Art
Smoke and Mirrors Machine (2012 – In development)
Exhibited at:
- Kinetica Art Fair, London (Feb 2012)
- Lighthouse, Brighton (Feb 2012)
Shadows of Light (2009-2011)
Exhibited at:
- “Like Shadows: a celebration of shyness” exhibition (curated by Helen Sloan from SCAN), White Night, Brighton (Oct 2011)
- Kinetica Art Fair, London (Feb 2011)
- The Drawing Room, Portobello Road, London (2009)
Communicating Bacteria Dress (2011)
An antique Edwardian dress stained with bacteria (Chromobacterium violaceum and a genetically modified version called CV026) and embroidered by Anna Dumitriu, video mapped with a time lapse video of these bacteria interacting by Alex May.
Part of Anna Dumitriu’s ongoing “Communicating Bacteria” project.
Exhibited at:
- Modernising Medical Microbiology conference, Oxford University (Nov 2011)
- Digital Design Weekend, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Sep 2011)
- R-Space Gallery, Lisburn, Northern Ireland (Jun-Sep 2011)
The Art and Science of Linen (2011)
Video art piece interpreting the process of linen production by Alex May and Anna Dumitriu
Exhibited at:
- R-Space Gallery, Lisburn, Northern Ireland (Jun-Sep 2011)
- Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum, Lisburn, Northern Ireland (Jun-Sep 2011)
My Robot Companion (2011)
What will we do when life extension technologies become the norm and we enter an age when there are no longer sufficient numbers of young people to care for the ageing population? One likely solution will be to employ robots to care for us, to entertain us and even to provide companionship. My Robot Companion asks what kind of robots do we really want? This project of speculative robot heads is designed to provoke the viewer to consider their future robot companions and how they should look, move and behave.
Series of robot heads exploring the ethics of robots in society by Alex May, Anna Dumitriu, Dr. Mick Walters
Exhibited at:
- Kinetica Art Fair, London (Feb 2012)
- Robotville, Science Museum, London (Nov 2011)
- HUMAN+, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (Apr-Jun 2011)
Recyclowave (2010)
Canon’s ‘Recyclowave’ is inspired by Japanese artist, Hokusai, and his beautiful images of waves. It creatively portrays the Canon product journey from raw material to manufacture, to finished product and customer use, and on to eventual recycling. It is designed to display the rolling, never-ending motion of the recycling and re-using cycle. The wave tube is made up of bands featuring depictions of Canon products with movement portraying vivid images, colour and words.
- Canon Expo 2010, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris (Oct 2010)
994,138 (2010)
A poignant installation, reflecting on the the number of UK casualties during World War 1: 994,138 military and civilian deaths. (Source: Wikipedia)
“994,138″ is a contemporary digital and generative artwork that presents the scale of this loss of life in an visually abstract way, while being respectful of the underlying architecture of the memorial.
- Artificial Light, Bournemouth (Apr 2010)
Animation Decathlon (2009)
Children and young people across the borough of Kensington and Chelsea worked with professional illustrators and animators to create a fantastic series of 2012 inspired drawings and animations.
The animated athletes and crowds they created were projected several meters high onto Kensington Town Hall and surrounding buildings where they ran, vaulted and swum, transforming the Town Hall into an Olympic arena. The audience was able to operate the athletes using banks of game controllers positioned along the walls of the Town Hall courtyard.
This event was awarded the 2012 Olympic “Inspire” mark.
- Kensington and Chelsea town hall, London (2009)
Kaidan (2008)
A video and sound installation commissioned by The Royal Borough Of Kensington And Chelsea.
We took as our theme the ancient game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (A Gathering of 100 Ghostly Tales) which was first played by samurai as a test of courage. The players would sit in a room and, as night fell, light one hundred candles. Each person in turn would then tell a kaidan and blow out one of the candles when finished. Thus, as the evening progressed, the room would get darker and darker. The extinguishing of the final candle was believed to summon a supernatural entity.
Yotsuya Kaidan, originally written by Tsuruya Nanboku IV in 1825 as a kabuki play, is arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time. More than 30 movies have been based on it and this story continues to have an influence on Japanese horror films today.
Video by Alex May
Music by Martin A. Smith
- Kyoto Garden, Holland Park, London (Oct 2008)
Statues Alive (2008)
A week long installation as part of the InTransit festival – also featured in the London Festival of Architecture - utilising original music and a variety of passive and interactive video projection techniques to augment statues along London’s Chelsea Embankment exploring our fading awareness of static surroundings over time.
Video by Alex May
Music by Martin A. Smith
- Chelsea Embankment, London (Jun 2008)
Haunted Holland Park (2007)
A video and sound installation commissioned by The Royal Borough Of Kensington And Chelsea.
Video by Alex May
Music by Martin A. Smith
- Holland Park, London (Oct 2007)