Digital Media
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SNUG – Participatory project and exhibition for People Express
The SNUG project was built through a sustained, collaborative process with members of the Swadlincote Asperger’s Society. Over several months, participants worked closely with the lead artist to explore personal themes of identity, comfort, and sensory experience. Through conversation, photography, and creative experimentation, the group developed visual motifs drawn from their own interests and lived…
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Don’t Stare Exhibition – IKON Gallery
Originally commissioned by Onyx Collective at Disability Arts Online, Don’t Stare(2022) incorporates generative and symmetrical portraits of the artist taken by others; in this instance IYP. Using collage, IYP has collaborated with Mistry on his process of making photographic images. The resulting work touches on how our perception of ourselves does not match that of…
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Don’t Freak
Created as part of a commission for the Onyx Collective initiated by Disability Arts Online, Don’t Freak and Don’t Stare (2022), incorporates double exposed and symmetrical portraits of the artist taken by others. The simple gesture of mirroring the self makes the familiar strange. As in the recent series of paintings, Mistry treads on the fine line…
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Centrifuge
A series of highly detailed, large scale generative drawings exploring a clash of values. Each drawing in the series can be scaled between 0.5m and up to 5 metres square. The images depict swords which represent a difference in values and examine ways in which motif and colour are used to cement a visual language…
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All that you can’t see, I can dream
The installation explores themes of belonging and value and looks at how meaning, association and kinship are generated or derived from our environment. Views of Leicester taken from the twelfth floor of New Walk Centre have been reduced to linear drawings. The installation attempts to anonymise the landscape by stripping away defined markers of value,…
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Field Notes
An installation that examines the forces that have influenced the development of urban topography. The dynamics of a locality have been analysed using Alan Turing’s research relating to animal markings. Turing’s reaction-diffusion theory explains the reaction between two chemicals referred to as the “activator” (a chemical that can replicate) “inhibitor” (a chemical that inhibits the…
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Virtulight
A trail of augmented reality public artworks tagged to physical images across the city of Derby. The work explored data by association and the layers of meta-tags that aid and divert meaning. The work was created through public engagement. People shared their understanding of the connectivity between the sites hosting the Augmented Reality markers.
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I’m not allowed to love you
Highly detailed digital drawings exploring the rationalisation of the unfamiliar with the familiar. The drawings are constructed using two types of miniature sword motifs that are antithetical to the overall image they form. The images are displayed on a large scale enveloping the viewers gaze and compelling them to approach the detail of their construction. …
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The simple assumption between us
A series of digital drawings exploring the east and west as opposing forces. The works look at the transfer of data from information to ideology and the obstinacy of memory. Please note: The images below are only screen resolution jpeg versions of large scale vector images. Please click on the images to view a larger…
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The Standard Model
“Theories permit consciousness to ‘jump over its own shadow,’ to leave behind the given, to represent the transcendent, yet, as is self-evident, only in symbols.” Hermann Weyl, logician mathematician Large scale digital drawings and ultra high definition animations created from algorithms exploring the visualisation of theoretical ideas. The drawings are inspired by the work of…
Ashokkumar D Mistry 
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