Breach Candy Group

Insomnia – Experiments with Infrared (at Kashmir, India)

Infrared photography experiments on a bright sunny day in Kashmir, India - Olympus E520 + Hoya R72.

(WHAT IS) THE WHITE MATTER?

For the past year, we have been working feverishly behind the scenes on our new film (What is) the White Matter? The film combines into a 50-minute package everything we hold dear at Breach Candy Group: creative use ...

INTERGENERATIONAL JUKEBOX

BCG has been giving a bit of our expertise to a community arts project in Wood Green, London. The project - titled Intergenerational Jukebox - brought together professional artists, actors, youngsters and retired people to perform and create ...

RESEARCH/TECHNOLOGY: The Internet of Nature?

Our latest project looks at the different ways we can use emerging digital technology to help understand the environmental changes taking place today especially in rural Asia and Africa. That is, if proper ecological management and knowledge ...

BOOK: Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change

We are publishing a book chapter that sketches out the kind of work we are doing in a slightly more academic setting. The book Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change is published by Routledge and its fancy description at ...

EXPERIMENT: Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall (Processing)

“Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall…” I have been wanting to play with Processing canvases that reflect one’s social state on the web, and I finally got around to it. Above is a screen grab of my Processing canvas - the ...

DIGITAL ART: Sounds Like Graffiti

For the past six months Matti and Surpreet have been providing some BCG expertise (as the digital artist & the technology poet) to an innovative UK-based community art project in ...

PHOTOGRAPHY: London in Infrared

Few summer days in London this year (2010) were bright enough to warrant some IR photography experiments, and this is a result of that. Olympus E-520 remains a superb ...

DIGITAL ART: the uncanny valley

Whenever I get time away from the more classical research- or development-oriented work, it is good to keep up with the latest developments in ...

DIGITAL ART: Apocalypse tourism

During the 2009 winter protest in London - Gaza, G8 - I wanted to push the boundaries of digital photography one step ...

EXPERIMENTS: the electronic palette (PROCESSING)

Every time I get back to my amateurish coding and learning the potential of Processing, I am always surprised and fascinated how just a few lines of even bad code provide complex and occasionally pleasing results. And this is even before I have gone properly into more ...

RESEARCH/EXPERIMENTS: AML (aesthetics mark-up language)

So in our never-ending quest for the Idea, we have been recently throwing around some ideas around AI, aesthetics and creativity. To understand this particularly strange one, however, I probably will need to provide a few words of background to the wider project that we are interested in. I ...