Tom Shannon

Tom Shannon, 1947

Elmgreen & Dragset

Elmgreen & Dragset, ‘How are you today?’ (2002)

A ladder was installed inside the gallery, which the visitor was encouraged to climb.
Once up, the visitor could have a peek into the private life of the gallerist.

Elmgreem and Dragset are Michael Elmgreen (1961) and Ingar Dragset (1968). Elmgreen and Dragset are a world-renowned collaborative artist couple who live and work together in Berlin, Germany. They are known for work which has wit and subversive humour, and which looks at serious cultural concerns.

Simon Starling

Simon Starling (1967)

is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize.
He studied photography at Trent Polytechnic Nottingham and then attended Glasgow School of Art.
The idea of efficiency is a theme that informs much of his work, including Tabernas Desert Run (2004), featuring a bicycle fuelled by hydrogen and oxygen that he rode 66 kilometres across Spain's Tabernas Desert. The only waste product was water, which he then used to paint a watercolour of a cactus that he had seen on his trip.

Thomas Wilfred

Thomas Wilfred (1889 - 1968)

was a musician and inventor. He is best known for his visual music he named Lumia and his designs for color organs called Clavilux. Wilfred was not fond of the term "Color Organ", and coined the word "Clavilux" from Latin meaning "Light played by Key".

Wilfred's mechanisms were often complex designs that have been described as from the "Rube Goldberg" school. He was a trained Artist, but had little mechanical schooling, thus he was an "Outsider Engineer." That said, his devices were very sturdy, and many still function with most of the original parts.
In 1919, Wilfred constructed the Clavilux Model A in his Long Island Studio (located on the Brice Estate). The first public recital came in 1922 and featured performances on the Clavilux Model B for audiences at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. The press was highly receptive. In the audience that first night was Leopold Stokowski.
The Clavilux was a complex instrument which allowed a person to create and perform Lumia compositions. Later models B-H were touring and lecture models, the last one being built prior to WWII.