Nye Thompson

CU Soon, 2023-2024

4–6 channel video installation with 3D sound

Ed. of 3 + 2 AP

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6 channel video installation documenting Nye Thompson’s performance piece for humans and satellites. The artist created a series of postcards for satellites and transmitted them out into space as radio signals. During the brief transmission periods these postcards could be received by passing satellites. The satellites respond by broadcasting them back to Earth. During this human-satellite dialogue each postcard image is entirely deconstructed and created anew - transformed by the satellite's intervention and the extraterrestrial journey.

 

 

ABOUT Nye Thompson

Nye Thompson (b. 1966) is an artist turned software designer turned artist. Her work spans image-making, video and sculptural installation, film-making, archiving, mapping, experimental software architectures and process-based performance. Thompson has shown internationally at locations including Tate Modern, Barbican, The Lowry, The V&A, ZKM Karlsruhe, Chronus Art Center, Ars Electronica and The Louvre. Her work has been featured on BBC, Radio 4, Channel 4 News, CNN, Flash Art, the Guardian and Wired. Thompson made the world’s first AI horror film for machines and has exchanged postcards with orbiting satellites. Her very first solo show in 2016 - described by C4 News as “too shocking to broadcast” - became global clickbait and triggered an international government complaint. She has been called “a contemporary Jacques Cousteau” (Bob & Roberta Smith) and “the new Big Brother” (Vogue).

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