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=MadeScapes ^=

MadeScapes is a collaborative art practice comprised of three artists (Tom Johnson, Will Kendrick, Lewk Wilmshurst), one writer (Trevor H Smith), one graphic designer (Garry Edison Cook) and one photographer (Hannah Wilmshurst). Established in 2011 as a loose group of 13 visual artists, 'MadeScapes ^' has since refined and expanded it's roster of contributors whilst continuing to exhibit across the UK and in Europe.

Drawing on individual and collective experience in a rapidly evolving digital world, MadeScapes creates installations which feed from and into the individual practices of its members, whose varied theoretical approaches converge on the common themes of digital culture, online aesthetics, and the post-human experience.

MadeScapes presents a visually diverse but thematically cohesive body of work; stemming from a range of conceptual premises, from the natural world to video games, from digital culture to history and taste, these eclectic origins, activities, and sensibilities reflect the hyper-saturated, data-drenched forms and habits of information exchange in the 21st century.

Traditional media such as painting and carpentry are placed in parallel with text on social media platforms, and looped blog videos, to create a unique visual experience, from future archaeological dig to broadband-enabled desert island castaway.

=Early Projects=

Jack Addis, Nic Marshall, Alex Hughes, Lizzie Cannon, Poppy Pitt, Julie McAlden, Alex Cotterell, Laurie Lax, Robert Prideaux, Matthew Denniss, Eliot Sargeantson, Will Kendrick, Tom Johnson.

=Bristol Biennial=

in 2012 the group took part in the first Bristol Biennial, with a pair of shows investigating post internet narratives.

http://bristolbiennial.co.uk/

Server
notable members leaving - alex and jack

server-browser.com
http://server-browser.tumblr.com/ http://browser-user.tumblr.com/

=Untitled BCN=

"What If Not Everyone Goes Along With This?" residency

=post internet narratives continued=

proxy/charlie levine interplay/44ad/artolo crack in the road

=Trawler=

'Everything at once imagine that this up here doing this and some of these over here while this one down here just plays on a loop to be able to see the whole thing frontstage and back in fact you shouldn’t even be able to tell the difference it should just all be on all the time constantly viewable from all angles because everything is equal now that’s what the last decade sorted out did it not I mean it is all fair game from instant selfshots to instant headlessness in a single click not even a single click just there always on even if I am not watching it I want it to be running in the background let the player watch it for me I don not have to actually see these things happen to know that they are there because the player is seeing them in place of me as long as the thing is running the clip is playing the music is progressing then it has been seen just not necessarily by anyone in person but being played is the same as being seen we have established that like tweeting out into the ether and all of your friends have stopped following you or in fact are still following you so you are playing your theme to the world but everyone has removed you from their feed so no-one is actually seeing the things you post anymore and you even suspect this to be the case because no-one ever comments but you carry on anyway because the interaction comes when you comment on the things that other people write and they reply so it serves as a diversion from all your unheard and unread status updates if social networking is you in a room with everyone you know and you have the microphone then the reality of Facebook is you in a room with everyone you know and you have the microphone but the microphone is turned off or unplugged or everyone is wearing headphones listening to someone else or has earplugs in listening to no-one but their own voice only not through the movements of air molecules and vibrations of their eardrums but through the resonance of their voice through their own bones and on it goes on and on always on everywhere everything at once being listened to or viewed by the players not the viewers and not in one window but open in new tab open in new tab new tab new tab new tab so that you have constant access to everything at once'

performance pole dancers multiple photographers

=I Used To Be An Adventurer Like You=

palette change minimal dead palm more polished heavier messages of human capacity for cooperative acheivements

=first london show/retrospective and cancellation