Evolving from a fascination with things 'known', Paul Murnaghan's projects exist within intersections of the spiritual, scientific and psychological. Ideas are delivered through a multitude of disciplines and forms that teeter between gallery and gimmickry.

In 2008 Murnaghan undertook a utopian quest in an attempt to write a universal hymn. This involved over sixty video recordings in several European countries. For As Foreign as the Same Must Be, he re-made the project in his back garden using the same core concepts and none of the original material.

Roscommon Arts Centre Jan 15th - Feb 17th

Photo removal request left on m*apotropaico's photostream on flickr

Dear_,
On behalf of Tino Sehgal, we kindly ask you to take down the photographic documentation that you have of Tino Sehgal's work. It is part of his artistic practice, and we respectfully ask you to take down any images you have on your flickr account.
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Mr Sehgal is very keen upon this point.
Please let us know when the images have been taken down.
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real or fake? I'm not sure I can tell anymore

More flickr

Arnold Schoenberg's, Drei Klavierstucke, op. 11-I played by cats on pianos culled from youtube clips, rather nice.

An extract from Benjamin Seror's performance The Complete Story of Marina Bay A theoretic solo-opera about the dangers of living on a volcano island by Benjamin Seror after a sculpture by Grégory Cuquel at DATA 39, IMOCA Dublin 13th November 2009.

Friday, 13 of November, 6.30pm

IMOCA, Lad Lane (Off Baggot Street), Dublin 2

Presenters:
Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous media and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work includes translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the Internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years. Martin is currently Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Jules Hackett & Paddy Cahill

Jules Hackett is an multimedia artist based in Dublin. He works with installations, digital media and live visuals. He’s currently undertaking an MA in digital art in the National College of Art & Design.

Paddy Cahill is a documentary director based in Dublin. Since graduating in 2006 from IADT, he has worked the past two years for ‘Mind the Gap Films’. He has just completed a short documentary on the Irish Times cartoonist Tom Matthews which is currently doing the festival circuit.

The music video for the band ‘the 202s’ is a frame by frame animation using a technique called rotoscoping. This process firstly involved shooting and editing video of the band. Once projected onto a surface from above, we went about drawing and photographing just under 3000 frames using 11 phonebooks in total. The video has recently been nominated for an Irish Music Video Award.

Live performance by: Benjamin Seror
Benjamin Seror (Lives and works in Paris) His work underlines links of non communication in his practices of drawing, music or writing. He aims to understand their specificities and extract possible uses. Any shape, object, colour or people produces an incalculable number of pieces of information. From anecdote to History, they reveal, their own temporalities, according to their rules. Many pieces of information echo together, others fade away. The question remains, how long this silence will keep on going, and, if the absence of understanding is necessary for understanding.

The complete story of Marina Bay
A theoretic solo-opera about the dangers of living on a volcano island.
by Benjamin Seror after a sculpture of Grégory Cuquel.

Marina Bay is a small island where the sculptor Gregory Cuquel discovered how fascinating a volcano can be. After few weeks on he Island, back in his studio, he built, in one illuminated night, a replica of the volcano he saw on the Island. At this point of this story, the theoretic opera will be a way to analyze the different faces of volcano across many legends and figures to solve this question, can a love song touch a volcano.

More information and map

I'll be part of a panel talking about art, technology and nostalgia for the DATA #38 part of the Darklight festival at the Cobblestone in Smithfield at 7pm tonight. The panel will be Sarah Glennie, Rachel O'Dwyer and Tim Stott with the session chaired by Francis Halsall. It'll be an interesting session well worth coming along to.

More information here.

Video and images from the Space is the Place exhibition, documentation of the exhibition of documentation, nice.

This looks like fun Seoidin O'Sullivan is organising a 1-day Psychogeographical Mapping/Drawing Workshop at The Back Loft at La Catedral Studios in Dublin 8 on 27 September 2009. After an initial derive through the city each participant will make a new typographical map of Dublin (influenced by pychogeography - a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences) through collage and drawing bringing emotion, sound depiction, the weather and experience of the derive into their mapping creations. The workshop will take place in English and/or Polish and there are max. 10 places. Cost: €30.

More info here

The closing reception for Space is the Place takes place today from 18.00-20.00 at the NCAD gallery.

There will also be a live work from 12.00 with Glenn Loughran creating a window drawing on the topic of ‘Precarity and the University’.

Manchester's favourite psychogeographers the loiterers resistance moment (LRM) are taking over a bench in Manchester for a day and twittering the event live to us in the NCAD gallery for Space is the Place. Check out the live twitter feed

I'll be giving a paper on Joyce Walks tomorrow at ISEA in Belfast. I'm on at 12 on the Positionings : local and global transactions panel and will be in Belfast until Thursday trying to get to see as much as I can in a very short time.

As part of the Dublin Hub Events of ISEA 2009 ( here and here) Data 36: with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine Moriwaki and Gijs Gieskes takes place this Saturday 22 August from 18.30 at the new IMOCA building on Lad Lane Dublin 4 (off Baggot st) click here for a map. Expect an interesting turnout there's already lots of international new media types in town for ISEA next week.

The program for the Dublin Hub Events for ISEA 2009 is available here and here (PDFs). Lots of cool stuff including Space is the Place curated by myself.

Keep up to date on the Space is the Place Twitter and delicious

NCAD Gallery for ISEA 2009
27 August - 1 September 2009

Space is the Place is an exhibition I'm curating of documentation of artistic practices which intervene in public space. The focus is on ephemeral, temporary works which take place out of a gallery setting, living on only in their documentation.

Participating artists will send documentation of their work as images, texts and video directly to the gallery electronically where the material will be printed out and displayed on walls and screens by the curatorial team with the exhibition being produced in the gallery during it's run.

A submission / suggestion system utilising social networking sites Facebook, Del.icio.us and Twitter will also be provided. . The exhibition will have a reading room aesthetic with comfortable seating and texts laid out on trestle tables. Visitors will be encouraged to sit and browse the documentation on offer and engage with the exhibition personnel. At the end of the exhibition the documentation will be collected and archived as a resource.

Participating artists & Projects include:
Aram Bartholl
Blackletter
Ralph Borland
Cormac Browne
John Buckley
Martin John Callanan
Joseph Delappe
Benjamin Gaulon
Institute for Applied Autonomy
I Left This Here For You To Read
Thorsten Knaub
Laboratorio de Situaciones
Glenn Loughran
The Loiterers Resistance Movement
Conor McGarrigle
Eve Mosher
Christian Nold
PARKing
Katie Paterson
Quadrafónica Urbana
Gordan Savicic
Mark Shepard
Surveillance Camera Players
Transborder Immigrant Tool
Trespass
Jeremy Wood
You Are Not Here

More information:
NCAD Gallery

Map of Dublin ISEA events here

The Refunct09 symposium, organised by the IMOCA in collaboration with the DATA, for ISEA09. This event will combine workshops, discussions, performances and an exhibition of some of the main actors of the field of circuit bending and hardware hacking/recycling internationally.

The first event will be the Data Event 36: with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine Moriwaki and Gijs Gieskes as part of ISEA09 on 22nd of August from 10.30 to 17.30 at the new IMOCA building on Lad Lane Dublin 4 (off Baggot st) click here for a map.

I'll be speaking about Joyce Walks at En_lloc (Now_here) dialogues among art, land and technology conference at the Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro in Mallorca this weekend. There's an interesting line-up of speakers with Pau Waelder, Santiago Cirugeda, Katie Paterson and Mauro Ceolin and I'll be doing a Joyce Walks in collaboration with Pau Waelder.

Happy Bloomsday!

If not in Dublin why not recreate your own Bloomsday wherever you may be with a Joyce Walk?

A Temporary Measure, exhibition by Ivan Twohig at IMOCA's opens Friday, May 29th, 6 to 9 pm, at IMOCA, Irish Distillers building Smithfield.
This architectural installation represents the culmination of Ivan Twohig's year long studio residency at IMOCA and the museum's first use of the site in Smithfield. The artist's relationship to the space is filtered through a unique process of measurement, dissection, appropriation and creation.

more information and directions here.

Show runs four weeks until Sunday, June 21.

Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays edited by Christian Nold to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology based around Nold's Biomapping project.

The books is available as a free download published under a creative commons license as full quality PDF (44MB) or as a screen quality lighter download at 2 MB

WALLETS FULL OF BLOOD: ZOMBIE BANKER BLUES from aaronrip on Vimeo.

