Tom Estes

As an artist I employ various social web platforms as an artistic tool. Through my work I focus on the liberatory potenital for the internet to serve as a performative archive and an alternative exhibition space.


My innovative web adventures and conversations are situated within current debates around the ubiquity of new technologies and of the shared delusions of human experience. The primary source of my recorded images are generated from a kind of public intervention, captured haphazardly on clandestine cameras that are smuggled into instiutional spaces. The action which takes place between moments in the guarding of cultural artifacts and is recorded and then distriburted using existing networks including social networking sites.

My work has been hung, played and performed in a few of the world's right places and a couple of deliciously wrong ones. While the mainstay of my practice has been my more ephemeral installations, and embryonic Live Art performance outside the walls of the gallery, I have also had work included in some of the more cutting edge and experimental events & projects found in public institutions such as Tate Modern, The Wellcome Collection, The Whitechapel Gallery, the De La Warr Pavilion and Beac...

B.A. (hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design City & Guilds, BTEC, Video Production , Undergraduate Certificate, English Local History, Oxford University

Please join Tom Estes for his Live Art Performance 'Rejuvenation' on Wednesday 27th April at 8pm

The Symposium: Luxury Goods V- The Illusion of Art
(The free, five night, fifty word art festival following The Cost, The Value, The Meaning, & The Role of Art)
The Courtyard Theatre
40 Pitfield Street
Hoxton, London N1 6EU

Nightly Tues 26th- Sat 30th April 2011 6-12pm The bar has the best wine of any theatre bar in london (Guardian) Free submission, admission & commission free.

http://luxurygoods.freevar.com/ http://lnk.ms/Mq0DM