Distillery Gallery   South Boston   April 2008

 
"Reallusions" is a photographic and mixed-media installation presenting a combination of invented realities, sensations, and memories with internal spaces, life forms, and landscapes. Depicted are familiar, yet illusionary worlds operating under elsewhere rules, balanced between the Real and Imaginary realms.

The show fuses together the independent approaches of John Hyde and Lalie Schewadron to a singular purpose - interweaving their very different invented worlds in an attempt to offer an exhibition that simultaneously speaks of past, present, and the future.

press   installation view   animation   lalie   hyde   distillery gallery

Lounge/Monika Bobinska   London   April 2007

 
"Hybrids" is a cross media installation intended to create an extraordinary landscape of 'hybrid' realities through digitally manipulating complex medical photographs and photographs from nature to create new images, entities with a 'life' of their own.

The installation is created by building up layers of digital images, acrylic painting, wall drawings and interactive projections to create a world of invented hybrids which draws the viewer into questioning the nature of reality, perception, fiction and chance.

images   installation view   quicktime movie   flash animation   lounge, london

Copley Society of Art   Boston   August 2007

 
In "Synthesis" traditional and new digital media are combined to suggest new spaces and forms of engagments with our scientific, technological and natural worlds.

The work draws on current scientific developments - from synthetic biology to genetic engineering - in an attempt to suggest a previously unknown reality, which writes its own basic elements, building units and sets of rules.

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University of London Central Saint Martins   London   September 2005

 
Getting Closer and Getting Further Away is a body of work that explores possible experiences with ideas such as growth, expansion and Infinity often based on theories and observations such as Leibniz's paradox of infinite series, Mandelbrot's development of the Fractals Geometry and Hubble's observation that the universe is not static, but actually it is expanding.

While transforming images obtained from our nearby environment the work aims to create a universal system that defines its own building units and set of rules: If many structures in our world are made of small building 'units', could growth happen through a reproduction of additional building units, or directly due to the growth in size of the building units themselves? Or, alternatively, could it be that the distance between each unit may progressively increase, resulting in a growing structure, similarly to the current theory of the expansion of the Universe?

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