POINTING
Brady Marks

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DO NOT READ THIS UNTIL YOU'VE ENGAGED WITH THE WORK

Pointing - the Development of the Stalking Gaze poised as we are at induction of Cybernetic Vision in the context of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).

Hey you! This one-liner of digital media art presents a sensitive kinetic sculpture, an art object instantiated as such by a gallery plinth. The art however lies in the inter-play of the object and the viewer, identified by the art and its pointer – a disembodied archetypal authority figure. This cheap cop fingers you amongst many. Hey You! Who are You? How do you stand? Identified? Accused? Betrayed?

In this "experiment" we ask if you have evolved or adapted to feel a stalking gaze when you are pointed out by the nameless inhuman authority of technological vision. Is this blind justice enacted through the logic of the system? Extended into the realm of designed public environments, it hopes to highlight everyday tyranny and our response: ‘ho hum’, ‘so it goes’, ‘deal’, etc…

– Brady Marks

Brady Marks

Brady Marks is a collaborative artist who manipulates light and sound, most often employing software and electronics. The results are light and sound emitting objects or installations, which work to reverse established lines of flow, pointing at what is present but not seen. Most ideally she is involved in the creation of cultural hypotheses, and prototypes for living. Her work has been presented in Canada, Europe and Asia.

Marks was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her first degree in Computer Science wore out her desire for efficiency and did not fully prevent a hot sun from warming her body. No longer in the basements of the Cape Town University but still missing the sun in Vancouver, Canada, she has been making a practice of swimming in as many art pools as possible. This has taken her collaborations to SIGGAPH, DEAF and the Gwangu Biennale and allowed her to work regularly with some of Canada's most favoured residents, including Judy Radul, Geoffrey Farmer & Chris Welsby.