Artist Edition | Scanner & Josh Hughes
Scanner
The design of this mask reflects the times we live in. With face recognition technology at airports and on your smartphone, CCTV cameras on every street corner, the mapping of our movements, and public unrest at the highest levels in years, it’s a protective response. It protects the wearer from viral infection, as well as reflecting upon the political, social structures that shape global digital communities.
For this design, the reflective qualities of the mirrored materials are used as a metaphor towards the concepts of surveillance, as well as cultural theories around our fabricated and curated multiple digital identities. As a sonic artist, these platforms help to give visual representation to these intangible manufactured ideal forms.
The surface design of the mirror material will be a visual graphic of a sonic map that tracks the movement of one of my daily journeys—translating these movements into a graphic design that you can only see by the slightest movement of the mask on the wearer's body. These visual qualities define two concepts - the hidden paths that we leave behind and the things that we endure that we do not want to face and seek to mask.
Scanner
Scanner (British artist Robin Rimbaud) traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music.
To date he has scored 75 contemporary dance productions, including works for the London Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham. In 2016 he installed his Water Drops sound work in Rijeka Airport in Croatia, Ghosts at Cliveden National Trust UK, and scored the world’s first ever Virtual Reality ballet, Nightfall.
He scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba (2007) and Narnia ballet (2015) based on the popular children’s book, Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2012 and in 2018 produced work that measures the quality of soil in Europe using live data with artist Kasia Molga.
His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris whilst Vex, the residential house he designed a permanent soundtrack with Chance de Silva architects, won the RIBA London Award 2018 and was featured on the popular TV show Grand Designs.
Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Torres, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson, and Hussein Chalayan, amongst many others.
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