Cox and Woods have been developing innovative work across digital and lens based media for a number of years. Their current projects and research includes a new collaborative public work The Dark Room which will be installed on Cairngorm Mountain . The work uses historical and contemporary technologies in juxtaposing projections from a camera obscura with high definition digital video.
One of Mel Wood's current research projects is Sonic Phonic. In development as an interactive alphabetic prototype Sonic Phonic investigates the impact of the digital fusion of image, sound and text through one of the building blocs of language and communication: the alphabet. The work poses key questions around the potential for technology to influence our understanding and communication of culture at its most basic and fundamental level.
Having recently started work as professor in digital art at Bergen National Academy of the Arts we are pleased to welcome Lei back to Scotland for this talk. Exploring questions of identity, geographical context and the impact of science and technology, Lei has made several works where a protagonist (sometimes performed by Cox himself) is multiplied or appears in more than one place at a time. This dislocation is continues in a series of digitally altered landscapes which fuse (apparently) irreconcilable geographic and cultural features. Other projects in development include a reconstruction of the flight path of the famous Wright Brothers and a rethinking of the 1st Moon Landing
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