The Sum of Our Parts
Keywords: Interdimensional, Architectural, Psychedelic
Materials: Laser cut plywood, Aluminium Extrusion, RGBW Leds on custom PCBs
3.4m Diameter
Or “How did I get here…?”
After four years of study, as I complete my MFA, this installation is a reflection on the people, and ideas that resulted in the decision to come to Goldsmiths. This work has many influences, but none more important than the people who provoked my creative interests in the first place.
Designed as a flexible installation, that should co-exist, and drive other pieces around it, the halo draws on a wide range of influences. It consists of an engineered plywood frame, supported by an aluminium core, it house 2048 RGBW addressable LED’s divided into 360 LED Cells. Fundamentally inspired by my Grandfathers love of woodworking, and many happy childhood days of exploring his many books with projects to be made…
The Halo, and it’s LED’s is deigned to act as a canvas to provoke and explore new ideas, in this first showing the LED cells show multiple co-existences of one dimensional cellular automata – these early displays of complex behaviour, were one of the first things I remember exploring with the BBC Micro I had as a child. These systems expand in an almost virtual infinity in the edge of a circle, reseting and generating new forms encoded into an 8 bit number, from the current population. This is then inspired by my Father, and his interest and practice in computing.
with-lasers is a computational artist there practice, explores ideas of the artists subconscious and conscious worlds is primarily driven by looking to the history of Computational Art, and tracing paths not taken, by applying the power of today’s technology to ideas previously constrained – by this very act of re-imagining and updating, new possibilities and ways of developing material are opened, allowing for new modes of expression.
