November 8th, 2009 by Dave | Comments Off
Temple Works
A direct copy of the temple to Horus at Edfu. The Temple Mills (1838 — 43) were designed by Eqyptologist and architect Joseph Bonomi Jun for John Marshall, founder of the Leeds flax industry and an entrepreneur of the industrial revolution.
Temperature and humidity are very important to the flax industry. To prevent rainwater penetrating [...]
July 9th, 2009 by Dave | No Comments
Myself and Mark cameron were commissioned by Urban Vision in Stoke on Trent to make a flashmob bluetooth wood that moved around the town of Longton.
Wired Wood sought to create a dialogue around the lack of green spaces in Longton Town Centre and surrounding neighbourhoods. A series of interventions took place in different locations around [...]
May 9th, 2009 by Dave | No Comments
Myself and Mark Cameron were longlisted for the Mirror Pool project in Bradford. The 300k project involves a permanent interactive new media public art piece woven into the fabric of a building as its built based around living projections. We teamed up with Benedict Phillips to develop a ongoing conversation into interactive architecture, we [...]
January 5th, 2009 by Dave | No Comments
Myself and Mark Cameron were shortlisted for the Hidden Place Commission in our hometown of Burnley.
Hiddenplace is a showcase of visual, performing, and new media arts, a series of temporary commissions for new creative work in a range of media, an animation programme for hidden, forgotten or disused spaces in Burnley town centre.
http://hiddenplace-in-burnley.blogspot.com/
Our idea reanimated [...]
November 21st, 2008 by Dave | No Comments
The Horse in Motion is a reworking of Edweard Muybridges 1887 image through mobile projection.
The horse in the moving projection is an animation created from the photographs of Edweard Muybridge in 1887. This was a continuation of his early experiment from 1878 whereby 12 cameras were arranged along a track parallel to the horse’s, and [...]
August 31st, 2008 by Dave | 1 Comment
The design of the front cover of the Authenticity DVD is nearly finished, heres a sneak preview of how things are shaping up.
A link to the project here
January 30th, 2008 by Dave | Comments Off
Large scale projection commission.
Based on an alternate history of Leeds collected through local stories and turned into animations projected about the city.
Link for more detail here
This project was supported by Arts Council England, Leeds City Council, Leeds Met University, Pampero fundashion and look and listen Av night.
I am currently producing a limited run of a [...]
September 30th, 2007 by Dave | No Comments
In June 2006, Ben Halsall and myself took the opportunity to collaborate on a piece of interactive new media using a Windows based PC and an Apple Macintosh running OSX.
The project’s aim was to create a conversation between these two platforms and to investigate the possibilities of interactive digital software in creating live interactive environments. [...]
July 8th, 2007 by Dave | Comments Off
When visitors stood on pressure pads placed on the floor circles of expanding colour with semi tonal sounds were triggered on a projection screen placed infront on them.
Up to 16 clips could be triggered at once with different types of overlays allowing the colours to mix creating different shades and tones with the sound creating [...]
June 18th, 2007 by Dave | No Comments
Commissioned by Creative Partnerships and the Ashton Group, myself and Pete Hamilton spent two weeks researching the application of interactive, sensory new technologies to create immediate audio-visual expression for use within the disabled community.
The project is based at James Rennie special school in Carlise working with children with a range of mental and physical impairments [...]