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Never Odd Or Even

‘Never Odd Or Even’ is our first survey exhibition of work in London (Carroll/Fletcher gallery. 24 May - 13 July 2013) (catalogue 64 pages | ISBN 978-1-908923-06-6).

Nine of the twelve works exhibited were made since 2008 representing an interconnected body of research exploring the materiality of live information and how it is altered and distorted by its mediation online. The collected works also consider new models of documentary practice, while looking at how the virtual layer of the internet interacts ever more seamlessly with the physical world thus transforming our perception of the world around us.

The exhibition brought together recent key works: ‘Belief’ (2012) the final documentary artwork in 'Flat Earth Trilogy' commissioned through a Creative Scotland Vital Spark award (£40,000);‘More Songs of Innocence and of Experience’ (2012) representing unsolicited ‘spam’ emails as karaoke videos commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella for the exhibition, ‘Our Mutual Friends’ (£3000); ‘A live portrait of Time Berners-Lee (an early warning system)’ (2012) made from live web cameras located on opposite sides of Earth commissioned by National Media Museum for their Life Online exhibition (£15,000); ‘The Time Machine in alphabetical Order’ (2010) an entire re-edit of the 1960 film using a system of classification as a constrained editing technique to perform a kind of time travel on the movie’s timeline.

London Wall (2010- ) detailed here as a separate REF output.

‘Several Interruptions’ (2009) a documentary artwork about a community of video bloggers who competitively hold their breath under water commissioned by Arts Council England for a major re-launch of their website.

The exhibition received over 1200 visitors and extensive press coverage including a five star review in TimeOut London. The exhibition has also been requested to tour to MEWO-Kunsthalle, Memmingen (October 2013) and Dundee Contemporary Arts (January 2014).