Between mountains and skyscrapers Kirk is on an evil journey. He is armed, dangerous and very suspicious of the local ladies and even wearier of a dark handsome fellow from the adjacent mountain range who is hot on his trail. He creates a disguise hoping to fool his fellow huntsman...
As the title suggests, the work is a masquerade ball for robots. Partly inspired by E.T.A Hoffman’s The Sandman (1817). In which a young man falls in love with a feminine automaton, Olympia, who dances with him at a ball. The Sandman is a key-feature in Sigmund...
Darkest Before Dawn is a surrealist abstract new media sculpture that uses the manipulation, reflection, surveillance and projection of the screen image to jointly celebrate and critique the power of mediated technology. Its increasing modes of communication/presentation and the control technology has over Us. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is right...
Caroline McCarthy, Ireland, Journey through the Longest Escalator, 3 mins loop, 1998
Eden is an interactive, self-generating, artificial ecosystem. A cellular world is populated by collections of evolving virtual creatures. These creatures move about their environment, making and listening to sounds, foraging for food, encountering predators and possibly mating with each other. Over time, creatures evolve to fit their landscape. Eden has four seasons per...
Turbulence is a menagerie of synthesised forms, evolved within the computer using a process of artificial selection. A video laserdisc contains over 30 minutes of computer generated animation. Animated sequences on the disc are accessed via a touch-screen interface. The interactive is a collection of poems, ideas, information and imagery relating...
Eline McGeorge, Norway, 7 animations, 5 mins, 2000
Laith McGregor primarily works in two mediums – oil on canvas, and the unconventional medium of biro on paper. Increasingly he is adding a third element to his practice, making video works which build on his interest in biography, portraiture and the semiotics of the beard.
