Like Tiny Cubes of Glass
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            Digitally Processed Art by
           James Wallbank & Matthew Gray

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              PRESS RELEASE 16-01-04
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How hard would it be to glue a windscreen back together?

In this show Matthew Gray and James Wallbank use the powerful web server
language PHP as both digital hammer and virtual glue - smashing pictures
into fragments and putting them back together.

But somehow, the reassembled images just aren't quite the same.

Matthew Gray's work looks at processes to transform images. He uses PHP
to translate individual picture elements to other forms which he
manipulates further.

Familiar scenes are transformed into stuttering digital arrays,
iterating ticks, scratches and glitches that relate more to abstract
techno-music than landscape.

James Wallbank has been struggling with mazes. Months ago he was lost in
a random array of vertical and horizontal bars - tiny squares of image
at first abstract, then representing corridors and rooms.

His breakthrough was writing routines to make sure that, however
convoluted, there's always a way through. Now he's taken his maze engine
and fed other image fragments into it, creating all sorts of unexpected
effects.
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EXHIBITION PREVIEW Friday 30-01-04 5:30pm-7:00pm
++ Refreshments will be served ++

The Exhibition runs from 31/01/04 to 25/02/04
at Access Space, 1 Sidney Street, Sheffield S1 4RG