Michael Takeo Magruder (b.1974, US/UK) is an artist and researcher based in King’s Visualisation Lab, located in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic journalism to digital formalism and computational aesthetics, deploying Information Age technologies and systems to examine our networked, media-rich world.
Michael's projects have been showcased in over 200 exhibitions in 30 countries, and his work has been funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Arts Council England and The National Endowment for the Arts, USA. He has been commissioned by numerous public galleries in the UK and abroad and by the leading Internet Art portal Turbulence.org. Several of his most well-known artworks have been included in Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University, USA.
Insurance.AES256
Composed: 05.2011
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash, Reader plugins and audio.
Commissioned by: QUAD, UK for the All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism exhibition.
A project reflecting on issues of information freedom and secrecy in today's ever-shifting media landscape.
Data Flower (Prototype I)
Composed: 11.2010
Requirements: Internet browser with Cortona3D plugin and 5.1 audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.
A generative virtual blossom algorithmically constructed in real-time from society's representations of flowers.
(in)Remembrance [11-M]
Composed: 10.2010
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash, Reader plugins and audio.
Commissioned by: Manifesta Foundation, NL for Manifesta 8: the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia (Spain).
A series of interrelated artistic interventions and works reflecting on the Madrid train bombings of 2004.
Vanishing Point(s)
Composed: 07.2010
Requirements: PC/Mac with Second Life
Commissioned by: Digital Humanities 2010, London, UK.
A large-scale installation conjoining the principles of ancient Roman fresco art with digital virtual worlds in the idiom of stained glass.
Changing Room
Composed: 12.2009
Requirements: PC/Mac with Second Life.
Funded by: Arts Council England - Digital Content Development (DCD) Programme.
A mixed-reality installation exploring the mutability and reusability of artefacts, concepts and situations in the Digital Age.
Data_Plex (economy)
Composed: 04.2009
Requirements: Internet browser with Cortona3D, Windows Media plugins and 5.1 audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.
A networked, real-time 3D installation that is generated from and evolves with the global financial markets.
Data_Sea
Composed: 03.2009
Requirements: Internet browser with Cortona3D, Flash, Windows Media plugins and 5.1 audio.
Funded by: Arts Council England and Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum, UK for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
A real-time virtual environment based upon the relationship between broadcast media and astronomy.
Last Days...
Composed: 12.2008
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Commissioned by: Oog online, De Volkskrant, NL.
A dedication to the memory of the 390 Palestinians and 4 Israelis who died as a result of renewed violence on the 27th of December 2008.
Reflection (hope and reconciliation)
Composed: 11.2008
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.
The re-mediation of a moment, that through the distillation of its aesthetic elements we experience with changed, but undiminished intensity.
(endless) Wall
Composed: 05.2008
Requirements: PC with the Cortona3D plugin and 5.1 audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.
An online virtual 3D environment that symbolizes the impassable barriers we purposefully construct within our society.
The Vitruvian World
Composed: 02.2008
Requirements: PC/Mac with Second Life, Internet Browser with the Flash plugin and audio.
Commissioned by: Turbulence.org with funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
A multi-nodal artwork that exists in three distinct yet interconnected spaces - the virtual, the physical, and the network connecting them.
Sequence (horizon)
Composed: 08.2007
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Funded by: the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Exploring the permutations of a thousand sequential and isolated moments in time recompiled into an ever-changing algorithmic montage.
Sequence (labyrinth)
Composed: 08.2007
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Funded by: the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Narrative fragments (extracted from an isolated experience) that are endlessly recombined into an unending recollection of a moment.
Continuum...
Composed: 02.2007
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Commissioned by: Oog online, De Volkskrant, NL.
A reflection upon the real-time evolution of our collective existence as defined by the sum of an infinite number of interconnected global events.
Monolith[s]
Composed: 05.2006
Requirements: PC with the Cortona3D, Flash, Windows Media plugins and 5.1 audio.
Commissioned by: Turbulence.org with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA.
A networked, real-time virtual world blending icons of pre-history with aesthetics of the information age.
World[s]
Composed: 05.2006
Requirements: PC with the Cortona3D, Flash plugins and 5.1 audio.
Commissioned by: Soundtoys.net with funding from Arts Council England.
A series of infinitely complex virtual sculptures generated from a single word.
Re_collection
Composed: 10.2005
Requirements: Computer or mobile device with internet browser, the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.
A search to reveal the underlying 'truth' to our most intimate of recollections that exist between dream and remembrance.
Data_cosm
Composed: 07.2005
Requirements: PC with the Cortona3D and Flash plugins.
Commissioned by: Arts Council England for Net:Reality.
An examination of the chronological archives generated by news media and of the dynamic information structures that mediate this process.
Encoded Presence
Composed: 02.2005
Requirements: Computer or mobile device with internet browser, the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.
An examination of the classical genre of portraiture through the re-purposing of a mobile phone into a cinematic instrument.
[ Fallujah . Iraq . 31/03/2004 ]
Composed: 10.2004 (version 1) 06.2005 (version 2)
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Commissioned by: Arts Council England for EAST International 2005.
A consideration of an event we have (or have not) witnessed, and a reflection on the iconic nature of conflict in this new millennium.
< Event >
Composed: 03.2004
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Commissioned by: Turbulence.org with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA.
A reflection upon the minute, isolated events of which our history, in an empirical sense, is composed.
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