Concrete Playground

John Tonkin is an artist who takes the relationship between you and the moving image seriously. Currently on view at Breenspace, A Biology of Cognition is a new body of work by Tonkin relevant to his ongoing research into cybernetics and embodied perception.

The work is comprised of four interactive video loops that react and change depending on your movements within the space. Playing with those moments of reality where you are contemplative yet distant, Tonkin offers scenarios from everyday life that skirt the poetic but do not fall victim to it. Anyone interested in image-human interconnectivity and perception will glean something from Tonkin's weathery domains.