurisdiction over the use of the colour blue […]

Sara VanDerBeek

Sara VanDerBeek Work from her oeuvre “Brian Sholis: In recent years you’ve made work in several US cities—Detroit, New Orleans, and your hometown, Baltimore. What are some of the differences you noticed when working in cities like Paris, Rome, and Naples? Sara VanDerBeek: One big difference was in the way I navigated them. In America I […]

Kate Bonner

Kate Bonner Work from her oeuvre “Through a process of reduction and transformation, my work withholds explanation and proposes simple fictions. Language is a system we use to clear things up, to understand the bigger picture, but language can also conceal, withhold and confuse. What happens when pieces are taken away? I am interested in […]

Julian Oliver

Julian Oliver Work from Remote Install “A remote install in the media-arts world refers to the artist not being physically present at the gallery during the installation process. Rather, they send a link to download the software and work with a local team to set it up on hardware already provided. Remote Install is a work of network-dependent […]

Pablo Jones-Soler

Pablo Jones-Soler Work from Frontier options or something about levels and Omega Systems “Frontier options or something about levels: Looking at the Gaia hypothesis through consumer products, which operate within their own evolutionary system. Seeing earth as a complex self-regulating ecosystem where organisms and their inorganic surroundings interact to maintain the appropriate conditions for life. There is a […]

Carlos Jiménez Cahua

Carlos Jiménez Cahua Work form his oeuvre “I have been engaged in structuralist investigations in photography (both digital and analog) as driven by an abiding interest in the image and the material carrying that image. Analog photographic work has involved the making of cameraless photographs (which could be termed “photograms,” but I find that term imports […]

Hugo Arcier

Hugo Arcier Work from Boolean Nature “In logic and computer programming, a Boolean operator is a type of variable between two states. In computer-generated imagery, Boolean operations enable one to subtract, add or create an intersection between two objects. In this series Arcier has painstakingly constructed landscape scenes, upon which he applies spherical boolean subtractions. […]

United Visual Artists

United Visual Artists Work from Vanishing Point “Vanishing Point employs perspective as both tool and visual outcome to reshape, redefine and represent a space. Inspired by sketches of Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo DaVinci and Albrecht Dürer, UVA sends lines into space from an arbitrary vanishing point, creating different volumes, divisions and rooms to be explored by […]