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ZWRP / ZEITWARP

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Zeitwarp is a multi-disciplinary creative studio based near Cambridge (UK).

Output includes immersive physical paintings & objects, organic digital art, music/sound/noise, live art / multi-sensory installations, metaverse activations..."and all that other mother jazz".

ZWRP is the in-house 'brand' of physical artefacts - including conceptual 'objects', artistic furniture, paintings and limited edition fine art prints.

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

START HERE

BUY THE TICKET -

TAKE THE RIDE

Zeitwarp is a multi-disciplinary creative studio based near Cambridge (UK).

Output includes immersive physical paintings & objects, organic digital art, music/sound/noise, live art / multi-sensory installations, metaverse activations..."and all that other mother jazz".

ZWRP is the in-house 'brand' of physical artefacts - including conceptual 'objects', artistic furniture, paintings and limited edition fine art prints.

TIME IS RELATIVE

TL:DR

There is a lot more optional info & images buried in the expandable dropdowns & slideshows on this page. However, in the sparse attention desert of modern life not everyone has the time or inclination for this kind of thing - so here's the TL:DR - >>more

We make art and artistic objects in a broad range of forms that reflect a set of observations & thoughts about contemporary human existence in our wonderful entropic 'only forwards' universe. There's a lot of salvaged audio equipment involved and sometimes a few mannequins - and occasionally both.

We hope you enjoy it.

If that's your sort of thing then it would be great if you could take a look at the work - and maybe sign up for the Outer Limits newsletter at the bottom of the page.

Thanks.

“We were partying hard at the Wilde Möhre Festival near Drebkau in Germany...people danced to the loud and pumping electric music...two pieces of Zeitwarp‘s music note art works were hanging on the wooden walls...majestic and mystically lit up by the flashes of the disco lights and stroboscopes.

Next day, hung over, I bought both paintings...”

'Y.S.' - MUSIC GRAFFITI Owner, Zurich

TIME IS RELATIVE

TL:DR

There is a lot more optional info & images buried in the expandable dropdowns & slideshows on this page. However, in the sparse attention desert of modern life not everyone has the time or inclination for this kind of thing - so here's the TL-DR:

We make art and artistic objects in a broad range of forms that reflect a set of observations & thoughts about contemporary human existence in our wonderful entropic 'only forwards' universe. There's a lot of salvaged audio equipment involved and sometimes a few mannequins - and occasionally both.

We hope you enjoy it.

If that's your sort of thing then it would be great if you could take a look at the work - and maybe sign up for the Outer Limits newsletter at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

“We were partying hard at the Wilde Möhre Festival near Drebkau in Germany...people danced to the loud and pumping electric music...two pieces of Zeitwarp‘s music note art works were hanging on the wooden walls...majestic and mystically lit up by the flashes of the disco lights and stroboscopes.

Next day, hung over, I bought both paintings...”

'Y.S.' - MUSIC GRAFFITI Owner, Zurich

WHERE'S YOUR HOMEWORK?

ART SCHOOL

ZWRP/Zeitwarp work is released in distinct thematic series with a consistent aesthetic. The main series & themes are - more >>

> ZWRP Singularities - Unique physical display objects representing both the full spectrum of Zeitwarp/ZWRP conceptual themes.

> The No$talgia Show - A long-term series of physical, digital and immersive artworks examining Transience, Obsolescence, Transformation, Retro-Utopianism and the Nostalgia/NO$TALGIA phenomenon. (Also includes 'No$talgia Unwrapped')

> Music Graffiti - Physical textured paintings as the genesis node for a sequence of phase-space recursive transformations between Sound & Vision and Physical/Digital forms. Includes Feedback Loops, Phreak Music and Glitch Breaks digital work.

> Displacement Di$co - Humanity in the Machine Age - includes 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Noise' and 'Free Jazz'

> The Significance Parade - Significance > Attachment > Transmission. Digital video collage artworks & Art prints including We are only Human

SHOW US YOUR HOMEWORK

ART SCHOOL

ZWRP/Zeitwarp work is released in distinct thematic series with a consistent aesthetic >> more

ZWRP SINGULARITIES:

Unique physical display objects representing both the full spectrum of Zeitwarp/ZWRP conceptual themes.

THE NO$TALGIA SHOW:
A long-term series of physical, digital and immersive artworks examining Transience, Obsolescence, Transformation, Retro-Utopianism and the Nostalgia/NO$TALGIA phenomenon. (Also includes 'No$talgia Unwrapped')

MUSIC GRAFFITI:

Physical textured paintings as the genesis node for a sequence of phase-space recursive transformations between Sound & Vision and Physical/Digital forms. Includes Feedback Loops, Phreak Music and Glitch Breaks digital work.

