Chinese Crackers and Irish art

Art Forum has a fascinating account of the burgeoning Chinese contemporary art market (image from Chinese Crackers, 2006 film based on Ed Ruscha's 1969 Crackers) booming with new money and I can't help but compare it to the Irish contemporary art scene. Throughout art history important periods of development in contemporary art have tended to coincide with economic booms as new money got into new art, think of the Renaissance, the Impressionists, abstract impressionism etc.. It's obviously happening in China right now so it would make sense that with all the new money in Ireland that there would be an almost Frieze-like unseemly scramble for the latest cutting-edge art, right? Well... not exactly. Have a look at the results from the latest record breaking Adams Irish art auction and it becomes obvious that there is a boom in the Irish art market alright but it's not contemporary art that's selling. I wonder what is about the Irish that sets us apart from this particular historical trend?

Make Magazine in Dublin

An interesting event next Tuesday 12th, 7pm at the Odessa Club in Dublin Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss of MAKE magazine will give an informal presentation followed by a conversation about their work in creating Maker Faire, an event bringing together art, science and home-made technology.

via the excellent Blackletter Irish Arts portal.

Art Stars vs local artists virtual soccer challenge

As part of the all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae exhibition opening tomorrow at IMMA Pallas studios in the spirit of global and local exchange and by way of introduction to the artists of Dublin City, has invited the international artists from All Hawaii Entrées / Lunar Reggae, to select a Best XI of artists, for a Virtual football challenge, off-site in the Pallas studios. Participants include from the local side Brian Duggan, Mark Cullen, Gavin Murphy, Gillian Lawlor, Vanessa O'Riely, David Beattie, Mark Cullen, Niamh McCann, Seodin O'Sullivan, David Beattie, Vanessa O'Reilly, Conor McGarrigle,Tim Redfern, John Buckley and LIVE commentary from Nevan Lehart and on the art star side Anri Sala, Carsten Höller, Jorge Pardo, Dominique Gonzalez Forester, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Doug Aitken, Douglas Gordon, Liam Gillick, Sarah Lucas, Alighiero e Boetti, Sarah Morris, Cerith Wyn Evans and Michel Majerus. Kick off is 3pm Thursday 30th at Pallas Studios 17 Foley St Dublin 1.

GoogleBono back online

You may or may not have noticed that GoogleBono has been offline for the last few days, this was due to the Google Maps switchover to version 2 of the API which I had neglected to upgrade to. As the coding of the first version was such a terrible hack it was also an opportunity to do it properly but now I'm glad to say that the new and improved Bono Probability Positioning System V. 2.01 is now back online.

John Gerrard at the RHA Dublin

John Gerrard's new exhibition Dark Portraits opens at the RHA Dublin this Thursday and includes the sublime (pictured)Smoke Tree III. Highly recommended.

Conor McGarrigle @ Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media

I'm exhibiting in the 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media at the University of Nevada, Reno until December 15th. RIFNM 06 highlights an international selection of work by graduate and Phd students working with new digital technologies for the creation of art. Artists working in and across disciplines were invited to submit works to be considered for five interrelated events/venues: exhibit, netart, perform, project(full-dome) and present. The resulting festival schedule of events presents a unique opportunity to directly experience innovative work being created by a diversity of emerging artists exploring digital systems for visual and experiential production.

Participating Artists/Affiliations:
-Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
-Gudmundur S. Gunnarsson, Mills College
-Sabrina Berryman, University of Utah
-Margaret Noble and Edyta Stepien, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
-Jolanta A Lapiak, NSCAD, Nova Scotia, Canada
-Martin Machado, San Francisco Art Institute
-Suzanne Yo Martinsen, University of Central Florida
-Pete Froslie, Massachusetts College of Art
-Alejandro Duque, European Graduate School, Switzerland
-Jamie Timms, University of California, Santa Barbara
-Mike Godwin, University of California, Santa Barabara
-Conor McGarrigle, National College of Art & Design Dublin, Ireland
-Stephanie Jeanjean, Graduate Center of CUNY (City University of New York)
-Melissa Grey and Robert Kirkbride, The New School, New York City
-Pamela Kray, The New School, New York City
-So Jung Kwon, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles
-Si Jae Byun, School of Visual Arts, New York City
-Walter Nelson, Griffith University, Australia
-Stephen Cady, University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Art and Design
-Jeanne Jo, Rhode Island School of Art and Design
-Jake Lee High, Massachusetts College of Art

Thomas Hirschorn's Camo-Family

One of two large Thomas Hirschorn pieces at Frieze, the more I see his work the more impressed I am by it and he's now 42 in the art power list. When I was looking at this there were two young Americans taking great offence at what they saw as it's anti-american stance.

