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Kypros Kyprianou
Sally Davies profiles Kypros Kyprianou, discussing his interest in scientific themes, collaborative working and residencies at Artsway and Allenheads Contemporary Arts.
The parameters of Kypros Kyprianou’s practice are difficult to define: the outcomes can range from films to weblogs, events, environments, publications or conference papers, whilst past projects have included designing a sign to warn of the presence of nanotechnology and creating an invisible force field. Although his technical expertise lies in film-making, the artist himself says he is currently “specialising in non-specialising”.
What links all of Kyprianou’s projects is that they are framed by the themes of science and its representation, and they probe the accepted certainties of scientific enquiry, a process which he sees as being fraught with failure and haunted by the unknowable and the uncanny. He describes his work as being like that of “a culturologist in reverse”, examining science using cultural phenomena, rather than looking at culture through a scientific lens. Through his eclectic research he has explored themes such as the measurement of time, electromagnetic field theory and network technologies, and probed notions of illusion, cinematic special effects and the supernatural.
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