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Rob Smith,'Beacon', 2011 sees a road traffic beacon installed in the garden of the
Agency Gallery, London.   A camera captures an image of it at regular intervals and adds
the image to an animation sequence. At sunset each day the piece is activate and will
broadcast the beacon live from the Agency until dawn.The two intervals, the flashing of
the light and the capturing of the images are not synchronised. During the course of the
night randomly generated pattern of on-off is created in an expanding animation sequence. _______________________________________________________________

 

 

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Rob Smith, Radiometer, live broadcast conceptual piece, part of 'What If?' Exhibtion with Antti Laitinen,
Lemin Sissay, True Solvang Vevatne, and Yael Bartana

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Rob Smith, Parts per Million,2002,drawing on fabriano 4 paper, 91.5 x 70.5 cm,framed, 1000 hand punched holes corresponding in relative size and proportion to the constituent gases in air
RS DR 001
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Rob Smith, Parts per Million,Installation View , left Rob Smith, right Cornelia Parker
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Rob Smith, Field,2010, digital drawing , coloursampled drawings traced from live video
of a landscape
RS DR 002
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Rob Smith, Bramble, 2010, digital drawing , coloursampled drawings traced from live video
of a landscape
RS DR 002
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Rob Smith, Scanner, 2010, projected live colourscan from video footage, Installation View, The Agency, London
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Rob Smith, Colour Samples, Dengie Penninsual a 2009, Colour Sample Video, mixed and recorded live on site using portable technology. Video Images are scanned pixel by pixel displaying the colours as the landscape is revealed, Video Still
RS COLOUR SAMPLE 001
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Rob Smith, Colour Samples, Dengie Penninsual a 2009, Colour Sample Video, mixed and recorded live on site using portable technology. Video Images are scanned pixel by pixel displaying the colours as the landscape is revealed, Video Still
RS COLOUR SAMPLE 001

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Rob Smith

Selected Work

Windscale/ Scanner/Other
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