I will give a presentation that relates to my current body of hybrid works that sit somewhere between painting, photography and the digital.

 

My work utilises redundant electronics as a material and medium. For the last decade I have hacked, appropriated, and re-assembled various electronic and digital devices to create painting and print machine-installations that blur the physical and discarnate- documenting a period in history that marks the transition from a temporal orientated experience of the world to an online one. In my most recent body of work I have come to see the use of discarded electronics, not only as a tool, or a medium but as a material. Continuing my interest with the hacking and constructing of industrial machines I have developed a home-made shredding device for the shredding, crushing, and separating of electronic waste. I then process and sort these so they can then be re-processed into painting ground. 

 

I engage with photography through the process of appropriation. In sourcing the images for my works I license photographs from stock image libraries, a resource defined by its remoteness and distance between its source and user, as well as being a medium that produces meaning only when appropriated or activated by other content. Using digital software I then create multi-layered digital images from my appropriated stock photographs. These simulate the effects of paint through the digital.  

 

I then work with a vertical UV inkjet printer to print onto specially prepared hybrid surfaces of electronic waste. Using methodologies that cross-over between painting and print such as underpainting, glazing, and layering I combine these methodologies with the tools of the digital. I build up layers of UV ink onto my specially prepared panels to create hybrid works that are simultaneously indexical of painting and the digital. The resulting images, having first been processed through painting software, and then having been printed in multiple layers, create a complex informational experience that oscillates between the photographic, the painterly and the digital.