Artist Statement

Through a networked camera placed overlooking Loch Faskally, Scotland for 2 years and programmed to record images a pixel a second, Glenlandia addresses the relationship between the natural and the manmade, and our perception of landscape
and technology over time.

• Susan Collins works across public, gallery and online spaces with recent works employing transmission, networking and time as primary materials. She has exhibited extensively internationally with works including In Conversation; Tate in Space (a BAFTA nominated Tate netart commission); Transporting Skies which transported sky (and other phenomena) live between Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance in Cornwall and Site Gallery Sheffield in Yorkshire; Fenlandia and Glenlandia, pixel by pixel internet transmissions from remote landscapes; The Spectrascope, an ongoing live transmission from a haunted house in England, and Seascape commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and the De La Warr Pavilion. Public commissions include a wildlife surveillance system for Sarah Wigglesworth Architect’s RIBA award winning Classroom of the Future, and Underglow, a network of illuminated drains for the Corporation of London. Susan Collins is a Professor of Fine Art and the Director of the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London where she established the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) in 1995.

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