Mr Patrick White
Lecturer (Teaching)
Slade School of Fine Art
UCL London WC1E 6BT
Exhibitions
Concourse
2022Website
Online audio-visual artwork commissioned by UCL Art Futures
The Ghost Tide
2018Thames-Side Gallery
Exhibition at Thameside Gallery, curated by Monika Bobinska and Sarah Sparkes, funded by Arts Council England
L’Osservatorio
2018The London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington
Exhibition held by Canal Gallery at the London Art Fair, with works by Claudio Del Sole, James Brooks, DJ Roberts, Patrick White
The Ghost of Harry Mafuji
2016Canal, 60 De Beauvoir Crescent, London, N1
Edited And Cut Book, Pen
The Ghost of Harry MafujiCANAL is delighted to present a festive group exhibition featuring small format works in various media, including painting, photography, screenprinting, drawing and sculpture. Artists taking part in the show include Phil Ashcroft, Jesper Blader, James Brooks, Chowwai Cheung, Dag Erik Due,Michele Fletcher, Rae Hicks, Eleanor Moreton, Kim Noble, Malcolm Opie, Lucinda Oestreicher, Noemi Otamendi, Miroslav Pomichal, DJ Roberts, Valentine Schmidt, Maria Tejada, Finn Thomson, Avis Underwood, Paul Westcombe, Patrick White and many more.
Finite Alphabet
2016The Guesthouse, Cork City
Exhibition held as artist-in-residence at The Guesthouse, Cork City, funded by the Cork Artists Collective and Cork City Council
Art Language Location: Atomic Clock (Nuclear Bunker)
2015Cambridge Nuclear Bunker, Shire Hall, Cambridge, UK
Website, 16mm Film, Video, Webstream, Sign, Photograph
An artist-run organisation working at the intersection between art, text and place.
I Apologize for the Crudity of this Model
2014Canal, 60 De Beauvoir Crescent, London, N1
Installation (furniture, Fabric, Curtain, Camera, Website, 35mm Print, C-type Print, Newspaper, Tv, Books)
I apologize for the crudity of this modelCANAL is delighted to present the first collaboration by Mollie Anna King and Patrick White. 'I apologize for the crudity of this model' refers to a line from the film Back to the Future. The exhibition is a multi-media work, existing online, in print and as a physical and interactive installation within the gallery. In the BTTF film trilogy the central character, Marty McFly, repeatedly uses photographs of himself, his relatives and friends to indicate the ripple effect of his time travelling activities. Characters begin to disappear from the photograph, indicating that their future or past existence is threatened by present events. King and White's installation explores this conceit through the interplay of analogue and digital means, including still and moving photographic image, fabric design, publications, television and the internet. Broadly addressing the nature of images and imaging technology, the still and the film, the virtual and the real, fame and physical deterioration, the installation is threaded together by personal and collective histories, and the unlikely union of Michael J Fox and William Morris.
Wycombe Listening
2014Wycombe Community Arts Centre, Desborough Road, High Wycombe, UK
Audio, 12" Vinyl Record, 1970s Dual CS505-3, Jacket, Insert, Loupe
Publications
Brought In Gobstopper: an Electrostatic Cut-Up
Paper delivered at the conference Sound Thought Signal, University of Glasgow
Farafield
Farafield is a field recording project at the Slade School of Fine Art. Originally set up with funds from UCL Changemakers in 2016-17, fifteen students were given travel awards to help fund a journey for the purpose of making audio field recordings. This online exhibition includes those works made as a result, alongside other audio works made by Slade students and staff. In time this platform will become an archive of work broadly related to the genre of field recording.
Brought In Gobstopper: an Electrostatic Cut-Up
I propose to talk about and exhibit my work Brought in Gobstopper (2017). The work comprises audio, in the form of stream-of-consciousness whispering, from which the title is taken, and text, which is acid-etched into stainless steel plates. These plates form the panels (or stators) of an electrostatic loudspeaker (ESL), from which the sound issues. There are a number of aspects to the work which interlink, including Renku poetry, an anechoic chamber, the thought and handwriting of the philosopher Thomas Metzinger, the voice of a sensorily deprived person, the ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk micro-task service, and a Buddhist Om chant from Youtube. ESL design principles have fostered a pleasing mix of high-end consumer manifestations and a strong self-build scene that has existed for many decades. ESLs work using electrostatic rather than electromagnetic fields, and are capable of reproducing audio of unsurpassed clarity, low distortion, with a flat frequency and excellent transient response. They can be purchased for sums in the tens of thousands of pounds, or be made by the DIY enthusiast for next to nothing. I propose to look at how my instantiation of the ESL design has helped to create an artwork that is about presence, craft, labour, and the self, both in its content and means of production. I will exhibit the artwork itself and talk through how these combine and influence each other to push the work in different directions.
Audio Fundamentals
Online resource addressing the physics and technology of audio production
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Online exhibition of the collaborative work of students and staff from the Slade School of Fine Art and Digital Anthopology
Generative Writing
A workshop exploring the world, broadly defined, of text-based art in a generative context. With a view to the relevant historical contexts, we will explore (by making) text-based artworks... ...involving strategies of: Randomisation Chance Exhaustion Rule making Constraint Games ...using: Drawing materials Newspapers Dictionaries Typewriters Computers Etc. ...employed through: Physical acts Mechanical apparatuses Computer software ...which can: Cut things up Break habits Make up rules Not follow rules Create simple computer programs Use software made by others ...to enable: Chaotic situations Recursive algorithm building Serendipitous data collection Information trawling ...and make: Poems Cut-ups and collages Plays Novels Texts of all kinds ...with a nod to: Dadaist poetry/Tristan Tzara William Burroughs Oulipo Song lyrics (e.g Cabaret Voltaire) Early computer art Net art Post-internet art etc. ...in order to investigate: Creativity Authorship Originality Meaning Politics ...of art and artists (and anyone) working with producing text.