Nobuyoshi Araki's A/film light box with slide strips, one of three at $70,000 each which sold out with the gallery reporting that demand was so high they could have sold 100s of them.

More images of both in my Flickr Frieze Set

Do-Ho Suh installation

Detail of the floor of Do-Ho Suh's installation at Frieze. He really is one of the most interesting artists around today.
More images of the installation in my Flickr Frieze Set

Top 100 most powerful in art

Art Review's annual list of the most important people in art, topped by François Pinault owner of Gucci and Christies, biggest movers the Frieze founders up to 8 from 33 and Google in at 100. Interstingly Jerry Saltz, art critic for the Village Voice (who is actually a good critic) is at 57, Thomas Hirschhorn at 42 and Andreas Gursky at 22. Bruce Naumann is the highest placed artist at 9 followed by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst at 10 and 11 respectively.

McCoys in the Washington Post

Feature article about Jennifer and Kevin McCoy( one of the most interesting artistic duos working today) in the Washington Post.

Via Rhizome

Google Bono at Media Art Friesland

Google Bono is being exhibited at Media Art Friesland in the Netherlands opening today and continuing until October 1st.

The Vending Machine Project

The Fringefest Vending Machine Project launches tomorrow at Crawdaddy 6pm, all are imnvited. The machines will be in the Project Arts Centre, Crawdaddy and Connolly Station and there's a full list of all the works available. Some pretty good stuff there and all for a fiver! Methinks you'll have to move fast to get your hands on some of those. I must mention that my work whereismyart.com - a limited edition of 12 - will be for sale in the Project Arts Centre machine.

Turn me on dead man

Turn me on dead man an exhibition by Paul Murnaghan at the Basement Gallery Dundalk open this Friday the 18th 7.30 pm
The title of Paul Murnaghan’s latest exhibition refers to a reversed message embedded in a 1960’s vinyl album, it could also be read as an elastic mantra applicable to varied factions through the ages. This new body of work comprises of drawing, installation, video and sound. The drawing is a necessary device, used only to reference places and people from a past life accessed through hypnotic regression.

Murnaghan acts as documenter, illustrator and guinea-pig whilst exploring elements of cultural phenomena such as glossolalia 1 and reverie. By aligning diverse psychologies, he leads us to a place of obsessive yet common conviction, that allows the seemingly neurotic to be declassified and returned to the norm.

His practice is process-based, it often involves the construction of mnemonic devices and immersive research within disparate environments. The results when gathered, documented and positioned, display an intricate and potent sense of inquiry into the mechanics of memory and belief.

Basement Gallery Town Hall
Crowe St. Dundalk 042 9396437
basementgallery-at-dundalktown.ie
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 10 - 4:30 Saturday 10 - 1

GoogleBono at FILE 2006, São Paulo, Brazil

Thge 2006 edition of FILE Electronic Language International Festival opens today in Galeria de Arte do SESI São Paulo, Brazil. I'll be showing the Bono Probability Positioning System version 2 AKA Google Bono. The exhibition continues until September 3rd.

Memorius at Birr Arts Festival

Paul Murnaghan is restaging his project Memorious (mentioned previously) at the Birr Arts Festival in Co. Offaly this Saturday and Sunday (12th & 13th August) using advertising space to offer for sale, part of his memory capacity. The time and place of meeting is decided by the 'activator'and the chosen memory is then monumentalised' in the artist's brain, sealed in wax and returned to the individual.

