Bob Bicknell-Knight, We’ve Been Here Before

About the video:
We’ve Been Here Before is a CGI film exploring public and private space, forgotten histories, simulated worlds, and apocalyptic futures. It features digital replicas of real-life spaces recreated in architectural simulation software and eroded 3D models of contemporary technologies. The film examines GCHQ headquarters, responsible for digital surveillance in the UK and abroad; Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California; and Fisher Island, Miami, the wealthiest area in the US and among the first at risk from rising sea levels. 

6'34", color, sound, 2021.
 

About the artist :
Bob Bicknell-Knight (b. 1996, Ipswich, United Kingdom) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Tallinn, Estonia, working with digital media producing films, paintings, sculptures and installations. His practice explores ideas surrounding time, control and degradation, with a particular interest in the underlying mechanics of video game worlds and power structures that proliferate online and in new forms of technology. Selected solo exhibitions include Asset Flip at SEAGER, London, UK (2024); Sunday School at Number 1 Main Road, Berlin, Germany (2023); Insert Coin at CABLE DEPOT, London, United Kingdom (2023); Non-Player Character at Klaipėda Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, Lithuania (2023); Digging History at INDUSTRA, Brno, Czech Republic (2021); Eat The Rich at Galerie Sono, Paris, France (2021); It's Always Day One at Office Impart, Berlin, Germany (2021); Bit Rot at Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, United Kingdom (2020); State of Affairs at Salon 75, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019) and CACOTOPIA 02 at Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2018). Bicknell-Knight is also the founder and director of  isthisit?, a platform for art that’s specialised mainly in digital art since its creation in May 2016, and has worked with hundreds of artists since its inception.

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