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“Watching and Dreaming (2001: A Space Odyssey)” 2014

Video Excerpt Watching and Dreaming (2001: A Space Odyssey) is a two channel generative artwork whose image-making processes are informed by an Integrative Theory of perception, mental imagery, mind...

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“As our gaze peers off into the distance, imagination takes over reality…” 2016

The relation between the world as we see it and the world as we understand it to be is all wrapped up in abstraction, the act of emphasizing some details in order to dispense with others. My artistic...

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“Watching (Blade Runner)” 2016

Promo Package (PDF) I think of subjectivity and reality as mutually constructive. Cognitive mechanisms impose structure on reality in the form of imaginary categories that inform prediction and...

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“Through the haze of a machine’s mind we may glimpse our collective...

Promo Package (PDF) “Through the haze of a machine’s mind we may glimpse our collective imaginations (Blade Runner)” is the result of a machine subject reorganizing the pixels and audio samples from...

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“Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” 2018

“Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” is a revisit of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” using the same generative methods from “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016). In this case of this work, the...

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“Watching (Blade Runner; 2001: A Space Odyssey; TRON)” 2018

As part of the “Watching and Dreaming” exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery TechLab “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016), “Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” (2018), and “Watching (TRON)” (2018) where...

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“Percepts from Watching (Blade Runner; 2001: A Space Odyssey; TRON)” 2018

As part of the “Watching and Dreaming” exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery TechLab. Three 47″ x 47″ light-boxes were produced thanks to the support of the British Columbia Arts Council. Each light-box...

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“Watching (TRON)” 2018

The third in the series of “Watchers” following “Watching (Blade Runner)” (2016) and “Watching (2001: A Space Odyssey)” (2018). For this work, the approach was the same as used in the 2001: A Space...

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“Imagined Field from the Decomposition of an Apparatus” 2019

This work was produced in the context of the Leaning Out of Windows project, where artists, scholars and physicists are placed in collaborative dialogue in the development of new artistic works. One of...

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“Machines of the Present Consume the Imaginations of the Past” (Moving...

“Machines of the present consume the imaginations of the past” is a series of prints and moving images generated by machine interpretations of the canon of Western painting. These still and moving...

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