Relation 2010 Biro pen on paper, Clay, wood, Book

For Contents May Vary’s Cu exhibition under the Palace Hotel as part of the Future Everything festival 2010

If visual art in its more traditional sense is different than New Media Art then what bonds are there between them and what separates them? What are they? As someone based heavily in the traditional visual Art camp I have always had the simple idea that New media Art is something with a tele or some electronics in it. What is my relationship to New Media Art as a Visual Artist? I’m told that John Logie Baird is my great grand mothers cousin. He died penniless despite being the inventor of broadcast television.

The images above show a family tree using elements from the schematics for Baird’s television to replace the branches. A Ladybird book illustrating the invention of television and how it works. A bust of Mr baird based on the style of sculpt used for the bust on display in his home town. This particular bust has been made in order to give the inventor of broadcast tele a more heroic look opposed to the fat misshapen one he ended up with.

All images copyright Richard shields.