WORKS
1949 (2010)
Another blurred boundary (2004)
A Leisure Complex (2014)
AFTERTHOUGHTS (2008)
Aggregate (2011)
All I was hoping to say (2013)
Alternative proposal for Collingwood (Moffett #1) (2010)
Alternative proposal for Collingwood (Moffett #2) (2010)
Amateur prospectors (2011)
An Entirely Lyrical Instrument (2014)
And you may ask yourself ... (2014)
Another Construction (2011)
anti-tour no. 1 - magic hour (2006)
anti-tour no. 2 - the nineties (2006)
anti-tour no. 3 - colombia (2007)
anti-tour no. 4 - the foyle (2006)
anti-tour no. 5 - sligo (2007)
Approaching Breezewood (2010)
Between motion and static mass (2010)
Between the roads (2010)
Billion year old carbon (2010)
Box with the sound of our unmaking (2010)
Carbon Dating (2011)
Circuits (2012)
Circuits (redux) (2014)
Corpus (2014)
Decompression 1 (2001)
Decompression 2 (2002)
Decompression 3 (2003)
Deepwater Horizon (2010)
Destination (2010)
diagram/suburban tectonics (2008)
Diploma in HTML programming (2012)
displaced strata/great expectations (2008)
Experiments in zero gravity (2011)
Falken's Maze (2002)
Facetime (2011)
Factory prices guaranteed (2010)
flexible units/still (2009)
Flowmatic (2014)
gateway/axial extrusion (2009)
Gateway (redux) (2009/2014)
Ghosts of the Garden City (2010)
Glands (2014)
Golden gamble/space frame (2010)
http://alpha60.info (2004)
I reached inside myself through time (2015)
infrastructure/flow (2008)
La ladera (2007)
landscape/projection (2007)
location/translation (2009)
Now Then (2011)
Maybe everything that dies ... (2013)
Moon Bounce (2013)
OBSCURE FLOWS BOIL UNDERNEATH (2012)
one second of a possible future/central bank (2008)
People say that Altavista is the best (2012)
Portable framework (2010)
Portal Fragment (2012/2014)
PRECAST (2012)
PRESENT POSSIBILITIES / (FUTURE POTENTIAL) (2013)
Projected from first principles (2010)
Relaxation time (2015)
Running up that building (2015)
Samples for ears and pixels for eyes (2014)
Seapoint w/ Cliona Harmey (2002)
skytrain/monospan twin ride (2008/2009)
Some feeling of living in today (2012)
soundtrack for the 13th floor of the Central Bank building/rewind (2008)
Space replaced by volume (2011)
Sun Writing (2009)
The Archivist (2014)
The Big Bank (re-edit) (2009)
The colours return to the surface of the Earth (2014)
The Crash (2011)
The Eyes of Ayn Rand (2011)
The Face of Something New (2013)
The first time someone ever asked me if I had an e-mail address (2012)
the here and now/crystalline space (2008)
the migrant/landscape (2008)
The Sentinels (2011)
The singularity (for Ray Kurzweil) (2013)
The time inside (2011)
The time inside (the spoil) (2011)
the view from now/downtown parkade (2008)
The Wall (2014)
The world doesn't need any more of those (2014)
This halfway place (2015)
three soundtracks/architectural space (2008)
Timeplace (2011)
trajectory/a pattern language (2007)
Transportable framework (2010)
Underground (2008)
Unknown (2010/2014)
Unstable co-ordinates (2014)
Untitled (2014)
VMB (Keeping Up) (2014)
Wall surface (2011)
We built this city (don't you remember?) (2010)
Windshield 2011 (2011)
You walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road ... (2010)
1949 (2010)
Another blurred boundary (2004)
A Leisure Complex (2014)
AFTERTHOUGHTS (2008)
Aggregate (2011)
All I was hoping to say (2013)
Alternative proposal for Collingwood (Moffett #1) (2010)
Alternative proposal for Collingwood (Moffett #2) (2010)
Amateur prospectors (2011)
An Entirely Lyrical Instrument (2014)
And you may ask yourself ... (2014)
Another Construction (2011)
anti-tour no. 1 - magic hour (2006)
anti-tour no. 2 - the nineties (2006)
anti-tour no. 3 - colombia (2007)
anti-tour no. 4 - the foyle (2006)
anti-tour no. 5 - sligo (2007)
Approaching Breezewood (2010)
Between motion and static mass (2010)
Between the roads (2010)
Billion year old carbon (2010)
Box with the sound of our unmaking (2010)
Carbon Dating (2011)
Circuits (2012)
Circuits (redux) (2014)
Corpus (2014)
Decompression 1 (2001)
Decompression 2 (2002)
Decompression 3 (2003)
Deepwater Horizon (2010)
Destination (2010)
diagram/suburban tectonics (2008)
Diploma in HTML programming (2012)
displaced strata/great expectations (2008)
Experiments in zero gravity (2011)
Falken's Maze (2002)
Facetime (2011)
Factory prices guaranteed (2010)
flexible units/still (2009)
Flowmatic (2014)
gateway/axial extrusion (2009)