Scientists, troops and auditors arrive from abroad to investigate the total collapse of a small Republic.
They're looking for 'Fingers'. His actions had hastened the spiral of the country into a bottomless liquidity trap. They want to interrogate him.
Meanwhile an anonymous auditor, hiding out in one of the few sanctuaries which remain, spills the beans on the inhuman practices which led to the collapse.

DATA special event Amsterdam New Media

Thursday, 23rd of April, 6.40pm

Location: The Science Gallery, Trinity College, Pearse Street, Dublin
2 (see map below).

Presenters: Eric Kluitenberg, Tania Goryucheva, Rachel O’Dwyer

Eric Kluitenberg
Eric Kluitenberg is an independent theorist, writer and organiser on culture, media and technology. He co-ordinates the media & technology program of De Balie, the centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

He has been involved in a number of important new media culture events including the Next 5 Minutes Festival of Tactical Media, net.congestion - international festival of streaming media, the art /media / urban intervention project Debates & Credits, and more recently the international Economies of the Commons conference.

Recent publications of his include:
- Delusive Spaces - Essays on Culture, Media, and Technology, NAi
Publishers / Institute of Network Cultures, 2008
- The Book of Imaginary Media, De Balie / NAi Publishers, 2006
- The theme issue Hybrid Space, Open #11 - Journal about Art and the
Public Domain, SKOR / NAi Publishers, 2006.

Tania Goryucheva
Organizer, researcher, lecturer in the field of digital (new) media, media culture and art. Founding director of the Cool Mediators Foundation - research and development organization specialized in interactive communication tools and social software design.

She worked for De Balie - Center for Culture and Politics (Amsterdam), Moscow organizations MediaArtLab, TV Gallery, Russian Institute for Cultural Studies, as well as a freelancer, and participated in international media culture events as well as network initiatives.

She has been teaching as a visiting lecturer at the Interactive Media and Environments Department of Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, University of Groningen, DasArts - MA program for Advanced Studies in the Performing Arts of Amsterdam School of the Arts.

She publishes as a writer, editor and critic. She is co-editor and co- author of Debates & Credits. Media / Art / Public Domain, De Balie, Amsterdam, 2003, and Anthology of Russian Video Art, MediaArtLab, Moscow, 2002.

Rachel O’Dwyer
Rachel O’Dwyer is doing a masters in Music and Media Technologies in Trinity.

I'll be participating in Performing in the City, a roundtable on the role of mobile technologies in urban spatial practices in the Printing House Hall, Trinity ( map) on Tuesday 7th 11.00am-13.30pm

Contemporary understandings of 'place' have been problematised by the dissolution of spatial epistemology towards contingency, virtuality and technological determinations. Difficulties occur with the transformation of public places into 'post-urban spaces' without distinct meaning or social significance, so that to conceive of these places in terms of locality, community or individual agency becomes increasingly problematic.

How might a design approach to human-technology-environment interactions produce strategies for structuring, inhabiting and developing meaningful places within the city? How might critical design and media art practices address post urban spaces?

The roundtable will be informal, consisting of short papers by four speakers responding to the main theme. This will be followed by an open discussion.

Panellists: Conor McGarrigle, Digital Media Artist DIT; Rob Kitchin, Cultural Geographer NUIM; Sven Anderson, sound artist TCD; Linda Doyle, Electronic Telecommunications Engineer TCD

Chair: Martin McCabe, DIT fellow Gradcam

The roundtable is being organised by Rachel O'Dwyer, attendance is open to all but space is limited so booking is advised to book emailrachel.odwyer[AT]gmail.com

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE March 28th - April 19th

Opening Friday 27th 6.30pm

An exhibition of new work by ten artist - led collectives at The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art. Curated by Paul Murnaghan and Sally Timmons.

The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday the 28th of March and runs for four weeks, 12.00 -18.00 hrs Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

How many artists does it take to change a light bulb?
... and what will be illuminated?

This inaugural exhibition will bring together ten artist-led organisations currently working in Ireland and ask them to consider the question, how do we think?

This question is also an invitation that stipulates that the answer be articulated as a new collaborative, physical artwork. The exhibition will include over thirty artists, most of whom are well known in both Irish and International contemporary art circles and all of whom are working to a contemporary budget.

IMOCA (The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art) is a recently established artist - led initiative situated in Inchicore, Dublin. It includes two spaces of 560 m2 and 100m2 and is three minutes walk from the Blackhorse stop on the LUAS red line. The exhibition entitled THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is open to the public from Saturday the 28th of March.

The collectives include:

ART/NOT ART
PALLAS CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS
JECO SWORD
MART
MONSTER TRUCK GALLERY
MONGREL
G126
BLACKLETTER
HOPE INHERENT
THE GOOD HATCHERY

IMOCA (The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art) is situated at 90 Jamestown Road , Dublin, 8.

Further information can be found at www.imoca.ie

So RTE has apologised for even reporting that someone stuck up a nude portrait of Brian Cowen in the RHA and the National Gallery. Of course the report was on youtube before RTE took it off their site and the Gardai are investigating but apparently it's not a crime to add to the collection so it's not clear what they'll do if they catch the culprit.

The GPS track of last weeks GPS drawing walk, the word spelt out was FUCKED? (the question mark being of course crucial these days). OK it's a little hard to make out but that's a factor of my handwriting and the fact that Dublin isn't a geometric grid. Still a good time was had by all.

You can check out some images of the event including a bigger version of the track. The walk was of course organised with Tactic who are now into their last week of events as part of their residency at the Lab.

Writing the City :GPS Drawing Walk from Stunned on Vimeo.

Join me and TacTic tomorrow Friday the 13th March, 10am at Church Street Bridge ( see map) for a magical mystery tour though the streets of Dublin as we use GPS to write a giant word on the city, which can be seen later in Google Earth.

Come join in, have a walking conversation about your projects or ideas, or anything you like. If you have any experiences or scenes you want to create along the route, please let us know.

The walk will continue from 10am to about 1pm, ending with a concrete picnic. You can join in at any time and follow us on twitter or call/text 086 3667857 to find out where we are at anytime.

Vague Terrain 13 citySCENE has been launched and includes a piece I wrote about my Joyce Walks project. The issue which is curated by
Greg J. Smith indexes a wide range of strategies for representing and visualizing urban space. Drawing on the collective talent of an international pool of new media artists and scholars,
citySCENE catalogs how cartography, infrastructure and locative media shape perception in the contemporary city. Many submissions also explore more subjective urban experiences and consider notions of vision, acoustic ecology, movement and agency through experiments and
interventions staged in a number of global cities.

Contributors: Abinadi Meza, Andrea Rojas, Mattia Casalegno & Michael
Langeder, Michael Chen & Jason J. Lee, Conor McGarrigle, David Drury, Franke Dresme, Greg Giannis, Hector Centeno, Katharine S. Willis, Michael Surtees, Mitchell Whitelaw, Olga Mink, Ivan Safrin & Christian Marc Schmidt, Thomas Dreher, Tori Foster and Yukiko Bowman.

Unreliable Narrations:IGVFest Dublin from Stunned on Vimeo.

My video Unreliable Narrations being projected under the railway bridge on Talbot St as part of IGVFest Dublin in glorious, shaky lo-fi video footage.

The IGVFest trail starts from Connolly Station at 5pm on Thursday 19th and Rathmines Ave Flats 43-47 Rathmines Rd on Friday 20th at 5pm.

I'll be taking part in the IGV Dublin which is a mobile video projection exhibition using a converted rickshaw and a portable projector setup moving from place to place stopping to project video art onto building facades. I'll be showing on the 19th in Parnell St and Talbot St and on the 20th the festival moves to Rathmines. More information as I get it.

Specifically developed for the Goethe-Institut, this new body of work by artist Declan Clarke references the interrelationship between history, politics and culture, engrained in the ideology of the Institut itself. Clarke has created two new film works along with a number of interventions in the Goethe-Institut's reading room, gallery space, library, car park and an upstairs apartment.

As part of the exhibition there will be a number of screenings:

Monday 9 February 2009 6pm
Black Box BRD (2001) 102 mins, dir. by Andres Veiel

Monday 23 February 2009 6pm
Fear Eats Soul (1974) 94 mins, dir. by R.W. Fassbinder

Monday 9 March 2009 6pm
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) 106 mins,
dir. by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta

Monday 23 March 2009 6pm
Before Your Eyes- Vietnam (1982), 114 mins
The Words of the Chairman (1967), 3 mins
dir. by Harun Farocki

Curated by Georgina Jackson

30 January until 28 March 2009
Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Admission free

DATA Event 33 takes place this Friday 23rd, 8pm @ The Science Gallery as part of the Lightwave Festival.

