The Remote Viewer at Light Night 2018

The Remote Viewer (at Light Night 2018) from Michael C Coldwell on Vimeo.


Images and footage from The Remote Viewer, a new projection work and 'final show' from my practice-led PhD at the University of Leeds, entitled Aura and Trace: The Hauntology of the Rephotographic Image

Just my viva to go!

Return to Nowhere

Revisiting a non-place from last year's Failures of Presence

Return to Nowhere is now up on www.michaelcoldwell.co.uk

Failures of Presence by Michael C Coldwell

The Voids at Crossly Ln, Huddersfield by Michael C Coldwell, 2017

Failures of Presence

by Michael C Coldwell

a new photo book is in preparation

The eerie can be characterised as a "failure of absence or by a failure of presence" 

Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie, 2016.  

Failures of Landscape

Failures of Context

Failures of Narrative

Failures of Representation

Failures of Humanity

Failures of Presence

"Through the uncanny, presence is stripped of its reassuring content and "things" are reduced to their shadows" Dylan Trigg, The Memory of Place

This is a book of such shadows.

Coming soon...

Leeds Topographics

Photograph taken in Armley for Outside Time project, 2016

Hidden Power

Hidden Power, Kirkstall Valley, Leeds 2016

Michael C Coldwell

The Trance of Light series

Self-landscape

Me At Point B, 2016, Michael C Coldwell

The Light Web

Denial of Service, 2016, Michael C Coldwell

What does the internet look like? It pervades all modern life, yet most of us are in the dark about how it works. In media theory it is seen as Baudrillard's great simulation, a comlete virtual world for us to explore and inhabit, a completely immaterial space. But this view of the web belies the fact that this apparently immaterial world is totally dependent on an incredibly complex material infrastructure - one that is often surprsingly old-fashioned when examined closely.

These are photographs of that physical 'web' that we routinely ignore.