We saw all the colours at The Flip-Flop Flop-Film Film-Club and learned our alphabet with Xerxes who Must Die, And So Must You And I (2011). Wearing god helmets, we made Experimental Communications, wrapping copper wire around our bodies and haunted rocks, and we transmitted to broken televisions (2012). We touched the bare pins of circuitry and microcontrollers to display The Peacock’s Tail (2013). We walked to where the witches were burned, the warship sunk, and followed the steps of the Isdal Woman as Bergen Invocation (2015). We used salt water to reprogram a Turing Machine which we saw and heard execute its algorithms in Turing Tape Music: The Sea Is Ground (2016). We prototyped The Universal Transformation Machine (2018). We walked there and back, there and back, there and back, there and back, while live streaming in LOOPS (2020) and The Rose Walks (2021). All My Piksels is a performance which revisits all the past works I have been involved with at Piksel, remixing and refashioning their ideas, devices, sounds and images, into a momentary archive.
John Bowers is an artist-researcher with an academic background in the social and computing sciences, design, music and critical theory. As an improvising musician, he works with modular synthesisers, home-brew electronics, reconstructions of antique image and sound-making devices, self-made software, field recordings, esoteric sensor systems, experimental film, and spoken text. He often combines performance with walking and the investigation of selected sites to research an imagined discipline he calls ‘mythogeosonics’. He has performed at festivals including the collateral programme of the Venice Biennale, Experimental Intermedia New York, Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel Berlin, Piksel Bergen, Electropixel Nantes, BEAM London, Aldeburgh Festival and Spill Ipswich, and toured with the Rambert Dance Company performing David Tudor’s music to Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest. He contributed to the design of The Prayer Companion – a piece exhibited twice at the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and acquired for their permanent collection. Amongst many musical collaborations, he works with Sten-Olof Hellström, Tim Shaw, Kerry Hagan, with Paul Stapleton and Adam Pultz Melbye in the telematic improvising trio 3BP, and in the noise drone band Tonesucker. He helps coordinate the label Onoma Research, is a director of Allenheads Contemporary Arts, a trustee of Monkfish Productions, and a Visiting Scholar at SARC, Queen’s University Belfast. https://www.instagram.com/johnthemodulator/