Luke Murphy › Images

  1. Rising Glitch, 2024
    P3mm LED matrix panels, wood, steel, aluminum, paint, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC, code
    65 1/2 x 12 x 12 in (166.37 x 30.48 x 30.48 cm)
  3. Glories Tower, 2023
    LED matrix panels, wood, metal studs, armature, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC, code
    74 1/2 x 9 x 8 in (189.23 x 22.86 x 20.32 cm)
  4. Reading the News, 2023
    Wire armature, LED matrix panels, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC, code
    30 x 25 x 2 in (76.2 x 63.5 x 5.08 cm)
  5. Corner Beams, 2022
    LED matrix panels, metal studs, armature, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC, code
    96 x 54 x 48 in (243.84 x 137.16 x 121.92 cm)
  6. Industrial Incandescent, 2022
    Wood beams, LED matrix panels, video driver hardware, software, power supplies, PC, code
    92 x 57 x 20 in (233.68 x 144.78 x 50.8 cm)
  8. Installation view "Luke Murphy: Industrial Incandescent" Canada, 2022
  9. Fire Pile (Algorithmic Fire), 2018
    LED matrix panels, software and display hardware
    29 x 45 x 45 in (73.66 x 114.3 x 114.3 cm)
  10. Tower / Piece of Work, 2018
    LED matrix panels, software and display hardware
    75 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 in (192.405 x 34.29 x 34.29 cm)
  11. LogCabin, 2018
    LED matrix panels, software and display hardware
    62 x 41 x 5 in (157.48 x 104.14 x 12.7 cm)
  12. Kindling, 2018
    LED matrix panels, software and display hardware
    32 x 24 x 24 in (81.28 x 60.96 x 60.96 cm)
  13. You Win!!!, 2016
    LED matrix panels, Raspberry Pi microcontroller, software
    20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

    still from animation


  14. Emojies4EverXoX, 2016
    LED matrix panels, Raspberry Pi microcontroller, software
    5 x 20 in (12.7 x 50.8 cm)

    still from animation


  15. What Color, 2016
    LED matrix panels, Raspberry Pi microcontroller, software
    25 x 20 in (63.5 x 50.8 cm)

    still from animation


  16. User Explains Selfie to Other User-Friend, 2015
    Acrylic on canvas
    70 x 58 in (177.8 x 147.32 cm)
  17. Post-It Note on Users, 2015
    Acrylic on canvas
    48 x 56 in (121.92 x 142.24 cm)
  18. I Need 2 Always Make Back-Ups, 2015
    Acrylic on canvas
    84 x 72 in (213.36 x 182.88 cm)
  19. Drift, 2012
    executable file, Geiger counter, Vaseline glass source, analog-digital converter, computer Non-repea

    A miasmic cloud of light forms and reforms as a low hum drones. All aspects, color, shape, sound and timing are a response to the perfect randomness detected by the Geiger counter, creating an aurora borealis out of decay.


  20. Barney's Next Step Without Canvas
    executable file, Geiger counter, Vaseline glass source, analog-digital converter, computer Non-repea

    Based directly on Barnett Newman's "Vir Heroicus Sublimis" (1950-51), Barney's Next Step Without Canvas dynamically forms digital versions of the iconic abstract painting. Barnett Newman's concern with the sublimity of time and the effect of the red as it washes over the observer is re-literalized while the artist introduces a new version of the sublime, the absolute and ineluctable randomness produced by the decay of uranium.


  21. Dance of Perfect Randomness
    Executable file, Geiger counter, Vaseline glass source, analog-digital converter, computer Non-repea

    The Dance of Perfect Randomness uses a news photo of Iranian artists performing at the celebration of the enrichment of uranium in 2007 as its base. This image of beatific admiration for the definitive symbol of 20th and 21st century power, technology and terror reminds us of a similar cultural response in post-WWII America. The piece uses the photo's color and imagery but frees the doves to respond to the signals sent by Geiger counter, creating a series of endless unique images that evokes religious painting. For every tick, which signals a particle of radioactive decay, a bird is released.


  22. Luke Murphy, "Certainty Shelter", Installation View, 2009, CANADA