Diversity:The Search For The Soul of The Brilliant City.

Exhibition. Stanza. 2004.

The title “Brilliant City” refers to the location, a residential estate, comprising of 25 tower blocks in Shanghai, China. The British Council had a flat on the 34th floor, which is where I stayed. Made during a stay in Shanghai with the British Council Artist Links Program.

Shanghai has 4000 towers block and 2000 on the planning board yet to be made, but with planning permission. Towers blocks are everywhere dancing across the landscape of the city. The city is spreading upwards re-housing people in the sky. The city is in flux moving in all directions, economically, socially, and environmentally.

Installation

For the gallery and installation version there is suite of thirty works from this series, that are re configured for 1024 by 768 screen size. They are built as a piece of software that runs continuously and randomly. What you see fills the space with moving towers, weaving over the city.

Ideally the work should be shown as a triptych of projected images, or plasma screens. Diversity is a suitable installation for large corporate offices, hotels, and is best shown projected large, or on a series of large plasma screens.

Exhibitions

Diversity was exhibited in Holland in show called "No - Land" curated by Patricia de Ruijter which was shown in Art City in the NDSM. {9th October2007; for one month.} Also shown at Palmer Event centre as part of SxSW in Austin, Texas USA 2009.

Touch Screen. Limited edition touch screen series available.

Touring

Exhibition: This work is available for exhibition email me to book this installation. The installation version consists of 26 artworks in the series built into a special software interface that either runs randomly or can be interacted with via touch screen.

Selected artworks on canvas have been made as outputs from the software system.