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Steven Dickie

Steven Dickie is in his final year on the MFA Fine Art course at The Slade School of Art. Having exhibited at Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), The LAB (Dublin), PopUp Gallery (London), he is currently working towards a solo show at the Ruskin in Oxford. Society’s relationship with technology is the focus of Dickie’s practice, which spans sculpture, sound, drawing and digital media. Central to his work is an examination of the systems and technologies that are rooted within our societies' psyche. While the conjectural possibility of the future is based on our ability to gather, store and process different forms of knowledge, Dickie seeks a means to collapse the boundaries between past, present and future and to compile all knowledge into a point of immediate recognition so society can fulfill its potential.

The Hunt for the Unavoidable Future, 2009 |

Sculpture

234cm x 107cm x 81cm

Mixed media and analog radio receivers

The Hunt for the Unavoidable Future is an adapted piano designed to trigger eighty-eight analogue radio receivers. Each is tuned to an 88th increment of the spectrum. The instruments function is dependent entirely on the content broadcast across the whole network at that specific time and to that specific location. It enables the exploration and examination of societies cultural activity in relation to place and time.

£16,500
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