Damien is an artist working with digital media focusing on the interplay between images, sounds and vibrations.
Her artwork was originally print-based and 3D; often based on children’s stories and toys, it has been shown in venues as diverse as phone boxes and the National Art Library. From 1998 she has increasingly used digital techniques allowing her to work with media previously inaccessible to her and other deaf people. Works include De@fsite for the Photographers Gallery, Aerial (an x-space commission for inIVA), Songbird, a sonic/acoustic work initiated in a LabCulture Residency exhibited as part of ‘Re:Thinking Time’ at Peterborough Digital Arts, and AWSoM, the Ambient Weather Sound Machine (with Stuart Bowditch).
More recent projects includes Vibe³ (Vibe Cube) a commission for Essex County Council shown in sites across Essex in 2009, (see Vibe³) commissioned work for Outside09 a new version of the Vibe Cube for TAP Gallery, and 'Automatic Listening', (commissioned by FirstSite). These projects are in collaboration with Stuart Bowditch.
Current projects include 'Journey to the Podium', one of six commissions from Essex County Council, and 'Signpost', which will be previewed at Metal's Village Green event in September 2010.
This website is an ongoing work in progress. Please contact me if you need information that you can't find on the site at present.
Email me at damien [at] damienrobinson [dot] co [dot] uk
Photo by Benedict Johnson
NEWS
Signpost will be previewed at Village Green, Chalkwell Park, 25 September 2010. You can read more about the project here Signpost website
2-23 July 2010: Vibe³ Southend goes on show at TAP Gallery as part of 'Now
It Feels As It Should Be', curated by Jonathan Kipps and Amy Mckenny'. Still a few days to contribute sounds, if you live or work in the area. See Vibe Cube Southend for details, and Vibe Cube dropsite for a preview of some sounds already donated, before the Cube mixes them.
Vibe Cube at BAC: Accidental Festival Thanks to the Accidental Team for their support; photos from the event here.
Vibe Cube at BAC: Accidental Festival The Cube goes on show for three days at the Accidental Festival at Battersea Arts Centre, 28-30 May. More info here (BAC site) and here (Accidental Festival site).
Automatic Listening, commissioned by firstsite, is now online here. For more information about the project and the residencies that inspired it see FirstSite Gallery, or the Automatic Listening page on this site.
'Open Space; conversations on place, people and art' Vibe Cube features in the new Essex County Council publication 'Open Space; conversations on place, people and art', featuring essays by artist and curator Jane Watt, and conversations on each of the four Open Space projects. The Vibe Cube conversation is with Martin Astell, archivist at Essex Sound and Video Archive. You can download a pdf of the publication from the Vibe Cube page on this site.
Vibe Cube: London Showings The Cube goes on show at two London venues in the next few months; a special one-off, one day showing at ambient.space 20th March, plus a showing at the Accidental Festival at Battersea Arts Centre, 28-30 May. More details about the latter to be posted as they come in.
July 2010: Vibe³ Southend goes on show at TAP Gallery. Dates tbc, but if you live in the area, you can contribute sounds to the project. See Vibe Cube Southend for details, and Vibe Cube dropsite for a sneak preview of some sounds already donated.
Genius Loci will be the subject of the Winter 2010 edition of Art and Architecture Journal and the linked conference (date tbc). See Art & Architecture conferences
