Anglia Ruskin University

Poetry, Language, Code and Games Artists Play

Dates: 19 - 29 June and 3 - 12 July
Private view: Thursday 21 June, 18.00

Artists featured included:Giselle Beiguelman, Mike Brick and Kip Gresham, heath bunting, Ernest Edmonds, Bettina Furnee, Tom Hall, Eduardo Kac, William Latham, Liliane Lijn/London Fieldworks (with Steve Beard and Kaffe Matthews), Gustav Metzger, Alex McLean, Alan Sutcliffe, ubermorgen.com, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.

This exhibition, which opened in the week of the centenary of Alan Turing's birth, focused on the interrelationship of text code and visual image exemplified in the work of artists such as Eduardo Kac and Liliane Lijn, both accomplished poets as well as visual artists who have consistently experimented with form and context in the production of their work. It also featured the work of artists such as Ludovico and Cirio who work extensively with software as a medium to produce artworks that underscore the ambivalent boundaries between public and private domains in terms of ownership and control of online networks.

The ten digital screens of the Gallery showed work from across three decades by William Latham as well as a special video installation created by Ernest Edmonds called 'Energy Ruskin'. Ernest says: 'it is impossible to see all ten movies at the same time. Something is always happening behind one's back'. It was accompanied by the soundtrack 'Alan Turing: A Portrait in Sound' by Martin. A. Smith.

In the Ruskin studios, three works by Eduardo Kac were on display: his rarely seen 'Ad Huc' holopoem (courtesy of Jonathan Ross Gallery, London); a new work called CODA which forms the completion to his Natural History of the Enigma series; and, in a world first, a demo of a conductive painting using circuitry invented by ARM, a Cambridge-based technology company. The work, entitled 'Lagoglyph Sound System,' encouraged visitors to touch using an alphabet of gestures.

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