Interactive work - 1996 to 1999

The crossover between the human experience in both the digital and physical environments and the relationship between these two spaces has formed the basis a series of digital and analogue works, including; paintings, digital prints, interactive installations and rapid prototype sculptures.
Referencing details from the graphical user interface these digital prints combine computer based source material with images from the ‘real’ world, configured together in a kind of hybrid reality. The reference points of the physically and digitally grounded imagery becoming in some cases less defined, and in other cases overtly emphasised. However, within the works there is always a visual duality, an interplay between real and virtual forms. In this visual feedback loop the clues of originality can become increasingly hard to differentiate - or increasingly irrelevant, a state of ‘deterritorialisation’.
Questions about the transparency of the human / computer interface, and about just how transparent we really want this to be, are also raised. What are we left with when we remove the content from the graphical user interface? What traces of human interaction (from the physical) become evident? And what are the 'aid memoirs' we employ to assist us in the navigation and colonization of the post-real landscape?
These images are created through a combination of original digital photography, manipulated with computer based image processing software, and the reprocessing of visual components from various graphical user interfaces.