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Photo slideshow of site for “Heart of the City” Mobility 
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Ecologies (MMME) project.
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Mobility 
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Ecologies on DM Blog

(slideshow created using flickrslidr)

Abandon Normal Devices commissioned me to conduct an experiment at FACT this week, based on my “Message equals Medium” photographic archive of text messages.  The result was a subtle intervention into the Btween09 “bells and whistles” new-tech / social-media / business conference.

The idea was, that the work should stimulate discussion around the ‘human-face’ of technology and act as a trailblazer for September’s inaugural ANDfestival in Liverpool.

Inadvertently  :-) the work was actually interpreted as a REAL WORLD model for a NEW TECH business – uh-oh!  (see vid below…)

Peter Martin, photographer and undergraduate of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam, invited me to share my perspective regarding the seemingly “disposable” nature of image-making in contemporary digital culture…

The interview was documented on video and presented as part of a multimedia installation within the exhibition “Quadruplex.”

Peter Martin:
“In this work I interview my former manager by whom I was employed as a camera salesman for a high street retailer. As we both have personal art practices relating to image-making, we open a discourse into how our time at the shop changed our approach to photography.”
(quoted from the catalogue text)