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A curated exhibition showcasing new work from four leading media artists based in the North East of England. All the artists playfully explore the use of software as a tool to create work that subverts the conventional use of the technology. Beautiful Square by James Hutchinson depicts the movement of a white pixel (extracted from Final Cut Pro software) across black space. By removing the square from the original software and controlling its movement through key frame animation he alludes to both retro computer game Pong and inverts Malevich's painting Black Square. Clive Jackson's work follows this aesthetic of the pixel. In Laptop Dancers we are presented with moving black pixels which gradually emerge into a figurative image of male and female club dancers. Jackson is interested in the process of stripping images to their core components of black and white values. Dominic Smith works with live streaming in Micro Psychic, linking a clairvoyant in the northern seaside town of South Shields to the ICA. A remote digital fortune telling experience! Sneha Solanki will be creating a new networked piece for the ICA, three connected machines will slowly infect each other with a virus through the interface of short story narrative, leading to irrational behaviour and communication between the computers in a programmed and controlled environment. Additional programming on James Hutchinson's work by Andrew Richardson.

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