Subvert Systems: New Works by Warren Handley

Overview

In an age when most of us carry our entire digital worlds on a device as small as a pack of playing cards, there is no question that technology has become so thoroughly ingrained in our everyday lives that we barely notice it’s there. While technological progress is generally considered beneficial to the majority, our increasing reliance on it is worth examining critically.

Through Subvert Systems, multimedia artist Warren Handley raises questions about consumers’ passive acceptance of everyday technologies by altering the intended function of those technologies. He interrupts flatbed scanners, twisting the resulting imagery into visual representations of the theoretical distortions and ‘information holograms’ left when matter passes through black holes. The exhibition will feature the artist’s digital collages and experimental videos.

Subvert Systems is the debut exhibition for new gallery This Must be the Place, recently opened in the Bakery Lane development. An opening night event will be held on Friday 25 September, with the exhibition continuing to 23 October.

Image: Warren Handley, Magnetic Field Collapse, 2015, Digital collage/manipulation