STEALTH

About

Utilising a variety of media including installations, video, social media and software, the exhibition explores how technology affects and disrupts our perceptions of privacy. 

Artists: James Bridle, Joseph DeLappe, Henry Driver, Manu Luksch, Ryan Hughes, Sang Mu

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EXHIBITION PROGRAMME:

Henry Driver is a UK based digital artist. His new video work, Drone (2014) demonstrates the uncanny ability of simulations to mimic reality.  Created using imagery from USA Army Youtube uploads, simulated representations from popular video games and imagery created by the artist, Drone asks the viewer to define the difference between simulation and reality and the issues that arise when the two are so closely entwined.

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James Bridle is a UK based artist, writer, and publisher. Drone Shadows (2012 - ongoing) are a series of installations, comprised of the outline of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone.  Each 1:1 representation conveys both the physical reality, and the apparent invisibility, of drone aircraft. 

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Joseph DeLappe’s Me and My Predator - Personal Drone System (2014) is a 1/72nd scale plastic model of a Predator Drone suspended on a carbon fibre rod and connected to a custom made aluminum c-clamp/head band which can be attached to the head. The Personal Drone System is designed for insecurity and comfort - to simulate using analogue technologies what it might be like to live under droned skies. 

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Manu Luksch is an intermedia artist whose practice focuses on the effects of emerging technologies on daily life, social relations, urban space, and political structures. Her internationally acclaimed film installation, FACELESS, narrated by Tilda Swinton and part of the Collection Centre Pompidou, pioneered the notion of ‘legal readymades’ by appropriating data protection legislation into a process for filmmaking. The film was produced under the rules of the 'Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers' and refers to legislation that states that the privacy of third parties must be protected. In CCTV recordings, this is done by erasing the faces of other people in the images - hence the 'faceless' world.

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Ryan Hughes is a young UK artist based in the West Midlands. We've Been Re-Distributed (2015) is a work which adopts the blurred presentation, content gathering and distribution techniques and tendencies common to broadcast media. Hughes reflects these tendencies and extends them through other means of communication and presentation. The work uses randomly found, selected and edited video presented via VHS projection, various forms of print based material and mass communication via email.

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Sang Mun is a designer and art director based in Seoul. Mun built the ZXX font as a disruptive typeface which would resist decryption. Mun built six different styles (Sans, Bold, Camo, False, Noise, and Xed), each of which is designed to thwart machine intelligences in a different way.

"I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker)—misdirecting information or sometimes not giving any at all. It can be applied to huge amounts of data, or to personal correspondence." Sang Mun

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STEALTH is presented as part of RADICAL NETWORKS,  a programme of aesthetic disruption and questioning of the moving image, ethics and digital legacies.

RADICAL NETWORKS takes a subcultural perspective, seeking out and introducing practices and tendencies from emerging communities of artists, makers and collectives.

The exhibition runs Friday 25 June to Saturday 11 July 2015. Opening hours are Thursday to Saturday, 12 - 5pm. Admission is free.