Robin Leverton

Artist and Technologist

essay

  • The Organology of the City

    Abstract This paper investigates what it means for something to be a city by viewing the city as a complex system. Building a framework of cybernetic organicity drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Yuk Hui, and Benjamin Bratton, this paper looks at the ways in which an organ upholds its boundaries through constant

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  • How Has Architecture Been Used to Invoke the Feeling of The Uncanny When Critiquing Cultural Institutions?

    Architectural elements of works of institutional critique often play a lesser role in the overall impression of the work, therefore the purpose of this essay is to identify how architecture and the uncanny have been used for institutional critique and what effect does psychologically to the viewer. This essay will attempt to answer the question

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  • 100 Cups of Tea, 2014

    I made this film last year as part of my A2 in Art and Design. I previously uploaded it to youtube but it got taken down for being too long, however now it is up and available for watching. This piece was very important for me, as much of my work today, including all the

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  • Business Cards!

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  • To What Extent is the Monochrome the Logical Conclusion to Modernist Painting?

    The Monochrome in the tradition of modernist easel painting is defined as being a colour field painting consisting of a single colour or tone (Corris, 2009). Monochromes have had an influential effect on analytical and formalist paintings, with their appearance occurring mainly in the late 1910’s with suprematism, and the early 1950’s with formalism. It

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  • To What Degree and How Does the Meaning or Experience of a Work of Art Depend on Context?

    This essay will answer the title question by analysing 3 forms of context that affect a work of art: The author/spectator relationship, the artwork’s historical relationships and its institutional setting. It will question how each of these aspects affect Enrico Castellani’s “Superficie biangolare cromata” (2011) (displayed at Dominique Lévy London in the “Local History” exhibition

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