Thomson & Craighead
Signals


Realtime recordings of people aimlessly using a mouse are layered on top of each other and divorced from their original context. Mouse cursor icons endlessly flicker across the screen, the icons seemingly having a personality as if they were the people themselves, a 'crowd scene' where the trace takes on the life of the people hidden from view. Part of Thomson & Craighead's The Social Networking Suite, a collection of three artworks developed for Futuresonic 2008.

Commission / World Premiere

1 – 17 May
Monday – Friday: 12 – 5.30pm
Saturday: 12 - 5pm
Sunday 4 May: 12 - 5pm

CUBE, 113-115 Portland Street

Free

Artist Biography:
Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead are artists living in London and highlands of Scotland, who make things for galleries, online and sometimes outdoors. Lots of their recent work looks at live networks like the web and how they are changing the way we all understand the world around us. Jon and Alison have just completed an animated work called, 'Flat Earth' for Channel Four Television and a major new semi-permanent work for The Junction in Cambridge. Recent exhibitions include; BFI Southbank, London; Laboral Art Centre, Gijon; Montevideo, Amsterdam; San Jose Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Tate Britain. A monograph of works from 1998 - 2005 is available from Film and Video Umbrella, London.

www.thomson-craighead.net

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