I am an artist working with the discarded and retrieved materials of technologies. I work with a set amount of material, this process of reworking and remaking the same items keeps me aware of the reality that we now live in a world of finite resources and the need to respond accordingly.
Brian Gibson
MAKING MORE WITH LESS
I began to work with discarded tech during the lockdown periods of the Covid-19 pandemic. Confined certain spaces within specific time periods, I began to work with what was close at hand. I began to explore the creative possibilities of the digital tools that had been kept despite the fact they no longer posessed their intended fucntion . Since this period I have worked with items such as discarded laptops, mobile phones and gaming devices, objects that once were an integral part of our daily lives. My appraoch has been to rearange and reconstruct the same items over a period of several years effectivly creating more with less.
This process of making more with less has been incredibly fruitful, a creative journey of rethinking and reworking, opening up infinite creative possibilities. Our relationship with digital technology is relatively new and expanding rapidly. What was new and state of the art a short while ago becomes out of date and obsolete a few months later.
It often seems that we have no agency over such developments. I feel that the process of making art offers a space in which to breath, to explore and reflect, an opportunity to drift between our own inner world and the external narratives that surround us.
