My work involves the creation of artist-software-systems in order to explore the impact of new technology paradigms. I’m particularly interested in the relationship between the embodied and the virtual; our evolving sense of what it is to be human and the social/psychological impact of living in a world of connected objects and nascent AIs.
My work involves the creation of artist-software-systems in order to explore the impact of new technology paradigms. I’m particularly interested in the relationship between the embodied and the virtual; our evolving sense of what it is to be human and the social/psychological impact of living in a world of connected objects and nascent AIs.
I use sculptural installation and online channels as means of presenting and recording these explorations.
Since the beginning of 2016 I have been documenting the global phenomenon of self-surveillance through my work “Backdoored” which collects and archives images taken by bots through unsecured security cameras. This work explores the underpinning anxieties and privacy implications, as well as notions of agency and authorship.
My latest work “The Seeker” is an exploration of the emerging machine gaze. “The Seeker” is a machine entity which travels the world virtually, and describes for us what it sees. Named for Ptah-Seker, the artist/technologist god of the Ancient Egyptians, who generated the world by speaking the words to describe it, this project will look at how the action of describing the world might establish a whole new worldview for machines and humans alike.
EDUCATION
2011 – 2013 MA Fine Art by Practice (Distinction), The Cass School of Art & Architecture, London Metropolitan University
1986 – 1989 BA Hons Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1985 – 1986 Art Foundation, Carmarthen Art College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Backdoored.io, Bank Gallery, The Cass School of Art & Architecture, London
2014
Museum of the Shared Now, London Metropolitan University, London
SLURP!, London Canal Museum, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
humansbeingdigital, The Lowry, Manchester
Digital Weekender, Watermans, London
Instructions for Humans, BOM, Birmingham
unthinking.photography, The Photographers Gallery, London (article)
TERMINAL>_, Avalanche Lounge, London
2016
Fuzz, Project Space Wapping, London
The Internet Yami-Ichi, Tate Modern, London
Splitting the Beam, Project Space Wapping, London
2015
Toys (Are Us), Crypt Gallery, London
Bow Arts Open 2015, STRUCTURE TEXTURE FUTURE, Nunnery Gallery, London (catalogue)
Candid Spring Salon, Islington, London
2014
30 Years of the Future, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2013
Thought Atlas, The Cass MA Show ‘13, Spring House, London
M-INT, The Cass Gallery, London
The strange impression of seeing things for the first time, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
SELECTED REVIEWS & WRITING
Domestic (in)security The Photographers Gallery (May 2017)
Backdoored: An interview with Nye Thompson Furtherfield (Nov 2016)
Who is watching you? CNN (Aug 2016)
Art exhibition sparks global privacy debate London Metropolitan University (Aug 2016)
BBC Click: Defcon episode BBC (Aug 2016)
Are you being watched? Wired (July 2016)
“Immaterial Aesthetics – The Internet Yami-Ichi (Black Market)” by Edward Paginton for Modern Weekly China - PDF 72Kb (June 2016)
Edward Snowdomes and edible internet cookies: welcome to Yami-ichi The Guardian (May 2016)
Backdoored. / Nye Thompson / Surveillance, intimacy and the net (Feb 2016)
Art Monthly, Manchester Art Round-Up: Bob Dickinson features 30 Years of the Future (Feb 2015)
Tom Emery reviews 30 Years of the Future for Corridor8 (Dec 2014)
AWARDS
Artist Award Islington Exhibits 2014
COLLECTIONS
UK and international private collections