Art Vending Machines

The locations for the Vending Machine Project which is taking place this September as part of The Dublin Fringe Festival 2006 have been announced. The machines will be selling art in Connolly train station, the Project Arts Centre and Crawdaddy (Harcourt St) and the participating artists will be:
Mark Beatty (IRL), Clare Louise Bligh (IRL), Cyril Briscoe (IRL), Alan Burns (IRL), Robert Christian (IRL), Declan Clarke (IRL/UK), Brian Coldrick (IRL), Roisín Cunningham (IRL), Niall de Buitlear (IRL), Nuisance Bears (IRL), Neva Elliott(IRL/UK), Tristan Fennell (IRL), Dermot Finn (IRL), Grainne Finn (IRL), Niall Flaherty (IRL), Damien Flood (IRL), Stephen Gaughan (IRL), Cliona Harmey (IRL), Joan Healy (IRL), Leah Hilliard (IRL), Barry Jacques (IRL), Annika Johansson (IRL/Finland), Frankenstyles (IRL/USA), Anthony Kelly (IRL), Tara Kennedy (IRL), Dogmedia Productions (IRL), Marina Kessopersadh (IRL), James Kirwan (IRL), K Bear Koss (IRL/USA), Lee Sang Hong (Korea), Hazel Lim (Singapore), Sarah Lincoln (IRL), Paul McCann (IRL), Conor McGarrigle (IRL), Caroline McNulty (IRL), Mark Garry/Nina Hynes/Karl Burke (IRL), Caitriona Moore (IRL), Eli Normal (IRL), Padraic E. Moore (IRL), Ben Mullen (IRL), Charlotte Murray (IRL), Paula Naughton (IRL), Barbara Nealon (IRL), Fergus Niland (IRL), Seamus Nolan (IRL), Jane O'Sullivan (IRL), Alex Pearl (UK), Christian Reeves (IRL), Sheila Rennick (IRL/UK), Emma Robertson (UK), David Roche (IRL), Ben Roosevelt (IRL/USA), Nina Tanis (IRL/USA), David Stalling (GER), Jason Taylor (UK), Keith Walsh(IRL), Robin Watkins (IRL/Sweden), Conor Wickham (IRL), John Younge (IRL).
via Blackletter.ie

James Coleman at IMMA

Don't miss James Coleman's slide-tape installationI N I T I A L S (which I'm glad to say is beautifully installed) at IMMA until the 3rd September. James Coleman is probably the most important and certainly the most influential contemporary living Irish artist whose work is bizarrely rarely seen in the country.

I N I T I A L S Coleman uses a slide-tape format (multiple transparencies projected with synchronised audio tape) in his continuing investigation of the psychological, social and historic conditioning of perception. We see an unusual assortment of people in what could be a hospital setting, but might, with equal relevance, refer to a TV drama studio, with the attendant preparatory rituals for both settings. As the piece progresses, the voice of what appears to be a child spells out words or utters disparate statements, diverging more and more from the sequence of events depicted visually, calling into question photography’s traditional claim to documentary authenticity.

A further element of uncertainty is introduced through the variety of different genres in which the artist chooses to present the images, from popular television soap opera style to the serenity of a 17th-century Dutch portrait. Cocooned in a darkened and carpeted space, the work challenges the viewer to move through the space and find their own vantage point, thereby becoming part of the core experience of deconstruction and reconstruction. Lynne Cooke in a recent essay on Coleman’s work describes the process whereby “weaving references drawn from film, from drama and from painting, Coleman situates his trilogy in a hybrid realm, one that allows him to comment obliquely on these canonical art forms and their traditions without, however, fully subscribing to any.”

Blackletter.ie Irish art portal launched

Blackletter.ie is a new collaborative workspace for Irish contemporary art created by Alan Butler, Cliona Harmey and Niall Flaherty the site features news, articles, an art calender with a self publishing feature but their opening project a google maps mashup showing ephermal, temporary and location based artworks around Dublin shows that this is going to be a lot more clued in then art.ie for example. Of course the success of projects like this rely on users so go sign up now!

Interview in the Sunday Tribune

While I was gone Eimear McKeith interviewed me about the Net Art Open for The Sunday Tribune and the article (which was excellent) appeared last Sunday (23rd July. I'll scan it and put on the site shortly. The Net Art Open also featured in Italian paper L'Unita and on two of my daily reads Rhizome and Random Magazine. Needless to say traffic to the Net Art Open has been pretty crazy since.

Net Art Open 2006 launched

I'm pleased to announce that the Stunned Net Art Open 2006 launched today. Now in it's fourth edition the Net Art Open takes a different approach to the curation of Net Art online. Rather then present a single event based exhibition selected by a curator or panel of selectors the Net Art Open is an ongoing blog based process which will unfold over the next six months. Curatorial bias has been removed by accepting all work which meets the criteria. The result is a true reflection of the state of Net Art now.

The emphasis in this edition will be bringing the exhibition to the audience, taking account of the changing way people access the net. With so much new work being produced all the time even with the best will in the world it's difficult to keep up so the Net Art Open will be blogged one work at a time with RSS feeds for newsfeed readers and blog aggregators, each entry will be tagged for technorati and del.icio.us and a flickr pool will be created. In addition each entry will feature on the front page of Stunned.

