Timothy Tate, Xenobia Frost
KEPK
Artist Statement
Static Mediations [2024] playfully explores the ways digital technologies increasingly mediate our experience of the world. A participatory installation, the work contrasts obsolete technologies with modern-day questions about the security of our data — including one’s face, voice and movements — and the uncanny feedback loop of algorithmically targeted content.
Static Mediations begins with an interactive terminal, where — through the medium of a poetic text adventure — the participant is offered choices that impact the installation beyond. Inside, hacked televisions, cameras and various magnetic media observe, interpret and negotiate the presence of visitors to create a feedback loop of light, sound and text. Is this space an ecosystem, a friendly interlocutor or a panopticon?
About the artists
Timothy Tate is an Australian creative technologist, researcher, composer and performer who makes use of obsolete recording technologies — magnetic tape/floppy disk drives, primitive sampling devices, CD Players — which he circuit-bends and uses in combination with his own hand-built electronics, to create notated compositions, immersive live performances, experimental electronic instruments and site-specific work. His music often explores notions of ‘composed glitch’ and weaves together complex feedback loops to create rich sonic landscapes. He holds a Master of Music in Composition with Distinction, in addition to a second study in Viola, from the Royal Academy of Music, London and is a current PhD candidate at Griffith University (Queensland Conservatorium of Music | Queensland College of Art), where he is also a Sessional Academic, teaching music, sound art and design. Timothy also runs the creative space zero.one.four.six in Yeerongpilly, Brisbane, which focuses on workshops and creative outputs incorporating obsolete media and electronics.
Zenobia Frost is a writer and editor based in Brisbane, Australia. Her work can be found in Cordite, Scum, Overland, Meanjin and Contemporary Feminist Poetry. She won the 2018 Val Vallis Award for her poem, ‘Reality On-Demand‘. Zenobia’s latest poetry collection, After the Demolition (Cordite Books) won the 2020 Wesley Michel Wright Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Read more about it in LA Review of Books.
Credits: Mr Timothy Tate and Ms Zenobia Frost