Web/graphic design, moving image, sound and artistic enquiry into hardware/software/code.
Oscar Cass-Darweish is a digital practitioner with skills in web/graphic design, video, sound and creative coding. Practice in these areas extends to artistic inquiry concerned with the struggle for autonomy at the limits of digital modes of representation. Aesthetic and critical methods from part of a Critical Technical Practice that aims to figure human-technical relationships in the space of hardware, software and code.
Opaque technical processes are deconstructed and re-presented to allow for alternative modes of understanding through performative engagement. Interaction with audiovisual aspects of surveillance related models that shape online/offline spaces can clarify some computational logics while highlighting the need for non-representational modes of critique for others.
osc.cdp [at] gmail [dot] com
2018
Goldsmiths
MA Digital Culture
Distinction
2009
Birmingham City University (BIAD, Bournville School of Art)
BA Hons Visual Art by Negotiated Study
2:1
A Vigil Strange
Performance with Giant Axe Field
Centrala, Birmingham
≈ Pretty Close ≈
Sound installation and workshop as part of the Late at Tate: Echoes
Tate Britain, London
Last Minute
Part of …we don’t talk anymore 2 curated by Dan Auluk
Art:Work
Workshops as part of the creative interdisciplinary lab
Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, London
Unwanted Variables
3 day residency with Giant Axe Field
NIS, Birmingham
x Λ y
Interactive installation as part of the Super Yonic festival
Copeland Gallery, London
Slimeslimeslimeslime
Online exhibition,
isthisit?, London
Every Dog Has Its Day
Exhibition as part of the Out of Our Hands, Digital Culture Expo
Laurie Grove Baths at Goldsmiths, London
Cryptobar
Interactive installation
Goldsmiths Library, London
Does It Matter?
Exhibition
Out of the Brew, London
Cryptobar
Interactive installation as part of the Friday Late: Data Detox
V&A, London
Play Safe
Exhibition
Out of the Brew, London
Live performance for a-n PD bursary
Bedlam, Clarendon Hotel, Wolverhampton
This frontier so familiar so strange… (group show) curated by Mona Casey
Article Gallery, Birmingham
Video piece in ESP Summer Camp
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Live performance as part of a-n.co.uk PD bursary project
Bedlam, Clarendon Hotel, Wolverhampton
This frontier so familiar so strange… (group show)
Article Gallery, Birmingham
Video piece for FEATURE 2016
A project by Dan Auluk
Two micro-residencies
Grasslands, Birmingham
Code and Carpentry (response)
BOM
(Work developed within Code and Carpentry installation by OneFiveWest)
SOUP Pt. 2 Residency
(Two month residency at Stryx gallery with 3 exhibitions throughout)
Act 1: Zombie Poverty
Article Gallery, Birmingham
(Interactive touchscreen installation, ‘P.s.s.’)
Light Capture
Stryx, Birmingham
(Video projection of ‘Ending’)
Queer [STATE]
Vaults, Birmingham
(Installation piece ‘Scanner’)
Proposal 2
The Works Gallery
Curated in collaboration with Dan Auluk, 2 part show
Proposal
mac Birmingham
(Curatorial project in collaboration with Dan Auluk
Agora
Brick Box/Tooting Market, London
Supporting Laurence Price
NB
The Custard Factory Gallery, Birmingham
(Curatorial role and artist. Other artists: Gene-George Earle, Karen McLean, Louise Mackuin, Keeley Lowe, Jenni
Dixon, Simon Hope, Lynne Jones, Irene Jonker, Maddy Dickerson and Adam Green)
Psychoacoustic
The Bearwood Collective Gallery, Birmingham
(Including contributions from Raju Mali)
Traversion
The Very Good Room, Shoreditch, London
(Curatorial role and artist, working with Samantha Penn, Laurence Price, Olga Koroleva and Iwona Makuszynska)
…Where The Space Hangs 2
The MAC, Birmingham
(contributed audio-visual piece ‘Stasis’)
Oscar Cass-Darweish is a digital practitioner with skills in web/graphic design, video, sound and creative coding. Practice in these areas extends to artistic inquiry concerned with the struggle for autonomy at the limits of digital modes of representation. Aesthetic and critical methods from part of a Critical Technical Practice that aims to figure human-technical relationships in the space of hardware, software and code.