The net art open was started in 2002 by Conor McGarrigle and Arthur X. Doyle as part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.com intervention, subsequent editions were in 2003 and 2004-5..

The Challenges of Curating Net Art

An International web conference on the challenges of curating Net Art tomorrow the 26th 10-12pm (Dublin +2hours) streaming live from Mobile Studios, Sofia

via networked performance

The best art is the most expensive

The best art is the most expensive, because the market is so smart.
Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's wunderkind, in Art Forum's art social diary.

Seoul Net Festival

The 2006 Seoul Net Festival kicked off yesterday with lots of good work including my own project Cyclops which is a finalist in international competition in the webwork category

CORRUPT™

CORRUPT™ by Recyclism, upload an image to get it corrupted.

Exhibition Opening Wednesday

I am taking part in an exhibition of work in progress by MA students at the NCAD which opens this Wednesday 6pm at the Backloft Gallery. Augustine St(off Thomas St).. It should be a really interesting show and I'll be showing something quite a bit different from my usual so I hope you'll all make it along. Full details below and please note that it's a short run exhibition ending Sunday the 30th.

You are invited to the opening of
MAPLESS
Backloft Gallery,
7 - 11 Augustine St.
Dublin 8

Wednesday April 26th, 6-8pm
to be opened by
Mick Wilson

Samantha Corcoran,Ed Cunniffe,Shea Dalton,Francis Fay,Barry Foley,John Graham,Rory Greenan,Sarah Kenny,Barbara Knezevic,Katharine Lamb,Aissa Lopez,Jonathan Mayhew,Conor McGarrigle,Grainne Nolan,Aiseling Noone,Emer O Boyle,Sarah O’Brien,Michael O’Hara,Magnhild Opdoel,Dominic Thorpe,Lorraine Walsh

Weds 26th to Sun 30th April 2006
Continues through to 5.00 p.m. Sunday April 30th.
Opening times 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. daily.

Mapless is independently organised by M.A. students from the National College of Art and Design

Beckett centenary

Now that the Beckett Centenary Festival has kicked off a few things around town that caught my eye. Start with I not I, Samuel Beckett, Philip Guston and Bruce Nauman at the RHA gallery which includes the Bruce Naumann's great Clown Torture installation

and the Neil Jordan directed Not I. The exhibition was having a few teething problems at the opening with monitors on the blink and the sound from Not I being drowned out by another piece but I loved the rooms constructed in the main gallery to show the shorts.
Also check out John Minahan's iconic Beckett photographs at the National Photgraphic Archive and I see that Dublin is going to get a Beckett themed series of projections by Jenny Holzer

Dublin Art openings

Get your art shoes on for this week's crop of Dublin openings

PALLAS HEIGHTS
Pallas Heights have four exhibitions opening this Friday 24th 6.00 - 7.30pm which'll also be the last exhibition there before the building is demolished.

Fergus Byrne, Fiction, flat 25
Clodagh Emoe, Metaphysical Longings, flat 28
Vanessa O'Reilly, SWARM, flat 29
Via, flat 30

Pallas Heights, 29 Sean Tracey House, Buckingham St, Dublin 1.
Exhibition continues March 28th - 15th May.

LUMENS
Lumens a light based public art work by Seamus Kennedy based at Newtownsmith in DunLaoghaire is being launched today at 6.30 in the County Hall Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire.

SAMUEL BECKETT, PHILIP GUSTON & BRUCE NAUMAN AT RHA
To celebrate the centenary of Samuel Beckett the RHA exhibition combines two of America¹s most outstanding artists of the twentieth century together with three recent films of Beckett¹s shorter plays. The three Beckett plays chosen are from the recent productions by Blue Angel Films/ Tyrone Productions. The British artist Damien Hirst directs Breath, Neil Jordan directs I Not I and Karel Reisz directs Act Without Words 1. These plays will be shown as continuous video projections in three separate rooms in the Academy¹s main gallery.

They will be punctuated by six of the late paintings of Philip Guston
(1913-1980). Bruce Nauman (1941) shows Clown Torture, 1987 and Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk). Nauman will also be represented by a major sculpture South America Triangle, 1981, where the lexicon of Nauman¹s and Beckett¹s props overlap.

