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GO ON GRAFFITI, ongoing
'Go On Graffiti' uses the city of Bristol as an AI image generation tool – but a very analogue, very slow one. Made through the Faculty of Minor Disturbances, the project places 'prompts' around the city (stencils reading things like 'Go on, spray me an eagle') in the hope that street artists will come across them and satisfy the prompt with their own work.
One prompt succeeded after nearly a fortnight of checking: overnight, an anonymous street artist responded with a glorious therianthropic eagle-man.
Instagram: @go_on_graffiti
MALENTANGLEMENTS (with Jo Charlesworth), 2015
A photography/design project through which we endeavour to move towards a theory of malentanglement – asking what an ‘incongruous entanglement’ might be. A moment when entanglement is revealed to us by the emergence of an unsettling humour in a design context?
DROLLERPHONE2, 2014
A diminutive – but fully working – telephone
crapestry.co.uk, 2006-ongoing
A cross-stitch-kit hacking craftism project that now contains 50+ artworks
Instagram: #crapestry
THE LAPJUICER (with Philip Worthington), 2005
A food processor for an exotic dancer...
LOCA (with John Anthony Evans, Drew Hemment, and Mika Raento), 2004-2006
Experiments in pervasive surveillance. Reprogramming mobile phones to act as agents in our own surveillance network.
STREETCLOCK, 2004
Street + sunshine = clock...
WARNINGS, 2004
Alternative warning stickers for commercial products...
CIGAFLORA, 2004
What are cigaflora?
TONER, 2004
Solar flare -> telescope -> NASA website -> laptop -> microcontroller -> car battery -> nichrome wire –> borosilicate glass tube = TONE
3eyes.co.uk, 2000-2007
The archive site of 3eyes projects
cockrock.org, 1993-ongoing
Cockrock …where genitalia meets geology
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Crapestries exhibited at ’The Mr. X-Stitch Guide To Cross-Stitch’ in Farnham Pottery, Farnham, UK, August 2017.
Selected Crapestries exhibited at ‘All2Much’ Bristol, UK, March 2017.
‘Malentanglement: Function Redacting Tape' exhibited at 'Research Through Design 2017', at The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. March, 2017.
‘Malentanglement: Function Redacting Tape' exhibited at 'The Square', in 'Prototyping 2016' at the Kortrijk Expo Centre, Kortrijk, Belgium, November 2016.
‘Drollerphone2 exhibited in ‘Mind is the World Knowing Itself’ at ‘The Bonington Gallery’, Nottingham, UK. February-March 2014.
Crapestries exhibited in ‘Crapestry 3’ at ‘Biblos’, Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK. August, 2013.
Crapestries exhibited in ThreeNine, Bristol. August 2012.
Crapestries exhibited in ‘Three Tragedies’ for ‘WIRAD Grade’, CSAD. June, 2012
Crapestries exhibited in ‘Smoking Dogs’ at ‘Biblos’, Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK. May-June 2012.
Crapestries exhibited in Niche, Bristol. April, 2012
Crapestries exhibited in ‘Stitching for Pleasure’, Birmingham NEC. March, 2012.
Crapestries exhibited in ‘The Stitch & Craft Show’, Kensington Olympia II, London. March, 2012.
Crapestries exhibited in ‘Crapestry 2’ at ‘Biblos’, Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK. February-March, 12.
Crapestries exhibited in ‘Crapestry’ at ‘Biblos’, Stokes Croft, Bristol, UK. November- December, 2011.
Lapjuicer exhibited in ‘Design in sex / sex in Design’ at The Museum of Sex, New York, USA. 2008. (Lapjuicer now part of the museum’s permanent collection).
LOCA exhibited as 'LOCA: Set To Discoverable’, at Arte.mov, International Festival of Art and Mobile Media, Brazil, 2007.
LOCA exhibited as 'LOCA: Set To Discoverable’, at ISEA 2006/ZeroOne, San Jose, California, USA, 2006. (For which the LOCA project was awarded an honorary mention at Ars Electronica 2008, a media art festival in Linz, Austria)
'LOCA exhibited as 'LOCA: 1.0', in PixelAche 2005 at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 2005
Lapjuicer exhibited in 'Touch Me’, at The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, 2005.
'Feral London' video exhibited at 'Street Talk', Intel Research Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. July, 2004.
Interactive Installation for 'TIE' (Theatre in Education). The European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, 2001.
Two interactive installations for 'Welsh Week' 2001. The European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 2001 (with Peter Appleton and Dr. Stephen Thompson).
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