Steven Cook
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Steven Cook is a photographer, digital artist and graphic designer. His Alternity art project has been exhibited in London and New York and was featured in the broadband showcase magazine www.fmagazine.com.
His images and graphics have seen print worldwide on album sleeves, books, magazines and comic books. From 1988 to 2002 he was the art director for 2000 AD and produced a number of covers for them during his time there, along with its distinctive, iconic logo still in use to this day.
He is currently continuing to produce art for his Alternity series whilst lecturing at The University of the Arts - London College of Fashion. Recent work includes collaborations with the artist Brendan McCarthy and designing and imaging for clients such as Asian Dub Foundation and Vertigo comics in New York.
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"Steven Cook is an artist who works with digital media and photography. His latest series of work ALTERNITY, manifests possible pasts in mendacious but startlingly believable photographic images.
These alternate narratives are strangely familiar, yet have a sense of disquiet as histories collide and memories blur. We understand the photograph's adventure derived from the co-presence of apparently irredeemably separate elements, but we also believe in their conflation. This is no dismissal of culture, merely a refusal to accept what others have said. In an age where notions of the importance of time dominate all areas of cultural exchange, there is inevitably a sense of anticipation and not a little neurosis. Cook seems to suggest that things aren't always what they seem and the past is maybe not what we thought it was. Is it possible to change the past, to make it different by seeing it through post-modern eyes?" - Roy Voss 2002 [1]
"Old pictures, early photographs, have become fetish objects. They often speak to a time where repression shared a room with wild decadence, but with hard demarcations. Restrictive, decorative clothing evokes bondage -- once known as The English Vice -- without ever speaking its name.
Steve Cook's Alternity fetishises the fetish. Careful digital manipulation places these proper ladies and gentlemen in a parallel world; a hyperreal interzone of rubber, piercings and tattoos." - Warren Ellis 2002 [2]
"Nothing beats the space-suited Kennedy, which is one of the most profound, mysterious and plain f***ing cool things I've ever seen!" - Grant Morrison 2001 [3]