Opaque technical processes are deconstructed and re-presented to allow for alternative modes of understanding through performative engagement. Interaction with audiovisual aspects of surveillance related models that shape online/offline spaces can clarify some computational logics while highlighting the need for non-representational modes of critique for others.
osc.cdp [at] gmail [dot] com
2018
Goldsmiths
MA Digital Culture
Distinction
2009
Birmingham City University (BIAD, Bournville School of Art)
BA Hons Visual Art by Negotiated Study
2:1
A Vigil Strange
Performance with Giant Axe Field
Centrala, Birmingham
≈ Pretty Close ≈
Sound installation and workshop as part of the Late at Tate: Echoes
Tate Britain, London
Last Minute
Part of …we don’t talk anymore 2 curated by Dan Auluk
Art:Work
Workshops as part of the creative interdisciplinary lab
Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, London
Unwanted Variables
3 day residency with Giant Axe Field
NIS, Birmingham
x Λ y
Interactive installation as part of the Super Yonic festival
Copeland Gallery, London
Slimeslimeslimeslime
Online exhibition,
isthisit?, London
Every Dog Has Its Day
Exhibition as part of the Out of Our Hands, Digital Culture Expo
Laurie Grove Baths at Goldsmiths, London
Cryptobar
Interactive installation
Goldsmiths Library, London
Does It Matter?
Exhibition
Out of the Brew, London
Cryptobar
Interactive installation as part of the Friday Late: Data Detox
V&A, London
Play Safe
Exhibition
Out of the Brew, London
Live performance for a-n PD bursary
Bedlam, Clarendon Hotel, Wolverhampton
This frontier so familiar so strange… (group show) curated by Mona Casey
Article Gallery, Birmingham
Video piece in ESP Summer Camp
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Live performance as part of a-n.co.uk PD bursary project
Bedlam, Clarendon Hotel, Wolverhampton
This frontier so familiar so strange… (group show)
Article Gallery, Birmingham
Video piece for FEATURE 2016
A project by Dan Auluk
Two micro-residencies
Grasslands, Birmingham
Code and Carpentry (response)
BOM
(Work developed within Code and Carpentry installation by OneFiveWest)
SOUP Pt. 2 Residency
(Two month residency at Stryx gallery with 3 exhibitions throughout)
Act 1: Zombie Poverty
Article Gallery, Birmingham
(Interactive touchscreen installation, ‘P.s.s.’)
Light Capture
Stryx, Birmingham
(Video projection of ‘Ending’)
Queer [STATE]
Vaults, Birmingham
(Installation piece ‘Scanner’)
Proposal 2
The Works Gallery
Curated in collaboration with Dan Auluk, 2 part show
Proposal
mac Birmingham
(Curatorial project in collaboration with Dan Auluk
Agora
Brick Box/Tooting Market, London
Supporting Laurence Price
NB
The Custard Factory Gallery, Birmingham
(Curatorial role and artist. Other artists: Gene-George Earle, Karen McLean, Louise Mackuin, Keeley Lowe, Jenni
Dixon, Simon Hope, Lynne Jones, Irene Jonker, Maddy Dickerson and Adam Green)
Psychoacoustic
The Bearwood Collective Gallery, Birmingham
(Including contributions from Raju Mali)
Traversion
The Very Good Room, Shoreditch, London
(Curatorial role and artist, working with Samantha Penn, Laurence Price, Olga Koroleva and Iwona Makuszynska)
…Where The Space Hangs 2
The MAC, Birmingham
(contributed audio-visual piece ‘Stasis’)
Web/graphic design, moving image, sound and artistic enquiry into hardware/software/code.