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'Hall of Mirrors' - Multi-screen Digital Video

‘Hall of Mirrors’ continues research into both the representation of computer-generated surfaces and environments, and how digital scenes relate to real-world space. The piece utilises computer graphic rendering algorithms to simulate lighting, material and reflective properties which bear close relation to their real-world counterparts. Reflection surfaces in the works create complex interrelations between objects in a hermetically sealed computer-generated environment.

The scenes adopt presentation and display strategies commonly used in commercial advertising. Within the research context, these strategies are used to foreground the nature of representation, modern patterns of consumption and the projection of desirability onto consumer goods. Tight loops of repetition are used in these digital animations to exaggerate aggressive strategies used to place products firmly in the consumer consciousness. The repetition invokes flux, but rapidly returns to point zero. Repetition extends beyond the looped animations into multiple screen elements; each screen displays the same animation in sync with a vertical arrangement of 3 screens.

This piece continues concerns from previous work, here with a vertical arrangement which invokes totemic form. There is also a particular emphasis on simulating reflective objects and accessing multiple viewpoints in the generated scene.

Overall, Six Degrees of Separation is an exhibition about interconnectivity in multidisciplinary contemporary art practice. Curated by Juan Bolivar, it features the following artists: Isha Bohling. John Chilver, Amy Cunningham, Nick Dawes , Alex Gough, Andy Hsu, Hiroe Komai, David Lock, Karl Marrow, Hugh Mendes, John Richert, Adrian Scicluna, Pamela Richardson and Kevin Smith, Julie Verhoeven, Julian Hughes-Watts and Leon Woolls.

Catalogue: (ISBN: 978-1-908971-12-8) Camberwell Press publication