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John Tonkin's website with project descriptions, installation documentation, catalogue essays, artist's statements and biography/CV pdf document

Nervous system a video by John Tonkin

John Tonkin | A biology of cognition

John Tonkin: Experiments in Proximity article by Jacqueline Millner

My own worst enemy video. Summary by artist: 'my worst enemy' grew out of my playing around with a 1960's camera macro bellows attached to an HD camera. I decided I wanted to make a kind of audit of my aging body.

28 videos by John Tonkin 

Installation documentation John Tonkin's new body of work A Biology of Cognition is an exploration into the nature of visual perception. It is made up of four interactive video systems that each respond to the viewer's proximity to the screen.

Summary by artist: In the late 1800's scientist/inventors such as Marey and Muybridge developed a number of pre-cinematic devices to analyse motion. These technologies allowed people to observe time and space in a way beyond normal human capabilities, creating a heightened sense of awareness of our passage through time.