Gateway (redux) (2009/2014)
Ghosts of the Garden City (2010)
Glands (2014)
Golden gamble/space frame (2010)
http://alpha60.info (2004)
I reached inside myself through time (2015)
infrastructure/flow (2008)
La ladera (2007)
landscape/projection (2007)
location/translation (2009)
Now Then (2011)
Maybe everything that dies ... (2013)
Moon Bounce (2013)
OBSCURE FLOWS BOIL UNDERNEATH (2012)
one second of a possible future/central bank (2008)
People say that Altavista is the best (2012)
Portable framework (2010)
Portal Fragment (2012/2014)
PRECAST (2012)
PRESENT POSSIBILITIES / (FUTURE POTENTIAL) (2013)
Projected from first principles (2010)
Relaxation time (2015)
Running up that building (2015)
Samples for ears and pixels for eyes (2014)
Seapoint w/ Cliona Harmey (2002)
skytrain/monospan twin ride (2008/2009)
Some feeling of living in today (2012)
soundtrack for the 13th floor of the Central Bank building/rewind (2008)
Space replaced by volume (2011)
Sun Writing (2009)
The Archivist (2014)
The Big Bank (re-edit) (2009)
The colours return to the surface of the Earth (2014)
The Crash (2011)
The Eyes of Ayn Rand (2011)
The Face of Something New (2013)
The first time someone ever asked me if I had an e-mail address (2012)
the here and now/crystalline space (2008)
the migrant/landscape (2008)
The Sentinels (2011)
The singularity (for Ray Kurzweil) (2013)
The time inside (2011)
The time inside (the spoil) (2011)
the view from now/downtown parkade (2008)
The Wall (2014)
The world doesn't need any more of those (2014)
This halfway place (2015)
three soundtracks/architectural space (2008)
Timeplace (2011)
trajectory/a pattern language (2007)
Transportable framework (2010)
Underground (2008)
Unknown (2010/2014)
Unstable co-ordinates (2014)
Untitled (2014)
VMB (Keeping Up) (2014)
Wall surface (2011)
We built this city (don't you remember?) (2010)
Windshield 2011 (2011)
You walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road ... (2010)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
PROTOTYPES (2014) at Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland.
A Stew of Universals (2013) at ZK/U, Berlin, Germany.
Space replaced by volume (2011) at The Granoff Center for the Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, US.
The Driver and the Passenger (2010) at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
framework/rupture (2008) at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
dx/dt (2006) at VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland.
PROTOTYPES (2014) at Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland.
A Stew of Universals (2013) at ZK/U, Berlin, Germany.
Space replaced by volume (2011) at The Granoff Center for the Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, US.
The Driver and the Passenger (2010) at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
framework/rupture (2008) at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
dx/dt (2006) at VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland.
PRESS
REVIEWS
Dennis McNulty by Declan Long, Artforum, Dec 2014. Review of PROTOTYPES.
Dennis McNulty: Prototypes by Rebecca O'Dwyer, This is Tomorrow.info . September 2014. Review of PROTOTYPES.
Dennis McNulty: Prototypes by Joanne Laws, Art Monthly, issue 379, September 2014. Review of PROTOTYPES.
Prototypes, Dennis McNulty by Michaele Cutaya, Enclave Review 11: p14-15. December 2014. Review of PROTOTYPES.
framework/rupture by Chris Fite-Wassilak for Artforum.com . February 2008. Review of framework/rupture.
Dennis McNulty: dx/dt by Damien Duffy for Circa. Winter 2006. Review of dx/dt.
FEATURE ARTICLES
How to improve your algorithm by Chris Fite-Wassilak. First published in Art Monthly, issue 374, March 2014.
On Density, Flow, and Destabilizing the Visual, Dennis McNulty in conversation with John Gayer, Art Papers, Mar/Apr 2011.
Inner Space: Science Fiction and Irish Art by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Circa: Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland, 124, Summer 2008, pp. 36-41.
REVIEWS
Dennis McNulty by Declan Long, Artforum, Dec 2014. Review of PROTOTYPES.
Dennis McNulty: Prototypes by Rebecca O'Dwyer, This is Tomorrow.info . September 2014. Review of PROTOTYPES.
Dennis McNulty: Prototypes by Joanne Laws, Art Monthly, issue 379, September 2014. Review of PROTOTYPES.