The line up is:

Chris O'Shea - creative use of computer vision
Chris O'Shea is an artist and designer, creating interactive work for both public institutions and private companies. His focus is on developing work that encourage creative play and collaboration, challenging our perception of space and physical objects.

In 2006 he was the guest curator of the Cybersonica exhibition and in 2007 received a commission for Designers in Residence at the London Design Museum.

He is the author of Pixelsumo, and is one of the founding members of the event series THIS HAPPENED, a series of events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. Having ideas is easier than making them happen. We delve into projects that exist today, how their concepts and production process can help inform future work.

Dominic Harris from Cinimod Studio
Dominic Harris from Cinimod Studio will be presenting the Untitled (UFO) project done in collaboration with NY artist Peter Coffin. This performance artwork featured a 7m diameter with 3000 lights flying over the Polish city of Gdansk in July 2008.Cinimod Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice specializing in architecture and lighting design, physical/digital interaction design, and the production of bespoke artworks. It is led by the architect Dominic Harris, whose passion for architecture and lighting design has produced built projects now found across the international art and architecture scene. Cinimod Studio operates from a London studio and offers both full project design or specialist consulting.

Cóilín Rush
An important aspect of my work as an artist is the ‘pottering’ process. In between making a painting or editing a piece of video I like to potter about my studio and workshop. I google things on the computer or stroll down to the workshop and look through assorted nuts and self tapping screws. Sometimes I get in the car and drive up to a DIY superstore to buy a section of pipe to bend into the shape of a camera harness. this process often leads me to pursue meaningless or abstracted parts of my practice as an artist and then the pointlessness of the pursuit begins to interest me.

Tim Redfern, Eoghan Kidney - *Sparks
This projected performance featuring guest artists and audience participation allows lightpen drawing with realtime video effects on a custom lightbox setup. *Sparks will transform The Academy building beside the Science Gallery into a dynamic drawing pad for the launch of Lighwave 2009.
Tim Redfern and Eoghan Kidney frequently collaborate on projected visuals at music events and festivals around Ireland, combining filmmaking narrative with technological inventiveness and custom hardware & software setups.

Urban Mobs is a project by Orange and faberNovel which visualises patterns of movement in the city based on mobile phone usage currently being exhibited in the Dans la nuit, les images exhibition. The project includes videos visualising a range of phone usage/movements in France, Spain, Romania and Poland and builds on the work of the MIT Senseable City Lab's 2006 Real Time Rome exhibition.

On a similar theme is the MIT World's Eyes project which data mines flickr photographs to track patterns of movements of tourists in Spain producing some impressive visualisations

Visualisations of mobile usage are now even available as a service for the Blackberry. In San Francisco CitySense allows the user identify nightlight hotspots based on the concentration of phone usage.The application powered by Sense Networks macrosense doesn't provide any richer data other then concentration, but the way things are going can that be really be far behind?

These visualisations of course echo Chombart de Lauwe's famous map plotting every journey a Parisienne student made in a year which so influenced Situationist thought on urban routine and the Theory Of the Derive and in some ways concretise Michel de Certeau's assertion that pedestrian movements form one of those "real systems whose existence in fact makes up the city"

While the impetus behind these and other realitymining projects is to improve knowledge about how people use mobile phones and other devices in order to design a next generation of products which better respond to actual usage requirements there are obvious implications in urban planning and it is even suggested this data can be used to improve epidemiological modelling of the spread of infectious diseases like SARS. I'm interested in them as I think they have an even more important role in visualising the extent of our datatrail, of course the upshot is that once you choose to carry a mobile phone you and your location can and will be tracked, anonymously or otherwise, and the smarter your phone the more data there is to mine.

On that note I leave you with the beautiful BBC Britain from Above visualisations

I missed this one but it seems that in a Mr Burns moment cheeky chappy Damien Hirst has used DACs to confiscate collages by 16 year old graffiti artist cartrain and to hand over the £200 he made from selling them because they infringed his skull thingy copyright. Some people might think it a little mean seeing as he recently made £95m in a Sothebys sale and allegedly sold the skull for £50m, but hey it's the recession! Next stop former friend John McKay for advance copyright infringement?

There are two interesting NCAD / GRADCAM seminars coming up soon which might be of interest to some.

Alas, are we still bad players?
A roundtable on play and agency in contemporary culture
Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 5.30pm to 8.30pm
National College of Art & Design, Dublin.
Panellists: Louise Hojer, art theorist and curator; Aphra Kerr, sociologist of digital culture; Jonathan Mosley, architect and artist; Neil Mulholland, art critic and curator.
Chair: Tim Stott, Research Scholar at the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Dublin

Admission free but booking is essential, more information here.

NIVAL Seminar 2008: Noise/Silence, in collaboration with GradCAM
December 5th 2008, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, 1-6pm
Confirmed participants include:
Phil Collins (artist) Susan Philipsz (artist) Danny McCarthy (artist); Sarah Pierce (artist); David Toop (writer and performer); Lars Iyer (Philosopher) Will Large (Philosopher); Anthony McCann (ethnomusicologist).
Admission free but booking is essential. Please contact Declan Long (longd[AT]ncad.ie) or Dr. Francis Halsall (halsallf[AT]ncad.ie).
Admission is free but places are limited, more information here.

I'll be exhibiting at the Saint-Etienne Biennale in France 15-30 November in the exhibition Mission Creep curated by Benjamin Gaulon in association with the Biennale and Lyon based Galerie Roger Tator . I'll be showing 5 walks, 5 cities an installation documenting 5 Joyce Walks I've performed in Berlin, Boston, Paris, Sao Paulo and Tokyo which consists of a four video screens and a 7m x 4m wall print. I'll post the pix as soon as I have them. Also in the show will be Joan Healy, Ivan Twohig, Bear Koss and Ben Gaulon. Participation in the exhibition was made possible by support from Culture Ireland.

DATA 32 : Push Move Click from Stunned on Vimeo.

Push Move Click perform for DATA 32 at IMOCA

The Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) will be launching the new season of events with DATA 32 at the official launch of IMOCA.
The line up for DATA 32 is:

Eamonn Crudden; documentary filmmaker, researcher and lecturer (Route Irish, Berlesconi's Mousetrap) will discuss and screen excerpts from a series of short found footage films he made in 2006.

Ralph Borland & Tim Redfern; artists & researchers will present SmSage, a security camera housing containing a speaker system, mini-computer and cellphone which uses a text-to-speech converter to speak out text messages sent to it.

Saoirse Higgins; artist, lecturer & member of the ISEA 2009 Belfast organising committee.

Push Move Click
Performance by 4 piece dublin based live electro-acoustic group

Date: Friday November 7th
Time: 7pm
Venue: IMOCA Jamestown Road Inchicore
Click here for map

Interview with Hamish Fulton via talking walking

The Art Power 100 list you love to hate of, surprisingly enough, the 100 most powerful people in art. Spoiler alert Damien Hirst is number one. Interestingly Casey Reas (processing) is on the list.

Skip based art interventions in urban space by Oliver Bishop-Young

MA in industrial design project by Bruno Taylor brings adult play to the streets by adding swings to bus stops, guerilla style.

Check out the new DATA (Dublin Art and Technology Association) site archiving 31 DATA meetings since 2002!

I missed this one first time but it's still worth mentioning, The Irish Times reports on damage to IMMA permanent collection due to inadequate storage which included a shipping container in the car park italics mine. Apparently IMMA officials have been trying to get proper storage facilities for ten years which to me just adds insult to injury. Surely one of the most important tasks of museum curators is to preserve the collection and letting a situation like this drag on for a decade is inexcusable and begs the question are these people really fit to take care of this part of the state's art collection?

