Digital collage
Works that run in the digital realm, pulling sound, images and video together into digital collage.
01
Put on a stream or a song and the screen becomes a slowly shifting picture that listens along: photographs folding into kaleidoscopes, astronauts drifting through space, bubbles rising through deep water, all moving with the beat and the bass.
It hears the tempo and the lows, mids and highs as they play, and you choose the mood, from Botanica to Cosmos, Deep Water and Fine Art.
02
Winston explores the relationship between our phones and surveillance in our society. An old iPhone is connected to a web cam hidden in the piece’s rib cage and reflects back whoever is viewing it.
03
These pieces combine digital frames showing curated images. Science uses 1800s scientific images printed on transparencies and old books, with its slideshow showing more of the same type of images. Legs is an old ’50s TV sitting on top of some mannequin legs. The old CRT was replaced with a digital frame showing newsworthy images from the ’50s and ’60s.
04
ZoobTube was my first art programming project. I used Flash (hey it was the coolest back then!) to program an app that played Radio Paradise (an internet radio station that I love) and pulled random images from YouTube and Flickr that matched words that were part of the song title.
05
Two works built around the same old laptop.
Smile showed a slideshow of faces on top of a plastic human created by wrapping a person in plastic wrap covered in packing tape. An LED light rope was inserted.
Just Press Play used images of famous artworks cut into pieces. The slideshow shuffled the pieces at random. This idea is recycled in the Fine Art theme in the Listening Room.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”