Multimedia
KaWildoscope: York Design Week 2020
Returning Citizens: York Mediale 2018
by New Visuality, Nick Walters & Stretch Digital.
Travel on the road to rehabilitation, as returning prisoners share their journeys of reintroduction to life on the outside.
Immersive films shot by local filmmakers in collaboration with prisoners collect stories based on themes of 'Crossroads' and 'Culture'. Retold as eye-catching GIFs and slogans, Returning Citizens gives a rare insight into the process of release and rehabilitation and is testament to the life-changing opportunities provided by innovation and open minds.
Links to New Visuality & Stretch
Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 - Video Projections onto wax covered voile patchwork
According to McGee
Text: Technology, Disability and Art: Illuminating York 2015
York Culture Awards 2016 Best Community Project
This is my contribution to a larger' project, funded by Arts Council England's Grants for the Arts. In association with The Blueberry Academy, The University of York's Digital Creativity Hub, Ideum, and Illuminating York.
Mask: Illuminating York 2013: According to McGee
A mix of physical & CGI animated masks. This was combined with found 8mm film footage & video loops, mixed live with VJ software. This was projected from multiple video projectors onto a fine mesh curved screen offset
from the gallery walls.
Seebohm Rowntree: Local Hero:
Illuminating York 2014: According to McGee
Extracts from Seebohm's 1901 book "Poverty, A Study of Town Life" slowly scroll down a small tv screen inside the terraced house. Lenses slowly rotate in front of the tv, magnifying & distorting the text. This text is captured by a webcam & enlarged onto the rear screen & gauze, occasionally mixed with other video sources. The gallery contains recent art from workshops with local homeless & ex- homeless artists. At the time of the exhibition, some of the houses which featured in Seebohm`s book, (Peaseholme Green York) were being archeologically excavated, made reference to by the pottery shards.
Gallery window with Illuminated fabric & cellotape terraced houses
Houses on bed of pottery shards
Rotating magnifying lenses
Umbrella Dome: Illuminating York 2012: According to McGee
A full geodesic dome, made from bamboo & umbrellas, was squeezed into the gallery.
A mxture of Kaleidoscopic patterns, high contrast clockwork toy shadows & animal silhouettes were projected onto the umbrellas from within the dome.
Taxi Rank: Greenbelt Arts Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse: 2006
Dancers stand in line at a fake taxi rank. They're holding white umbrellas, onto which taxi images are projected. DJ's play uncompromising german electro, which echoes around the concrete & brick canyon between the grandstand & the exhibition centre. The public are invited to share memorable taxi ride stories on the mic. A cardboardbox, yellow taxi eventually arrives; everyone cheers.
Meanwhile the people watching Daniel Beddingfield on mainstage miss out on all the fun.
Concept Sketch showing DJs & Queue
Queue animation projected onto Queue
Clips from all your favourite Taxi films