Publications & texts

Bruce Gernand, Festina Lente / Make Haste Slowly

Interview with Josine Bokhoven and Bruce Gernand, Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam, 2004 JB: The group of works based on the theme “Festina lente” which are now…
Bruce Gernand, Coded Chimera

Exploring relationships between sculptural form making and biological morphogenesis through computer modelling Initially inspired by the work of biologist D’Arcy Thompson’s transformational grids, the research…
Sculpture and Drawing, 1989 – 91

“With reference to the four sculptures made in crystacal plaster it is clear that as with any casting process there is a differentiation between the…
Range

“Range” is a multi-component work of about 50 elements. They all share a similar geometry which functions like a template to generate a variety of…
FADE : AHRC 08-09

FADE (Fine Art in the Digital Environment) was a research cluster at UAL (University of the Arts London) under the direction of Prof. Paul Coldwell…
Villa and Rake (2007)

The work with Alberto Sdegno was grounded in a shared interest in digital architectural models. I had made a number of playful architectural deformations (see…
A note on Spatial Studies EKWC, 2007

I had been thinking about the reciprocity between an object and the space it inhabited, imagining the change in shape of an object modifying the…
Dome and Painter (2007-08)

The EKWC is in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, the birthplace of Hieronymous Bosch. A rather stolid bronze sculpture commemorates his presence, off centre in a corner of…
Sculptures of Buildings

The interest here for me is not to make architectural models, nor to give an architectural experience such as wall, enclosure, or looking through an…
Sculpture at Goodwood, Cass Foundation

“Star and Cloud” In its initial manifestation as electronic information — a three dimensional model in virtual space — was, from the start, intended to…
Rapid Prototype

Paper for the Symposium: Tool Versus Medium, The Use of Rapid Prototyping in Contemporary SculptureDe Montfort University, 16 September 2004 This text is not a…
Serpents and Snails

“For the contemporary theorist Bruno Latour, the machine is a transparent entity, perpetually signalling the history of the human endeavour which ensured its existence. This…