Harry McGee blogs the full list of the damaged works (from a 2003 report) and the nature of the damage.
* 1. Queen of Proofs and Queen of Torments buckling caused by humidity and heat fluctuation
2. Slat Greaser Trough III a three-dimensional work incorporating grease by Terry Atkinson laminate buckling not fit to show, due to extreme fluctuations in environment
3. Slat Greaser V grease element leaching oil - that has been exacerbated by heat in the store
4. Large Head - a large polychromed wood carving by Stephan Balkenhol wood splitting due to lack of climate control stored in studio ‘temporarily’.
5. Anna on a Sofa oil on canvas by Basil Blackshaw paint surface badly cracked fluctuations
6. L’Oiseau de Feu lithography by Georges Braque print surface has adhered to the glass due to severe buckling caused by humidity and temperature fluctuations.
7. Saddle a sculpture incorporating a horse saddle and a cow’s udder by Dorothy Cross Leather drying more quickly that if stored in climate controlled store
8. Fragmens Sur Les Institutiones Republicanines IV 96 styrofoam panels inscribed with the messages smuggled out of the H-Blocks during the Hunger Strike in 1981, by Shane Cullen damaged by flooding
9. Cricketer massive metal sculpture by English sculptor Barry Flanagan was stored in outdoor shipping container and is displaying bloom on the metal
10. (unknown work) Oil leeching from work to support exacerabed by humidity and fluctuating environment
11. The Tain and Travellers tapestries by Louis le Brocquy no hanging system for textiles and no possibility of this in current store
12. Sphere Trame by Francois Morellet chrome lifting and metal rusting due to humidity levels.
13. Untitled 12 Lightboxes moisture damage due to humidity level
14. Untitled wax medium lifting off the support heat damage
15. Untilted painted hardboard surface has buckled and come away from its support as a result of temperature change
16. Figure with Owls by Colin Midleton buckled and broke the frame, as a result of temperature change
17. Fair Head by Colin Midleton Surface attachment fallen away a result of overdry conditions
18. (Unknown) recently conserved conservator stressed the need for ‘museum storage conditions’ to prevent recurrence of problem caused by humidity.
19. Permutations mould on prints caused by temperature change
20 - Partypiece a mechanical sculpture by John White rust damage caused by flooding A further concern arises in relation to the following list of artworks that cannot be taken in to the existing stores
2 1. Strange Fruit- a huge multi-media construction by American artist Lee Jaffe,- cannot be stored in any of the existing stores because of its size and weight.
* 2. (Unknown work) currently stored in a shipping container.

Part of the Superdome exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo Paris, Fabien Giraud et Raphaël Siboni's Last Manoeuvres in the Dark. Each Darth Vader mask is equipped with a microprocessor connected to a central computer to give an artificial intelligence system developed to work out the darkest musical hit of all time pretty cool.

More pictures from Superdome

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Yayoï Kusama's Dots Obsession being installed at the Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette Paris.

More photos here

A late follow up on 1000 Joyce Walks, as I mentioned earlier the project was a great success the final tally is we had walks in 39 cities (multiple walks in many cities) throughout the world. I'll be adding more walks to the gallery over the next while. Thanks to everyone who participated and if you took part please don't forget to document your walk.

The map above is one of my Bloomsday walks in Berlin click here for the full size mashup

I'll be in Manchester tomorrow doing a psychogeographical walk - The Manchester Freedom Trail as part of the Loiterers Resistance Movement Get Lost festival and attending the TRIP conference. If you're in Manchester please join me.

A quick word about Bloomsday, it all went really well with a lot of walks created all over the world, I owe a big thank you to all the people who took part and made it such a big success. I'll write about it in more detail when I get all the information about what happened where. I was fortunate enough to spend Bloomsday in Berlin where I did a fantastic Joycewalk full of improbable coincidence - I'll upload the documentation as soon as I can on my return.

It's Bloomsday and 1000 Joyce Walks the project which lets you re-enact Bloomsday where-ever you are. We have walks in over 25 cities around the world already planned but it's not too late to join in and celebrate Bloomsday in the psychogeographical way. Click here for more details.

Tomorrow is Bloomsday and 1000 Joyce Walks. There's been a huge interest and we've got walks planned all over the world, from Berlin to Boston, Marakesh to Montevideo and everywhere in between. It's shaping up to be a great day.

There's still time to join in and do a walk tomorrow go to the Joyce Walks site and create your own walk where ever you'll be tomorrow.

There are only six days left to Bloomsday and the 1000 Joyce Walks psychogeography project. Sign up now to participate.

The NCAD 2008 Degree and Postgraduate exhibitions open tomorrow Friday 6th June 6pm at the NCAD campus 100 Thomas Street and the Digital Hub Thomas Street (Post Graduate Fine Art & Degree Media Department). The exhibition continues until the 15th, opening hours: Mon- Fri 10am - 8pm, Sat 10am--5pm, Sun 2-5pm
Click Here for a Map of the locations

What: 1000 Joyce Walks

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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.

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 ( 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.

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.

D.A.T.A. No. 28 takes place this Thursday 13th March, 7.30-9.00, in it's great new venue at The Science Gallery, Pearse Street.

Dublin. D.A.T.A. No. 28 will be, as usual, an informal gathering of interested parties, open to the public, where a group of invited speakers will present their art/technology practice and work-in
progress. This month we are delighted to have with us Michael Szpakowski, Charlie von Metzradt, Joan Healy and Sven Anderson. Admission is free and all are welcome

Based in the New Theatre in East Essex St in Dublin The Progressive Film Club is a voluntary organisation dedicated to showing progressive films from all over the world. Focused on themes of struggles for people’s rights and social justice the initial line up includes some modern classics many of them never shown before in Ireland including I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2004), Fast Food Nation (2006), Days of Glory (2006), Venezuela Bolivariana (2004), West Beyrouth (1998) and Water (2005). Full details and screening times here

Art in the Life World exhibition in the old Ballymun swimming pool, a fantastic location for an exhibition.
Exhibiton features Santiago Sierra, Hiraki Sawa, Cecily Brennan, Jota Castro, Minerva Cuevas, Jeanette Doyle, Matthieu Laurette, Janice Feighrey, Stephen Gunning, Jesse Jones, Nevan Lahart, Ken Meehan, Mark McGowan, Theresa Nanigian, Women of the Star Project, Seamus Nolan, Adam Chodzko, Hugh O'Neill, Abigail Reynolds, The Centre of Attention and is part of breaking ground, continuing until April 19th.

More images here

Graffiti Research Lab laser tagging in Dublin for the Lightwave Festival the first image is from the 'official part in Trinity and the second the unofficial part on the old Bolands Mills building. More images of the GRL and Lightwave here

Dublin 24 my video projection on The Irish Times building in Tara street has now ended after a successful run as part of the Science Gallery's Lightwave exhibition. The exhibition has been extended until the 1st of March due to popular demand - there have been queues every day - but unfortunately the projectors in the Irish Times were pre-booked for the original exhibition end so Dublin 24 had to come down. I've put some photos up on my Flickr page and will have some more shortly

DATA 27.0 - in association with LIGHTWAVE festival takes place today at 8pm in the Science Gallery Featuring presentations by Benjamin Gaulon & Lourens Rozema (E-waste 3.0), Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch (Camera Lucida), Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus (Lo-Vid), Neil O'Connor with Eoghan Kidney (Somadrone) and more... as usual all welcome and admission is free.

In other Lightwave news my project Dublin 24 experienced some problems over the weekend with a projector breakdown and some other problems but I am glad to say that it is now once more up and running and can be seen 24 hours a day in the Irish Times building 24 Tara Street.

I'll be launching Dublin 24 a new three channel video projection which will be projected on the Irish Times building in Tara Street this Friday as part of the Lightwave festival. The work tells the story of a single 24 hour period in Dublin as seen by over 120 traffic cameras.

The exhibition continues until the 9th February

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Artforum reports that Anselm Kiefer had work stolen from his studio in Barjac in Gard in southern France. The photo above was taken when they were removing Kiefer's installation at the Grand Palais in Paris and gives you an idea of the scale of the operation needed to nick Kiefer's art.

I'll be giving a talk on my work to the Faculty of Fine Art at NCAD today at 4pm in the Noel Sheridan room. All welcome

The program for the Lightwave exhibition which opens Dublin's new Science Gallery has been announced and available for download here. The exhibition and associated events will be held in the Science Gallery building in TCD (opposite Pearse St Station) and on the streets of Dublin. Highlights include the graffiti Research lab who'll be laser tagging the city, Benjamin Gaulon's de pong game and I'll have a three channel projection on the Irish Times offices in Tara Street which (even if I say so myself) will be very cool. Exhibition takes place from the 2-9 th February.

Joyce Walks is showing at the 21st Stuttgarter Filmwinter in the international competition for online media. Exhibition runs from the 17th -20th at the Filmhaus Stuttgart.