DISPLACEMENT DI$CO:
Humanity in the Machine Age - includes 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Noise' and 'Free Jazz'

THE SIGNIFICANCE PARADE:
Significance > Attachment > Transmission. Digital video collage artworks & Art prints including We are only Human

DIGITAL ART | PHYSICAL PAINTINGS | INSTALLATION | PHREAK MUSIC

EXHIBIT 'Z'

ZWRP/Zeitwarp artwork and creations have been exhibited internationally both in physical and digital form in Miami, Lisbon, Berlin, Bangkok, Milan, San Francisco, etc

Other major global art destinations are available...

DIGITAL ART | PHYSICAL PAINTINGS | INSTALLATION

EXHIBIT 'Z'

ZWRP/Zeitwarp artwork and creations have been exhibited internationally both in physical and digital form in Miami, Lisbon, Berlin, Bangkok, Milan, San Francisco, etc

Other major global art destinations are available...

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

NEVER EXPLAIN / WTF?

"THAT'S JUST LIKE...

YOUR OPINION MAN"

The four main themes of ZWRP artwork are: Transience, Obsolescence, Transformation, Significance, and Attachment. No wait, the five main themes of ZWRP artwork are...etc >> more

"Among the themes" of ZWRP artwork are... :-)

If we are going to assign a descriptive label to the work produced by ZWRP/Zeitwarp then the most accurate would be 'Post-Conceptual Garage Art'

(Pretentious?...Moi?)

Essentially, the work is created with intentional meaning. The surface aesthetic and form are signals to draw attention to an examination of the underlying themes.

These themes are interconnected but can best be summarised as two triangular structures:

Transience, Obsolescence and Transformation

Significance, Attachment and Transmission.

(The former generally relates to objects, and the latter to 'subjects' (people) - however there is a crossover duality that also applies when everything aligns perfectly.)

These foundational elements are considered through the lens of the Promethean tension between humanity and technology in an entropic 'only forwards' universe - and within the context of their reverberative effect on culture, society, economics, politics and climate.

Music - and in particular the technology, culture and economy of music - is often the motif to communicate these concepts.

NEVER EXPLAIN / WTF?

"THAT'S JUST LIKE...

YOUR OPINION MAN"

The four main themes of ZWRP artwork are: Transience, Obsolescence, Transformation, Significance, and Attachment. No wait, the five main themes of ZWRP artwork are...etc >> more

"Among the themes" of ZWRP artwork are... :-)

If we are going to assign a descriptive label to the work produced by ZWRP/Zeitwarp then the most accurate would be 'Post-Conceptual Garage Art'

(Pretentious?...Moi?)

Essentially, the work is created with intentional meaning. The surface aesthetic and form are signals to draw attention to an examination of the underlying themes.

These themes are interconnected but can best be summarised as two triangular structures:

Transience, Obsolescence and Transformation

Significance, Attachment and Transmission.

(The former generally relates to objects, and the latter to 'subjects' (people) - however there is a crossover duality that also applies when everything aligns perfectly.)

These foundational elements are considered through the lens of the Promethean tension between humanity and technology in an entropic 'only forwards' universe - and within the context of their reverberative effect on culture, society, economics, politics and climate.

Music - and in particular the technology, culture and economy of music - is often the motif to communicate these concepts.

IS IT REAL? - OR IS IT MEMOREX?

ORGANIC ONLY

So, yeah, it would be easier to push a button, type a prompt, or give a voice command to generate the images and objects in ZWRP artwork...but where's the art - or fun - in that? Instead everything that you see is real...whatever that means. - more >>

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"There is no reality except in action."


Existentialism Is a Humanism

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

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ZWRP/Zeitwarp artwork touches on multiple interlinked nodes - physical installation, digital / video art, physical paintings and objects, immersive activations (AR & VR), metaversal, sound/noise. etc.

The common thread is that every piece is a collage of real physical objects and images from my own collection of ephemera. Nothing is generated by AI or digital only tools.

The act of sourcing, collecting, repurposing, assembling and remixing the constituent parts is fundamental to both the subjective process and artistic output.

