Biocity by stanza: 2002

 

Audio visual relationships between art and science. There are 24 artworks in the series built into a unique software system. They are available as a touch screen edition for exhibition and sale.

Inspired by the idea of the city being a coded system. These paintings map out emergent city spaces. Each one in the series has different behaviours which change the sounds over time or generate and evolve new images, ie shapes and colours. The city experience is a web of connected networks and multi layered threaded paths that condition us to the emotional state of the city space. In essence, the city fabric is a giant multi user multi data sphere. The patterns we make, the forces we weave, are all being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined and sourced for information. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world.

EXHIBITION

Tate Britain and also Venice Biennale in 2007
SeNef Online Grand Prize Korea: 2002
New Voices Competition Winner Digifest: Canada 2003
Fluxusonline Internet Festival event Sao Paulo Brasil. 2002
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo Mexico 2004
Arte digital. Cuba 2002
ICA. Cybersonica Soundtoys. Internet UK 2004
Fused USA.
Sao Paulo Bienale. Brasil
Zeppelin Barcelona Spain
Artsdepot, London. 2006

Available as a collectors edition software suite with twenty different biocities built in and is for sale on touch screens like the ones below. More info on the touch screens.

Selected digital paintings on canvas have been made as outputs from the software system. These are also available for exhibition.

Images below of Biocities used in performance in Souel at Samsung Media Centre 2004.

Touch Screen editions versions In Venice and Tate Gallery

Images of Stanza biocity touch screen version in a plynth, shown at Tate Britain and also Venice Biennale. 2007