Just what is it that makes today's technologies so different, so appealing?
Brian Gibson
Multidiscipline Artist
MAKING MORE WITH LESS
I am a multi disciplinary artist who works with discarded tech. The digital tools that we seem to hold onto despite them no longer functioning. I work with items such as laptops, mobile phones and gaming devices, objects that have been an integral part of our daily lives, that no longer serve their intended purpose. I rearange and reconstruct the internal and external architecture to create images, assemblages, installations . Its a journey.
I work with the same objects repeatedly, over and over again, working across different mediums, exploring what can be done within a limited framework. This reflects the realisation that we now live on a planet of finite resources.
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 What was new and state of the art a short while ago becomes out of date and obsolete a few months later.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.
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Thank You
B