Workshop by Benjamin Gaulon (Recyclism™), Lourens Rozema (Blue Melon), with the support of Tim Redfern (Eclectronics) for the Dublin Art and Technology Association the February 2nd-3rd at the Moxie Studio Dublin.

Summary:
Moore's law dictates that the complexity of computer chips doubles each 18 months. This causes a rapid decrease in the value of existing electronics. Thus, the dark side of technological progress is the production of endless amounts of electronic waste: e-waste. Although the economic value of obsolete electronics approaches zero, the electronic components themselves can still be useful in other contexts.

Our workshops offer the participants to become familiar with basic hardware and software design while at the same time gaining hands-on experience making an interactive art project. The workshops are open to participants of different backgrounds and no programming or electronic skills are required. The idea is to start from scratch and create a complete project over a weekend, including concept, design, electronics/ interfacing, and functional programming with Max/Msp, Pure Data or Processing.

Duration: 2 days
Admission fee: 20€
Application: by e-mail at ewaste3.0[AT]gmail.com
Group: 14 participants

via Networked Performance

as brought to you by Claude Closky, feeling nostalgic for 2007?

Dan Deacon at the Model Arts in Sligo, I was there, one of the best gigs ever.

Andy Warhol's Empire: Installation view at the Model Arts Niland Gallery, Sligo

I made the trip up to Sligo to see The Eternal Now, the Warhol exhibition at the Model Arts & Niland Gallery the focus of the exhibition is Warhol's film work and for me the highlight was a beautifully installed Empire which I found quite captivating. I don't do the best of the year list thing but if I did this is one of the best exhibitions of the year. The exhibition closes on December 22nd and, if you've any interest in Warhol, is a must see.

Lou Reed Warhol Screen test: Installation view at the Model Arts Niland Gallery, Sligo

In a very cool piece of public art work in Drachten, The Netherlands artist Henk Hofstra painted 1,000 metres of road blue to create an urban river. Hofstra wants the work, which was completed in April, to show up on Google Earth.To date there's no sign.

via Wooster

For you to be right about what you are doing, not everybody else has to be wrong.

Elizabeth Murray

Tulca ends tomorrow the 25th so it's your last chance to walk the Tulca Freedom Trail as part of Tulca 2007. Of course you can follow the trail anytime by visiting the Freedom Trail site and downloading the audio guide and printing the map.

Joyce Walks Installation view : Best in Show, Digital Hub Dublin

Best in Show the selected best of this summers graduate exhibitions which is showing my Joyce Walks has been held over for another week due to popular demand and now ends Nov 23rd.

Opening tonight in Dublin: At Pallas Contemporary Projects Current Trends - Past Prospects. Sarah Browne and Gareth Kennedy, The work in this exhibition is derived from sources that include a 1977 Hollywood film; a fragment of a script from TV show Dallas (1987); an advertising jingle Bringing Home the Oil - promoting the Gulf Oil company based in Bantry Bay (1969), and a Dáil debate (1985, after the Betelgeuse disaster). The actors in these texts are concerned with global economics and natural resources, and as a series, these obscure cultural artefacts begin to re-trace an alternative historical trajectory linked to contemporary concerns.

And at the Hugh Lane THEN a new Breaking Ground multi-part public art work in various locations across Dublin by Adam Chodzko. Chodzko's work blatantly subverts expectations of what ‘public art’ is and who it is for. "Chodzko’s work is a wryly philosophical look at how an area is read and how individuals present themselves within society.

Both at 6-8pm get your art shoes on and do both.

The Tulca festival of art opens tonight in Galway, the packed program features over 70 Irish and international artists in 13 venues and on the streets of Galway. Of course I'll be launching a new project The Tulca Freedom Trail created specially for the festival based in Merchants Road but taking place on the streets of Galway. Highly recommended.

Bodycity is a Dublin based visual arts project in three parts curated by Shelagh Morris, Nigel Rolfe and Cliodhna Shaffrey which sets out to explore the complex ideas surrounding the human body in relation to the cities in which we live. How might our material, political and social environments alter perceptions, our existential experience, and our sense of being in the world?

The first part of the project is Video Apartment a month long exhibition of video art in an apartment in the regenerated docklands featuring work from over 30 Irish and international artists. The exhibition runs until November 30th, 12-7pm Tuesday to Saturday, Apt 20 Asgard Road, Hanover Quay, Docklands, Dublin 2.
More details and map here

The Tulca Freedom Trail is a self guided audio tour based on a remapping of the famous Boston Freedom Trail to Galway. Created for Galway arts festival TULCA 2007 the project launches Friday November 9th and continues until the 26th.

TFT is part of an ongoing series of work collectively known as Cultural Tourism which seeks to facilitate a culturally minded audience in reducing their carbon footprint by enjoying the cultural highlights of the world without leaving their home town. Inspired by the Situationist concept of the psychogeographical derive the trail draws on the historic connections between Galway and Boston, explores the troubled concept of American freedom in the contemporary political climate and encourages the user to see Galway in a new and unexpected way.

I'll be leading a guided tour of the Tulca Freedom Trail on Saturday November 10th at 3.30pm starting at Tulca 1-5 Merchants Road Galway. I hope you'll join me on the walk and in a free flowing conversation about freedom, art, cultural tourism, situationism and the art of getting lost.

The Tulca Freedom Trail.
The full Tulca 2007 program

I'd like to invite you all to the opening of Best in Show at the Digital Hub Dublin opening this Thursday 8th at 6.30pm. The exhibition is a curated selection of the best of new media work from this year's graduate exhibitions from all over the country, I'll be re-exhibiting my MFA graduate exhibition Joyce Walks. Hope to see you there.

The artists selected are Joanna Hopkins (LSAD), Cormac Kelly (IADT), Clare Shanahan (IADT), Conor McGarrigle (NCAD), Katy Judge (DIT), Stephen McCarthy (DIT), Jennifer Kidd (DIT) Faith Denham (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and two groups from Dundalk IT, the Tactical Control Force group and the Seven Deadly Sins group.

More information and directions here

more here

Benjamin Gaulon's (aka Recyclism) de Pong game will be shown this Friday and Saturday at the Globe on Georges 7-10pm. it's a rare opportunity to see it in Dublin so make sure to check it out. 250,000 youtubers can't be wrong, can they?

Cityscape by Arne Quinze on the Avenue de la Toison D'or in the centre of Brussels. Check out the blog and a nice time lapse video of it's installation and of course the flickr photos.

DATA (Dublin Art and Technology Association) meeting tonight at 7pm upstairs in the Stags Head map here. Tonight's meeting is a DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) electronic music special featuring presentations by Enda Bates (The Spatial Guitar), Pussy Krew (Hardware visuals), Colm Rooney (musical painting), Rob Casey (noise composition) and more...

From Japan urban camouflageas protection from (almost unknown) streetcrime. Hmm but what happens if anyone wants a coke?

The recently launched EcoScope, a participatory telematic forum focusing on environmental issues, is the latest in a series of projects involving the environment, public participation, and tactical media from the International art collective Transnational Temps. It's currently being featured in the Ecomedia exhibition at the Edith Russ Haus fur Medienkunst in Oldenburg, Germany.

D∗face banknote 2005 vs Jake and Dinos Chapman Frieze Art Fair 2007

Graffiti artist D∗Face is less then impressed at the Chapmans' latest stunt which is wowing the punters at Frieze. As you can see their defaced twenty pound note bears a remarkable similarity to his 2005 work, this resemblance becomes even more striking when you learn that he also pasted 5ft posters of the Queen's defaced image on a £20 around Whitechapel, including Fournier Street, where the Chapman Brothers have a studio space.

The trailer for Yoko Ono's acting debut(?) as 'Ito the oriental virgin bride' in the 1965 sexploitation shocker Satan's Bed.
via the incomparable bedazzled

Andy Warhol Empire, 1964
16mm film, black and white, silent, 8 hours 5 minutes at 16 frames per second
©2007 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

The Eternal Now at the Model Arts & Niland Gallery in Sligo is an exhibition focusing on Warhol in the Silver Factory period between 1963 - 1968 with an emphasis on the film works. The program will feature rare screenings of Empire (in all it's 8 hour 5 minute glory) and Sleep as well as the Screen Tests , Kiss and music and films resulting from his collaboration with the Velvet Underground. Also on exhibition will be screenprints from the electric chair and photo booth series and the silver cloud sculptures alongside photographs from the factory by Billy Name, Stephen Shore and Nat Finkelstein. This for me is the definitive Warhol period and one whose influence is strongly felt in contemporary art particularly for those of us working in ´new media´ art. Highly recommended.