Prototypes, Dennis McNulty by Michaele Cutaya, Enclave Review 11: p14-15. December 2014. Review of PROTOTYPES.
framework/rupture by Chris Fite-Wassilak for Artforum.com . February 2008. Review of framework/rupture.
Dennis McNulty: dx/dt by Damien Duffy for Circa. Winter 2006. Review of dx/dt.
FEATURE ARTICLES
How to improve your algorithm by Chris Fite-Wassilak. First published in Art Monthly, issue 374, March 2014.
On Density, Flow, and Destabilizing the Visual, Dennis McNulty in conversation with John Gayer, Art Papers, Mar/Apr 2011.
Inner Space: Science Fiction and Irish Art by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Circa: Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland, 124, Summer 2008, pp. 36-41.
PUBLICATIONS / COMMISSIONED TEXTS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
A Leisure Complex (artist's publication) collaboration with Peter Maybury, published by Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. April 2014.
CORPUS (artist's book project) co-published by Publication Studio Vancouver and Project Press, Dublin. April 2014.
The Eyes of Ayn Rand, a pamphlet I produced to document the performance of the same name. Berlin 2013.
Obscure Flows Boil Underneath (monograph) Dublin, IRL. Produced in association with IMMA Associated Press, Ireland. January 2012. Distributed by DAP. ISBN 978-1-9070208-2-7
Underground (artist's publication) by Dennis McNulty and Peter Maybury (Eds). Dublin, IRL. June 2008. ISBN 978-0-9559421-0-5
Chronoscope (exhibition catalogue) edited by Ian Russell, Dublin, IRL: Ábhar agus meon, Green On Red Gallery, Newman House, UCD, Sixth World Archaeological Congress. July 2008.
The Metropolitan Complex No. 10. A publication produced by Sarah Piece for her participation in the 51st Venice Bienniale in 2005, featuring an edited transcription of a conversation between Sarah, Garrett Phelan, Fergus Kelly and I.
COMMISSIONED TEXTS
What happens in Carnoustie by Kate Strain. Text commissioned for A Leisure Complex.
The flaneur could not take the monorail by Jeff Derksen. Text commissioned for Obscure Flows Boil Underneath.
Power In, Power Out by Matt Packer. Text commissioned for Obscure Flows Boil Underneath.
The Cinematic Condition by Chris Fite-Wassilak. Text commissioned for Obscure Flows Boil Underneath.
What is Real? by Bill Drummond. Text written in response to an invitation to come and see dx/dt and subsequently published in his book 17. (2008) ISBN 978-1905636266
Turn down the staircase by Brian Hand. Ireland at the 26th São Paulo Bienal (exhibition catalogue), edited by Valerie Connor, Dublin, IRL: Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism. September 2004.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
A Leisure Complex (artist's publication) collaboration with Peter Maybury, published by Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. April 2014.
CORPUS (artist's book project) co-published by Publication Studio Vancouver and Project Press, Dublin. April 2014.
The Eyes of Ayn Rand, a pamphlet I produced to document the performance of the same name. Berlin 2013.
Obscure Flows Boil Underneath (monograph) Dublin, IRL. Produced in association with IMMA Associated Press, Ireland. January 2012. Distributed by DAP. ISBN 978-1-9070208-2-7
Underground (artist's publication) by Dennis McNulty and Peter Maybury (Eds). Dublin, IRL. June 2008. ISBN 978-0-9559421-0-5
Chronoscope (exhibition catalogue) edited by Ian Russell, Dublin, IRL: Ábhar agus meon, Green On Red Gallery, Newman House, UCD, Sixth World Archaeological Congress. July 2008.
The Metropolitan Complex No. 10. A publication produced by Sarah Piece for her participation in the 51st Venice Bienniale in 2005, featuring an edited transcription of a conversation between Sarah, Garrett Phelan, Fergus Kelly and I.
COMMISSIONED TEXTS
What happens in Carnoustie by Kate Strain. Text commissioned for A Leisure Complex.
The flaneur could not take the monorail by Jeff Derksen. Text commissioned for Obscure Flows Boil Underneath.
Power In, Power Out by Matt Packer. Text commissioned for Obscure Flows Boil Underneath.
The Cinematic Condition by Chris Fite-Wassilak. Text commissioned for Obscure Flows Boil Underneath.
What is Real? by Bill Drummond. Text written in response to an invitation to come and see dx/dt and subsequently published in his book 17. (2008) ISBN 978-1905636266
Turn down the staircase by Brian Hand. Ireland at the 26th São Paulo Bienal (exhibition catalogue), edited by Valerie Connor, Dublin, IRL: Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism. September 2004.
WRITING
EXHIBITION TEXTS
PROTOTYPES (2014) written with Mary Conlon.
