Works Archive - Sally Stenton – Artist

Loom

Posted on: February 17th, 2017

Loom

Video/Sculpture installation for Cambridge School of Art degree show 2015.

Steel, electrical tape, video editing monitors (1997), swipe gesture (patented by Apple 2013), re-processed video documentary “From Sand to Silicon” (2013)

Loom (detail -video still)

Loom (detail – video still)

Loom 2015

Text vb. has been generated via a text conversation, the face illuminated and filmed on an iPhone. The artist plays a number and word association game in a strange reversal of the Turing test – human imitating machine. All that is seen is the facial response.

Video installation as part of Art Language Location. 2015

Text vb. 2015

View from The Quay

Bridge Chapel, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire

Bridge Chapel

View from inside

Bridge Chapel

View from inside

Bridge Chapel

View from inside

Research and development

Specification. 2014

Double projection onto net and cotton

Hollow earth

Posted on: February 6th, 2017

Hollow Earth

Cambridge Sustainability Residency 2014

Related works

Satellite images of Bayan Obo, Mongolia where rare earth materials for digital devices are mined

Equal Weight. 2014

Pillow, pillow case and equal weight of sand

Resting pieces (detail)

2014

Mine (detail)

2014

Resting Pieces 2014

Feather pillows, pillow cases, fire, sand

Changing spaces, Norfolk St. Cambridge

Failing beautifully

Posted on: February 5th, 2017

Failing beautifully

Stills from Failing Beautifully

A pixelated video of a digital reproduction of Malcolm Le Grice’s ‘Little Dog for Roger’

I was exploring analogies between moving image and textile construction, comparing analogue and digital processes. The idea that when analogue film fails it can do so beautifully (imperfections and injuries to the materiality of the film can add to the effect) whereas digital is on or off, works or doesn’t. I took a digitised version of an analogue film from the library and its worn nature meant that it glitched and pixelated, generating a fascinating (and beautiful) fusion of analogue and digital failure.