A mini round up of the unsettling case of artist Christoph Büchel and MassMoca. Buchel was commissioned to create one of his trademark large scale installations entitled Training Ground for Democracy for gallery 5 in the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The relationship broke down and the artist abandoned the work resulting in a court case in which the museum successfully sought permission to exhibit the unfinished work but under pressure decided not to after all. The New York Times on the original court victory for Mass Moca. The Art Newspaper on the climbdown and a lively blog debate on the case. All in America, true but monkey see monkey do

Olaf Breuning's 'interactive' website - make those lazy bums type. We like it even if it's not really finished.

Dignified Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Silk

New work by Karl Grimes at the Gallery of Photography and the National Gallery

In photographs, drawings, lightboxes, text and sound, Grimes’s re-interpretation of the Natural History Museum’s collections and Victorian museum practice becomes a recollection, a poetic transformation activating memory and re-awakening the ‘Dead Zoo’. In the upper balcony of the National Museum, Grimes installs a series of large-scale animal portraits, the Taxum Totem series. These larger than life and richly hued images represent an act of retrieval and resurrection – a contemporary homage to 19th century observational science, the taxonomic collection, and a reminder of the key role played by both taxidermy and photography in the presentation of knowledge in natural history museums.
The exhibition at the Gallery of Photography goes behind the scenes of the Museum, presenting images and drawings from off-site storage areas, research archives, imaginary do-it-yourself taxidermy guides, and ironic ways of telling the good from the bad curator. In a key work, Killed Striking, Grimes pays tribute to the Irish naturalist R.M.Barrington. His pioneering study of migratory birds around the Irish coastline in the late 19th century is realised in sound and image. Grimes perfectly captures the spirit of the Barringtonian enterprise, and draws fresh delights from it. His camera stares from lighthouses over the seas, awaiting migrant birds. Flight feathers protrude from their neatly stored envelopes, transformed into a series of strange and charmed
billets-doux.
Both exhibitions continue until November 4th

As part of the ongoing campaign to save Tara from the M3 motorway on Saturday 1500 people collaborated to create this image organised by Stuart Townsend and artist John Quigley. Of course now Tara has to be saved from the Green Party Minister who discovered that once he got his seal of office that after all he was in favour of the motorway through Tara (not to mention US military use of Shannon and the Corrib gas terminal and pipeline)
More about the event from Indymedia

I'll be presenting my work in progress Joyce Walks and talking a bit about how the project is developing and my future plans for it this Wednesday 7pm at DATA (Dublin Art and Technology Association) upstairs in the Stags Head. As usual admission is free, all are welcome and I hope to see you all there.

The full line up is
Conor Mc Garrigle
Camara.ie
Garrett Phelan

Pig Protester
archival paper, EVA glue, aluminium mesh,46 x 57 x 34 cms
Image courtesy Alan Phelan and mother's tankstation.

Everything around me moves. Nothing is ever what it seems to be, everything is subject to constant metamorphosis, it all changes unexpectedly, and with lightening swiftness...
Guillaume Apollinaire

It is if Apollinaire has found himself, unexpectedly, in the recreational quarters of Odo the shape-shifter from a particulaly tangential TV episode of Deep Space Nine. Unlikely, yes, but no more so than the formal, spacial and temporal shifts of meaning that occur in Alan Phelan's installation Ralph, Eamon, Odo, Barbara, at mother's tankstation. Wherein Phelan synthesises Aristotolean acceptance of the 'given' with a Platonic readyness to hypothesize a different reality, a different realm. In simpler terms, Phelan simultaneously employs and subverts the 'it does what it says on the tin' approach to the world. Whilst Phelan's individual sculptures accord to expected taxinomic systems of naming (i.e. Barbara refers to Barabra Hepworth, Eamon stands for Eamon DeValera, Odo is the above mentioned slippery customer, 'Odo' – who only ever really manages approximate copies of things, and Ralph equals Ralph Gifford - who? – we will come back to him) and apply appropriate expected meaning, they also employ radical shifts of lateral logic.

Opening reception Wednesday 19th 6-8pm, map & opening hours here

My Flickr image set of Bodies in Urban Spaces a parkours influenced series of interventions in the streets of the 13th arrondissement of Paris cheoreographed by Willi Dorner and performed by a troupe of 20 dance students.

This friday the 14th is Dublin's culture night with over 80 venues opening to the late hour of 10pm. Not quite the nuit blanche but still sounds like fun. So get a good night's rest and a note from your mammy to stay up late for a bit of culture this friday.

Opening tonight 6-8pm at Pallas Contemporary Projects is MONO by Clive Murphy. A site-specific kinetic inflatable sculpture specially fabricated for the gallery. Working directly with the architecturally idiosyncratic space, Murphy's singular work will activate the physical core of the building with a minimal gesture that prods at notions of high modernist monumentality.

I'm pleased to announce that I've been able to add all cities in the UK and Northern Ireland as well as Hong Kong to Joyce Walks. With those additions the system now generates walking maps and mashups based on routes from Ulysses for every city in the world.

It's been a busy summer for Joyce Walks testing and using the system, with a project like this you only really get to grips when you start to use it. Based on my (and others) experiences I'll be adding new features which should make it easier to use and as the number of walks completed grows features which'll make it easier to view other peoples' walks. Interestingly I'm finding that artistically my sense of the work is also evolving the more I actually get on the street and walk the walks and that it's leading the project in even more intersting directions. To quote Sol LeWitt's sentences on conceptual art The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others

The floor of the enclosure contains a satellite photograph of Los Angeles and each light represents a different airborne pollutant with the light levels computer controlled using live data on Los Angeles air quality.

Will you go out with me by Jay Yan

Jay Yan's We only come at night and here from FILE Sao Paulo. More projects by Jay here

My projection Unreliable Narrations is showing as part of Screenshow at the Wexford Arts Centre from Monday 27th to Friday 31st August at 2pm and 3pm daily. Selected by Vaari Claffery Screenshow includes work by Anne Maree Barry, Stephen Gunning, Sean Dower, Joan Healy, and Conor McGarrigle.

Antony Gormley has won the commission for a major public artwork in Dublin's Docklands. The work which will be up to 48m tall will be designed in co-operation with the advanced geometry unit of Arup Engineers and will allude to the human body as a dynamic interconnected matrix evoking the collective body, which is in itself in dynamic relation to the movement of people in the street and across the new Sean O´ Casey Bridge. The selection was made from an invited shortlist of six artists Dorothy Cross , Antony Gormley, Luis Jimenez, Andrew Kearney, Thomas Schutte and Grace Weir.

Richard Wilson's fantastic Turning the Place Over installation part of the Liverpool Biennial which runs until the end of the year.
Location map here

Back from Sao Paulo where I was exhibiting at FILE, I had a great time in a fascinating city, saw cool art and met interesting people. Unfortunately that's the end of the summer, meanwhile it's still raining in Dublin.

More Sao Paulo Ramones graffiti here

I'm off to File Sao Paulo Brazil tomorrow where I've been invited to exhibit temple-bar.org an old project of mine from 2002. I've exhbited in FILE for the last number of years so it's great to get a chance to actually get to see the exhibition in person and meet the people involved. Anyone in Sao Paulo for File make sure to say hi.

Travel to Brazil was made possible by a grant from Culture Ireland the Irish Government agency for promoting the arts abroad.

One of the highlights of Documenta 12 was our own James Coleman's 46min long film Retake with Evidence with Harvey Keitel which was beautifully installed on a giant screen with an excellent in a large carpeted room with no seats and an entry which insulated the installation from the outside sound. The work itself is an extended Shakespearean-esque (I'm not sure if it was a play I didn't recognise or if that was the point) monologue delivered by Keitel which was more political and less oblique then much of Coleman's work. It also stood out at Documenta because it was actually well installed which couldn't be said for all.

Coleman's slide installation Lapsus Exposure is currently on view at IMMA until August 26th.

During my break I got to see Documenta 12 in Kassel, Documenta is billed as the most important exhibition of contemporary art in the world an authoritative worldwide seismograph of contemporary art and it rather spectactularly failed to live up to that. My overall impression was that it was a curatorial disaster which has probably killed off the myth of Documenta for good. On the plus there was plenty of good work and it was undoubtedly the most important exhibition of contemporary art in Kassel this year.

