Bye bye electronic voting

More photos of Dublin’s Vectorial Elevation, this one from O’Connell St notice the Spike on the right of the pic.

An amusing – if it wasn’t so serious – synopsis of some of the hysterical coverage of the May Day rallies to welcome the accession states from Indymedia. I was dubious about joining in on Saturday as I was concerned that there the balance between protesting against certain trends in European policy – fortress Europe – but welcoming the enlargement and the new member states was tilting toward a blanket Europe-bad approach which I would disagree with. But I’m reconsidering in the face of the quite extreme scaremongering on behalf of the media and the Government. I won’t be bullied.

is a very promising 20 part radio series from RTE about Ulysses. The first part was a good general introduction to the background of the book livened up by archive interviews with many key figures like Oliver Gogarty. Real audio versions of each episode will be available from the RTE site.

Another (higher res) pic of vectorial elevation lighting up the Dublin sky.

Vectorial Elevation lights up the Dublin sky - far more spectacular then I had imagined – see it in person if you can.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Dublin’s Vectorial Elevation opens this Thursday 22nd and continues until the 3rd May on Dublin’s O’Connell St. As well as seeing it from street level you can log on to the website and control the 22 robotic searchlights with 154,000 watts of power, the beams of light will be visible from a distance of 15 kilometres. Participants

Correlations between contemporary digital art and 20th century art movements. The link that really sticks is that with the Futurists especially with the increase in techno-fetishism in all things digital art. via Net Art Review

The call for entries for the Net Art Open is already a great success, I’m being flooded by entries. When I did the Net Art Open for the Irish Museum of Modern Art.com the consistancy and the quality of the work always really impressed me – there is a belief that if you accept any entry you’ll get a load of cr*p. Probably true with painting but with net art the general level seems to be that much higher. For this edition the quality is even higher again – this is going to be a fantastic exhibition.

Since 2002 Stunned.org ran the Irish Museum of Modern Art.com Net Art Open. Now that the IrishMuseumofModernArt.com is no more the Net Art Open will continue at Stunned with the Net Art Open 2004.
As before this is an open exhibiton with no thematic constraints which is open to all artwork which is net based or has a significant net based element. All work that meets the criteria will be shown. This is an ongoing call for work with no deadlines and entries will be accepted until the end of 2004.
2004 will see a change of format, rather then a single large exhibition as in previous editions the 2004 exhibition will adopt a revolving format which will focus on up to four projects per month with an archive of all entries. The exhibition will continue until the end of 2004.
More information
The Irish Museum of Modern Art.com