REIMAGING DONALD RODNEY

Psalms:

Psalms is the Autonomous Wheelchair constructed by Guido Bugmann for Donald Rodney’s “Nine Night in Eldorado” at the South London Gallery, 1997. http://i-dat.org/psalms/

“…Our fear of automata is again harnessed in Psalms, as the empty wheelchair courses through its various trajectories on a sad and lonely journey of life, a journey to nowhere. Its movements repeat like an ever recurring memory, a memory of another life and another journey, that of Donald Rodney’s father…” (Exhibition brochure, Jane Bilton.)
 
Autoicon:

Autoicon is a dynamic internet work and CD-ROM created in 1999 that simulates both the physical presence and elements of the creative personality of the artist Donald Rodney who died from sickle-cell anaemia. http://i-dat.org/autoicon/