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Portfolio in support of the project Meeting the Lough on its own Terms
and letter of support
selection of work relevant to the project by Ami Clarke
Pandemonium, do androids dream of? by Ami Clarke
The work conists of:
VR environment with sound work (scroll down for 3D capture)
twitter bot @trackntracer, deployed as a ‘research assistant’
online dashboard on the Beyond Matter ZKM Karlsruhe site https://pandemonium.beyondmatter.eu/
PandemoniumVR (360 video) by Ami Clarke
360 degree capture from inside the VR - player pov
(please note that the actual VR environment is an immersive 3-dimensional space - the experience is not like a video at all)
The Underlying by Ami Clarke
The Underlying was commissioned by arebyte gallery in 2019 and exhibited at the gallery Sept-Nov 2019
and selected for The London Open 2022, Whitechapel gallery, London.
The work in The Underlying utilises live sentiment analysis of online news production and social media, relating to BPA’s (Bisphenol A*) to consider how surveillance, rather than a rogue element of capitalism, enmeshes with the effects of market forces upon the environment, happening at a molecular level.
arebyte gallery 2019
The Underlying - installation shots at arebyte gallery - close-up details of graphs, twitter feed / news analysis / pricing model, around 08.14
Derivative (VR) part of the body of work: The Underlying by Ami Clarke
Derivative by Ami Clarke - VR work with live sentiment analysis of BPA's in twitter and live news updates - live footage captured from visitors experience of the VR
Derivative by Ami Clarke - VR work with live sentiment analysis of BPA's in twitter and live news updates - live footage captured from visitors experience of the VR - everyones experience of the work is slightly different due to the sentiment analysis software being ‘live’ data analysis of online media, and the twittersphere, at that moment in time, that then influences the amount of air borne particles you see during your journey.
The Prosthetics - part of the body of work: The Underlying by Ami Clarke
The Prosthetics (ocular prosthetics, blown glass)
The Prosthetics are three sculptures made of ocular prosthesis – glass eyes – that cluster together, looking out from the corners of the galleries architecture. Reminiscent of organic organisms, they draw reference from the Fates, the three sisters forced to share one eye between them. Suggestive of the surveillance that drives data analysis, they also point to the limited resources of a dwindling biosphere, but also to the collective approach necessary to face the challenges ahead regarding environmental change.
The eyes were blown by a glass blowing expert in human glass eyes, usually involved in the production of human ocular prosthetics for medical purposes, in Germany. I then worked with another glass expert in the UK to produce the intricate organic cluster effect. We spent four days cold-working the eyes with other blown glass spheres, at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, to produce the three organic clusters.