A video triptych, hung in a darkened space displays a neurological map of the cyborg's brainwave activity. The peaks of each brain state are annotated and contains the memories and experiences of human subjects he has encountered inhabiting the emotional landscape and life conditions of the Buddhist Four Lower Worlds – Hell, Hunger, Animality and Anger.

The central panel displays the human subjects existing in these emotional states and life conditions captured as video portraits being interviewed by Rokeby . Throughout the week Rokeby will continue to add new experiences to this map and installation through interacting with the people of Nottingham in the streets and within the gallery.

For 1hr each day Rokeby will give a performance lecture of the Four Lower Worlds, converting his brainwaves into music and reciting the Cyborg Sutras.

www.rokeby.tv

The film „Permanent Residents“ combines extreme costume design with staged documentation of everyday activities in the urban space of Los Angeles.  The costumes point to a collective imaginary world, that consists of the floating signifiers of pop-icons, myths and social fictions.

The protagonists of the film communicate in a non-verbal language across spacial distances. Their simultaneous movements at different locations merge into a choreography, which draws our attention to musical and abstract visual aspects in the design of our environment.

A portrait of the city‘s influence onto its residents.

A screening will be taking place on 1st December 5pm in Screen 1, Broadway Cinema and 8pm at Screenroom

Artists include:

Jan Steinum

Leaving  4:30 minutes

A short experimental art film exploring time and departure.

Midnight on a desolate city street - a man retreats slowly  from close-up. His presence and movement seems out of sequence with the location, he is "alien" out of place  - wrapped only in a curtain, carrying a ladies handbag. In the background a large, prominent public sculpture - a metronome - reminds us continually of the pressure of time passing.

Silver Seeds

directed by Kim Collmer

Using stop motion animation, Silver Seeds displays a place of technicolor brightness, fabricated gardens, glittering garbage, and places far away from home. In this tale, two friends, who live in a secret world of plastic plants, embark upon a magical journey. Traveling upon a giant flower, they fly up into the night sky to explore another world. This cosmic castle strangely mirrors elements found in their own environment.  

PRISM/PRISON

Brian Fay

This work deals with the figure and its interface with space. The architectural space of the corner and its psychological implications are examined. The figure is trapped within the structure as well as supporting it.

VINST is an interactive installation and performance enabling real-time control of both sonic and visual representation of the voice - thus creating an extraordinary fusion of human body sound and video.

VINST is a highly sensitive vocal instrument consisting of my body image displaying points of sonic sensitivity that can be triggered and played by the viewer. The sounds are pre- or non-linguistic, and are (usually) somewhat anatomically appropriate: for example, low frequency sounds such as ‘UUUU’ or ‘OOOO’ resonate in the lower part of the body, and so are sited accordingly on VINST. This vocabulary is in evolution, as is its accompanying system of annotation. 

Users will find that VINST is truly interactive as it will respond to touch but also to mood and sensibility and is capable of reacting quite unexpectedly. Applying (wacom pen) pressure and movement over the VINST body triggers a variety of sonic responses as well as real-time granular synthesis and image manipulation. Playing VINST can be an intimate or moving or cathartic or playful or sensual experience. Watching/listening to VINST being played is always fascinating and hypnotic as the instrument reponds so differently from individual to individual.

Involving students from Nottingham Trent University and Musashino Art University, Tokyo.

Go to the following link to watch the live stream:

www.i-am-ai.net/trampoline

Video work

Video work

Model Citizen

Who or what is the Model Citizen?

Model Citizen is a site-specific work that is ideally suited to a shopping centre or street. The work consists of a large projected image placed in a shop front/window and the images react to the movements of passers by, by using motion-tracking technology.

The work examines the concept of Model Citizen: are we born to be Model Citizens or are we manipulated into being so? And for some of us where and why does this go wrong? The work uses various reference points in life and transforms these into image statements that are then layered on top of each other to give contrasting views and opinions on the subject. Model Citizen works with layered imagery; a camera registers the movement of the passer by, they are transformed into a projected silhouette, this silhouette in turn becomes a 'window' to the second layer of imagery, creating a multi-layered visual language.

A public artwork that has the 'public' as the focal point.