Opening Thursday 23rd 6-8pm at the RHA Ely Place

MARIE FALKSTEN AT THE LAB
An exhibition of photographs by Swedish artist Marie Falksten opens at the LAB Foley Street, Dublin 1 on Friday 24 March to 22 Apri at 6pm

RAYMOND WATSON AT THE JAMES JOYCE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
Hands of History opens Thursday 23 March 2006 at 6.30.
Exhibition continues until the 23 April. James Joyce House of the Dead, 15 Usher¹s Island, Dublin 8.

Archival Issues for art DVD editions

Tom Moody has an interesting post about archival issues for artists DVD editions, make sure to read the comments.

The Net Art Open 2006 call for entries

I have just launched the 2006 call for entries for the Net Art Open. The Net Art Open is an open submission exhibition for internet based artwork which accepts all valid entries. I first created it with Artie Doyle in 2002 as part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.com intervention subsequent editions took place in 2003 and 2004-5

Click here for more information on how to participate

Spencer Tunick

An investigation is underway in Newcastle after surveillance camera footage of Spencer Tunick's Tyneside photoshoot involving 1700 nude volunteers were found to be on sale in local pubs.

Brian Duggan @ Pallas Heights

More often than most an exhibition by Brian Duggan opens this Friday 6-7pm at Pallas Heights, More information about the exhibition and Pallas Heights here. If you haven't been to Pallas Heights yet go now, it's easily the most interesting alternative exhibition space in Dublin, the block of flats housing it is scheduled to be demolished in the new year and it's very unlikely you'll see it's like again.

Cyclops at FILE São Paulo

My project Cyclops is part of File 2005 (International Festival of Electronic Language) which opens today in São Paulo, Brazil. Unfortunately yours truly is still in rainy Dublin but lots of good work included much of it available through their website.

Peripheral Visions

Peripheral Visions is an ongoing video art exhibition which started in April and ends with a major symposium in November at the Cork Film Centre Curated by Nigel Rolfe and Cliodhna Shaffrey it features the cream of emerging European video art with the work of one artist being screened each week over 38 weeks.
The project features 28 artists from Britain, Western Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. A further 11 Irish artists have been selected to participate in the project, creating new works mentored by Nigel Rolfe. Participants in the Irish component have access to shooting and editing facilities at Cork Film Centre.
The climax of the project will be a high profile symposium to be held on 18th – 20th November 2005 in the Granary Theatre, Cork.
More information from Cork 2005 and from Cork Film Centre

Pompidou rehang

The Pomidou centre is rehanging it's collection in the exhibition Big Bang. The rehang which coincides with the closure of the forth floor for refurbishment will be based on the big themes central to art since the start of the 20th century - the artistic Big Bang ; destruction, construction / deconstruction, archaism, sex, war, subversion, melancholy and rediscovery (réenchantement). The exhibition opens on June 15th, more details from their website(french only) and from the Art Newspaper
The full collection of the Pompidou is online here

Dublin Art College Graduate Shows

It's that time of year again with graduate exhibitions at NCAD, Dun Laoghaire IADT and DIT

New Aosdana visual arts members

Congratulations to Grace Weir who was elected to Aosadana

Scream

Scream is a software application to facilitate screaming.
Scream sits quietly in your computer's system tray and automatically springs into action when it detects a scream. Scream can be used in private. Or public. It can be used at home, at work, or on the street; at a Fluxus-style Scream-in; at the mall or at your favorite cafe. When your throat gets tired, Scream can double as an unusual music visualizer - or as a new approach to digital filmmaking. Use Scream to start a meme. Or simply as a random act of deprogramming.

Cyclops in El Pais

My net art project Cyclops got a nice review written by Stafano Caldana & Roberto Bosco in the Ciberp@ís section of the Spanish newspaper El Pais (online version subscription only) last Thursday. I've included the Spanish text below.

Cyclops: historias de Dublín Conor McGarrigle celebra su ciudad
y el escritor que la hizo inmortal con un proyecto que envuelve al visitante en las brumas irlandesas y lo traslada a un mundo de ficción donde la Dublín contemporánea se funde con la atmósfera obsesiva e irreal de los libros de James Joyce. Cyclops es la primera parte de un relato interactivo que sigue los pasos del artista Artie Doyle por las calles de Dublín, en un viaje épico tras las huellas de Leopold Bloom. Según McGarrigle, “no se trata del Ulises online, sino de una obra inspirada en la mejor historia jamás contada sobre esta ciudad”. Recreaciones digitales donde las cámaras de vigilancia que siguen el recorrido de Artie Doyle sustituyen los ojos hostiles de los conciudadanos de Bloom

Christo & Jeanne Claude's Gates

The Gates project in New York's central park has opened and there are pictures of it all over the web already, it'll be interesting to see what it looks like in a few days. Try these flickr tags for the latest pix christo Gates central park thegates and if you're feeling lucky try the official gates live page

As an aside why bother post so many out-of-focus crappy photos? I don't get it.

