Damien Robinson

Is an artist working with digital media focusing on the interplay between images, sounds and vibrations.

AWSoM at Banff NMI

Her artwork was originally print-based and 3D; often based on children’s stories and toys, it has been shown in venues as diverse as phone boxes and the National Art Library. From 1998 she has increasingly used digital techniques allowing her to work with media previously inaccessible to her and other deaf people. Works include De@fsite for the Photographers Gallery, Aerial – an x-space commission for inIVA - and Songbird, a sonic/acoustic work initiated in a LabCulture Residency exhibited as part of ‘Re:Thinking Time’ at Peterborough Digital Arts in 2004.

Recent projects include the Being Here project in Southend, and a commission for ‘Tales from The Boarders’ an exhibition on the history of Great Stoney, (a former residential school). Her practice is focusing on 'feel-sound', (exploring systems for capturing field recordings using vibration as opposed to manipulating pre-recorded sounds); ongoing work using ‘feel-sound’ includes a Percent for Art commission 'Arboreality' for Gloucestershire County Council, and MediaShed project AWSoM, the Ambient Weather Sound Machine.

AWSoM uses the weather to play foundsounds recorded by Damien in remote places. This project, in collaboration with Stuart Bowditch and the Mediashed has been installed at Two Tree Island in the Thames Estuary, Sutton with Shopland Music Festival and as part of "Interactive Screen 0.7 - User Friendly is Not Enough" at the BNMI in Banff, Alberta, Canada (August 2007). Damien also took part in Ars Electronica (as part of “Goodbye Privacy”), in Linz, Austria, with Stuart, showcasing the Mediashed project “Spy Kiting”.

She still hasn’t got round to developing her own website.

Ambient Weather Sound Machine

Tales From the Boarders

Aerial

inIVA digital archive

Songbird (initial web version for PVA)

Spy Kiting

Being Here