Ruaridh Law // Art & Music   email ruaridh@gmail.com
Memories Are Brighter Than Our Digital Debris (2010)

Performance at FutureEverything, 15-05-10, Manchester
Collaboration with Hive Collective

 Audio/visual installation and performance piece, comissioned for FutureEverything

“Everyday digital archives have become ubiquitous through the use of mobile technologies such as smartphones. As a result, we’re constantly archiving and recording our experiences, often at the same time as we experience them. Immediate, esoteric and transient, digital representations actually mirror the fleeting nature of memory itself, becoming confused, misappropriated, anachronistic and ultimately forgotten. For this interactive performance culminating in a unique performance from TVO, the Hive Collective invites you to trade a copy of your digital memories either in person or by uploading to the website below. In return, invited electronic audiovisual artists will take these as their starting point, creating an immediate immersive environment in which your recollections are replayed, re-presented, confused and ultimately erased.”






>Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

>Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. His >mediums include sound and installation art, film and writing. His works have ranged from intimate audio performance and gallery installations to large-scale outdoor works >combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling.

>His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human >heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more >worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases.

>He runs several record labels and, more recently, No Roof Only Sky, a small press publisher.