James Rogers

(b 1993, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Rogers' uses mostly self-built technologies to make figurative works that explore the ecosystem that exists between us and the emerging digital/ physical landscape. A self built printing machine has been hacked to extrude entire blocks of clay into coils; melting and constructing wax for casting in bronze; or when fitted with a drawing utensil - allow Rogers to connect his sculptural investigations to his works on paper as the mechanical pathways become depicted in lines. His work explores connection; dependency; and how these tendencies are mirrored into our technological networks; and then fragmented or even broken as they translate themselves into digital information; physical emotions; then back again.