DIGITAL / PHYSICAL / IMMERSIVE / IRL

CROSSING THE STREAMS

Individual artworks touch multiple nodes, straddling the threshold between physical, digital, live and immersive forms. - "It's probably something quantum" - more >>

A single work can begin as a physical object within an IRL installation. This source object is then reproduced digitally to become the subject of a series of still frame and video collages, before subsequently undergoing further transformation into sound, followed by extended recursive iterations under the FEEDBACK LOOPS methodology.

Ultimately, the initial object finishes as a 'Singularity' - a conceptual display artefact that encapsulates all the parallel timelines & conceptual ideas of a piece into one unique dense physical IRL display object.

Definitely something quantum...

Meanwhile frames captured from the digital manipulations are reproduced as limited edition fine art prints.

IN EVERY DREAM HOME

LIFE, THE UNIVERSE & EVERYTHING

The 'Singularities' are unique physical objects representing both the full spectrum of Zeitwarp/ZWRP conceptual themes - and the collapse of their own prior parallel timelines into one unique ultra-dense physical IRL display object - What does that even mean? - more >>

The source material for each object has featured previously in physical, digital and/or immersive ZWRP/Zeitwarp artworks.

The Singularities are their final destination.

One part Ozymandian fossilised historical artefact - one part ultra dense object at the centre of a ZWRP conceptual black hole. A plurality of subjective thoughts and alternative variations coalescing into a unique singular object.

Singular / Plural - Object & Subject - WTF is going on here?

Essentially, the Singularities are a series of IRL display pieces made from salvaged audio-visual equipment that has featured in ZWRP/Zeitwarp work. They represent the entirety of the themes behind those previous works - and are sometimes inscribed with text from the previous iterations.

The series is influenced by the sonnet Ozymandias by Shelley - within the framework of ongoing ZWRP/Zeitwarp themes of Transience / Obsolescence / Transformation (object) and Significance / Attachment / Transmission (subject).

The surface of each object is heavily textured with multiple layers of paint, silica and diamond dust. The display stands are constructed individually from discarded / salvaged audio equipment.

'Re-Make / Re-Model' indeed.

“…that’s the kind of Avant Garde that gets my heart up…”

CLARIAN - Anjunadeep Artist, Founder of Tamago Streaming.

ANOTHER FINE EDITION OF YOU

PRINTS...

& THE REVOLUTION

Limited edition art prints are released exclusively to subscribers of the Outer Limits newsletter in a monthly 'ZWRP Drop'. - more >>

The prints are single frame transformations selected from the full digital video collage artwork.

Each ZWRP Drop is time limited - and that month's print will be unavailable to collect once the drop is complete. The series will be closed at the number of editions collected (max 49 - plus one artist proof).

The heavy duty 250gsm print will be available either framed or unframed in a choice of sizes and formats - but only with a maximum of 49 editions across all versions.

Sign up for the Outer Limits at the bottom of this page if you would like to know what's coming and get access.

"The quintessence of musical dynamism and tonality captured in a still image.

The perfectly delineated single note, itself filled with energy and infinite potential, against the horizontal lines of time.

This picture fascinates and enthrals me. A work of genius."

D.M. Musician & Producer, Suffolk, UK.

TELL ME WHO ARE YOU?

DISCOGRAPHY

My name is Dan Quill. Zeitwarp is both the name of my studio and the outlet for my multi-disciplinary creative practice - more >>

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"Well, How did I get here?"

'Once in a Lifetime' - TALKING HEADS

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During a fluctuating and varied career journey, the ideas and output that represent the ZWRP/Zeitwarp concept continued to develop in an inverse relationship with any definition of a conventional vocation or career pathway.

Eventually, it took over completely.

This was probably always going to happen.

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“I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been."

DAVID BOWIE

“My career's, uh, slowed down a little lately."

Dude - THE BIG LEBOWSKI

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Given the lack of any kind of formal art education or training, everything that I produce would normally be categorised as ‘outsider art’ or perhaps more accurately “art brut” (raw art) within the standard art lexicon.

I prefer the term ‘Garage Art’.

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"We're a Garage Band...We come from Garageland "

'Garageland'- THE CLASH

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The Clash were responding lyrically to being critically dismissed for lacking formal music technique & training in an NME review by Charles Shaar Murray.

Similarly, ‘Garage Art’ perhaps captures the essence of being outside of an art establishment that values three years of art school as infinitely superior to three plus decades of thinking about the nature of existence in an aesthetic sensory fashion.

Ah well, what can you do...

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

ANTI-SOCIALS ?

