Gus Skottowe

"I channel the pursuits of the artist and technologist into the same stroke of creation. The objects I produce tend to remix cues from the various technological environments that have enwrapped humanity at different points in time. My medium is cross dimensional, often splicing the crafts, beliefs and materials of old with the technologies, concepts and the immaterial of the present. 

I understand technology to be an extension of mind in the form of virtual systems of thought and the physical embodiments of it. Everything from Language, magic and spiritual beliefs; to fire, hammers and smart phones is a form of technology; and yes I include art in this; however I leave you with the question is art the technology or technology the art?" -Gus Skottowe

Gus is a Technologist and in equal measure an Artist.

A Technician of visual culture and a romantic expeditionary of the Technological realm.

Seeing Art as a Technology and Technology as an Art.

An Alchemist of the subjective and objective expression.

An endless pursuer of the equilibria between meaning and function.
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Digital Stained Glass Trefoil Window 

Shortlisted Artwork
Rituals of the Technium in RGB

The pixel is one of the most fundamental units of our digital existences. It is the inconspicuous messenger of our contemporary narratives; a virtual chameleon rendering the latest reality upon our screens. 

In ode of this virtual atom, Rituals of the Technium in RGB converges the screen pixel with its technological ancestor: the stained glass window, a medieval tool of light used to relay the religious doctrines of its time. 

This hybridised object attempts to fuse the traditional craft of stained glass with the concepts of modern electronic engineering, where the spiritual essence of an ancient craft meets the imperceivable magic of modern science. 

The piece takes the form of a pixelated trefoil arched window, a commonly used architectural feature of religious gothic architecture. However, instead of offering the icons of spiritual faith, it instead relays a series of raw yet mesmerising digital imagery and artefacts sourced from the new age doctrine of networked information.

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Projects

Synthesised Ecologies Are Birthed

Steel Conduit, Electrical Sockets, Plywood, Motors & Miscellaneous Electronics
180 cm x 250 cm x 150cm

This installation presents a synthesised ecosystem. Roaming around it are mechanically trembling unitsormed of technological components dissected from discarded electronic utilities, such as computers, ventilation fans and microwaves. They are controlled by a self-generating, autonomous algorithm which eventually leads them to pulling the plug on themselves. Entangled in the metallic stems; bearing the fruits of electricity, are the flat pack sheets from which the units have been birthed.

Anthropocentric Ecologies Bloom

Binary Data
∞ cm x ∞ cm x ∞ cm

Anthropocentric Ecologies Bloom is a series of sculptural animations composed of 3D scanned ‘Urban Totems’ that Gus captured around London; they are often tall old infrastructures that have been repurposed as mobile phone masts. One of them is an old chimney stack, a former infrastructure for a coal fuelled age now repurposed to pump out binary data. The other is a Church steeple, a once assertively spired obelisk which now stands as an amputated forbearer of faith; it is crowned and conquered by our new Neo-religious desire for digital information.

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