保罗.罗利（ Paul Rowley） 和大卫.菲利普 （David Philips）

出生在都柏林的保罗.罗利（ Paul Rowley）和出生在美国的大卫.菲利普 （David Philips），现在主要从事电影，视频和声音方面的创作。他们的作品在美术馆，博物馆和影视节上展出。他们最近的一些展览包括在伦敦的远离摄影家美术 馆，科隆艺术电影双年展，Friccion, 墨西哥市的当代艺术博物馆，在波恩科隆博物馆举办的德国录像艺术节，费城的当代艺术中心参展的《小鹿斑比》。最近参加的影视节包括荷兰的国际艺术节，都柏 林的黑暗之光数码节的回顾展。还有其他一些活动：我，在巴西里约热内卢的媒体艺术展览。

2000年他们获得Glen Dimplex艺术家奖，这是爱尔兰现代艺术博物馆的年度当代艺术奖，在爱尔兰被认为是和特纳奖同等重要的奖项。他们合作的简短的视频延留音在圣佛朗西斯 科国际电影节上被授予金奖。他们还获得了New Langton视频艺术奖。保罗最近获得爱尔兰美国艺术奖，他分别在35岁以下年龄组和普通组中获奖。

保罗现在是新罕布夏的麦道尔艺术村的会员，最近到意大利为伯格里亚斯科基金会创作一系列新的视频作品。他在2005年被纽约试验电视中心授予常驻艺术家的称号，这使他得到了美国软件信息行业协会，纽约州议会提供的艺术赞助。

重力圈
重力圈是通过一系列的图片和视频作品将一个单一的影像重新装配以达到从多个角度看待时间的目的。把视频开始的部分置于相对论中，这个系列作品通过理论物理和弦理论，以移动的方式考虑近来的运动。这讨论了时间作为一个非连续性的量度的可能性，那就是说，从量子的水平来说，在时间上可能存在着空洞。

有一种方式可以从视觉上对这个概念进行设想，那就是考虑用钟表来告知时间。我们不是用一个可以持续不断的展示时间流逝的钟表，而是假设我们有无数个一模一样的钟表，每个钟表代表了一秒钟的最小分之一，这样它们展示某一时刻特定的时间，然后就消失了。在这些钟表出现的空隙，没有任何东西存在。这就是时间的空洞，没有任何物质或运动存在。

英联邦
英联邦通过重新考察1960年的苏联太空计划，特别是尤里.加加林（Yuri Gagarin）在1961年绕地球的轨道，对社会发展的理念进行研究。太空计划对塑造什么是对社会有益的这一理念的重要性及鼓舞人们的精神的重要性和从公众推选出来代表国际社会的个人领袖这一角色一同被用来进行研究。

很多视觉参考物被用来打造这个作品，例如安布鲁吉奥.劳伦扎蒂的《好政府和坏政府的寓言》：好政府对城市和乡村的影响，苏联镶嵌壁画，图解太空竞赛，进步的视觉语言，乌托邦建筑和20世纪60年代末和70年代初世界博览会设计图。

Paul ROWLEY & David PHILIPS

Dublin born Paul Rowley and US-born David Philips currently work primarily with film, video and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne, Fricción, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts.
In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists’ Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s annual contemporary art prize and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video Suspension with fellow artist David Phillips was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards, in both the under 35 category and the overall prize.

Paul was a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts.

Gravity Loop
Gravity Loop is a series of photographs and video works which reconfigures a single image in order to present multiple approaches to viewing time. Taking its starting point in relativity, the series moves to consider recent movements in Theoretical Physics and String Theory, which discuss the possibilities of time as a non-continuous dimension, that is, that at the quantum level, there may be gaps in time.

One way to imagine this concept visually is to consider the use of clocks to tell time. Instead of a single clock that displays the passing of time continuously, instead we must imagine an infinite number of identical clocks, each of which come into existence for the tiniest fraction of a second, display the time at that instant, and then disappear. In between the appearance of these clocks is nothing, a gap in time where no matter or movement exists.
Commonwealth
Commonwealth examines ideas of social progress through re-visiting the Soviet Space program of the 1960’s, in particular Yuri Gagarin’s orbit of the earth in 1961. The importance of the space program in shaping perceptions of what is good for a society, uplifting the spirit of a community, is examined in relation to the role of the individual figurehead, selected from the masses to represent the society internationally.

A rich collection of visual references are brought together in building the piece; for example, Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegories of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and Country, Soviet mosiac murals, the iconography of the space race, the visual language of progress, and the utopian architectures and designs of the World Fairs of the late 1960s and early 1970’s.