Ambika P3 (curated by Michael Maziere), presented a major solo exhibition by David Hall, the influential pioneer of video art, featuring a new commission 1001 TV Sets (End Piece)’ 1972-2012, as well as re staging two seminal early works. This timely exhibition vividly heralded the end of analogue TV in the UK as London finally switched to digital in April 2012.
Exhibited Works: 1001 TV Sets (End Piece) 1972-2012; …
My own piece Orientation Studies used a series of eight black and white video monitors lying on their backs below two viewing platforms. The monitors showed a repeated pro-recorded image of rapidly flowing streams and rivers which moved through the frame to produce extreme perceptual disorientations. – Stuart Marshall
Eight monitors placed side-by-side on their backs show a tape of edited shots of flowing water (waterfalls, streams, rivers). The row of images is seen from a platform giving a viewing distance of approximately 6ft. …
Initially a web-based work, Xtea was presented as a live video projection installation and performance in the exhibition “With Love From Me to You”, James Taylor Gallery, London on Sat, Oct 31st and Sunday, Nov 1st, 2009. The installation and web site was in homage to the Trojan room coffee machine camera installed in the computer lab at Cambridge University which became the world’s first web cam in 1993. …
Continue reading “X-Tea (v. 2) (2015)”
“Xtea”, Sculpting with Light &
A dead tree , complete with roots (20-30 ft., approx) is cut exactly in half. The root end is mounted in the centre of the floor at one end of a rectangular gallery space, upturned. The upturned tree and roots are brightly lit by halogen lamps, casting a strong shadow on the opposite gallery wall. Small solar panels are arranged irregulalrly on the roots, wired in a series with the wires grouped and bundled and flowing down the trunk and in a bunch along the floor towards the centre of the gallery. …
In 2007 I was commissioned to produce an ambient responsive outdoor installation on the Monument by Julian Harrap Architects. This work was produced in collaboration with Sandbox at the University of Central Lancashire with funding from the City of London Corporation. The installation, which was operational between Feb 2007 and Aug 2011, provided a live stream of continually modified time-lapse images 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and could be accessed via a dedicated web site. …
Continue reading “The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice) (2009-2011)”
On the weekend of March 21st and 22nd 2020, I visited Tate St Ives to see the survey exhibition of the Russian/British artist Naum Gabo (1890-1977). I was especially interested in his pioneering work with transparent materials including perspex and plastic. On the way home on March 23rd, I resolved to develop a new sculptural work inspired by Gabo’s exploration of transparency.
The day I returned home from St Ives, the Tate announced that it would be closed to the public due to the increasing risk from the rapidly spreading Covid-19 virus. …
Continue reading “Impossible Object No. 7 (All the Water I Drank During Lockdown) (2020)”
Over the past three years (2016 onwards) I have been working on a new series of installations entitled “Impossible Objects”. My notion of the “Impossible Object” is related to sculpture in relationship to moving images and sound. I make temporary works which involve the combination of ordinary physical objects with images and/or sound. I seek ways to construct relationships between domestic objects with video and sound to produce an “impossible” situation that can only exist temporarily within the mind of the viewer. …
Continue reading “Impossible Object No. 1 (Imagine, No Pollution) (2016)”
Aeolian Processes was originally commissioned for art in Your Park, Nottingham and installed in Highfields Park, Nottingham, Sept-Oct 2013. Aeolian Processes II was a revised version for “La Lune: Energy Producing Art” at Long Reef, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia during May 2014.
Most of my previous work with renewable energy has also featured the display of moving images, so in that sense Aeolian Processes was a departure in that it produced sounds and did not include any visual imagery. …
Impossible Object No 4 (Flying Lampadario) is a sculpture which tries to set a domestic object free, but fails, as it can never escape from the energy that keeps it alive.
The work consists of two main elements:
1) A modified Murano glass chandelier which has been “fused” with a drone- the light bulbs at the end of three arms of the glass chandelier have been replaced with drone motors and rotors, …
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Dichotomy
by Tony Sinden
A video installation that is a “time-image” of the landscape of the American west in which the changing meaning of landscape is contemplated from multiple moments in time.
“The dramatic American Meltwater is the starting point for this exploration of nature, technology and the environment. Sinden’s installation is a loop that is encountered in the middle of a darkened gallery space. Recalling the large scale landscape paintings from a century earlier, …
