sound artists

Jem Finer

Luigi Russolo

"Off the Record" - The Hayward Gallery, London 2000 [part of Sonic Boom, curated by David Toop]

"Vinyl Coda V" - Bangkok, Thailand 2007

Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. Philip Jeck makes geniunely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick.

data.scan is an attempt to materialise the vast quantities of data surrounding us in our everyday lives. It is part of Ikeda’s ongoing datamatics series, a collection of works that investigate the minutiae and infinite qualities of data. The installation is composed of computational code, with data collected from two investigative studies, one mapping the stars, the other mapping the human body. They present an extreme illustration of information, mixing the comprehensible with a scale that defies comprehension.

Commissioned by Surrey Art Gallery in Canada, data.scan forms part of Decode: Digital Design Sensations, curated in collaboration with onedotzero. The exhibition aims to show the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small screen based graphics to large-scale installations.