"A 2.6m pole operating as a digital compass is balanced on the artist's head. The compass is set to the bearing of a section of the Berlin wall along Bernauer Strabe. If the pole deviates from the bearing the lights at the end of the pole switch off. The work explores the relationship between the body and the physical structure of the pole that is sits self a materialisation of the compass co-ordinate."
nCompass (2013)
Other works by James Charlton
James Charlton
Catch 32 Bit (2013)
A ball is thrown against a wall and caught again. Only when an arm enters the frame of the screen are we made aware that the video is in slow motion.
James Charlton
Waiting Event: 64 Bytes (2014)
Networked data fed from basketball hoops around Lisbon is visually aggregated and displayed on an LED dot-matrix display.
James Charlton
The Dryland Transcoder (2009)
A custom-built fish finder creates a fantastical landscape.
Related essay
James Charlton: Mobilise
James Charlton: Mobilise
Essay
As we welcome James Charlton to CIRCUIT, we present this catalogue essay by Mark Williams on Charlton's 2020 installation THROWN. Originally commissioned by Te Uru, the essay explores the resonance of Charlton's recent work in a time of environmental breakdown and artificial intelligence.