Image is Sanja Iveković's Poppy Field installation outside the Fridericianum Museum. More of my pictures here and a very comprehensive roundup of flickr pictures sorted by artists and venue at Hello Kassel

Graffiti with light from Lichtfaktor

To celebrate Bloomsday I'd like to invite everyone to take part in a Bloomsday psychogeographical event by undertaking their own Bloomsday re-enactments in any city in the world except Dublin.

To take part generate your own Bloomsday route using Joyce Walks a web 2.0 service which generates walking maps based on routes from Joyce's Ulysses for any city in the world. Based on the map create your own Bloomsday event documenting it as you go and use Joyce Walks to generate a mashup of your walk which will be saved to a database as a permanent record of the event.

More information here

I'm pleased to announce the launch of the beta version of my new project Joyce Walks.

Joyce Walks a new project by Conor McGarrigle
Because somewhere, sometimes it's always Bloomsday.

Every June 16th in Dublin Joyce enthusiasts celebrate Bloomsday with re-enactments of events from Ulysses. Unfortunately not everyone can be in Dublin for that day but why should that stop you celebrating Bloomsday where you want when you want .So as Bloomsday approaches we
announce Joyce Walks a web 2.0 service which will let you map routes from Ulysses to any city in the world so that Bloomsday can be celebrated in any place at any time.

Joyce Walks is a psychogeographical tool which generates walking maps based on routes from James Joyce's Ulysses in any city in the world using Google Maps. The system prints maps to be used as the basis of walks exploring the city of your choice and generates mashups using your pictures and videos documenting these walks to share with other users.

Inspired by the Situationist idea of the Dérive Joyce Walks seeks to provide the walker a means of exploring the urban environment which is unique, truly random but removed from a reliance on chance. Although based on a fixed route each map generated is unique as it is based on an individual selection by the user of the center point of their chosen city thus every map provides the walker a means of exploring the urban environment which although based on routes which are predetermined according to a strict adherence to a text is individual to them. Of course removing these routes from Dublin removes specific spatial relevance but they still retain an aura of association which creates a link between the locations and Joycean Dublin.

Joyce Walks saves every map generated to a database. These walks, in addition to being specific to their creator, form part of a continuum where each specific walk performed by any user of the system is added to an searchable archive of unique performative walks from around the world. This archive over time will become a tool to explore and view many unique walks in many cities around the world creating a veritable web 2.0 psychogeographical rough guide.

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Requirements:
Firefox or Safari browser , in this beta version Internet Explorer is not supported, support for IE will be added shortly.
Due to copyright issues between Google and the British Ordnance Survey cities in the UK and Northern Ireland are not searchable, we are working to find a solution for this.

Christina McPhee presents large-scale photoworks, video and high-definition video from her acclaimed Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, a meditation on seismic memory and identity along the San Andreas Fault in California, exploring the synchronicity between natural disaster and human trauma at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington DC June 5-July 29

1,001 Ming- and Qing-dynasty chairs a component of Ai Weiwei’s Fairytale project for Documenta in which he will gather

1,001 Chinese people from the artist’s sprawling, blog-mediated social network, give them matching clothes and luggage, fly them en bloc to Kassel, billet them on bamboo bunks in Ai-designed temporary quarters inside an old textile factory, and set them to wandering the city for the three-month duration of the show, which opens June 16. A spokesperson at Ai’s studio says, To design also means to set up a condition, which makes individuals change. The project is about a new way to communicate, to participate, a new spiritual condition..

The current issue of Circa magazine features New-Media Art: An Irish Context a survey of Irish new media art by NCAD's Paul O'Brien which features among others myself, Paul Murnaghan, Saoirse Higgins, Benjamin Gaulon, Jonah Brucker Cohen, John Gerrard, Eamonn Crudden, Kevin Atherton and Tim Redfern. Worth checking out.

Richard Wilson's latest architectural intervention created for the Liverpool Biennial consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the facade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving facade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing window, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours.
More here and here including an animation

Recyclism's Pong game makes the front page of youtube 159,849 views later and the debate still rages about whether it's pong or breakout? Very cool.

Samantha Corcoran's installation Hide is a dark, imposing, large scale digital print /triptych mounted on dibond, gloss laminated overlaid with digital video projections.

The effect is certain but unlocatable, it does not find its sign, its
name, it is sharp and yet lands in a vague zone of myself; it is acute yet
muffled, it cries out in silence. Odd contradiction; a floating flesh?
(Barthes,1981,p.51/53)

Hide embodies these contradictions. It asks questions but offers
no final answers only suggestions of what might have been, possibilities
of what is still to come. ?

Opening times here and google map of the locationhere .

Black sun, eternal light: The sun rising over the sea~ an Installation
At the end of my first year in Virtual Realities, I made an Audio/Installation piece: No Man’s Land which documents a personal journey, both physical and metaphorical. It is concerned with the small incidents of daily life, with depression, despair and the problem of identity in a disorientating world. Black holes appear in the middle of ones daily round, and threaten to engulf us. One is situated at “the edge of the world”, symbolised by “the Bus Stop” and only a thin line separates us from the chaos and emptiness beyond: the disintegration of the self and of life as we know it.

The central image of Grainne Nolan's installation Journey for the NCAD 2007 MA Show. The viewer is invited into the space to contemplate and experience their own journey.

The NCAD MA show opens Friday 8th June at 6pm in the Digital Hub 10-13 Thomas St Dublin 8 and continues from the 9th-17th June inclusive. Opening hours are:
Saturday: 10.00am to 5.00pm
Sunday: 2.00pm to 5.00pm
Monday to Friday: 10.00am to 8.00pm
Click here for a google map of the location.

Well, yes I'm still alive. I've been otherwise occupied preparing for my MA graduate exhibition, installation was completed on Friday and the show opens next Friday June 8th 6pm in the Digital Hub (former Lees cash n carry warehouse) 10-13 Thomas St.. You are all invited. The show is a gallery presentation of my latest online project Joyce Walks www.stunned.org/walks which launches at the opening. Joyce Walks is a psychogeographical tool which generates walking maps based on routes from James Joyce's Ulysses for any city in the world (for the moment the UK is excluded due to copyright disputes between Google and the British ordnance survey and I'm working on a fix for this), you then use the map to walk the route, document your walk with photos and videos and use the system to generate mashups of your walk which are saved to a searchable database. The beta version is up and running at the moment here, feel free to test it out taking note that it's not yet 100% finished (the about page being the most glaring example). I'll be posting more about JW and about the NCAD graduate show in the next few days.

The former Lees Cash 'n' Carry warehouse on Thomas Street the location for the MA Graduate exhibition this June - the reason this site has been pretty quiet of late. Building in the space for the exhibition begins next week.

Opening this evening 11th at 6pm in Filmbase and for two days only an exhibition of new media art by first year Art in the Digital World MA program in NCAD with work by Emma Wade, Joan Healy, Magdalena Gajko, Debbie Jenkinson, Stephanie Hough, Diarmaid Horkan and Ivan Twohig. More information here and here

He's Kevin Atherton Head of the Media Department and soon to be head of Fine Art in NCAD. They're his students wisely keeping their faces hidden.

The full list (all 129 of them) of the proposals for the Rhizome 2007-2008 commissions, some great stuff there well worth perusing.

Monster Truck gallery relaunches today at 6-8 pm on 73 Francis St with the preview of a group show Plasticine featuring Sheila Rennick, Fankenstyles, Andrew James Jones, Bennir Reilly, Nevan Lahart, Connor Wickham, Louise Butler, Run Wrake, James Earley, James Kirwan, Magnhild Opdol, Claire- Louise Bligh, Carly McNulty and Nina Tanis. The exhibition is curated by Alan Butler and Lola Rayne Booth who previously brought you the great Art Vending machine project.

What better way to remember Sol LeWitt who died on Sunday then to link to his Sentences On Conceptual Art, in my opinion pretty much everything an artist needs to know about art and all the better for being in succinct points and not embedded in dense tedious verbiage. (Guess who's writing his thesis at the moment)

I managed to get to Limerick for the opening of eva where I'm exhibiting at the moment. My initial impression was that it's a strong show but quite uneven. What caught my eye was Jesper Just's film It will all end in tears, which I'd seen at Freize last year and happy to see it again, which was beautifully installed in a large space in the City gallery, also at the City Gallery was Alix Pearlstein's two channel video projection Distance again very well installed also worth checking out were Wolfgang Staehle's Ludlow Street in City Hall and Thorns Ltd sound installation in probably the best location of the exhibition - a turret in King John's castle. My own work Unreliable Narrations is showing in the belltable but dissapointingly hadn't been installed to my specifications and will have to be reinstalled. But as always it's worth the trip.

