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Dolan Cummings, Kasper de Graaf, David Barnard-Wills and David Matthews, speakers at the Secure City Talk on 9 May 2013 at Deptford Lounge, London
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Francesca Panetta, John Levack Drever, Cathi Unsworth, Pete Woodhead and Simon Poulter listen to Peter Cusack at the Sound City Talk on 25 April 2013 at Goldsmiths College, London.
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Christian Nold, Emilie Giles, Ajit Jaokar and Matthew Fuller – speakers at the Smart City Talk on 16 April 2013 at Deptford Lounge, London
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Dr Jennifer Gabrys, Graham Harwood, Olivia Solon and Simon Poulter at the Social City Talk on 16 May 2013 at Deptford Lounge.
We make history obvious.
We have an ongoing practice that examines modern history as a dynamic process of representation. Taking the every day, peripheral and marginal as starting points, we make artworks that are formed from observations of public places and events. Not the centre, the outside. In our recent project work we are dealing with the fossilisation of data, the inevitability that mass media will create redundant forms and enterprises; along with out of date modes of consumption and production. These might be at close at hand or remotely accessed.
Close and Remote work with an informal set of
understandings that inform our practice and process:
• The obvious is always present
• Open Source is useful when applied to new knowledge
• Lifestyles are not defined only by technologies
• Innovation comes from uncertainty
• Aesthetics contain cultural currency
email: info@closeandremote.net
