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Heart of the City

John_0 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:09:38 +0000

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

(slideshow created using flickrslidr)

MSG=MED

John_0 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:19:06 +0000

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…)

“Stopgaps of Imagery within a Digital Culture”

John_0 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:02:47 +0000

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)