Curiosity Collective

The Perfect Hindsight Machine - Cefn Hoile and Neill Keywood
A one-of -kind device developed by the US Military in the 1950s. Combining recovered alien technology with a state of the art RF receiver, it’s dial can tune into video action live from history all the way back to 1894.

Sands Everything - Cefn Hoile and Clare Bowman
An interactive digital hourglass, showing the seven ages of man through audio visual grains of sand.

The Tortoise and the Hare - Tom Juby
Two balls roll down an identical slope at different speeds.

Re-Possession - Angela McLellan
This piece was inspired by the rituals surrounding endings. A selection of items that have come to the end of their life with me, can they begin a new life with you?

Atmospherical Clocks - John Bowers
A collection of clocks which take their sense of the seconds, minutes and hours from fluctuations in atmospheric and environmental conditions including temperature, light, air pressure, electro-magnetism, sound and radioactivity.

Canto VII - Melanie Zimmermann
Realised using a Camera Obscura, better known as a Pinhole Camera. This ancient style of photography works without lenses. The camera is a simple box with a tiny hole, allowing the entering light to expose the film. Inspired by the works of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri my images should realise the beauty of the long lost memories of a different time and place, memories of Dante’s Paradise.

Reel to Reel - Mike Challis
Three tape recorders share one loop of tape and the operator can record sounds onto this loop. Sounds can be superimposed and feedback used to create complex soundscapes. The Elizabethan and the Robuk recorders belonged to Mike’s grandmother and the Garrard to his mother. They are about 50 years old now. The Akai is Mike’s from the 70s. He says “I thought it was normal to have a grandmother with a reel to reel recorder and this influence probably provided the seed for my sound work today.”

Weir(d) - Mike Challis
Exploring the strange world of weirs. The moving, but timeless, sometimes seemingly in stasis world of water flowing over a weir and the sounds of the turbulence in the pool beneath recorded underwater using hydrophones. Hypnotic, strange, Weir(d). Recorded during a walk of four days from Newmarket to Manningtree, the material begins at the ‘source’ of the Stour at Kirtling Green Pumping Station and then continues at various weirs on the Stour as it makes its way to the sea.

360 Degrees of the Year - Ross Mackenzie and David Chatting
A series of photographic prints summarising a year of daylight in different locations in the world.

train_clock - David Chatting
train_clock shows how the “shape” of the UK changes over th day with the coming and going of trains from Ipswich. Each of the “stars” is a different town, where it’s size reflects the population. As time passes, towns move closer as a train is about to arrive and spring back when it leaves.

At the exact moment - John Benton
Disasters are often marked by the recovery of stopped clocks that show the exact moment that the disaster happened.This piece takes an everyday annoyance - in this case running out of chocolate biscuits - and gives it unwarranted status by smashing a clock.

At the exact moment - John Benton
Disasters are often marked by the recovery of stopped clocks that show the exact moment that the disaster happened. This piece takes an everyday annoyance (in this case; running out of chocolate biscuits) and gives it unwarranted status by smashing a clock.

Atmospherical Clocks - John Bowers
A collection of clocks which take their sense of the seconds, minutes and hours from fluctuations in atmospheric and environmental conditions in St Mary’s, including temperature, light, air pressure, electro magnetism, sound, radioactivity.

Pendulum - Mike Challis
Inspired by Foucault’s Pendulum this item will explore, playfully, the swinging of a pendulum. It will have two modes of operation. The ‘bob’ can spread sand in patterns over the floor to give immediate feedback. It can also be left to swing and appear to rotate as the earth rotates under it. This should amount to about 12˚ per hour.

Reel to Reel - Mike Challis
Three tape recorders share one loop of tape and the operator can record sounds onto this loop. Sounds can be superimposed and feedback used to create complex soundscapes. The Elizabethan and the Robuk recorders belonged to Mike’s grandmother and the Garrard to his mother. They are about 50 years old now. The Akai is Mike’s from the 70s. He says, “I thought it was normal to have a grandmother with a reel to reel recorder and this influence probably provided the seed for my sound work today.“

Fates - Amanda Gower

Time-Traveling TV - Cefn Hoile
A television which allows viewers to tune between years of television and film history.

The Tortoise and the Hare - Tom Juby
Two balls roll down an identical slope at different speeds.
 
Time to Die - Angela McLellan, Tom Juby, John Bowers and Alex Healing
A death clock designed to encourage individuals to spend time considering their own death, with a little help from a curious raven and a cheery Charon.

Game of Death - Angela McLellan and Amanda Gower
Hours of fun to be had with your friends telling their deathly fortunes. The game of death: be afraid, be very afraid!

The End of the Road - Angela McLellan
A collection of graphic photographs depicting scenes of death.

Timepiece - prototype 1 - Anne-Laure Misme & Jennifer McColl
An interactive installation presented as part of their research methodology based on a constant development of prototypes.  It is part of long term project of data collection in which the concept lays on time, measuring everyday life actions looking at the analysis of the conditions in which the human body lives everyday conscious and unconscious actions.

The art piece portrays people’s time and activities throughout different hours of the day presenting a possibility to the audience to interact with the projection in term of presence/absence triggering a collection of videos from different timezones.

Almost right… - Chris Reason
Inspired by the many misunderstandings that happen in everyday life. Thymus x citriodorus.

Design-A-Clock - Ross Scrivener
An exploration of the forms of a clock face.

The Sun Never Sets - Ross Scrivener
Time is relative - at some point, somewhere in the world, it’s lunchtime. A computer programme takes still images from a global network of cameras from each minute for 24 hours.

Canto VII - Melanie Zimmermann
Realised using a Camera Obscura, better known as Pinhole Camera. This ancient style of photography works without lenses. The camera is a simple box with a tiny hole, allowing the entering light to expose the film. Inspired by the works of Italian poet Dante Alighieri my images should realise the beauty of the long lost memories of a different time and place, memories of Dante’s Paradise.

Judgment - Melanie Zimmermann
9 prints, each 9 x 9cm, of cemetery pinhole pictures. The number nine consists of 3 x 3 = Trinity. Completeness of completeness. ‘9’ is mentioned as the hour of prayer in the new testament. It is the last and largest digit and just before 10 - so a sense of ‘nearly there’. So ‘9’ in the bible stands for judgment or finality.

Darknoise - John Bowers & Angela McLellan
Sounds produced, heard and understood in the dark - of the dark, about the dark, from the dark.

Bubble Machine - David Chatting, Craig McCahill & Robert Lenne
A child’s toy modified to be triggered when a torch illuminates it in the dark making bubbles.

Can you keep it up in the dark? - Matthew C. Applegate
LED lights inside balloons. Challenging adults to play like children.

Inflatable Sculpture - Tom Juby & David Chatting
Explores the use of light and air to create an illusion of life.

Drawing in Light - David Chatting & Tom Juby
Drawing with light pens in the air, computer vision simulating a long exposure photograph.

(de)construction - Tom Juby & David Chatting
Reprojection of an old photograph back into the space, interacting with computer generated objects.

Laser Light - Tom Juby
Laser shins through a rotating lumia wheel to generate interference patterns.

Cock Robin - Angela McLellan & John Bowers
Cock Robin is a natural sound observation experiment of this active night songbird.

Reflections in Cider - David Chatting
An interactive video mirror made from 64 cider bottles.

Lunula - Mike Challis
In Lunula a culture of living Pyrocystis Lunula algae in seawater create their own light when agitated by sound waves.

Trickle Down - Jonathan Clift
An animation of LEDs light trickling down the wall, reflecting on economic theory.

The Cube - Chris Reason
Make a path through the EL wire maze.