The G(AN) 8
The ‘Group of Eight’ or G8 is an intergovernmental organisation made up of representatives of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, and the EU. The group has been meeting…
Category: 3d
3d Algoculture video
BREXIT CUBE
I had a promotional branded Rubik’s Cube lying around, which I picked up, I think, at #pydata. Having lived through the original craze in the 80s, the object has an enduring resonance. It struck me…
3d video
I will not cease from Mental Fight
We are 156 days from an almost inevitably ‘hard’ brexit. One may question how we got here, and whilst the tale is complex and rife with corruption and lies, one thread remains constant – the…
3d video Words
Pan’s Opticon
I’ve been tinkering with Unity as a tool for film-making. I am amazed at the power of realtime gaming systems to generate filmic imagery. This experiment takes the opening paragraphs of War of the Worlds…
3d big data visualization
IN VITRO
MRI technology reveals the unseeable – a non-invasive method for exploring the very nature of the self. Advances in technology mean that each year we are able to reveal more and more detail. This series…
3d installation mixed media video
The Conscious Machine v3.1
This work has developed through a series of interactive installations. It focuses on four parts of conscious experience: 1. Searching2. Internal monologue/dialogue3. Body and present moment awareness4. Emotional response to stimulus The viewer watches and…
3d painting
A Moral Compass (2011)
This latest work is a triptych of paintings inspired by the works of Cranach the Elder, a German Renaissance painter whose naive figurative stylings I find particularly appealing. His preoccupation with mythological and religious imagery…
3d mixed media painting
Gordon Moore (2010)
We live in an electronic age, where the microprocessor is ubiquitous. So pervasive is the use of integrated circuitry, that we have become indifferent to the phenomenal computational power surrounding us, and hence blithe to…
3d exhibitions installation street White Night
The Fortune Cats (2009)
It’s been rather quiet at shardcore.org recently, because of my involvement in Brighton’s White Night art festival. My long-time collaborator Sam Hewitt and I were commissioned by Brighton & Hove council to create a secret…
3d painting shardcorner
The year in review, 2006
There have been twenty nine aesthetic experiments completed since January, mainly, though not exclusively, in the medium of painting. As is to be expected of the experimental method, some have been more successful than others.…