HERD (2005)
 
installation
 
by Dominic Rivron


 
HERD is a still-growing project based mainly around audio-visual 
digital art, which explores the animal world as seen by the human 
animal. While some of the work is confined to a monitor, other parts 
of the work are displayed on the walls, including a series of digitally 
created images entitled “All the animals I’ve ever eaten”. 
 
Some of the earliest known art is cave painting. Why did early humans 
paint animals in caves? Making images of animals now is one way of 
exploring this question, which is closely related to more abstract 
questions such as: what is art, and why make it at all?
 
The work also includes the “centaurpede”: a piece which could go on indefinitely, and which may be added to over the weekend. This is very much in the spirit of the exhibition, with its emphasis on the temporary,
flux and spontaneity.





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