Cities Tango 2
Sun, 12 Jul 2015
As part of his contribution to the Primary Codes exhibition in Rio de Janeiro (see http://wsimag.com/art/14960-primary-codes) I have collaborated with Ernest Edmonds on a reworking of his classic Cities Tango artwork. 'Cities Tango 2' takes the core visual aesthetic of the original and combines it with one of my 'connected' colour grids.
As with the original, the new artwork is installed in multiple locations - in this case Rio de Janeiro and Leicester - and camera-captured images are exchanged between 'nodes' in the network in response to movement detected nearby. This image exchange system runs in parallel to the colour exchange system of my piece. The result is a dynamic canvas at each node that is intimately connected to all others in the network.
The Leicester node is currently running as part of the programme on the main screen in the Phoenix Cafe Bar. It will be joined a second node at DMU shortly. The Primary Codes exhibition, which features work by Ernest Edmonds, Paul Brown, Harold Cohen and Frieder Nake, runs until 16th August 2015.
