ROD DICKINSON
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.
His most recent live project 'Who, What, Where, When, Why and How' - an examination of the government press briefing - was staged at SMART Project Space in Amsterdam in July 2009 as part of the exhibition 'Performing Evidence'.
He has also remade and restaged Guy Debord's military strategy game 'The Game of War' (2007). Other work has included the recreation of the media around an 1894 bomb plot to destroy Greenwich Observatory; 'Greenwich Degree Zero' (with novelist Tom McCarthy, 2006).
His most recent live project 'Who, What, Where, When, Why and How' - an examination of the government press briefing - was staged at SMART Project Space in Amsterdam in July 2009 as part of the exhibition 'Performing Evidence'.
He has also remade and restaged Guy Debord's military strategy game 'The Game of War' (2007). Other work has included the recreation of the media around an 1894 bomb plot to destroy Greenwich Observatory; 'Greenwich Degree Zero' (with novelist Tom McCarthy, 2006).
Who, What, Where, When, Why and How (2009)
Performance, video installation and stills: A simulated press briefing that focuses on the reuse and repetition of political rhetoric to justify acts of state sanctioned violence.
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Greenwich Degree Zero (2006)
Video and installation: of recreated 19th century media that fictionalised reports of a real attempted bombing of Greenwich Observatory in 1894. including: newspapers, news clippings, pamphlets, early film, photographs and map.
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