Migrations #2 - Nicholas Brooks

Nicholas Brooks: end_stop_repeat_forget_series

In the annals of the history of the computer can be found a curious programmable antecedent. The Jacquard was a device developed to replace the human operator of the part of a weaving loom that creates the pattern. The films and lecture explore this early stage of a new method of reproduction and the moment of separation between the visual idea and its mechanical dislocation, between the thought and its iteration into machine pattern.

Screenings:

end_stop_repeat_forget_series (2013)
Record of Tyes (2013)

Nicholas Brooks is a London-based artist working across film, sculpture and installation and a lecturer/visiting lecturer at The Cass, The Architectural Association, Slade School of Fine Art and Central Saint Martins. He has exhibited at MOT, V22, Vitrine, Bold Tendencies and the Jerwood Space among others. His films have been shown internationally at venues such as the Garage Screen in Moscow, Rotterdam and Berlinale film festivals, Reina Sofia Madrid and have toured venues across the UK, United States and Japan.

Image: Nicholas Brooks, end_stop_repeat_forget_series, 2013, film still.