Opening Night:
Thursday 10th of April, 6.00 – 8.00pm
Thomas Marcusson is an artist experimenting with a range of different media; from photography, sculpture, video and online. His work is often reflecting on the advent of new technology and what impact this has (or does not have) on society, human behaviour and individuals.
The worryball
The worryball is an interactive artwork using more than 6000 Guatemalan worrydolls, woven in the a large sphere. Inside the ball there is an omni speaker, broadcasting recordings of different people’s worries. The audio feed is connected to a range of motion censors that triggers different worries from movement in the room. There will be an online version of the sculpture that lets people record their worries straight from a website into the ball itself.
Panopticon Dreams The Panopticon Dreams series is looking at our fear-laced fascination with new technology. More and more gadgets seem to find their way into our daily lives with the promise of endless connections, information and avenues of self-expression, at the same time as this onslaught of technology gives rise to the possibility of unwanted tracking and control; a self-initiated Panopticon of modern surveillance.
With the aid of oversized-tech glasses the portraits seem to break their 2-dimensional confinement and in awe gaze into the gallery space itself. Will the advent of new technology similarly allow us to stare into new realms of reality as we descend into preset permutations of cyborg-like entities?
A series of colourful prints portraying the life and culture of what was once the old Kingdom of Siam, depicting people and places that have been hitherto void of most technological advancement,
whose history and tradition been preserved for millennia, but currently seem to be existing in a state of sudden flux.