SLAVE TO THE 'RITHM

Social media has evolved into a turbo-charged hunger game of diminishing returns in a dopamine driven digital landscape where the attention trade is the last game in town. - Apparently...there's also a good side - more >>

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"Never stop the action, Keep it up, Keep it up"

Slave to the Rhythm - GRACE JONES

"It is the consumer who is consumed...You are the end product."

“Television Delivers People” - 1973 | RICHARD SERA

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Yes, social media is pernicious, manipulative, unreliable, addictive etc. Moreover it's also owned by some of the richest narcissists on the planet - ("same as it ever was...")

With the algorithms rewarding engagement and 'time on platform', and in an economy where attention is an almost fundamental requirement, it's easy to become committed to chasing the dopamine dragon in a hamster wheel existence.

Let's face it, it's probably a bad thing

The problem of course is that the vanity metrics of 'social proof' are often the key to external perception and - in the case of artists, bands, businesses, whatever - the literal difference between success and failure.

Well - if you've got this far - then my hope is that you will not judge this 'book' by the quantity of its algorithmic social footprint but instead by the quality of the 'content'.

Which is a long way of saying "I'm not playing any more" - or more specifically...I'm not prioritising Zuck or Elon's game any more.

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"Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows"

Rent - TRAINSPOTTING / BORN SLIPPY

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Our focus will be both on IRL networking and our own platform / newsletter community going forward.

If you would like to keep up with what we are doing - and get access to the monthly ZWRP Drops - then the best thing to do is to subscribe to The Outer Limits monthly newsletter below.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

ANTI-SOCIALS ?

SLAVE TO THE 'RITHM

Social media has evolved into a turbo-charged hunger game of diminishing returns in a dopamine driven digital landscape where the attention trade is the last game in town. - Apparently...there's also a good side - more >>

________________________

"Never stop the action, Keep it up, Keep it up"

Slave to the Rhythm - GRACE JONES



"It is the consumer who is consumed...You are the end product."

Television Delivers People
RICHARD SERA

________________________

Yes, social media is pernicious, manipulative, unreliable, addictive etc. Moreover it's also owned by some of the richest narcissists on the planet - ("same as it ever was...")

With the algorithms rewarding engagement and 'time on platform', and in an economy where attention is an almost fundamental requirement, it's easy to become committed to chasing the dopamine dragon in a hamster wheel existence.

Let's face it, it's probably a bad thing

The problem of course is that the vanity metrics of 'social proof' are often the key to external perception and - in the case of artists, bands, businesses, whatever - the literal difference between success and failure.

Well - if you've got this far - then my hope is that you will not judge this 'book' by the quantity of its algorithmic social footprint but instead by the quality of the 'content'.

Which is a long way of saying "I'm not playing any more" - or more specifically...I'm not prioritising Zuck or Elon's game any more.

________________________

"Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows"

Rent - TRAINSPOTTING / BORN SLIPPY

________________________

Our focus will be both on IRL networking and our own platform / newsletter community going forward.

If you would like to keep up with what we are doing - and get access to the monthly ZWRP Drops - then the best thing to do is to subscribe to The Outer Limits monthly newsletter below.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

Glitched image digital artwork of a Robot Mannequin DJ

WHERE TO BUY | HOW TO BUY | WHAT TO BUY

SHUT UP & TAKE MY MONEY!

New ZWRP artwork, objects and merch are available in time limited monthly 'ZWRP Drops' to subscribers of the Outer Limits newsletter.

Each monthly drop includes unique original work - such as a 'Singularity' installation object or Music Graffiti painting - along with a set of limited edition prints and/or merch that will only be available for that month and then discontinued.

Sign up below if you would like to know what's coming and get access.

WHERE TO BUY | HOW TO BUY | WHAT TO BUY

"SHUT UP & TAKE MY MONEY!"

New ZWRP artwork, objects and merch are available in time limited monthly 'ZWRP Drops' to subscribers of the Outer Limits newsletter.

Each monthly drop includes unique original work - such as a 'Singularity' installation object or Music Graffiti painting - along with a set of limited edition prints and/or merch that will only be available for that month and then discontinued.

Sign up below if you would like to know what's coming and get access.

THE OUTER LIMITS

The Outer Limits is a monthly email broadcast from Zeitwarp Studios featuring exclusive ZWRP art/objects/merch 'drops', upcoming exhibitions & installations, and news on everything we are doing to support and promote grassroots culture via The Caymana.

(Please remember to confirm your subscription in the email that you will receive right after signing up, thanks.)

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