Pamphlet produced to accompany A Stew of Universals (2013)
The Driver and the Passenger (2010)
framework/rupture (2008)
dx/dt (2006)
OTHER
Review of Cliona Harmey's Dublin Ships project for Paper Visual Art
Solving Ourselves Text to accompany a screening programme co-curated with Jennifer Lange, first published in the catalogue for Tulca 2013 Golden Mountain
Transcription of a conversation with Daniel Jewesbury after the premiere of INTERZONE
On my mind: A face in the crowd A text I wrote for CCAD's IMAGE magazine in 2011
A text written for the Visual Artists Newsletter around the time of http://alpha60.info
EXHIBITION TEXTS
PROTOTYPES (2014) written with Mary Conlon.
Pamphlet produced to accompany A Stew of Universals (2013)
The Driver and the Passenger (2010)
framework/rupture (2008)
dx/dt (2006)
OTHER
Review of Cliona Harmey's Dublin Ships project for Paper Visual Art
Solving Ourselves Text to accompany a screening programme co-curated with Jennifer Lange, first published in the catalogue for Tulca 2013 Golden Mountain
Transcription of a conversation with Daniel Jewesbury after the premiere of INTERZONE
On my mind: A face in the crowd A text I wrote for CCAD's IMAGE magazine in 2011
A text written for the Visual Artists Newsletter around the time of http://alpha60.info
I reached inside myself through time
Texts from Olaf Stapledon's timeline for Last and First Men, an acapella recording of Morten Harket's vocals for The Sun always shines on TV sourced on-line, True Type (digital) rendering of the Futura font by Paul Renner, high resolution impulse response recordings made in various spaces in Lofoten, Reaper DAW with convolution reverb plug-in, Feonic audio-actuators, stereo amplifier, 2 Raspberry-Pi computers running Raspbian, Openframeworks open source toolkit, programming, modified LCD screen, Arduino Uno with 2.8" TFT display, anti-static bag, aluminium profiles, cables, cable glands, nuts, bolts, screws, wood, webbing, ratchet-straps, Easygrow Eco Silver White Lightite film, padding, black carpet and red oil paint.
2015
2015
From the exhibition guide:
"On a large sheet of graph paper, several timelines of different orders of magnitude stretch from EARTH FORMED to SECOND SOLAR CATASTROPHE. Olaf Stapledon's handwritten words, scattered in clusters between temporal extremes, anchor the plot of Last and First Men, a work of pure imagination with a scope almost unthinkable in the churning surf of the present.
A few months back, on a visit to Svolvaer, the conversation turned to the band A-ha. One thing led to another until I was holding a portrait of Morten Harket in my hands. The autographed photocopy came with a story, ordinary pop magic that broke through the archipelago's geological envelope for a brief moment.
Stapledon and Harket's words spill into a room together, deforming the time-feel of the place. Reactivated after thirty years of suspended animation, Harket's voice is reconfigured to synthetically haunt the dry-docks, tunnels and sports halls of Lofoten's workdays and childhoods. "I reached inside myself through time" it says, simultaneously containing and contained by Stapledon's trajectories, which telescope into the distant past and future."
Commissioned by LIAF 2015: Disappearing Acts.
Curated by Matt Packer and Arne Skaug Olsen.
Supported by Culture Ireland.
With thanks to Sven Anderson, Marco Conceição, Dermot Furlong, Fergus Kelly, Duncan Murphy, Tim Redfern, Steve Whetman and Andy Sawyer, Liverpool University Science Fiction Archive.
"On a large sheet of graph paper, several timelines of different orders of magnitude stretch from EARTH FORMED to SECOND SOLAR CATASTROPHE. Olaf Stapledon's handwritten words, scattered in clusters between temporal extremes, anchor the plot of Last and First Men, a work of pure imagination with a scope almost unthinkable in the churning surf of the present.
A few months back, on a visit to Svolvaer, the conversation turned to the band A-ha. One thing led to another until I was holding a portrait of Morten Harket in my hands. The autographed photocopy came with a story, ordinary pop magic that broke through the archipelago's geological envelope for a brief moment.
Stapledon and Harket's words spill into a room together, deforming the time-feel of the place. Reactivated after thirty years of suspended animation, Harket's voice is reconfigured to synthetically haunt the dry-docks, tunnels and sports halls of Lofoten's workdays and childhoods. "I reached inside myself through time" it says, simultaneously containing and contained by Stapledon's trajectories, which telescope into the distant past and future."
Commissioned by LIAF 2015: Disappearing Acts.
Curated by Matt Packer and Arne Skaug Olsen.
Supported by Culture Ireland.
With thanks to Sven Anderson, Marco Conceição, Dermot Furlong, Fergus Kelly, Duncan Murphy, Tim Redfern, Steve Whetman and Andy Sawyer, Liverpool University Science Fiction Archive.
Installation shots by Jon Benjamin Tallerås, courtesy LIAF.