Below is a selection of object making, installations, archival practice, documentaries and data-driven short films. PhD related projects are here. There is also an archive of solo, collaborative projects, and documentaries at electronicsunset.org
Conduit
Sound activated relay switches and sound activated spotlights tap and blink and react somewhat unpredictably to each other inside either end of some suspended spiral ducting.
Nothing Lasts Forever (part I)
An installation that uses the air duct and false ceiling of an empty shop, transferring a well worn Hollywood action cliche from Las Vegas to a 70’s shopping arcade.
No Change
An interactive artwork examining the design and experience of gambling through a coin operated machine. Commissioned by Science Gallery, London for the exhibition Hooked.
Correspondence
An installation that turns the pseudo-automata of a chess-playing ‘mechanical turk’ inside out, registering an electromechanical chess game as a human game in an online database.
A Restless State
Performance documentation and text from a project drawing the police at protests
Download link: A Restless State pdf
Daily Record
Spy newspaper prop: papier-mâché’d newspapers, eggshell paint, ping pong balls, marker pen.
Mirage Men
A feature length documentary examining belief systems and conspiracy theories through an unreliable narrator. Premiered at Sheffield DocFest, it has been screened at festivals internationally, on terrestrial television, on Netflix (USA) and i-Tunes streaming services.
I return a marble
A performance in which I return a marble to the Acropolis that I found at the British museum.
The Nightwatchman
An immersive narrative installation exploring nuclear cultures at the nexus between government, business and entertainment. Commissioned by SCAN and Arts Catalyst for Art & Radioactivity exhibition, City, London.
La Zad – zone to defend
Two short 15 minute films made for pan South American broadcaster Telesur about the zad – a self-organized autonomous zone. The 1st is on the history of the Zad, the 2nd explores the way the free commune works between its 60 different collectives.
Gladiator
A video installation that uses both digitally altered footage and analogue stage effects to recompose political ritual as magic and illusion.
Commissioned by Stuk, Leuven, for the exhibition Art & Magic.
Goodbye Vile Earth!
A residency and exhibition at a once top-secret militarty factory the RAE, Farnborough.
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust archive materials, together with interviews of the ex-employees turned archivists, were represented twisting the idea of the museum and the dry presentation of carefully- selected facts, transforming it into a human tale with its foibles, contradictions and questionable truths.
In and Out
A data-driven short animation based on an online trope – that of ‘live’ clocks and counters. Births and deaths via swinging doors.
Artspace
A documentary using archive and contemporary accounts to examine the sociopolitical perspectives of artistic space-making.
Commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol.
A digitally manipulated short using automatic numberplate recognition data from researchers at University of Southampton’s Sixth Sense Transport.
“A passionate anarchist road movie.” – Le Monde
This magicorealist travelogue transports us to a parallel universe where money is worthless and private property has been abolished.
Film by Isabelle Fremeaux, John Jordan and Kypros Kyprianou. Music by Isa Suarez. 112 min.