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EEG Improvisation (2016)
I attended a brainwave workshop with artist Luciana Haill where I created two improvisations. The first is a piece of music that I’m playing with my mind: taking the EEG readings and using them to trigger frequencies. The second is a video synthesizer that responds to EEG signals. Both were created in the workshop using…
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Stone and Video Sculpture #2 (2016)
Most every year of late I spend a happy dusty weekend stone carving, making a sculpture to project video onto. These two characters, held in an intimate physical embrace, seem very much in love, and I particularly like the nuanced interplay of how she gazes at him, and he is happy and content.
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London LASER 18
London LASER 18 Tuesday 15 November 2016 6.30 – 9.00pm (registration and exhibition viewing from 6pm) Westminster School of Media, Arts & Design, University of Westminster, Watford Road, Harrow HA1 3TP. (Northwick Park tube, Metropolitan Line direct from Baker Street or Kings Cross) LASER: Talks on the intersection of art, science and technology The event…
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HCI 2016
Shadows of Light at HCI 2016 at Bournemouth University. Alex presenting an overview of his art practice.
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Shadows of Light at HCI 2016
Shadows of Light has been accepted into the gallery for HCI 2016 for its exploration into the properties of “slow interaction”. The 30th British Human Computer Interaction Conference will be held between the 11th and 15th July 2016 at Bournemouth University’s Talbot Campus. This years theme is “Fusion! HCI across Disciplines”. We want to challenge…
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DF2016 – HARR1 and Sequence VR in Brussels
June 21st, The Egg, Brussels, Belgium. “The Digital Festival, an initiative of Forum Europe and its partners, is designed to provide a space in the EU capital where the impact and potential of digital technologies can be both challenged and better understood. The possibilities that digital offers up are limitless and often profound. Unleashing this…
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University of Hertfordshire Colloquium
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM presents “Artistic Explorations with Code: Robotics, Video Mapping and Interaction” Alex May (Artist-in-Residence, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire) 13 April 2016 (Wednesday) 1 pm – 2 pm Hatfield, College Lane Campus Lecture Theatre LF233 Everyone is Welcome to Attend Refreshments will be available Alex May is…
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Lecture at the School of Visual Arts NYC
April 4, 2016 7:00 pm Room 302, 3rd Floor BFA Fine Arts Department SVA Fine Arts Building 335 W 16th St. New York, NY 10011 United States Anna Dumitriu will discuss her experiences of creating art embedded in bioscience settings and will describe some personal projects, for example working with the Modernising Medical Microbiology group…
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Ingenious and Fearless Companions
Melissa Grant, Oliver De Peyer, Paul Shepherd, Anna Dumitriu, Alex May, Kira O’Reilly1st April – 11th June 2016 Birmingham Open Media (BOM) is organising the first ever exhibition by the High Altitude Bioprospecting (HAB) science-art collective. Ingenious and Fearless Companions explores the adventure of curiosity-driven research through a quest to find microscopic life in space.…
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Gut Reactions: The Microbiome and Human Nature
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No Violence To The Sky
No Violence To The Sky – a new video mapped installation by Alex May is now on show at Level 39, One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, London. Referencing the writings of the building’s architect César Pelli, the work presents the public facade of the iconic One Canada Square building as seen in reflections in the buildings and…
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University of Calgary – International Visiting Artist
International Visiting Artist: Alex May (UK) Exhibition: Shadows of Light Feb. 29-March 4 in The Little Gallery An interactive digital artwork that explores the concept of ‘slow interaction’ Artist’s Talk: March 1 at 4 p.m. in Art Building 672, with reception to follow Workshop: Video Mapping Friday, March 4 from 1-4:30 p.m. in Art Building…
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Painting With Light workshop at UCLA
A few photos of the students work from the Painting With Light video mapping workshop at University of California Los Angeles that I ran on Tuesday. Tonight I’ll be giving a talk at the UCLA ArtSci LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) event.
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Pantone Colour of the Year 2016
Pantone announce their Colour of the Year 2016 (actually two colours): Rose Quartz and Serenity. Alex took one of the suggested colour pairings, and fed it into a modified version of the generative art system he has been developing to create slowly evolving, colour fields that degrade from smooth symmetrical patterns into smoke-like billows of colour. If you are interested…
