Birthplace: Bauhaus of Weimar

James Brooks' practice uses radio, film, television and paper–based media sources of varying cultural status, as starting points to make works within drawing, print, audio and video. In works such as 'Spaces of Cerebral Exchange' among others, Brooks examines how the utopian beliefs and aspirations of modernism are challenged, altered or subsumed by our present information age. This critique of modernism is implied in a series of allegories that adopt the language of late modernism. The work also recognises the futility in replacing one set of utopian beliefs with another, and questions the limits of the present information age, in particular our ability to access and transfer information freely.