About

David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across media and technologies to explore the social and political tendencies of a world at once shared and divided.

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Observer Effect
Observer Effect 2012

This work is in part derived from a short story by Ray Bradbury. Originally published as 'The World the Children Made’ in the September 23, 1950 edition of the The Saturday Evening Post and later presented as ‘The Veldt’ in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951.

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News

Buffet d'Art - 04.11.16

As the US election approaches, David will again be showing his installation, The Wall, within the touring exhibition, Buffet d'Art. The show will be open on Friday and run for a few intense days at th...

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Seeing - 28.06.16

The new installation work, Mirror II - Distance, is on show in Dublin as part of the Seeing exhibition at the Science Gallery. The exhibition features the works of 24 artists, designers...

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Buffet d'Art - 31.03.16

David will be showing a modest new work, The Wall, within the Kunsthaus Meinblau exhibition, Buffet d'Art. A playful interaction with the debates regarding walls, borders and xenophobic paranoia, The ...

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Pilot 1, Private View - 17.03.16

David will be showing his collaborative work, Mirror at the University of Brighton Gallery. This exhibition, the first in a series of research gallery productions, introduces two new professors i...

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World Theatre Forum - 20.02.16

David will participate in the World Theatre Forum at the National School of Drama, Delhi. He will discuss his recent project, Mirror as part of a three day forum bringing together 30 academics, p...

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Trauma - 20.11.15

David's photographic works, Sightlines I and Supernumerary are included within the new Science Gallery (Dublin) exhibition, 'Trauma'.  A sudden, violent, stressful and disturbing event...

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THAAP - 08.11.15

David will present his paper, 'Empathy and Risk' at the 6th International THAAP Conference 2015 on 08 November at 43-G, Gulberg-III, Lahore, Pakistan. The Trust or History, Art and Architecture ...

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ISEA - 17.08.15

At ISEA 2015, David is showing The Ostrich Effect. This generative installation was built using commercial automated call-centre servers, customising their IVR (Interactive Voice Response) programs to...

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Terminus - 08.08.15

Focussing on the absurd beauty of infrastructure in a post-industrial landscape, Terminus is an exhibition of new artwork considering the legacy of masterplanned dreams. The exhibition includes n...

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Mirror - 27.06.15

David and the Sri-Lankan screen-writer, Ruwanthie de Chickera have produced the collaborative installation, Mirror. In the first of a series of two-screen works considering polarised perspectives...

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