What: 1000 Joyce Walks
When: Bloomsday June 16th 2008
Where: Any city in the world
How: Generate a map and walk in your city
I’m now seeking participants a new project 1000 Joyce Walks taking place on June 16th (Bloomsday) 2008.
1000 Joyce Walks is a participatory global intervention which aims to create a day of psychogeographical exploration with 1000 interventions in 24 hours across the globe.
The project uses the Joyce Walks project to remap routes from James Joyce’s Ulysses to any city in the world to be used as the basis of walks which navigate urban space in a new and unexpected way .
Participation is easy all you have to do is -
- Use the Joyce Walks website to generate a walk in any city of your
choice,
- invite your friends and peer group to join you on your walk
- document the experience simply with some photos and/or videos,
- use the Joyce Walks site to generate a googlemaps mashup of your walk
to be shared on the Joyce Walks site or embedded on any webpage
More information available here
Will Self (in bossy schoolteacher mode) talks to Google employees (who seem a little ill at ease maybe because they had to close their laptops before the talk) about (his brand of) psychogeography.
UPDATE: Sold out in Dublin but still tickets left for Paris
Got my tickets for Tom Waits Glitter and Doom tour, not for Dublin but for Paris, where I’ll be on holiday, in Le Grand Rex theatre and they ‘only’ cost €69.70 no booking charge as opposed to €131 (plus ticketmaster ripoff) to see him in a tent in the Phoenix park. I’ve seen him once before and he is one of the really great live performers but it’s hard not to feel a bit tee’d off at prices like that. There’s still some tickets for Paris but they’re going fast.
UPDATE As expected it is both fake and a cheesy guerilla marketing campaign for some company, still a nice illustration of the thin line that some locative media work threads.
The biggest drawing in the world by Eric Nordenankar in which he sent a GPS enabled suitcase around the world with the tracklog making the drawing. While at first glance it’s a really cool idea it becomes a bit like an extended guerilla promo for DHL and left me hoping that it’s an elaborate put-on, in which case it is cool otherwise it’s hard to see it other than art 1 planet 0.
UK Ministry of Defence following the example of the French Government releases it’s files on UFO sightings. Or at least the ones they want you to see.
Loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone who has gone on trial for attempting to murder Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in his attack on Stormont is claiming in his defence that the event was ‘performance art’. Apparently his defence plans to call an expert on performance art to back up his claim. Now that’s a testimony I’d like to hear
Stephen Colbert interviews the artist Hasan Elahi who after being detained as a suspected terrorist now tracks himself documents everything he does in minute detail and sends the results to the FBI to help them out.
Interestingly he’s the second artist to be on the Colbert report in a month after Trevor Paglen’s appearance.
Thanks Nathaniel
Arts Research : The State of Play is a major international conference taking place on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th May 2008 Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, examining the future of arts research organised by my school the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media
This major international conference will examine practice-based doctoral research across the performing arts, visual arts, design, architecture and media. Organised by newly-established Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media (GradCAM) and the HETAC Working Group on Practice Based Research the conference “aims to foster a framework of understanding in cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary practice in the Creative Arts and Media.”
Speakers and participants include high profile practitioners, active in design practices, education and performance, across the spectrum of creative arts and cognate disciplines. The programme includes speakers from Denmark, Belgium and Scotland as well as Ireland and will address issues relevant to current researchers, doctoral supervisors, academic and institutional leaders, research funders and policy-makers.
Keynote speakers include Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Chair of Music at the University of Limerick, and Professor Chris Rust, Head of Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University.
For full details of the Conference Programme and speakers see the GradCAM website at
A Line Describing Nothings – new work by Paul Murnaghan at the Lab Foley St. Dublin.
Preview Thursday 8th May 6-8pm, exhibition continues to 31st May.
Not me – I’m not that easy turned off – but a video of John Baldessari’s famous 1971 piece for the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where he was commissioned to create an original, on-site work but unable to travel he asked the students to write the phrase, “I will not make any more boring art” on the gallery walls which they dutifully did covered the walls with the phrase. In this video he writes the phrase in a copybook.
Via Ubuweb
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
