Using the situation of the street as a starting point, Camera trap uses standard cctv cameras to capture the images of passersby in a passive somewhat accidental (without motion sensor) mode, otherwise similar to hidden camera wildlife ‘photography’ technique. A storefront…
American pavilion is an exhibition of minimalist works that sets out to say something about America from a distance. The room of works takes as a starting point the fancy that an imaginary artist was chosen to represent the United…
The images in Next door neighbor started their digital life as files saved on the DVR of a real neighbor, an IRL found footage source. The covert gathering of visual information by CCTV seems a familiar environment to working with…
Set in an abandoned Beijing factory, For Display Only featured an assemblage of beauty salon shop barber poles re-purposed as stage prop for a series of performances during the run of the exhibition – the 798 arts festival Beijing, China 2007.
Jeff Gompertz has worked under various aliases during his career including Fakeshop, which he formed as a collective in 1997. Fakeshop instigated many local and international projects in the early days of .net art experimentation and was included in the…
Icon / Empire is a durational fixed frame video work begun in late 2019. Its subject is the tower block of Icon Siam, a supersized luxury mall and residence completed in 2018. The building, much touted as an “icon of…
Vanitas is a set of video works produced within the format and medium of live stream. The sessions are recorded in real time and the original scene is marked with a time-date stamp courtesy of Youtube. The video is not…
The practice involves the situation of the street as a natural environment. Using this as a starting point, i have conducted various iterations of ‘field recording’ – wherein the use of found sound and video results in accidental composition –…
BLANK FILLER seeks to distill and extract the ‘objectness’ of forms in a compare and contrast situation. The beauty of the object and the viewer reaches a co-equal state of objectification. ie: ‘degraded to the status of a mere object’.…
why did you started working with closed circuit cameras? I started working with ‘Net broadcasting’ as an art strategy around 1993, the equipment wasn’t ‘closed circuit cameras’, this was the early days of webcams, so the equipment plugged into the…