Posts in Category ‘exhibition’

Trampoline Year 10

Surveillance City
Thursday 29th November 2007
Broadway Media Centre
7pm- late

Low Brow Trash | Michael Pinchbeck | Caspar Below | Barbara Agreste| Satellite Bureau

Trampoline, the East Midlands’ platform event for new media art celebrates its tenth anniversary on Thursday 29 November at Broadway, Nottingham. Looking back on this decade of new media art, it is clear that digital technologies have become integrated into almost every aspect of everyday life. The theme Surveillance City highlights the critical awareness necessary to cope with an environment where every movement is traceable, recordable and identifiable.

Featuring a dynamic mix of work by regional and international artists including performances, video screenings and installations.

Performance / Installations
Frank Abbott / Martin John Callanan / Sean Clark / Satellite Bureau / Cormac Faulkner / Low Brow Trash / Michael Pinchbeck

Screenings
Caspar Below/ Thilo Frobel/ Max Crow & Aaron Bradbury/ Rich Broomhall/ Rick Niebe/ Johanna Reich/ Blaffert Wamhof/ Tilman Kuntzel/ Sean Raynard/ Nicole Arendt/ Miles Chalcraft/ Jeroen Offerman/ Rafael/ Ralph Meiling/ Jo Kelly/ Barbara Agreste/ KH Jeron/ Marek Brandt…

Performance / Installations
Low Brow Trash/ Michael Pinchbeck/ Frank Abbott/ Sean Clark/ Satellite Bureau/ Cormac Faulkner/ Martin John Callanan

Video Vortex at Montevideo, Amsterdam

Susan Collins will be exhibiting The Spectrascope as part of Video Vortex at Montevideo/The Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam from 20th October until 2nd December 2007.
The exhibition also features Collins’s Fenlandia in the form of a large format digital archive print and a 6 hour screening of the 4000 images which comprise the Fenlandia archive.

The exhibition Video Vortex is The Netherlands Media Art Institute’s response to the Web2.0 phenomenon. Artists featured include: Beatrice Valentine Amrhein; Giselle Beiguelman; Susan Collins; Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar; Graham Harwood, Mediashed / Mongrel; MW2MW (Marek Walczak & Martin Wattenberg) and Sonic()ject. Video Vortex is curated by Annet Dekker.

Velocity Arts Festival

For one day only – Saturday 13th October:

Martin John Callanan will travel around the Velocity festival, sending information about his whereabouts to an online map in our Lancaster map room. Visit the map room at the station and help us to track the artist’s location throughout the day. Interact with Martin through text messages, photography and drawing as he visits towns, stations and landmarks around the bay.

A Big Draw event.

Venue: Map Room, Platform 3, Lancaster Station.

www.folly.co.uk/velocity

The TurntablistPC spins again!

Surfing gains a whole new dimension with TurntablistPC by Danish
artist Mogens Jacobsen. Featured in the WEBSCAPE exhibition at The
Art Museum of West Sealand in Denmark, TurntablistPC reacts to online
traffic by playing a record in the exhibition space every time a
participating website is visited.

Take part in this “global DJ” project and make a record spin miles
away every time someone visits your website!

Please join: All you have to do to participate is place a small piece
of html code on your website. The code does not interfere in any way
with the experience of your website. However, it WILL make the record
spin physically miles away at the museum. Please find the code and
further details below.

TurntablistPC is on show from September 21 until November 25 2007. We
need your participation already!

We are looking for people maintaining websites anywhere in the world,
so please forward this message to other relevant parties.

Participants are kindly asked to send an email to WEBSCAPE curator
Andreas Broegger (ab@vestkunst.dk) stating the address of the web
page to which you have uploaded the code.

The Art Museum of West Sealand will list your site among the
participating websites in the museum space and on the WEBSCAPE
exhibition website. (If you prefer not to be credited, please state
this in your email).

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
All we need from your website is a so-called “counter-hit”. This is
automatically generated when someone visits your website if you place
the following line of HTML-code on your site (preferably at the
bottom of your most visited page). This is the code:

<img src=”http://www.turntablistpc.net/turn000001.gif”; width=”1″
height=”1″>

Please note: ONLY use the above code if your position is EAST of
Denmark.

If your position is WEST of Soroe, Denmark please use this code instead:

<img src=”http://www.turntablistpc.net/turn000003.gif”; width=”1″
height=”1″>

This is the exact code to be included, depending on your position. If
in doubt the city of Soroe is at 11.5561 East / +11 degrees 33′ 21.96″.

Your position will decide whether the TurntablistPC will spin the
record clockwise or counter-clockwise. If you are near the
TurntablistPC, it will only scratch the vinyl. If you are far away,
it will play a whole section of the record.

On a projected world map visitors to the museum space will be able to
follow the online traffic triggering the sound.

We ask that the code remain on your site throughout the exhibition
period (until November 25 2007).

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
What does the html code do? The above code places a tiny “invisible”
image (a transparent GIF-image) on your website when someone visits.
Neither the image nor the html code will interfere with the
appearance of your website nor with the visitor’s experience. The
code and the image are a mere 700 bytes (0.7Kb) in total.
Participation does not pose any security risk whatsoever, nor is any
personal or otherwise sensitive information stored.

