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Scanner - British artist Robin Rimbaud - traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways.

From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen. Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and has collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: musicians Bryan Ferry and Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet and Random Dance companies, composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Mike Kelley and Derek Jarman.

As well as producing compositions and audio CDs, his diverse body of work includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, and site-specific intermedia installations. He has performed and created works in many of the world's most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London. https://www.scannerdot.com

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"Scanner." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/scanner.

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Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) is a British artist working between sound, space, image and form; he produced multi-layered pieces, created early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, and explored the hidden noise of the modern metropolis. He collaborated with musicians Bryan Ferry and Laurie Anderson, with The Royal Ballet and Random Dance, with composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and with artists Mike Kelley and Derek Jarman; his works include audio CDs and soundtracks for film, performance and radio, and have been shown at SFMOMA, Hayward Gallery and Pompidou Centre.

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