I am the Warrior
2011
Pumphouse Gallery, London, Curated by Jeni Walwin
This was an open exhibition for all kinds of creative work with no restrictions on entry and no selectors. It is the second version of the show. The first version can be seen here.
Sleepwake
2011
Acrylic, electronics enclosures and strobe lights
Shown at Ceri Hand Gallery
Sleepwake is a sculptural depiction of a robot head. The title refers to “The Coming Technological Singularity”, an essay by Vernor Vinge which argues that machines will ‘wake up’ with the creation of strong artificial intelligence. This will signal the end of the ‘human era’.
After London
2011
A collaborative project between the artists and two schools from Barking; Barking Abbey and Warren School. The pupils used the framework of a post-apocalyptic market place created by Juneau Projects as the starting point to imagine how they would survive and fend for themselves in the aftermath of some kind of global disaster. The pupils created products for their stalls from the limited resources available to them in the hope that they could trade with other survivors.
3 megabytes of hot RAM
2011
The exhibition title ‘3 Megabytes of Hot RAM’ is taken from William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer and sets the tone of the exhibition - incorporating desire, nostalgia, failure and loss, despite the fact it refers to the future.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is Data Haven, a suspended mass of computers, data storage and monitors in the form of an inscrutable face. A ‘data haven’ is a secure, unregulated place for storing data beyond the reach of government or corporations. These storage spaces imply freedom fighters, libertarians, criminals, and hackers.
TOP500 is a series of new watercolours depicting the ten fastest supercomputers existing in the world today. The ‘TOP500 project’ ranks and details the fastest supercomputers, with the makers of these computers giving their machines romantic or naturalistic names such as ‘Jaguar’ or ‘Cielo’ (Spanish for sky or heaven). The paintings take the form of a series of logos that each attempt to explain the function and history of the supercomputers they represent. Each supercomputer is researched by one of the Juneau Projects, who works up an emblem idea and explains it verbally to the other Juneau Projects member who, without reference to the actual supercomputer or the context for the emblem’s imagery, creates and paints their own version of the design. This process of translation creates a system of information transfer, existing between two people rather than the circuits of a computer.
Other works in the exhibition include a series of unique bleach-etched digital photographic prints that reflect upon mortality and obsolescence in relation to technology, and a series of new abstract landscape paintings produced using robotic arms. These paintings are made outdoors, using a laptop and mouse to control the robot arm directly, (rather than programming it). Despite its’ sophistication, the arm and the computer mediate the movements of the artist, turning the attempted landscape painting into an abstract series of colour bands. The paintings are held by the robot arm which painted the image.
2011
An installation which formed the hub of the two festivals. It featured furniture, staging and sound reactive visuals. Titled ‘The Dirty End’ after a possible translation of the Deritend area of Birmingham, the hub hosted performance, film screenings, café and specially commissioned cakes and cocktails by Companis.
Juneau Brothers Performances
Ongoing
Recent performances include events at Aldeburgh Music, Ceri Hand Gallery, Matt’s Gallery, Fierce and Flatpack Festival and LICA Lancaster
Juneau Brothers is a music project with Joe Welden. Performances take the form of live music gigs, often within installations or against the backdrop of sound reactive projections. All the instruments are built by Juneau Brothers and are an attempt to create devices that operate both as music making tools and as sculptural objects.
Audio page here
Sang de Beouf
Juneau Brothers
Live at Croft Catstle. ‘Sang de Beouf’ is about the Ruskin pottery which produced ceramics in the Midlands, UK, from 1898 to 1935. When the factory closed the formulae for the glazes were destroyed and all the workers sworn to secrecy so that the pottery could never be reproduced.
Music created in Audiomulch triggered by homemade instruments.
Part of the ‘Tell it to the Trees’ exhibition organised by Medow Arts.
Echo Boom
2010
Commissioned by Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent
The piece consisted of a soundtrack and sound reactive projections. The projections showed paper cut-out models of effects units.
