Author: Dave

I was lucky to be awarded the winter artist in residence at the Pervasive Media Studio at Watershed in Bristol. I proposed to investigate how a house can be thought of as a vocal system. I wrote about it all here The project ended up here – there will be more to come!

We recently bought a new washing machine after the bearings on our old one went – with two young children a washing machine is essential, so we replaced it right away – if fact – the engineer who condemned our old one offered to replace it with a good new one – he was an…

I have been working with arts organisation At the Library and Sefton Libraries to develop a programme of events that explore how ‘listening in’ can help us empathise with other things and people. I was inspired by a chapter on ‘over-hearing’ in Brandon LaBelle’s Sonic Agency – Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance. Given that…

I am often filled with concern that the broadcasts lack the monumentality that Art requires. Even within the narrow confines of the parctice of ‘life casting’ as an artistic practice, these occasional broadcasts don’t have the discipline of their antecedents – like Franco and Eva Mattes ‘Life Sharing’ or Stelarc’s Ear on Arm or the…

In early 2022 I was commissioned by Bluecoat to complete a piece of work I began in 2018, during a residency at Signal Culture in Owego, upstate New York. The partially completed work was a sleeveless denim jacket that had solar panels sewn onto the back to power a Raspberry pi, which then broadcast a…

I have finished and passed my PhD in the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths and finally gotten round to posting a copy of it here for anyone interested. I found it really difficult taking the practice based route – and got a lot from reading other practice based PhD’s – so here’s mine. In simple…

“A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object. It occupies all of the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or a reverse projection of the object blocking the light.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow…

It was great to get the chance to present a paper, Inforegions – Creating Infrastructural Communities, at this years Radical Networks in NYC. I was mostly reflecting on the surprising direction that the artist’s residency at Edge Hill station had taken me and looked towards bioregionalism as a way of processing the realisation that our…

I came across these tiny Wi-Fi modules thanks to Brett Balogh’s Wilderness Wireless project presented at Radical Networks. During a residency at Signal Culture, during which I wanted to make a wearable network point, I had time to play with one. It took me a while to get started so I’m sharing my super basic…

I got to spend two weeks as a toolmaker resident at Signal Culture in Owego, upstate New York. I spent the time working with flexible, waterproof solar panels, made by powerfilm, sewing them into a demin jacket, like a Battle Jacket, so they charge a lipo battery which in turn powers a pi zero, via…