Binary Stumble

an artist's adventures in the digital world

  • Astonishing Behaviour at Gerhard Richter

    Am I old fashioned? Why does it not occur to me to do this at an exhibition of paintings?

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  • A Wikipedia Dérive

    The other day I had a strange and intense browsing experience that tied together

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  • Cleaning and reducing GPS tracks in QGIS

    I’ve been going through our database of GPS tracks in a sort of spring-cleaning mode, partly prompted by thoughts of tracing our paths onto clay in an attempt to produce what has stumped us so far: a 3D map of our old neighbourhood where each time we traverse the …

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  • Shrewsbury Tumulus

    A hidden relic of the Bronze Age in a suburban street. While I was staying with my Mum in the house I grew up in in South East London (I once made a project about this house as it has been occupied by my family since it was built in …

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  • Klinkende Stadt (Resonant City), Kortrijk

    Oh you lucky people of Kortrijk, to have had such a fantastic festival of experimental music, sound and installation as the Happy New Ears festival for many years and now for the creator of that festival to be running the Kortrijk edition of the Festival of Flanders. You have one …

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  • Three Stone Circles (Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion)

    While on the residency with Crew, which is very enjoyable, we all had to dash to Frameries, near Mons, where Eric had to take part in a panel at the Fabrique du Théâtre: As it was in French, I didn’t feel too rude to get out my …

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  • A Portrait of the Artist Lost in his own Artwork

    Lost Today, Eric, Vincent and I went to visit Crew’s installation ‘No Horizon’ at Hasselt as part of Superbodies. While there, we experimented with showing other material in the installation, including my own GPS tracks of Berlin in animated form. As the traces curled around me on the floor, I …

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  • In Mons with Crew

    I’m going to postpone reporting about the two other stone circles I visited and just briefly mention that I’m in Mons, Belgium at Le Manège this week at the invitation of Eric Joris of Crew. Today Eric and I were joined by Guy Vanden Bemden who now …

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  • At Last—Long Meg and Her Daughters

    My first stone circle of the trip — hooray — and the family came too (and my Mum). I think it is a good one, not being an expert, but Burl says that Long Meg is the sixth largest stone circle of them all (other sources say that it is the third …

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  • Pen Plotter Replacement Pen DIY IV

    Pen1 In Action
    Pen1 In Action
    I know I said that I’d update when I’m back after Easter, but I did actually manage to get a working pen together before I left the studio. This is it in action. It seems to work ok - it certainly gets picked up and placed …

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