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Group Show at Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, January 2016.

PUSH/POP/STACK, digital video, 00.09.13, 2016

This work explores visual and linguistic recursion and the potential materiality of digital content, through the phenomena of ‘unboxing’ videos online. 

!Grebnetug! and Shades of Reality, both digital print on polyester, 100 x 200 cm, 2016.

This work reappropriates images from Ted Nelson’s (a early pionner of personal computing and the Internet) seminal self- published book Computer Lib/Dream Machines, released in 1974. I would go on to explore Nelson’s work and its legacy in further detail in the text Possiplex, commissioned by MAP magazine and published in Endnotes, August 2016.


The image shows a double page spread from Ted Nelson's 1974 book Computer Lib, Dream Machines. It is flattened out on the scanner bed, and sticky notes are visible at the top and bottom corners. The phrases 'Hypermedia' and '!Grebnetung!' are visible as subheadings on the left page, and the phrase 'everything is deeply intertwingled' is visible on the right hand page. The image shows the work GREBNETUG! as installed in the show Set Background at Embassy Gallery in 2016. A semi-sheer fabric banner hangs from the ceiling of a white gallery space. It is lit from behind by a strip light. It is printed with a scanned double page spread from Ted Nelson' book Computer Lib, Dream Machines. The phrase 'Hypermedia' and 'Grebnetung!' are clearly visible. The image shows the work PUSH/POP/STACK as installed at Embassy Gallery in 2016. The video is displayed on the screen of an iPhone inside a dark enclosed space. The image on the screen is not clearly visible, and the words 'all my senses strain' is written across the screen. The image shows the work Shades of Reality as installed in the show Set Background at Embassy Gallery in 2016. A semi-sheer fabric banner hangs from the ceiling of a white gallery space. It is lit from behind by a strip light. It is printed with a scanned double page spread from Ted Nelson' book Computer Lib, Dream Machines. Images in black and white of early computer generated drawings are scattered across the pages. The image shows a double page spread from Ted Nelson's 1974 book Computer Lib, Dream Machines. It is flattened out on the scanner bed, and sticky notes are visible at the top and bottom corners. The phrase 'Shades of Reality' is visible as a subheading on the left page, and across both pages there are various images of early computer aided drawing and 3D modelling. .