Re-writing the overcode
Charlie Tweed’s practice based PhD research project ‘Re-writing the overcode’ has developed from in depth research around the history, materialities and agency of machinic technologies and their relationship with theories of control. During the PhD he firstly created a number of video works which have tested out particular ‘escape routes’ and new forms of machine assemblage voiced by various non human personas. For the final output he has developed a large scale audio work ‘The Signal and the Rock’ along with an accompanying publication that channels the utterances of the post-human ‘ghosts’ of obsolete and decaying technologies from a fictional research space located below one of the world’s largest e-waste sites.
Charlie Tweed (GB), born in 1974, is an artist and academic based in Bristol. He has an MFA in Art Practice from Goldsmiths, London, and is currently completing his Arts and Humanities Research Council funded PhD at Kingston University. Recent solo shows include: “Notes I, II & III” at Spike Island, Bristol; “Animate Projects” and “Alma Enterprises”, London; “i am algorithm” at Aspex, Portsmouth and Exeter Phoenix. Recent group shows include: WRO Media Art Beinnale: Draft Systems (2017); “Selected VI” (videoclub touring programme); “Both Sides Now III: Screenings in East Asia” (videoclub); “Silent Signal” (multiple venues); Oberhausen Short Film Festival; “Cold Bodies, Warm Machines”, NRW-Dusseldorf; Inland Art Festival; “dragged down into lowercase” (Sommerakademie) at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland; “The Box Season 5”, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales; “The London Open”, Whitechapel Gallery.
