Thingalyzer

In October 2008 the Powerhouse Museum invited him to meet with its staff, explore its boundaries and territories and in the process create a new work. The Museum was looking to reveal something that was vital to it and at the same time offer our audiences a chance to collaborate or perhaps simply to marvel. The theme that surfaced again and again during the extended conversation was the notion of collections and collectors. Even when it came to data about the collection we were hounds.

The result of that residency and collaboration is Artefact H10515. It follows Craig’s previous work in that it opens a passage between the familiar and the strange, the real and the fabricated. It extends his work in that it is constantly responding to data fed to it via the Thingalyzer.com website.