Michael Takeo Magruder is an artist and researcher in 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, and embrace a wide-range of New Media, including high-performance computing, networked systems, mobile devices and virtual environments. His work seeks to blend Information Age technologies with modernist aesthetics to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of our networked, digital world.
 
For further information please visit: www.takeo.org

 
Data_Sea
 
Composed: 03.2009
Requirements: Internet browser with Cortona3D, Flash, Windows Media plugins and 5.1 audio.
Funded by: Arts Council England and Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum, UK.
 
A real-time virtual environment based upon the relationship between broadcast media and astronomy. Created as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 for digital fulldome (360-degree) and immersive environments.

 
Last Days...
 
Composed: 12.2008
Requirements: Internet browser with Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Commissioned by: Oog online, De Volkskrant, NL.
 
On the 27th of December 2008 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resumed with brutal intensity. A dedication to the memory of the 390 Palestinians and 4 Israelis who as a result of this renewed violence did not live to see the New Year.

 
Reflection (hope and reconciliation)
 
Composed: 11.2008
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Supported by: King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London.
 
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 the Cortona3D plugin 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.

 
Sequence (echo)
 
Composed: 02.2008
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash plugin and stereo audio.
Funded by: the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
 
An exploration of the creative possibilities that arise through imposing thematic and technical limitations within a cinematic framework.

 
The Vitruvian World
 
Composed: 02.2008
Requirements: PC/Mac with Second Life, Internet Browser with the Flash plugin 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 the Flash 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 the Flash 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 the Flash 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 the Flash 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 the Cortona3D, Flash, Windows Media 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 the Cortona3D, Flash 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 the Flash, Real Player, Windows Media plugins and stereo audio.
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, the Flash plugin and stereo 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 the Cortona3D and Flash 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, the Flash plugin and stereo 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 the Flash 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.

 
< Event >
 
Composed: 03.2004
Requirements: Internet browser with the Flash 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.