Artist Stewart Hardie’s new series reimagines and restructures designs of early computers and information systems. Circuits of Logic is inspired by traditional blueprints, wiring diagrams and the physical nature of early machines. This work deconstructs the historical supercomputer ‘Colossus’ by offering an entirely new set of fictional mechanics. Using photography to dismantle and reassemble, the series blends fact with fiction to imagine an alternative technological reality. Circuits of Logic invites viewers to fluctuate between functional design and possibilities of imagined and unrealised machines via duplication, speculative collage and diagrammatic drawing.

Stewart Hardie (b. 1992, N.Z.) is based between Berwick-Upon-Tweed and London, U.K. His practice interplays architecture, memory and liminal spaces of the built environment. Through photography, sound and printed matter he investigates networks, urban aesthetics and mechanical reproduction. These working methodologies are his mechanisms to discuss the visual and sonic archaeology of space.

Hardie holds an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art and has participated in residencies at ISSP in Riga, Latvia (2020), Northern Print, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K. (2018), and La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2017). Hardie creates sound-art and performanced them live at The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London (2024), Magick, The Endeavour, Deptford (2024), Toner, The Photobook Cafe, London, (2023), Internal Error, The Bottle Factory, London Design Festival (2022). He is a co-founder of Folium Publishing, an independent artist-led printing, binding and publishing studio based in South Bermondsey, London.

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