Fairground: Thrill Laboratory - Artists
Brendan Walker
Curator of Fairground: Thrill Laboratory
Brendan’s interest in thrill stems from his desire to understand his novel moving structures and their potential to thrill an audience. Described by the Telegraph as a “Thrill Engineer”, Brendan now brings his passion for thrill to a new public.
Thrill Laboratory was produced with the assistance of Pigalle Tavakolli.
Punters: auto-portraits of fairground thrill, 2003
Brendan Walker, Royal College of Art; with James Condron, Media Lab Europe
Punters is a unique collection of photographic portraits generated by an auto-portrait machine. Punters explores the boundaries of current emotion-sensing practice by developing a machine ultimately controlled by the emotion of thrill.
Thrill Technicians
SHUNT artists: Hannah Ringham, Heather Uprichard, Nigel Barrett and Geneva Foster plus guests: Jenevieve Chang, Tracey Collins
Our laboratory technicians will assist you in the pursuit of thrilling results, although their methods may be unorthodox…
Found footage from the fairground
Bas Raijmakers, with Michael Burton, Thomas Wynne-Morgan, and Jessica Charlesworth; Design Interactions, Royal College of Art