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Opening March 7 Lecture @ 2pm Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery Exposure is an exhibition of work by Mike Phillips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Art & Media at Plymouth University.
Exhibition by: Mike Phillips.
‘spectre [ˈspɛktə/]’, Schauraum. Quartier21 (Electric Avenue), MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1/5, 1070 Wien, Austria. 27.01-18.03.2012.
Title: Spectre.
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‘A Mote it is…’ Art in the Age of Nano Technology, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA. 02-04/2010. (catalogue).
“A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.”1
Words spoken by Horartio to describe Hamlet’s father’s ghost. In this Shakespearian play the ghost is seen but not believed and one is left to wonder if it is just the seeing of it that makes it real – its existence totally dependent on the desire of the viewer to see it. The ‘mote’ or speck of dust in the eye of the mind of the beholder both creates the illusion and convinces us that what we see is real. Something just out of the corner of our minds eye, those little flecks magnified by our desire to see more clearly. Yet the harder we look the more blurred our vision becomes.
An Audio Narrative/Installation.
‘Cross Curents’ ArtHaven in Exeter (September-October 2000).
An Exploration in Light Sound and Form. Eves Dropping is an audio installation that consists of a simple set (a wallpapered wall, framing two items of domestic furniture (a chair and a table/dressing table), and a glass tumbler), a speaker system fitted to the rear of the wall, and an spoken narrative recorded on a tape loop.
A vision of an angel appears from the blur through the spinning discs…
Bio uses a BBC Master computer to read Psychogalvanometer to switch audio and images. Different emotional states trigger images and audio to change the users emotional state…
Falling Angles triggered by rotating cam switch. Persistence of vision over a short distance.
Audio triggered by ORP 12 light resistors activated by rotating halogen lights.
ID consisted of:
Installation some time in 1984 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Inspired by the rewriting, relocation and transplantation of the ‘Cloisters’, St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church, from Sacramenia in Segovia, Spain to New York.
Back in 1984 this was my degree show.
ZX81, solenoids from the Ark Royal, 5 reel to reel tape decks, 70m tape loop, pressure mats, 20 speakers and 200m of grey wire. I/O box programmed to switch between the systems.