This exhibit was built for a concept by the artist Rana Hamadeh and commissioned by EVA International in 2014.

Using three large LED signs, I programmed a play, written by the artist, into a computer which then played the characters dialogue out on the signs.

Over 1200 lines of code and hours of testing went into producing this installation.

It showed at EVA 2014 and went on to show at numerous venues afterwards.

This piece was produced for the artist Carsten Höller, commissioned by the EVA Biennial in 2016.

The artist’s concept was to use voice recognition to produce a response which could be taken to the next location to produce another response. This could continue from location to location until you returned to the first.

Each location would recognise a single word which would trigger another word as response.

Using voice recognition and vocal training, each installation ran on a Mac Mini and contained its own microphone and speakers.

It was installed at three locations (Limerick City Gallery of Art, The Hunt Museum & Cleere’s) throughout the run of EVA International 2016.

The Zip Guns were built as a commision for MoMA & Science Gallery as part of the exhibition Design & Violence.

These artefacts were based on the kind of firearms that had been fabricated illegally by inmates of prisons using material at hand.

Following much research and prototyping, I fabricated three “weapons” from scrap metal, stationery and hardware store parts, based on actual designs found in the prison system. Each one is almost capable of single or multiple use.

The Personal Food Computer (PFC) was commissioned by The Center for Genomic Gastronomy for the exhibition Field Test at Science Gallery Dublin in 2016.

At the time the PFC was still a work-in-progress at the MIT Media Lab. As such, much of the final version had to be figured out as it was built.

The PFC is a self-contained hydroponic grow box with a computer controlled environment which could be programmed to grow a large variety of food. Temperature, light, humidity, acidity could all be monitored and controlled based on ‘recipes’ loaded into the computer.