File 1 - Keith Tyson SuperCollider

Photographs of the solo exhibition Keith Tyson SuperCollider which took place at the South London Gallery from 16 January to 17 March 2002. Supercollider launched the exhibition programme at the South London Gallery under the new directorship of Margot Heller. The exhibition was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Bloomberg and additional funding from the Henry Moore Foundation. The title, Supercollider, was derived from the slang name for the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva. Tyson, an avid collector of information, was nourished by a daily diet of texts and conversations about this scientific theory or that philosophical argument. The exhibition showed his desire to experiment and use information in order to create extraordinary drawings, objects and systems which express something about our existence. A giant glass sphere, two metres in diameter, gradually and almost imperceptibly, changed colour, from blue to violet to red and back again as its heat sensitive surface reacted to heating and cooling elements inside the sphere. The other installation Field of Heaven Long Shot Magnet was a motorised model made of real pieces of planets and meteorites, including a chunk of the moon, rotate around each other in an orbital arrangement which would never occur naturally. Tyson devised a special pull-out section in the SLG's first newspaper.