Many of the pieces in the exhibition were no longer working. This is a huge downfall of digital artwork that i had not considered.
My favourite work on show - Owen Bowden
Crimewave is a radiophonic police drama featuring live police radio from across America. Police radio communications from several cities are intercepted and fed live over the net to the Watermans building where they are combined and layered with tense incidental music.
Disembodied voices report with nonchalance the sometimes chilling criminal proceedings of the cities made the more chilling with the realisation that the events unfolding to the listener are in the present and not a recording. These real events though are dramatised through the artificial imposition of the filmic soundtrack. The work explores themes of privacy, policing, radio and the relationship between reality, drama and soundtrack.
[Taken from 'Unleashed Devices Catalogue']
http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/archive/unleashed-devices.aspx
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