If you have any doubts about technical issues, please contact
WEBSCAPE curator Andreas Broegger at ab@vestkunst.dk

WHAT EXACTLY IS TurntablistPC?
TurntablistPC is a telematic hybrid of a turntable (a grammophone)
and an old personal computer. Installed in the museum space, the
TurntablistPC will play a vinyl record whenever someone visits one of
the participating websites around the world. A video projection of a
world map will show where the participating website is from, thus
generating a map of global participation for the visitors in the
local museum space.

More info and pictures of TurntablistPC are available at http://
www.mogensjacobsen.dk/art/turntablepc/index.html

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mogens Jacobsen is a Danish artist who has exhibited widely in
Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Japan, Brazil. More
info at www.mogensjacobsen.dk

ABOUT WEBSCAPE
TurntablistPC is featured in WEBSCAPE – ART IN THE VIRTUAL LANDSCAPE,
an exhibition of web-based art installations at the Art Museum of
West Zealand 2007. The exhibition features work by artists Tomas
Thøfner, Mogens Jacobsen (http://www.mogensjacobsen.dk), Bosch &
Fjord (http://www.bosch-fjord.com), and Susan Collins (http://
www.susan-collins.net).

REPETITION & SEQUENCE

“A sequence is essentially a whole in which nothing is repeated” (Roland Barthes)

Spliced and reassembled sounds, hazard tape formed geometric shapes; layered and ripped wallpaper; a field of miniature diagrammatical flowers; a video loop on sleeping; paintings from the same palette; ever evolving images on canvas… these are some of the elements in Repetition & Sequence, an exhibition examining artists’ use of recurrence of methodology, form and composition in visual imagery, in daily routine, or in sounds and movements. It focuses on transition and transformation, continuity and change, accident and design.

Repetition and Sequence showcases the new work of 13 international contemporary artists who live and work in the UK. Each is engaged in a wide range of contemporary artistic practices, forms and strategies, through the use of sound, photography, site-specific installation, video, painting and sculpture. Though diverse in background, media and sensibility, the artists share a collective fascination with sequence and repetition – an essential element of daily life. The exhibition, together with its associated publication and artists’ talks, seeks to explore the aesthetics of replication & series mirrored in our environment and daily life, and which viewers willingly or unwillingly absorb.

Sequence and Repetition first showcased at Bedlam Gallery in January 2007. Repetition and Sequence is the second annual thematic show offering newly emerging visual artists a summer exhibition in a major London space.  

Jerwood Space, London
Exhibition: 3 August – 8 September 2007
Artist talks: Monday 20 August and Monday 3 September from 6-8pm
Private view: 6.30pm – 8.30pm Thursday 2 August 2007
Performance by Dale Berning, Their Song (decora), 7:15pm

Michael Ajerman, Rana Begum, Zadok Ben David, Dale Berning, Suki Chan, Itamar Gilboa, Ludovica Gioscia, Emilia Izquierdo, Tess Jaray, Gary McDonald, Michal Rubin, Gideon Rubin, Silia Ka Tung

How We May Be, Tate Britain

Friday 3rd August 2007, 6 – 10pm

Join us for How We May Be, a one night exhibition at the Tate Britain as part of the Late at the Tate programme of events. How We May Be is a photographic response to the current exhibition How We Are, a survey of British photography from the pioneers of the early medium to the present. This one night project, involving artists exhibiting in London today, aims to reveal new aspects of the work in the exhibition, whist potentially suggesting new directions for the photographic image.

You can also join us on the front lawn for a perfect summer barbeque. Have a drink and enjoy art in the open air. In the gallery, hear Trojan Sound System and guests including DJ Derek and see a performance by Bruce McLean. Plus, Terry de Havilland talks about style in How We Are, which you can see for half-price.

DISLOCATE, Japan


DISLOCATE July 24th – August 5th 2007
Ginza Art Laboratory, Toyko, Japan.

Dislocate is a project which examines the relationship between art, technology and locality. Designed to facilitate international dialogue between artists, researchers and the public, Dislocate encourages exchange and reflection upon our experiences and perceptions of the interplay between these elements. This year the events will focus on our ability to reconnect with our location, seeking to explore, question and debate how can technology be used to heighten our engagement with our surroundings instead of isolating us from our immediate space.

Dislocate aims to explore the potential new media has to increase our awareness of our environment, enhance participation in our locality and community and transform our perceptions of the space we inhabit. Does new media enable us to plug into our locality, or is disconnection inevitable? As mobile and wireless technologies increasingly enable us to transcend space, our electrical roots are dug up, but are the roots which bind us with a place also cut? Dislocate will call into question the necessity of an intermediary to our immediate surroundings, asking if mediation is a means of connecting or distancing, an expansion or an obstruction? Dislocate offers the space to investigate the creative and social potential of new media to engage us with our direct locality and to ask what is the importance of where we are now?

