Studio 207 · 20 - 23 November, 10:00am–6:00pm
Time Space Pixel Transmat extends Polygon Palm’s Time Space Transmat Wrong Biennale embassy exhibition into Piksel’s hybrid ecosystem, where translation, teleportation and transmogrification across media expose the creative potential of glitch—the revealing errors that surface when signals cross between times, spaces and substrates. Rather than reproducing a web exhibition in a gallery, the project turns Piksel’s IDLE into a live transmat: an infrastructure where online actions, code processes and audience presence actively shape the physical environment and return as data to the virtual space.
Across practices spanning networked performance, computational voice, liminal portals, critical mis-use and post-digital fabrication, the participating artists articulate how mechanic and computational translation mutates meaning. In IDLE, these works become processual nodes: streams, patches and interfaces that can be tuned rather than simply viewed—foregrounding error, drift and latency as aesthetic method. This curatorial approach aligns with Piksel’s commitment to artistic and technological freedom and its hybrid model for co-present online/onsite collaboration.
Within the IDLE system, Time Space Pixel Transmat will be reimagined as an experiential network of glitches — a living feedback system between physical and virtual environments. Works like Yichu Li’s RAVE CINEMA (https://www.yichuliart.com/general-3) will be reimagined and teleported through the IDLE system. The works will not appear as fixed installations, but as temporal crossings, where data, light, and sound leak between platforms. The exhibition invites the audience to move fluidly between the online and physical spaces, encountering disruptions, echoes, and distortions that reveal the underlying fragility of technological mediation.
Tom Milnes is an artist, curator and researcher based in the UK. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Blended Realities, Falmouth University. Milnes’ research practice explores the materiality of imagery and technology, engaging with the cultural impact of media through glitches, errors or hidden subcultures. His practice explores the aesthetics of digital imagery incorporating emergent technologies such as photogrammetry, augmented reality and NetArt methods, often through sculptural or immersive experiences, as ways to challenge our relationship to digital technology and the physical world.
Milnes has published research papers with Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) and Visual Resources. He has exhibited internationally including at: W139 - Amsterdam , AND/OR - London, CEAC – Xiamen, The Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia - Gdansk, and Gyeonggi International Biennale - Korea. Milnes has recently curated the exhibition Rolodex Propaganda at KARST, Plymouth (April 2024) He is the curator of the online platform Polygon Palm.