mcclymont.lab

What if we could look at the sun with x-ray vision (contact x-ray plates on the Vulcan Target Area West vacuum chamber, 36 separate shots) is a collaborative artwork created with scientists at the Central Laser Facility in Oxfordshire, England. I was invited to be part of their experiment as an artist as well as an active scientific participant, their aim was to demonstrate the effectiveness of laser technology to see through layers of material using x-rays and neutron beams.

An updated version of my Leap Second artwork was exhibited as part of the Mozilla Festival 2018. 

Using Image Classification from ml5js JavaScript library along with some p5js I made a simple tool to unlock a website - not exactly secure or practical, but fun.

The core of the code is from here: https://ml5js.org/docs/image-classifi... Heavily influenced by the great tutorials by Daniel Shiffman: https://youtu.be/jmznx0Q1fP0 tutorial on this soon...

Play with this demo here:
alistairmcclymont.com/experiments/lemon

This work was produced during the creation of this collaborative artwork between Alistair McClymont and John Fass:
alistairmcclymont.com

It works using Image Classification from the ml5js JavaScript machine learning framework.

Heavily influenced by Daniel Shiffman's great tutorials here: https://youtu.be/jmznx0Q1fP0 a tutorial about this will be coming soon...

A paper was published in the Institute of Physics journal, Plasma and Controlled Fusion titled Laser-driven x-ray and neutron source development for industrial applications of plasma accelerators. In this paper I am named as one of the authors:

Click here to see the research paper

A hard copy of the research paper was shown as part of the installation What if we could look at the Sun with x-ray vision at the London Design Festival in 2018. In this exhibition it becomes a conceptual piece, at once a piece of science and a piece of art.

Collaboration with Dr. John Fass, exhibited at London Design Festival 2018, Everything Happens So Much, London College of Communication

4m x 4m x 0.4m (width, height, depth)
cardboard boxes, various objects

The Ministry of Tax was a speculative project as part of Communicating Tax a project by Rebecca Bramall and Liam Stanley. The project examined the government’s Annual Tax Summary (ATS), a personalised tax and spending statement sent to income taxpayers, and explored alternative ways of reporting on tax and public spending.

As part of the Velocity exhibition and publication at the London Design Festival 2018 I created a website and was published in Velocity.

The website A Fake Truth was created for the show:
http://afaketruth.com/

An essay was written for Supra.Systems, a book by Supra Systems Studio. Supra Systems Studio is a research machine from the Design School, London College of Communication, UAL.

The book and the essay are attached to this post. This essay is on page 91 of the book.