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Alex Bishop-Thorpe

Eight-Bit Panopticon

Eight-Bit Panopticon takes a GameBoy Camera, fifteen metres of cable, half a dozen hand-built circuit boards, a small motor and a car battery and uses the 0.1 megapixel device to reinterpret the Australian landscape as black and white, three-hundred-and-sixty degree panoramas. In recasting the landscape as a leisured space and literally a stage for play, this work endeavours to interrogate the role photography plays win the cultural domestication of space. Printed with a GameBoy thermal printer, the resulting images are ephemeral, and will slowly fade on the walls of the gallery as the camera rotates in the centre of the space, piling a long tickertape feed of the audience at it’s base.

Bio:

Alex Bishop-Thorpe is a South Australian Photographic Artist working in a wide range of experimental techniques and materials, frequently implementing automatic apparatus, clunky mechatronics and interactive presentations. Alex has exhibited nationally since 2012, undertaken residencies internationally, and is co-founder of The Analogue Laboratory, a photographic facility and darkroom working with artists, industry bodies and the public in Adelaide.