Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK working with new and technological media within contemporary arts practice. He is a long-standing member of King's Visualisation Lab located in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. His artworks have been showcased in over 200 exhibitions and 30 countries.

His work blends information age technologies with modernist-like aesthetics to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of the networked, digital world. He seeks to create artworks in which there are no divisions between technologies, aesthetics, and concepts.

Reflection (hope and reconciliation)

Composed: 11.2008
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash 9+ plugin and stereo audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.

s The re-mediation of a moment, that through the distillation of its aesthetic elements – images, words, voice, music – we experience the event with changed, but undiminished intensity.

(endless) Wall

Composed: 05.2008
Requirements: PC with Cortona 4.2+ and 5.1 audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.

An online virtual 3D environment that symbolizes the impassable barriers we purposefully construct within our society.

The Vitruvian World

Composed: 02.2008
Requirements: PC/Mac with Second Life, Internet Browser with Flash 9+ and audio.
Commissioned by: Turbulence.org with funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

The Vitruvian World is a multi-nodal and recursive artwork that exists in three distinct yet interconnected spaces - the virtual, the physical, and the network connecting them.

Sequence (horizon)

Composed: 08.2007
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash 8+ plugin and stereo audio.
Funded by: the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Exploring the permutations of a thousand sequential and isolated moments in time recompiled into an ever-changing algorithmic montage.

Sequence (labyrinth)

Composed: 08.2007
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash 8+ plugin and stereo audio.
Funded by: the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Narrative fragments (extracted from an isolated experience) that are endlessly recombined into an unending recollection of a moment.

Continuum...

Composed: 02.2007
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash 8+ plugin and stereo audio.
Commissioned by: Oog online, De Volkskrant, NL.

A reflection upon the real-time evolution of our collective existence as defined by the sum of an infinite number of interconnected global events.

Headlines...

Composed: 10.2006
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash 8+ plugin.
Commissioned by: Oog online, De Volkskrant, NL.

An examination of the mediated histories generated by today’s news corporations and our collective preoccupation with real-time information generation, distribution and access.

Monolith[s]

Composed: 05.2006
Requirements: PC with Cortona 4.2+, Flash 8+, Windows Media 10+ plugins and 5.1 audio.
Commissioned by: Turbulence.org with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA.

Dimensions of a viewer's own immediate environment rearranged into an evolving virtual realm in which icons of pre-history are juxtaposed with complex refractions of the information age.

World[s]

Composed: 05.2006
Requirements: PC with Cortona 4.2+, Flash 8+ plugins and 5.1 audio.
Commissioned by: Soundtoys.net with funding from Arts Council England.

A series of dynamic virtual sculptures generated exclusively from the word ‘world’ translated into the native script of society’s most common languages.

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Composed: 01.2006
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash 7+, Real Player 10+ and Windows Media 10+ plugins.
Commissioned by: The Courtauld Institute of Art, London and Arts Council England.

A multi-format installation constructed from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) live internet news services - sampled and processed in real-time.

Re_collection

Composed: 10.2005
Requirements: Computer or mobile device with internet browser, Flash 6+ plugin and audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.

A search to reveal the underlying 'truth' to our most intimate of recollections that exist between dream and remembrance.

Data_cosm

Composed: 07.2005
Requirements: PC with Cortona 4.2+ and Flash 8+ plugins.
Commissioned by: Arts Council England for Net:Reality.

An examination of the chronological archives generated by news media and of the dynamic information structures that mediate this process.

Encoded Presence

Composed: 02.2005
Requirements: Computer or mobile device with internet browser, Flash 6+ plugin and audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.

An examination of the classical genre of portraiture through the re-purposing of a mobile phone into a cinematic instrument.

[ Fallujah . Iraq . 31/03/2004 ]

Composed: 06.2005 (version 2) 10.2004 (version 1)
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash 6+ plugin and stereo audio.
Commissioned by: Arts Council England for EAST International 2005.

A consideration of an event we have (or have not) witnessed, and a reflection on the iconic nature of conflict in this new millennium.

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Composed: 03.2004
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash 6+ plugin and stereo audio.
Commissioned by: Turbulence.org with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA.

A reflection upon the minute, isolated events of which our history, in an empirical sense, is composed.