The TWOi satellite collects information and immediately deletes it, filling and emptying his memory 8000 times a second while in orbit – attempting to ascend by forgetting. To help TWOi on his way you are invited to Meet 2 Delete. Let go of some personal information, share it with someone and make the world a […]

The Weight of Information 2.0 updated: Wed Feb 19 23:28 NZDT 2019 Status: TWOi flies free ! The Weight of Information 2.0 (TWOi) is a pico-satellite artwork currently in Low Earth Orbit. It was launched onboard Cyngus NG-10 on Nov 17th 2018 and TWOi is in the Kicksat2 deployer satellite which left the Cygnus on […]

Limits is a maquette for a public artwork that was proposed for Copenhagen Airport during the 2009 COP15 climate change conference. The Chinese character 困 is a figure of a tree in a box and means trapped or limited but can also mean difficulty or disaster. The Crassula Ovata tree stores carbon dioxide that it […]

A residency at the Thomas King Observatory, Wellington. The Thomas King Observatory is an old 1912 observatory that is part of the Carter Observatory complex in Wellington’s botanic gardens that is no longer used to house a telescope. Starting in Nov 2017 I have been using the observatory as a space to develop a satellite […]

Citizen Water Map Lab is a participatory artwork that is part of the Commonground Festival 2017. Hutt City residents and community groups are invited to collect ground water and bring it to the lab. There a simple set of water tests are performed which give indications of ground water quality. The data is represented in […]

The Weight of Information: Ground Station is being shown at The Engine Room, Wellington 06.11.2015 – 22.11.2015

La Scala is site specific interactive sound work produced for the 2014 Chartwell Stairwell commission at Artspace in Auckland. La Scala opened on May 2nd 2014 and will be installed for a year. A series of 23 brass tubular bells are suspended one from each tread of the staircase and reaching down to the ground. […]

KickSat and TWOi re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on May 14th 2014 01:30 UTC during orbit #404. Due to a timer reset caused by a cosmic radiation event on April 30th 2014 the TWOi sprite satellite was never deployed into autonomous orbit and is presumed to have burned up somewhere over North Africa inside the Kicksat deployer […]

A list of items deleted at Meet to Delete Events. Test Pilot 12 Apr 2014 Time 18:00 NZST Location -41.311788, 174.767472 37 Fortunatus Street, Wellington, New Zealand 001 Barbie’s hair 002 Electoral registration document 003 Sculpture magazine 004 Stack of unknown previous tenants utility bills 005 20 GB of sub 1 KB files in downloads […]

Status Meet to Delete events continue as the Kicksat deployer orbits. A list of events and deletions is maintained as documentation here: http://julianpriest.org/project/meet-to-delete-documentation/ 0. Call for Participation During the orbital period of ‘The Weight of Information’ satellite you are invited to join or create a Meet to Delete Event. A number of events have already […]

The Weight of Information is an orbital artwork based on a pico-satellite originally launched on April 19th 2014, and scheduled for re-launch in 2017. A 2cm x 2cm low-cost autonomous satellite is launched into low earth orbit. The satellite is placed on a decaying orbit and slowly spirals back to Earth. During the orbit the […]

‘Sink’ is a model of anthropogenic ocean acidification.

The Blue Marble is a proposal for a kinetic artwork that explores the tension between light and gravity.

Free of Charge is a participatory artwork based on an airport security check procedure. The procedure checks visitors for electrical charge and then grounds them – electrically connects them to earth – thereby removing any electrical charge they maybe carrying

Local Time is a participatory artwork that explores a notion of time that is based on local change rather than centralised signals.

Julian Priest with text by Michael Poa The Sun is the Earth’s information service provider. The Earth is an open system that creates forests of life, culture and technology and exports entropy into the galactic gloaming. Information Comes from the Sun was created for the ISEA 2011, 2nd Nature Uncontainable exhibition. The work consists of […]

A collection of drift plastic made during a year of walks in Gilleleje Denmark

Participatory Sound Installation and Performance The Performance Arcade – Te Papa Waterfront http://theplaygroundnz.com/the-performance-arcade/ http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/WhatsOn/allevents/Pages/ThePerformanceArcade.aspx : accessed 1.3.2011 : pdf Point Of Presence was a public participatory artwork and sound installation that took place between Feb 24th and Feb 26th 2011. The work was performed as part of ‘The Performance Arcade’, a temporary village of shipping […]

Julian Priest and Sue James Cathode Coffee Cup is a limited edition series of 16 glass cups comissioned by the Govett Brewster Art Gallery and made in a collaboration between glass artist Sue James and Julian Priest. The cups are modelled on sytrofoam coffee cups and are made of glass from re-cycled computer monitors. Each […]

Description Core Dump for a Crashed Planet is a polemical prospectus for a public artwork that connects the causes of climate change with it’s effects. The prospectus was originally developed for the 2008 San Jose Climate Clock competition and the design was exhibited in San Jose in the Climate Clock competition exhibition. The proposal was […]

David Merrit & Julian Priest Terms of Endearment was commissioned by the Futuresonic 2008 festival and exhibited at CUBE Gallery in Manchester, UK. Terms of Endearment highlights the value per user to online social-networking services like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn. Excerpts of a collection of conditions and assignments, dating back to 1994, were […]

Adam Hyde, David Merritt and Julian Priest We have all been and are sometimes artists working with communities, technology, and anything else we find interesting. The Geekosystem itself is a system of geekery that takes places in art galleries and art spaces and invites local communities of geeks and non-geeks alike to come together and […]

The Political Spectrum is a collaborative artwork that explores themes around radio spectrum regulation and was first performed during the Waves exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga in August and September 2006.

* Join. Developers Licensing Derivative Works Numbering Acknowledgements Gallery Version 1.121 stable “Join.” is a collaborative artwork based on the childrens colouring in book classic ‘Join the Dots’. Participants in the Open Congress at the Tate Britain were invited to be Developers of an original artwork one dot at a time. Developers registered to join […]

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