Gair Dunlop makes artworks that explore entropic Modernism: the New Town, the military airfield, the film archive and the memory of progress. Investigations have developed into engagements with sites of high technology: military zones, scientific test establishments, and other evidence of the lived experience of modernism. The works investigate and play with different eras of discovery and propaganda. He is interested in combining elements of site-specific practice with digital technologies.

Current researches on the remains of the atomic and military modern have potential to influence policy-makers and the informed public in terms of the ways that our ideas of technology and progress are overshadowed by previous generations of practice, and their remains.