That was then...

Legendry sixties artist Chris Burden has resigned from UCLA's art department over the university's failure to suspend a student who allegedly fired a gun in a performance, Burden of course is most famous for shoot a performance in which he had himself shot in the arm. There's none as self righteous as the reformed radicals, he should count himself lucky the guy didn't shoot him - now that would be art. The old punk adage never trust a hippie comes to mind.

Newsgrist has a roundup of the evolving story.
You can buy or rent Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74 by Chris Burden which includes Shoot
DVD PAL Exhibition Rental $1,400.00
DVD PAL One-Day Rental $400.00

Remember NCAD's gun incident?

Laurie Anderson artist talk

Laurie Anderson is giving an artist talk on Thursday 17 February at 4pm, at IMMA, she will discuss her practice, focussing particularly on her most recent projects. Admission is free, but booking is essential on Tel: +353 1 612 9900 or the automatic booking line +353 1 612 9948; E:simona.lecce@imma.ie.
via sculptors society but not on the imma site for some reason.

O'Connell street table tennis

As part of the Communism exhibition at the Project in collaboration with the The Hugh Lane gallery , Paul McDevitt and Declan Clarke have installed a concrete table tennis table on O'Connell Street as a monument to leisure on Dublin's main thoroughfare.

5th Symposium on Art and Multimedia Metanarrative(s)?

I'm just back from a fascinating weekend in Barcelona where I was presenting Cyclops and Proteus at 5th Symposium on Art and Multimedia Metanarrative(s)? 28th to 29th January 2005 at the Mediateca - CaixaForum. It was a great chance to see new work like Marina Zerbarini's Eveline, fragmentos de una respuesta based on the Joyce short stories Eveline and A painful case and hear the artists present already familar work like Valentina Nisi's Weirdview, a cut down version is available online here and her paper on the work is published in the latest edition of Crossings There was definately a Dublin theme going on with three projects about Dublin. Geoff Thomas also showing work from his Storybeat site including Left to my own devices which is currently the featured project at the Net Art Open and
David Crawford's Stop Motion Studies, which looked even better projected on a large screen. Nathalie Bookchin presented Intruder and Metapet and unfortunately Gregory Chatonsky of Incident.net was ill, I've been a big fan of his work for years and was looking forward to hearing him speak about it. But the text of his speech is available online here along with the text of all the other papers delivered.

Medialab Europe closure

A few links to interesting posts from former inmates which help give some insight into the lab's closure.
link link link

5th Symposium on Art & Multimedia/Metanarrative(s)? Artists

The full list of the other speakers at Caixa Forum not yet updated on the official site

Carmen Platero: Cinema and videogames.
Valentina Nisi: 'Weirdview'.
Daniel Garrido: Interactive Fiction.
Olli Leino: Post-narrative Possibilities in Computer Games
Geoffrey Thomas: Storybeat.
Dominic Arsenault: 'Dynamic range'
David Crawford: SMS
Lourdes Cilleruelo: Visual art, internet and new narratives.
Marina Zerbarini: 'Eveline'
Conor McGarrigle: 'Cyclops' and 'Proteus'.
Miguel Sicart: The ethics of design in ergodic art.
Calin Man: 'Golden Virus'

There's an interesting online conversation between the curators about the origin of the symposium and the term "metanarratives" on the symposium blog.

Cork 2005 European City of Culture

Cork is launched as the 2005 European city of culture and of course the unofficial site Where's me culture?

5th Symposium on art & Multimedia Metanarrative(s)

A good start to my new year resolutions, I have been invited to present Proteus and Cyclops, the first two parts of my ongoing Joyce related series, at the 5th Symposium of Art & Multimedia : Metanarrative(s)?, in the Mediateca at Caixa Forum, Barcelona. The incomplete lineup looks really interesting with Glorianna Davenport, Gregory Chatonsky, George Legrady and Natalie Brookchin. I presented Spook... there before and it is a fantastic place and it's always nice to go back to Barcelona.

On the subject of art resolutions Ivan Pope has an extensive list of his art new year resolutions at his site.

Finally, one more resolution (the problem with lists) this year I will finish the Stunned links page, honest!