Brendan Byrne
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Brendan is a practicing artist and academic at University College Falmouth. His current artwork combines his own individual practice, research and numerous collaborative projects with an international profile.

Thematically he produces interactive work which questions relationships between technology and identity in Capitalism. Using independent electronics and software based mechanisms (such as Pd/GEM/Arduino) the work senses elements of the viewer/user and uses net based techniques to explore experiences of 'nowness' using webcams and VJing techniques of real time processing.

His current research examines the relationships between interactive technologies and the ideological construction of the user, through processes of feedback, using models from Debord, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari and comparisons with models from Lacan, Kristeva,  Althusser and Rancier. This creates a triangulation between feedback structure, the individual before interaction and the ideological reconstruction of the individual post interaction.
This work can then be applied to algorithms of economic and social management, developed by groups such as the Rand Corporation and utilised by government and commerce.