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Hasan Elahi on the Colbert report

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:47 +0000

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

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:05:40 +0000

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

Paul Murnaghan at the Lab

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:55:25 +0000

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.

I will not make any more boring art

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:20:52 +0000

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

The Game of War

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:03:26 +0000

I'm amused by the reports that Guy Debord's widow has sent a cease and desist notice to Alex Galloway for copyright infringement over RSG's Kriegspiel free downloadable game ( download it while you still can!) based on Debord's Game of War. There's obviously much made of the irony that while Debord was anti-copyright his estate is now enforcing copyright but one also has to take into account his dislike of artists, academics and followers of 'situationism', his fear of recuperation and his sheer bloodymindedness, so who knows maybe she is carrying out his wishes by whatever means? I realise it's been a while but hey it's nice to be back.

DATA 30

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:24:52 +0000

DATA has reached the grand old age of 30 - old enough to know better but still down with the kids - and with that awful intro I give you the DATA 30 lineup and it's a good one: Alessandro Ludovico (Italia): Alessandro Ludovico, 1969, lives and works in Bari, Italy. He is a media critic and the editor in chief of the magazine Neural since 1993 and was awarded with a "Honorary Mention" for Net.Vision at Prix Ars Electronica 2004. Alessandro Ludovico is one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community and one of the founders of the organization "Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers)". www.neural.it Jaime Villarreal (Mexico): Jaime Villarreal is an artist, technologist and researcher whose work explores the use of emerging technologies and electronic media as tools for creative expression. He works at the Centro Multimedia of the National Center for Arts of Mexico where he researches and develops creative applications of computer graphics programming and electronics. He is 1/2 of the electropunk/hardcore band "555vs666" and 1/3 of the audiovisual performance group "rrr". Jaime will be performing with his collaborators Sonida RRR live from Mexico City using networked electronic instruments. Dublin heads will also be taking part using instruments they've built in local workshops at > NCAD and the Science Gallery. Ivan Twohig (Ireland): Ivan Twohig is an artist and student of the NCAD (2nd year MA, Art in the Digital World) His work operates at the convergence between fine art, architectural design and pop culture. He works across a range of media including electronic art, video, sculpture, installation, net art, drawing and text based work. DATA is on Tuesday 29th of April & the Science Gallery

John & Joy Gerrard at Temple Bar Galleries

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:34:36 +0000

Make sure to check out John and Joy Gerrards' exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery opening tonight 6-8pm.

Blackletter Artfinder

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:53 +0000

I'm a little late with this one but I must mention that Blackletter.ie have launched their Art Finder Google Maps mashup which locates and archives art projects/events which have taken place outside of the gallery. Already an important archival resource for temporary and location based artworks it also has the facility for artists to easily add projects to the database which should ensure that it will be a dynamic rather then a static archive of ephemeral art practice.

Garden of Digital Lies

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:05:22 +0000

The Garden of Digital Lies is a group exhibition with Alan Butler, Rob Costello, Benjamin Gaulon, K. Bear Koss, Tim Llyod, Jack Phelan, Sharon Phelan and Tim Redfern which open at the Lab Foley St on Thursday 3rd at 6pm and will include a rare Dublin performance of Benjamin Gaulon's Printball, recommended.

DATA 29

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:46:06 +0000

DATA ( Dublin Art & Technology Association) meeting on tonight 7.30-9.00 at the Hop House ,160 Parnell, St Dublin 1. Speakers: Dr. Sarah Cook ( Crumb), Rob Costello, Alan Butler, K Bear Koss. Admission as always is free.

John Lalor, Jeremiah Day & Simone Forti

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:40:18 +0000

Some exhibition openings this week. Jeremiah Day and Simone Forti exhibition News Animations / No Words For You Springfield at the Project on Thursday 27th at 6pm. On Friday 28th at Pallas Contemporary Projects a solo exhibition by Paris-based Irish artist John Lalor opens at 6pm. Lalor's work contains video, installation, poster/text, maquette building, and painting in multiples (the democratic paintings series), which reveal a linear landscape to the expense of the singular image. These include three new works, two of which are based on the Pallas gallery space. The artist's texts are written in English and in French; his concerns are about making marks in an inexplicable universe, the significance of words and also journeys through painting, film and text. The exhibition opening is preceded by a discussion between Jonanthan Lahey Dronsfield (Reader of philosophy-art Reading University London) and John Lalor at 5 pm in the gallery.

Femme Fatale

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:03:47 +0000

Nico, Lou Reed and John Cale in the Bataclan Club, Paris 1972.

Calvin and Hobbes and Noam Chomsky

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:05 +0000

What's the connection between Calvin and Hobbes and Noam Chomsky? According to an Amazon email

We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: v. 1, 2, 3 (Calvin & Hobbes) by Bill Watterson have also purchased Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy: Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice by Noam Chomsky.

hmmm really?

O2 go 'guerilla'

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:46:26 +0000

O2 get into "guerilla" projection to promote the iphone, looks like they were illegally parked too why is there never a cop when you want one?

Northern Light

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:28:34 +0000

Spare a thought for the people of Longyearbyen in Norway, the northernmost town in the world who had their first sunrise since October recently. Looks like a cheery place if a bit reminiscent of Nói albínói.