Influenced by the systems & technologies of time, space & generation, each artist’s work pulls on philosophical trajectories forking into the future & the past, challenging introverted assumptions of nostalgia, and promoting a retro-sensitivity that will engage it’s audience in questions probing the actual & the imagined; cause & effect; scientific pursuits of discovery & their factual, fictive or hypothetical representations, through history & into the future, wherever that might be.

As opposed to it’s 19th century namesake*, Difference Engine will push beyond the logic of finite differences, allowing for a movement of images (visual/sonic/verbal), while demonstrating an awareness that ‘jamming is a form of error-detection’.

Opening 7pm on the 27th of November.

Exhibition runs until the 20th of December.

Difference Engine draws together the intermingling explorations of artists Mark Cullen, Gillian Lawler, Wendy Judge, Jessica Foley & Gordon Cheung.

WENDY JUDGE

Wendy Judge. is concerned with the anomalous within the landscape, both in structures on the land and also within the land it’s self. These landscapes are recreated through models but It is not only the representations and the approximations that interest her but the dynamic between the actual and the imagination, And what that may trigger. This work is driven by connecting threads, associations and coincidences found through cultural references such as, literature, historical painting, popular culture, science and film. This process of cross-pollinating propels odd dialogues and private conversations Though to the mechanisms of culture, power and politics.

Based in Dublin Wendy Judge works primarily through sculpture and drawing.

Recent exhibitions include Difference Engine n at Cake Contempory Arts, No Soul for Sale, X-Initiative, represented by Thisisnotashop New York Works of the World United...More Great Works at Thisisnotashop, Dublin 2009, reviewed by Gemma Tipton for Circa Art Magazine 128, these works were a continuation of Great Works shown at the Return Gallery, Goethe Institut, Dublin 2008.

Work that was accompanied by the publication Collected Views of Great Works from the 20th Century . Judge has been shown in a number of selected group exhibitions throughout Ireland and is showing as part of the group Difference Engine as a continuing touring project, launched as part of the inaugral show at Cake Contempory Arts 2009

Her work has been included in several publications.