Condescension Fade

Condescension Fade: I, 2019
Archival pigment print on paper
29cm x 42 cm

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“Disabling Internet connectivity at a meeting or conference. Organizers do it to encourage participants to ‘focus.’ The term evolved from backhoe fade – hacker lingo for a sudden loss of connectivity.”

WIRED Staff (2004). jargon watch. [online] WIRED. Available at: https://www.wired.com/2004/03/jargon-watch-138/ [Accessed 13 Sep. 2019].

A series exploring the tension between digital glitches seen in digitised books and documents and the desire to record for posterity.

Memories eroded or added to by the technology we have come to increasingly trust and rely upon to augment our own organic recording.

 

Condescension Fade: I-IV, 2019
Archival pigment prints on paper
Each 29cm x 42 cm

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01-07/08/16

01-07/08/16, 2016
Set of four laserjet prints
Each 21cm x 29cm

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A series representing an absence of art.
As someone who struggles with procrastination, this series is about the time spent not making art, time I often feel guilty or anxious about. Using an automated process, one screenshot was taken every hour that my PC was turned on, recording what programs were open at the time, documenting what I was—or was not—doing. Each grouping represents one day, with each block the most common colour in each screenshot extracted from using an image analysis tool.

Sebastians

c.1480_mdc & c.1683_gvh, 2016
Set of four digital images
Each 25cm x 20cm

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