Boora Radio – stories on demand

Artwork by Nicole McKenna
Boora
Co Offaly

May 2011

Boora Radio is a stand alone artwork within The Boora Project. Sound files, including Boora workers stories, conversations and musings, as well as ambient sounds from Boora Works (machine sounds, locomotives …

Boora Wagons

by Nicole McKenna
Wagons Loaded  // Boora-boys
Boora
Co Offaly

May 2011

Boora workers are embedded in their physical world through graffiti-style postering. Faces cropped to reveal smiling eyes peep from loco wagons as they transverse the peatlands of …

Embedded Landscapes

Works-in-progress by Nicole McKenna

Laser projection in landscape

Test 01
Killucan
Co Westmeath

April 2011

“Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.” …

Red Dot – Schoolyard of the future

Red Dot Game
Schoolyard of the Future
Forum Images
Groningen
The Netherlands

December 2010

BYOB Jugglers Three

Bring your own beamer
Irish Museum of Contemporary Art
Dublin 2

March 2011

The Jugglers Three played live (on projection) at the BYOB night at Imoca.

See Jugglers Three Exhibition for more information…

Memory – Schoolyard of the future

Memory Game
Schoolyard of the Future
Forum Images
Groningen
The Netherlands

December 2010

MaxMSP generated interactive game “Memory”. Designed and created by A7 Collective, Frank Mohr Institute (Nicole McKenna, Adriana García, Aggeliki Tsekeni, with the expert help of Jan …

Jugglers Three: Catch this Mr Shannon

Academy Minerva
Groningen
The Netherlands

A triptych of bad jugglers reconfigure the thinkings of Claude E Shannon

if juggling is a metaphor for new media
then bad jugglers are students of same.

The piece represented the Interactive Media Environments …

Mapping the mind

Mapping the Mind by Nicole McKenna
Phizzfest
Phibsboro Tower
Dublin 7

September, 2010

This artwork exists in two formats:

1. Digital book format – Mental Mapping

2. Multi-card Rolladex – Desk-library Machine

“I believe in the power of the …

Can you count suckers!

Posters & t-shirts by artist, Nicole Mckenna

Text from the famous “Cyrus speech scene” from 1979 cult movie The Warriors is “summed-up” graffiti-style, includes icons from Coney Island, home turf of the Warriors. Designed as part of “Double Bill” …

Shop Lift

Checkpoint
NCAD MA + MFA Show
Tully’s Tiles
Smithfield
Dublin 7

April 2010.

A sound and light installation by artist, Nicole McKenna

DE-CON-STRUCTED REALITY
SHOP SIGN is not a sign. Neon is not neon.
The electrics that empowerthe sign have …