Adrian W Maidman
Microscopy | Sports | Imaging Research
MA Art & Science – University of the Arts London
BSc Interactive Media – University of York

adrian.maidman@gmail.com

Imaging Research

Explorations in Dying Electronics

Working at a camera shop does offer some unusual opportunities. Recycled electronics come into our store for various reasons, and in this case, a Panasonic with a dying/dead capacitor. When a photograph is shot in full colour, the green and blue channels of the signal have been totally emitted. The resulting image jitters in and out of view until suddenly the subject is pulled vertically, where all the digital information resolves into a single band.

It all seems to modulate every 30 seconds, which is what makes me believe it’s a dying capacitor that maintains the current for the sensor signal and image processing in the CPU, hence the missing colours. Who knows, but how it renders light is bizarre.

Signals

Natural Portraits

Writings

MA Art & Science – UAL 2022-2024

Documentation of Unit 1 Work – Forced Connections
Forced Connections – Trees of Life: The Innocence of Evolutionary Information
Unit 2 Study Proposal
Unit 2 Research Paper – ‘Life In Steel’ How is the Duality of the Material and the Immaterial Presented in
Mitch Epstein’s ‘American Power’?

Photography Journal Entries

#28 _ MONUMENTS AND THE MONOLITH
#27 _ NATURE’S EVANESCENCE WITH KATIE COOPER
#26 _ SIGNALS
#25 _ ITALIAN HEATS
#24 _ INNOVATION AS SPORT – THE RACE IN THE HILLS 2/2
#23 _ ENGINEERING AS SPORT – THE RACE IN THE HILLS 1/2
#22 _ SPEEDING WITH OSCAR COOKE
#21 _ TRADESHOWTRADESHOWTRADESHOW
#20 _ THE MONUMENTS TO INDUSTRIALISM
#19 _ THE WASTELAND
#18 _ BOUND AND SERVITUDE
#17 _ AN AERONAUTICAL CURIOSITY
#16 _ PIXEL IMPERFECT
#15 _ THE SILENT POOL
#14 _ PARANOIA & POSSESSION
#13 _ INTIMACY BY TANJA ZOGG
#12 _ A SWEDISH DYSTOPIA.
#11 _ MY WORK, MY LIFE, AND OTHER POEMS.
#10 _ COMPUTATIONAL VIOLENCE.
#09 _ THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
#08 _ NEW ENDS AND KATE BOND.
#07 _ AND YET I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DARKNESS.
#06 _ IN MY AREA (part 2)
#05 _ IN MY AREA (part 1).
#04 _ A BRUTAL UTOPIA
#03 _ RYE TURBINES
#02 _ THIS MEANS WAR
#01 _ NATURAL PORTRAITS.