Tinkering with circuit bending for a commission - along with Sally Nutman and Tom Evans - to create a 'Heath Robinson/Wallace + Grommit style installation, for I Love West Leeds Arts Festival, 2011.  

Situated within a regular garden shed. The installation incorporates cogs and pulleys mounted upon the shed roof and walls. Festival goers are encouraged to play and explore while learning about sustainable energy.

During the festival, the shed - manned by a mad professor (or three!) - offer various activities and experiments for the public to interact with. 

At each venue the public are invited to help power the various activities through cycling on micro power generators, to triggering water jet contraptions and making solar powered music, to illustrate the 'power' of human kinetic energy. Whilst taking part, the participants learn about energy consumption, the effort taken to create power and the sustainability issues of consumption and generation.

The shed traveled around West Leeds to three different locations attending local community festivals in order to maximise the number of people who experience it.

Venues included : Farsley Saturday 2nd July, Bramley Fall Park Sunday 3rd July, Bramley Shopping Centre Saturday 9th July.

As well as providing fun activities for families, the shed also provided a discussion point for parents and families to open dialogue about the energy use at home and encouraged consideration of living more sustainably.

Supported by The Co-operative Membership

Just spent a fun weekend with Stuart from The Jam Jar Collective, Adrian McEwen and Thom Shannon from Howduino at TempleWorks tinkering with Arduinos for the Leeds Howduino event… with oodles of cool toys to play with supplied by the wonderful people at oomlout

If a building had a memory, with secrets to tell, what would it say?

‘Slip in Time’ began as an enquiry into the secrets a building might tell, if only we spoke the same language. Video artist, Shari Baker, and composer, Mark Sullivan worked collaboratively to suggest a hint of these memories, dislocated in time.

Responding to the space, they used visual and aural artifacts sampled directly from the building, to explore the traces and fragments left behind. Weaving a vast historical and social tapestry of memory itself.

The short film, which was created, will be on view as part of the Temple Works torch light tours, running during the Leeds Light Night Festival on October 9th, 2009.

The work brings together fleeting moments, captured as glitches in time, half remembered, visual and aural metaphors with a narrative that is both haunting, yet soothing, and somehow, just beyond our reach of comprehension. Immense in its quietness, it is intended to leave us wanting more, just like memories themselves.

The project was created as a transatlantic collaboration, with composer Mark Sullivan. Video and audio was captured by Shari Baker and then processed and edited, by the duo. Being passed back and forth during the development of the piece, which ultimately, became a response to each others work, and the building itself.

Shari Baker is a video artist and educator who develops video experiences for performance, installation and online media. She collaborates with a wide variety of sound, video and interactive artists, to explore the creative relationships between digital and analogue communication, and the shared language across the visual and acoustic domains. Her work combines both the whimsical and the provocative and has been exhibited worldwide.