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London Wall

‘London Wall’ is one of three commissions (£13,600) that re-launched the Museum of London (MOL) in Summer 2010 following refurbishment. It comprises over 500 fly-posters produced by an improvised printing studio representing social media traffic within a three-mile radius of MOL, as a large-scale performative poem. It asks whether digital communications technologies are useful tools in showing and recording social history? It is also part of wider research into how digital technology is transforming our perception of the world?

The installation has been acquired into MOL’s permanent collection as a socio-historical record of online social networking - the first acquisition of its kind at MOL.

280,727 people visited ‘London Wall’ in five months (MOL figures). The exhibition ran officially to 05.09.2010, but was extended to the end of October by popular demand. Following the commission’s success, senior curator Francis Marshall at MOL consulted us on policy development for MOL to commission, exhibit and collect more digital artworks.

‘London Wall’ has subsequently been exhibited as part of a solo exhibition at Highland institute of Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire in 2010 (catalogue 42 pages ISBN 978-0-9532175-3-3); in Tallinn (called, ‘Tallinn Wall’), Estonia at Kumu Art Museum as part of the major group exhibition ‘Gateways’ in 2011 (catalogue 261 pages ISBN 978-3-7757-2796-9) funded by Goethe Institute and Kumu celebrating Tallinn as European City of Culture; in 2012 at Furtherfield gallery, London for their inaugural exhibition ‘Being Social’; and as part of our solo exhibition, ‘Never Odd Or Even’ at Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, London in 2013. Forthcoming: to be included

as part of a solo exhibition 'Not even the sky' opening in MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen October 2013 followed by 'Maps DNA and spam', Dundee Contemporary Arts opening January 2014. A joint catalogue between the two institutions will be published to coincide with the opening in Memmingen.