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Machine in the middle: Exploring dark patterns of emotional human-computer integration through media art (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Dickinson, R., Semertzidis, N., & Mueller, F. F. (2022). Machine in the middle: Exploring dark patterns of emotional human-computer integration through media art. In S. Barbosa, C. Lampe, C. Appert, & D. A. Shamma (Eds.), CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503555

As our relationship with machines becomes evermore intimate, we observe increasing efforts in the quantification of human emotion, which has historically generated unintended consequences. We acknowledge an amplification of this trend through recent... Read More about Machine in the middle: Exploring dark patterns of emotional human-computer integration through media art.

Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level (2019)
Journal Article
Dickinson, R. (2019). Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level. https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2019.07

This statement explores the digital photo artwork Fear Filter which uses the UK Terror Threat Level as a source for a set of visualisation tools. It argues that the UK Terror Threat Level should be understood as part of the expansion of a range of se... Read More about Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level.

Fear filter: Visualising the UK terror threat level (2018)
Journal Article
Dickinson, R. (2018). Fear filter: Visualising the UK terror threat level. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.43

Fear Filter is a digital artwork comprising of a mobile phone photo filters application for Android / iOS platforms and a digital photo stream. The photo filters are created by gathering current and historical information about the UK Threat Level fr... Read More about Fear filter: Visualising the UK terror threat level.

Game theory and zero sum, installation and presentation (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dickinson, R. (2017, June). Game theory and zero sum, installation and presentation. Paper presented at Automation and Anxiety, Sussex University, England

Installation and presentation at Sussex University, 8-9 June 2017 of the artwork 'Zero Sum' as part of the AHRC Automation and Anxiety workshop http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/automationanxiety/workshops/workshop-3-human-inattention/ http://blogs.susse... Read More about Game theory and zero sum, installation and presentation.

Disrupting the archive (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Dickinson, R. (2017, March). Disrupting the archive

‘Disrupting the Archive’ at the New Art Gallery Walsall for the Contemporary Art Society National Network, Birmingham 16 March 2017. The day was dedicated to exploring artists working with archives and included Grace Williams and Cliff Lauson (Haywar... Read More about Disrupting the archive.

Zero sum, Halle 14: Control Mode Feedback / Kontrollmodus Feedback at Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany 12 September - 8 November 2015 (2015)
Digital Artefact
Dickinson, R. (2015). Zero sum, Halle 14: Control Mode Feedback / Kontrollmodus Feedback at Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany 12 September - 8 November 2015. [Single Channel Video, 5 Channel Audio]

Zero Sum was created and commissioned for the exhibition Control Mode Feedback / Kontrollmodus Feedback at Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany (12 September - 8 November 2015). It consisted of an instructional video with an on screen avatar / instructor, whi... Read More about Zero sum, Halle 14: Control Mode Feedback / Kontrollmodus Feedback at Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany 12 September - 8 November 2015.

Closed circuit (2010)
Exhibition / Performance
Dickinson, R. (2010). Closed circuit. 28 August 2010 - 28 August 2010. (Unpublished)

This project extended the research for Who, What, Where, When, Why and How and further explored the tropes of political speeches and press briefings; focusing on the way in which similar declarations have been used by numerous governments - across co... Read More about Closed circuit.

Who, what, where... (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Dickinson, R. Who, what, where... 18 November 2009 - 16 December 2009. (Unpublished)

Who, What, Where… investigates the historical role of the government press briefing in the materialization of certain political realities. The work presents the footage and the script of a televisual press briefing on the subject of war, delivered by... Read More about Who, what, where....

Evil to the core (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Dickinson, R. Evil to the core. 30 October 2009 - 16 January 2010. (Unpublished)

The exhibition “Evil to the Core” addresses issues pertaining to docility and obedience to authority, conformism, social responsibility, disobedience, and non-conformism in general, and in Israeli society specifically. The exhibition combines differe... Read More about Evil to the core.

F-for fake (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Dickinson, R. F-for fake. 7 March 2009 - 12 April 2009. (Unpublished)

Exhibition of international artists, F for Fake explored the idea of mischief as both an act of play and as a political gesture. Taking Orson Wells' infamous film as its title and starting point, the exhibition looks at tricks, counterfeits, confusio... Read More about F-for fake.

Fair companions... Adventure is dead (2009)
Book Chapter
Dickinson, R. (2009). Fair companions... Adventure is dead. In A. Caronia, J. Jansa, & D. Quaranta (Eds.), Re:akt, Reconstruction, re-enactment, Re-reporting (41-53). Fabio Paris Editions

Chapter for a book. Published by the Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana on the theme of Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting in contemporary art.

The return of religion and other myths (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Dickinson, R. (2009). The return of religion and other myths. 1 November 2008 - 1 March 2009. (Unpublished)

'The Return of Religion and Other Myths' was a large scale exhibition, lecture series and critcal reader. The project explores the popular assumption of the return of religion to the public sphere, contemporary politics, and the media in the West as... Read More about The return of religion and other myths.

[No] Fear / [Keine ]Angst) (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Dickinson, R. (2008). [No] Fear / [Keine ]Angst). 11 September 2008 - 2 November 2008. (Unpublished)

Exhibition of international artists.

The institute of psychoplasmics (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Dickinson, R. (2008). The institute of psychoplasmics. 9 April 2008 - 26 May 2008. (Unpublished)

Exhibition of UK artists. The Institute of Psychoplasmics is an exhibition about cultic social groupings and how they challenge the integrity of the social body by producing another within it.

Outlier detection print
Digital Artefact
Dickinson, R. (2017). Outlier detection print

Group exhibition of artists prints.

The air loom, Bethlem Museum of the Mind (solo exhibition), 3 Sep 2016 - 22 March 2017
Digital Artefact
Dickinson, R. (2016). The air loom, Bethlem Museum of the Mind (solo exhibition), 3 Sep 2016 - 22 March 2017

Exhibition of a room sized sculpture and audio tour mobile application for Android and iOS. The sculpture is a recreation of an imaginary Influencing Machine based on a seminal account of famous bedlam patient James Tilly Matthews from 1810. The... Read More about The air loom, Bethlem Museum of the Mind (solo exhibition), 3 Sep 2016 - 22 March 2017.