Ken
Hudson's Android
Meme Cycle is a trilogy of inter-media works that explore contemporary
life and its technological extensions.
Definition:
Android Meme - Automated self-replicating unit of cultural transmission;
machines communicating with machines.
Hamlet's
Echo (The Android Me and Me) - June 2004
An experimental adaptation of Hamlet using cell phones to deliver and
record fragmentary dialogue while performers mingle covertly in public
spaces.Audience members attempt to discern action and performer from random
passersby by eavesdropping. Staged simultaneously in Toronto (at the meridian
of Toronto magnetic marker, King's College Circle) and in Times Square,
New York City (via web cam). All footage, audio, photographs, and digital
media of this enactment will be used to create a complete filmed-art narrative
presentation. Learn more about Hamlet's Echo
here.
The
Tribal Complexes - debut June 2005 A
series of constructed environmental installations that act as medium for
artistic performance and for user participation. Numbered 1-88, each piece
intends to echo a complex of the multi-dimensional and seamless nature
of the mixed-media corporate environment both in its iconic sense (objective)
and in its immersive quality (subjective). Styled as living symbolic structures,
each of the Tribal Complexes explores the mystical relationship between
our selves and our extensions, the archetypes of the social unconscious,
by exploiting the collision between the esoteric and the trivial. This
work debuts June 2005 as part of a group show at the Open
Space Gallery, Victoria, BC. For more
information click here for The Tribal Complexes page.
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