I have been commissioned by Decoy Magazine to produce a new artwork for Bcc: their subscription programme for unique digital art:
Bcc: is a monthly digital art subscription curated by Decoy Magazine.
By subscribing to Bcc: you will receive a newly commissioned artwork to your inbox each month, in the form of a small digital file. These digital artworks are released exclusively to subscribers. The works have never been exhibited before, will only be released once, and will not be presented anywhere else for one year.
A Short History of Nearly Everything is an audiovisual artwork about the connections between the river and technological advancements. Part of the artwork is to be aware of the methods being used to produce it, the sustainability of technology-based practices and the potential impact this may have on the environment.
The environmental impact of his practice is an aspect of his work that Roberts has been thinking about for a long time. 3D animation is a notoriously resource-hungry process, which for some artworks and films can require massive render farms that may take many hours or even days to render a single video frame, which can have a massive impact on the energy usage and environment. Similar issues exist for AI, VR, and blockchain technologies.
Artwork and visualisers created for Abandon Reality by Echo Juliet.
Abandon Reality is the debut EP from Echo Juliet, a producer, percussionist, activist and DJ based in Birmingham, UK. She crafts warm, percussion-filled electronica to help her escape to a more positive space, often inspired by nature.
Early support has come from BBC 6Music tastemakers Tom Ravenscroft & Deb Grant, Steve Lamacq, Cerys Matthews and Unclassified on BBC Radio 3.
Artwork and visualisers for the Basic Waveforms EP by Charles Celeste Hutchins.
Sound artist and researcher Amit Dinesh Patel aka Dushume started working in the field of music technology in 2000. In 2021, he began a research project addressing the distinctive lack of visibility for Black and Brown artists within the field of experimental music and sound: “Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound”, hosted at the Sound/Image Research Centre, University of Greenwich.
Disruptive Frequencies is one output of this research. Patel, together with five other Black and South Asian experimental and electronic artists recorded new music to release as part of this compilation:
Hyperobject is a video collaboration between Antonio Roberts and Samiir Saunders which combines live coding and spoken word poetry. The piece takes the form of a four-part narrative epic which chronicles the grieving process of reckoning with the enormity of the climate crisis, from denial and despair into acceptance and finally a place of defiant hope.
Watch the video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUaetHF_fME
Hyperobject was originally commissioned by MAIA for the We Make Tomorrow event in October 2022. Many thanks to MAIA and Julie’s Bicycle <3
Artwork and visualisers for Echo Juliet’s latest EP, Lift Your Face to the Sun
As children many of us would collect sticker books featuring their favourite cartoon characters. In this artwork I present several of these in a distorted way.
To create this artwork I took illustrations and separated them into individual parts. Using illustration software I then randomly arranged them.
Sticker Book is an artwork about nostalgia and childhood. Fairy tales told to us when we’re young fill us with wonder, inspire us, and fill our imaginations. As we grow up we start to see the more sinister side to them. The companies that tell these stories are themselves problematic. These empires use IP and copyright laws to control exactly who gets to tell these stories and how they are told. By allowing them to amass such a large amount of stuff we have enabled them to take a hold of the very notion of childhood, imagination, and innocence.
Visually Similar is a video work looking at how images and videos we post online can be used to preserve history but also be remixed to create new narratives.
In posting our work online we make a permanent record of a point in time, but this can be used out of context.
“Ways of Something” is a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary, “Ways of Seeing” (1972). The project consists of one-minute videos by over 113 network-based artists who commonly work with 3D rendering, gifs, film remix, webcam performances, and websites to describe the cacophonous conditions of artmaking after the internet.
Curated and compiled by Lorna Mills , this remake is based a four-part series of thirty-minute films created by art theorist John Berger and produced by Mike Dibb. In the original films, voice-of-God narration over iconic European paintings offer a careful dissection of traditional “fine art” media and the way society has come to understand them as art. This current project invited artists to respond to what Berger called “learned assumptions” about art in dialogue with the camera and the screen in its reproduction.
windows.exe has stopped working Is about that moment of uncertainty when software begins exhibiting signs of an impending malfunction. The software stutters, glitches, begins acting erratically, sometimes altogether freezing with no indication of when normality will return. When faced with this hopeless situation the illusion of flawless technology is shattered and we’re reminded that technology is imbued with the flaws and imperfections of its creators.
windows.exe has stopped working was commissioned By Phoneix for The Idle Index.