Rod Dickinson is a visual artist and lecturer in media and cultural studies at University of West England in Bristol, his art work explores ideas of control and mediation and focuses on the way in which our behaviour is moderated by feedback systems. Using detailed research into moments of the past and present, he has made a series of meticulously re-enacted events that represent various mechanisms of social control.

Recent exhibitions:
Closed Circuit at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Arts Project Space Ljubljana, Slovenia, 8 - 30 September 2011.

Greenwich Degree Zero at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry from 1 October 2011.

The Milgram Re-enactment and Closed Circuit in Oktober Salon in Belgrade, Serbia from 20 October 2011.

The Milgram Re-enactment at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, in The Lucifer Effect, 9 October 2011 - 2 January 2012.

Closed Circuit (2010)

Live Performance: In collaboration with Steve Rushton. A simulated press briefing that uses fragments of political speeches and briefings to make a looping narrative about the declaration of states of emergency and political responses to catastrophes.
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Greenwich Degree Zero (2006)

withTom McCarthy - Film and installation: An installation of recreated media that fictionalises an 1894 bomb plot to destroy Greenwich Observatory. Includes newspapers, news clippings, pamphlets, early film, photographs and map.
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