I am a sculptor and installation artist from the UK. I graduated in Fine Art from The Slade School of Art in 2005. My work consists of creating immersive multi-sensory experiences using projected moving image on large scale sculptures and environments, accompanied by original scores. The environments and moving image become inseparable, sculpting each other.

Much of my work is the result of collaborations with scientists as I am inspired by research into the brain and perceptual system. In particular, I have an ongoing collaboration with a psychologist specialising in attention, Prof. Polly Dalton, which was established to further our understanding of the embodied experience of immersive art and the way attention, across the senses, works in multimedia spaces, including my own immersive installations. I have a special interest tactility as an aesthetic sense.

 I collaborate extensively with the composer Nye Parry. We have developed techniques over numerous works in the last 15 years. (Such as unifying moving image and physical elements, using actuators with resonant materials, collage.) Each of these has been the result of research and experiments in the studio, facilitating the development of our artistic language. Part of this language is creating a materiality of projection and sound, seeking the most compelling and engaging experience possible for the viewer, while moving away from the reliance on and fetishisation of the latest high-tech products of the capitalist industrial complex.

 Sculpting in clay is an important part of my practice and often feeds into my installations.

 My work has been shown at, among others, The Hong Kong New Media Arts festival, The Science Museum, London, Art Laboratory, Berlin, The Science Centre, San Diego, The Science Gallery, Dublin, KunstKraftwerk, Leipzig, The Petrosains in Kuala Lumpar, plus art and science centres in New Zealand and China.


Madi Boyd

Installation Artist