Through my practice I explore the materiality of digital media. Looking for ways to construct space through sound and moving image technology, my work questions the presence that these technologies have on the viewer and the architecture in which it has been placed. The viewer’s interactions and the architecture become extensions of the work, becoming almost parasitic in nature.
I am engaged in creating spaces of spectacle through manipulating mechanical or natural occurrences from the everyday. A key concern is with the movement of sound or imagery and how this is firstly generated from the environment and then abstracted into the viewer’s space.
Recently the theatricality inherent in the use of digital technology has been stressed and each piece is considered to function as a performance. Thereby a constant tension permeates the work as it flickers between the temporal and the perpetual. Coinciding with this new direction, my practice has expanded to include kinetic mechanisms that perform against the structures of moving image projections. The work is beginning to culminate with video installations that function as pieces of spatial theatre in which the viewer directs the flow of the performance.

Exhibition Work Sponsored by Fielders

Emily Bailey
ebailey_85@hotmail.co.uk
www.emilybailey.co.uk

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