Desire Lines OPEN. Artist Information

Flight Patterns

Aaron Koblin (2009)Flight Paths visualises in colour and form the routes of air traffic in the USA over a period of 24 hours. The resultant ebbs and flows are the manifestation of human and infrastructural behaviours.

Aaron Koblin is the US-based Co-founder and President of Within, a virtual and augmented reality company.

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/project/flight-patterns/

 

Familiars

Wes Goatley and Georgina Voss (2015)

Familiars exploits Brighton’s location as a major rail hub and proximity to Gatwick Airport and the English Channel. Signals from planes, freight trains and boats are intercepted, decoded and mapped in this immersive installation.

Wesley Goatley is an artist and digital media theorist based in London, UK.

Georgina Voss is an artist and writer, whose practice spans performance, installation, text, and research-intensive projects.

http://www.wesleygoatley.com/familiars/

grindruberairbnb.exposed

Jonathan Chomko (2019)

grindruberairbnb.exposed leads participants via their smartphones through a series of gestures and movements. The work exposes some of the tensions inherent to digital technologies.

Jonathan Chomko is a Montreal-based artist working with and against technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIT2QLjB_Rc

 

London Knowledge

Max Colson (2018/19)

The London Knowledge film and scans explore the differing ways that humans and machines make sense of the world around them, through interviews with black-cab drivers in London.

Max Colson is a London-based artist exploring the intersection between architecture, landscape and their representation.

https://maxcolson.com/portfolio/london-knowledge-scans/

https://maxcolson.com/portfolio/londonknowledge/

 

Desire Line

Ruini Shi (2018)

Desire Line takes place in the near future, when an AI explains that it can’t take people exactly where they want to go but that it has worked out an optimal path…

Ruini Shi is a filmmaker and interaction designer.

http://www.shiruini.com/desire-line/

 

Dreams of Disguise

Irene Fubara-Manuel (2018)

Dreams of Disguise is a body of work that explores the experience of migrants at borders: their agency is reduced through the use of data and facial scanning amongst others. Agency is returned to the individual in the game.

Irene Fubara-Manuel is a Brighton-based artist working in animation, game design, and installation art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYQZJ2IMm_w

 

Return

Akeelah Bertram (2019)

Project co-produced with Frequency Festival of Digital Culture, Lincoln

Return responds to the ‘door of no return’ in Elmina’s Castle, Cape Coast, Ghana. The ‘doors of no return’ were the last glimpse that many enslaved African people had of their homelands.

Akeelah Bertram is a cross-disciplinary creator specialising in immersive experiences.

 

Cusp

Jake Elwes (2019)

The film Cusp documents the insertion by the artist of new varieties of marsh birds, into a favourite childhood place, the Essex marshes.

Jake Elwes is a London-based artist looking at AI, investigating the technology, philosophy and ethics behind it.

https://www.jakeelwes.com/project-cusp.html

 

Operation Jane Walk

Leonhard Müllner & Robin Klengel (2018)

In Operation Jane Walk, a faithful digital recreation of Midtown Manhattan is repurposed from a dystopian war zone to the location of a city tour, discussing urban planning and architectural history.

Dr Leonhard Müllner is an Austrian artist who has exhibtied and screened work across the world and won numerous awards and prizes inlcuding most recently the Grand-Prix Palm Secateur D’Or at the International Kansk Video Festival, Sibiria, Russia.

http://leonhardmuellner.at/operation-janewalk/

 

New York

Michael Takeo Magruder (2018)

New York takes visitors on a tour of an imagined New York cityscape, freshly generated every day and based on an archival map altered by real-time visitor data.

Michael Takeo Magruder, a US visual artist and researcher based in the UK, works with new media including real-time data, digital archives, immersive environments.

http://www.takeo.org/#

 

<<The Seeker>> CKRBT

Nye Thompson (2019)

The Seeker is a world creator, a demiurge, an algorithmic entity that travels using the pathways of the internet. The CKRBT Network is browsing the world, watching and consuming images.

«The Seeker» Words That Remake The World

Nye Thompson (2018)

The Seeker manifests hidden power structures, and through its data output we can see a different, parallel world as viewed by machines.

Nye Thompson is a UK-based artist. She creates data-generating artist software systems to explore the impact of new technology paradigms.

http://www.nyethompson.co.uk/the-seeker-ckrbt/

 

The Art of Cybersecurity

Brendan Dawes (2019)

The Art of Cybersecurity is a series of images and an animation drawn from cybersecurity data threatening five industries – media, banking, government, technology and retail.

Brendan Dawes is a UK-based artist and designer exploring the interaction of objects, people, art and technology.

http://www.brendandawes.com/projects/artofcybersecurity

 

Black Rain

Semiconductor (2009)

For Black Rain, Semiconductor used raw data not yet cleaned for public consumption. The data is sourced from images collected by the twin-satellite solar mission, STEREO.

Semiconductor is Brighton based UK artist duo of Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.Their work is visually and intellectually engaging, exploring the material nature of our world. Their most recent work, HALO was developed at CERN (and built in Shoreham) and manifests the data of the Hadron Collider.

https://semiconductorfilms.com/art/black-rain/

 

Tribes

Universal Everything (2018)

Tribes is a study of human behaviour on a mass scale. Thousands of tiny people move in sync, forming connections, creating collective patterns on the landscape, and seemingly sharing common goals.

Universal Everything is a global collective of video artists, experience designers and future thinkers.

https://universaleverything.com/exhibitions

 

Flight Simulator

Laurel Schwulst and Soft (2019)

Flight Simulator is an ode to airplane mode. It celebrates the best part of air travel: peaceful solitude. Choose a destination, enable airplane mode, and enjoy. Flight Simulator is a collaboration between Laurel Schwulst and Soft. The app is available on iOS and Android on Left Gallery.

This work is presented in collaboration with Emer Grant (NN Contemporary) & Left Gallery.

Laurel Schwulst is a designer, writer, and webmaster. She is interested in ambient forms of design and literature, public works, and the poetic potential of the web. Soft is a software publisher working to develop novel utilities.

 

Events

There will also be a number of events, workshops and panels alongside the exhibtion. Sign up at www.drivaartsdriva.com for details and alerts.

Desire Lines: Artist talks    

All events take place at the University of Brighton building on Edward Street

 Wednesday 16 October, 6-9pm

Leonhard Müllner & Robin Klengel

Jonathan Chomko

Wes Goatley

Nye Thompson

 

Monday 21 October, 6-9pm

Max Colson

Irene Fubara-Manuel

Brendan Dawes

Jake Elwes

 

Saturday 26 October, 2-4pm

Semiconductor – Brighton based international artists Semiconductor provide a unique insight into their working methods and inspirations around working with data and science.

 

 

DRIVA arts DRIVA events

For more details and to book, sign up at www.drivaartsdriva.com

Superfused Bid Development Session

Wednesday 16 October 10am to 1pm, Worthing

Tuesday 22 October, 12-3pm, Brighton

Come and find out about the Superfused development awards – prototype funding for projects that experiment with data.

 

Superfusing for Data

Tuesday 22 October, 4-6pm , Pavilion Parade Brighton

Design thinking and match-making with Wolfcub Digital

 

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