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.
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.
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.
In this video documentary Jon McCormack discusses the work and the ideas behind the development of Fifty Sisters. In Episode 2 the artist discusses the use of computer code as an artistic medium and shows the basic process of designing the work.
In this video documentary Jon McCormack discusses the work and the ideas behind the development of Fifty Sisters. Episode 3 shows the exhibition of the work at the Ars Electronica Centre in Linz, Austria.
In this video documentary Jon McCormack discusses the work and the ideas behind the development of Fifty Sisters. Episode 1 introduces the work and the broader issues behind it.
The nine signs for Ogaki in this work originate in Japan during a residency in September 2010 at IAMAS - an Art & Science research institute in Japan. During this month I surveyed the small town of Ogaki via bicycle and identified locations suited to digital intervention.