Held over two sites, of contrasting locality, Dislocate will present new possibilities of our immediate space and the multiple connections which link to elsewhere. There will be a particular relationship to the surrounding site of the exhibition venues encouraging interaction and engagement with this environment while also fusing with spaces beyond.

The exhibition includes Martin John Callanan’s recent work Location of I, and Slade alumni Naoko Takahashi.

exhibition press release
exhibition website

Glenlandia in Outlook Express(ed) at Oakville Galleries

glenlandia at Loch Faskally © Susan Collins 2005

Outlook Express(ed)
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Lois Andison, Susan Collins and David Rokeby
Curated by Marnie Fleming

29 June to 26 August 2007 in Gairloch Gardens

Outlook Express(ed) looks at how new media has offered artists Lois Andison, Susan Collins and David Rokeby innovative ways of thinking about time, and thus the ability to create new ways of representing landscape.

Each has examined a precise geography, from a specific outlook, revealing the fleeting qualities of the landscape and its constantly shifting tableaux. Their work demonstrates the passage of time as the seasons pass and as the earth hurtles along in its perpetual orbit.

Andison, Collins and Rokeby deal with the transformative process of real time in a particular
landscape using new media technology. Therefore, the title Outlook Express(ed), “expresses”
a playful double entendre – referring to a specific place, while also referencing a popular,
technological, timesaving computer programme. While quite diverse in their chosen outlooks,
the artists share common constructs that are both digitally and data-driven. Over an extended
period, they have recorded and accumulated images to form an archive of their specific landscapes,
or perhaps, more correctly, “data-scapes.”

It is in the amassing of their information that surprising encounters become revealed, as a result
either of human interaction or of natural forces. And while the underlying landscapes largely
remain constant, many mini-events unfold. For example, in Andison’s time and again, a
neighbour’s garage, seen from the artist’s bedroom window, is torn down and eventually replaced
by a new construction. Collins’s carefully programmed Glenlandia reveals the subtle effects upon
a Scottish vista in which a loch’s water levels rise and fall and the moonlight waxes and wanes.
Rokeby’s Machine for Taking Time, situated in Gairloch Gardens, attests to the seasonal plantings
of the garden, particular behaviors of Canadian geese, and an array of other events that occur
beyond the limits of our normal perception.

From the outset the artists have manipulated the time and space of the landscape in the act of
recording it by digital camera or Webcam, and then again, in the final screening of the image.
The completed work is no longer confined within the same temporal and spatial boundaries,
but rather is turned into riffs and ruminations, sampled and shuffled through digital processes.
Their images are not static but traverse from one time-frame to the next, thereby negotiating new
positions with the present. The “outlooks” slip in and out of linear time, resulting in landscapes
that are re-shaped and transformed. They allow us to perceive new incidental details that our eyes
and memory initially failed to record. We are made to see the landscape in a way that was not
previously understood.

Exhibition opening: Thursday 28 June , 7 to 10 pm.

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens is located at 1306 Lakeshore Road East, 2 km east of downtown Oakville.
The gallery is open 1 to 5 pm Tuesday to Sunday.

Admission is free.

For further information on Oakville Galleries,
please call 905.844.4402 or visit http://www.oakvillegalleries.com

Summer Digest 07 / THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD

Thomson & Craighead Here’s a digest of what we’re up to over the summer -well in June and July at any rate. We hope some of you can make some of it.

The image you can see on the left is the new railway flap sign we have built to display our work BEACON. It’s a development shot taken in the factory at Solari of Udine in Italy when we visited during April.

You can find out more about BEACON and our other recent work by visiting our website

You can view an online version of BEACON by clicking here

___ 1. BEACON / BFI SOUTHBANK
After two years in the making, we are finally launching the mechanical version of BEACON as a railway flap sign at BFI, Southbank from 23rd June – 12th August 2007. There’s an opening from 7pm – 9pm on Friday 22nd June. After London the sign travels to FACT in Liverpool and then Artists Space in New York. The sign has been built by Solari of Udine in Italy.

___ 2. ACCUMULATED OUTLOOK / OAKVILLE GALLERIES
The gallery version of Decorative Newsfeeds is part of Accumulated Outlook at Oakville Galleries in Canada from 29th June – 26th August 2007. It will be at their Centennial Square site with a launch party on Thursday 28 June 2007. We are also almost finished making a new outdoor version of Decorative Newsfeeds for The Junction in Cambridge.

___ 3. THE LOST O / ASHFORD
A new version of our generative music system called Diminished 7th is part of The Lost O in Ashford, Kent on 7th and 8th July, which coincides with Tour de France passing through the town on this year’s UK first stage. Diminished 7th was first developed for Arts Transpennine 2003 and used cows rather than sheep as is the case here with version 1.1

___ 4. THE CENTRE OF ATTENTION MAG NO.4
The Centre of Attention Magazine no.4 is on DVD and includes one of our template cinema works. The magazine launches on Sunday 29th July 2007 at the Publish and Be Damned Fair, Rochelle School, London E2 7ES.

___ 5. LAST CHANCE TO SEE
FEEDBACK in the new Laboral Gallery in Gijon and My own Private Reality at Edith Russ Site in Oldenburg.

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