Selected artists
Rational Rec’s has commissioned Paul B. Davis, Emma Hart and Charlie Fox for our first major commissioning project, beginning in January 2010.
Paul B. Davis is a new media artist, musician and founder of Beige Records with Joseph Beuckman in 1997 and the BEIGE Programming Ensemble with Cory Arcangel, Joseph Beuckman, and Joseph Bonn in 2000. He graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and completed his graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Davis pioneered and developed the use of hacked Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges as an artistic medium and created BEIGE's first Nintendo artworks. His Nintendo work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, Deadtech (Chicago), TEAM Gallery (New York), and Lothringer 13 (Munich). Recent projects include solo exhibitions in Milan and Chicago, performing music and wizardry in a duo with DJ LeDeuce [Thrill Jockey] known as The Potions, and DJ'ing in the elevator of the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Davis is a lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, working on his PhD at Central St Martins, and producing beats for St. Louis rapper 'Wonton'.
Charlie Fox is an artist based in London and the artistic director of counterproductions. counterproductions seek to promote socially engaged and experimental artistic practices: producing and collaborating in education, installation and transdisciplinary art projects both in the UK and internationally.
Over the last three years counterproductions have produced work at Dilston Grove, Art Caucasus 2007, Space Station 65, Cafe Gallery Projects, Peckham Space and the National Review Live Art. Fox is currently finishing his practice-as-research PhD 'In the Event of Laughter' at the University of Roehampton Drama Department.
Emma Hart’s work is a course of art action, setting out inventive processes and conceptual proposals to undertake with video and photography. Based in London, Hart performs and exhibits video, film and live art internationally and frequently collaborates with other artists.
Her work has been presented at institutions including Tate Britain, Camden Arts Centre, Oberhausen 53rd International Film Festival, the ICA, Dundee Contemporary Art Centre, Beaconsfield Gallery and most recently Cell Project Space. Emma is currently working on her PhD in Fine Art (by practice) at Kingston University.