Lost Dog from a series of lost posters by asbestos I've been seeing around.

La Chute a series of photographs by Denis Darzacq inspired by the Paris riots the photographs, which are real action and not photoshopped, show young men frozen as they fall to the ground in the Paris streets depicting a generation in freefall. More

The closing date for the Rhizome 2007 Commissions is approaching fast, this year Rhizome will be commissioning 10 projects of internet based art and one project to benefit the Rhizome community. Closing date is April 2nd so still time to get your act together.

Google Bono is showing at File Rio, in Rio de Janeiro Brazil until the 24th April.

Details for the Klaus Ottman curated open ev+a 2007 - A Sense of Place, including a list of participants and a curatorial statement are now up on their website.

I came across this a while ago meant to post it but forgot, so I'll do it now. It's from the (cringeworthy )Fantasy football TV show but it's worth watching for Luther Blisset (Watford and AC Milan footballer) talking about the other Luther Blisset.

Classic. From Hanne Mugaas & Cory Arcangel's Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet)
via art fag city

Hamish Fulton, walking artist.
As part of a project I'm working on for my graduate exhibition I've been thinking about how you represent a process-based, participatory experience in a gallery setting (and still retain some integrity). As hamish Fulton says an object cannot compete with an experience...but you can sell it, and therein lies the problem.

Explore Baghdad through the streets of New York.

Santiago Ortiz's > Neural Zapping Folks visualises non-linear zapping through the Internet, a path leading to the inside of a web of relations, a web that can be explored from one tag to a site, to another tag, to another site... from word to image to word to image. NeuroZappingFolks is then the simulation of a brain lost in the web (lost between servers, but also lost in Internet's double identity: word and image). and like the best visualisations it's also very beautiful.
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Thomas Demand's Space Simulator part of his exhibition at IMMA until June. A really good show that is much more engaging then you'd think. Includes some of the most gorgeous photographic prints I've seen and a brilliant specially designed (by Caruso St. John Architects) installation/viewer for his Rolltreppe (Escalator) film. I'd have photographed it but IMMA forbids photography and of course doesn't have a pic of it on their website even though it's a Dublin first, go figure. Highly recommended.
Also at IMMA is a major Alex Katz exhibition which really left me cold, I know people like him but I don't get it.

From the outsourced critics project Claude Closky tackles the Armory show catalogue

The Armory Show 2006 catalogue

On the cover, I like the beautiful teeth.
On page 1, I like the ring.
On page 2, I like the nail polish.
On page 3, I like the volleyball net.
On page 4, I don't like the wrinkles.
On page 5, I like the spray paint.
On page 6, I like the thick spray paint.
On page 7, I don't like the pillow.
On page 8, I don't like the sunglasses.
On page 9, the horns frighten me.
On page 10, the flowers make me feel better.

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Mouse on Mars featuring Stereolab's Laetita Sadier. For my money possibly the greatest music video ever made.

Epic Tour and more of the lo-fi Heath Robinson-esque mechanical machines of Ian Burns.

My work Unreliable Narrations being projected in Meeting House Square Temple Bar, Dublin. The screenings continue Friday 16th and Saturday 17th, Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd, Friday 23rd and Saturday 25th 6pm – 10pm (7pm start on Saturdays).
More images at Flickr

From the AC Institute the Sound Art Limo, take a short trip around New York city in a limo while listening to historical and new sound art. Refreshments will be served. Takes place February 23, 24, 25, 2007.The Armory, Pier 94. 3pm -7 pm. Oh to be in NY!

Tonight at Filmbase in Temple Bar from 6pm as part of the Screenshow exhibition there'll be a rare opportunity to see (and play)Bnjmn Gaulon's RES -interactive music making system made from a converted Nintendo NES system - in action. Highly recommended.

The Screenshow screenings on Meeting House Square continue on Thursday February 15th, Friday 16th and Saturday 17th, Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd, Friday 23rd and Saturday 25th 6pm – 10pm (7pm start on Saturdays)

Can photographers be plagiarists? The case of the Nanpu Bridge photographs by Peter Bialobrzeski (2001) and H. & D. Zielske(2002). Not mentioned in the article but relevant and interesting (and not quite as clear cut as Garnett's presentation may suggest) is the case of painter Joy Garnett vs photographer Susan Meiselas

I'll be part of Screenshow exhibition of screen based art projected in Temple Bar's Meeting House Square, Dublin launching this Thursday 15th in FilmBase (opposite Temple Bar Music Centre). Projected on the big screen in Meeting House Sq will be Anne Maree Barry, Stephen Gunning, Conor Mc Garrigle, Joan Healy and Sean Dower and for one night only in Filmbase will be Bnjmn™ Gaulon, Eleanor Duffin, and Cyril Briscoe on the decks.

More information here

Opens at 6pm Thursday 15th, all welcome.

Miika Nyyssonen's installation M the Machine with 700 cardboard boxes and three programmed movies.

via Vvork

From 1965 Dylan's screentest. Each screen test was shot on a 100 foot roll of film and lasted the same length about 3 minutes, they say that Dylan was the only one ever to leave before it was finished.

I love Warhol's screentests they were undoubtedly some of the greatest things he did and I think in time Andy will be remembered more for his film work then his paintings.

Paul Murnaghan's Auto Da Fe at Pallas Heights to be completed at some unspecified date in the future, perhaps it's already happened.

Katrin Sigurdardottir's High Plane 3. More images and information here

Cai Guo-Qiang's Clear Sky Black Cloud at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A black cloud appears above the Roof Garden daily at noon, bursting like an inkblot in the sky and then dissipating slowly in the air. This recurring work, made from miniature black smoke shells, sets a new and symbolic clock for New York City for the duration of the exhibition.

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Pallas Studios launch their new exhibition space Pallas Contemporary Projects 11 lwr Grangegorman Road, Stoneybatter in Dublin 7 this Friday 6-8pm with an Reverse Psychology an exhibition by Eilis McDonald. PCP is the replacement for the fantastic Pallas Heights (which we mentioned many times here) the most innovative exhibition venue in Dublin for a long time -if not ever- and it's great to see that the spirit of Pallas Heights will continue.

-edit and a word on the exhibition-
Eilis McDonald's first solo show, REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY, is an explosion of subconscious landscapes, loud music, spiritual energies and ghosts.

This Exhibition May not be suitable for light sensitive epileptics

Dziga Vertov's classic Chelovek Kinoapparatom (Man With A Movie Camera 1929) available for free download from the Internet Archive

Doug Aitken's Sleepwalkers an eight screen video installation on the facade of MOMA following the journeys of five New York city inhabitants.

From Spiegel online Southern China is the world's leading center for mass-produced works of art. One village of artists exports about five million paintings every year -- most of them copies of famous masterpieces. The fastest workers can paint up to 30 paintings a day. - the article focuses on the village of Dafen and Huang Jiang whose enterprise in the 90's once produced 50,000 paintings in a month and a half for Wal-Mart!

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Installation view of Hachiya Kazuhiko's Open Skies 2.0 exhibition at the NTT Intercommunication Centre, Tokyo. Hachiya is best known for his Air Board series of jet engine powered hoverboards based on the hoverboard from the Back To The Future.

This exhibition itself was a gallery based presentation of the process of planning, building and flying self built aircraft, but unlike the AirBoard you can't fly in a gallery so instead visitors were offered the chance to win a simulated ride by completing various tasks. I'm interested at the moment (as my MA show approaches) in approaches to presenting work which happens outside of the gallery in a gallery context and this impresses me wioth it's effective balancing of sculptural objects natural to a gallery space with process documentation which can come across sometimes as tedious and a bit overly precious if not handled properly. The obvious comparison (flying machines) is of course with Belgian artist Panamarenko except with the (not only) conceptual difference that these flying machines actually left the ground. Of course, me being me, I wondered did they actually fly, would it be better work if they didn't but the artist went to elaborate lengths to convince us that they did, or does it matter?
More images at my flickr page.

Every good artist has at least one quote, aphorism or soundbite attributed to them, yet the new media artist barely has time to keep up with the rapid change of technology let alone spend time thinking of witty aphorisms.
Garrett Lynch's Quote Me is a work, triggered by users to its web page, that reuses quotes and the date they were expressed from various online sources for the busy new media artist who hasn't time. Quotes are relevant comments to current political and social events, both nationally and internationally, taken from the current headlines of a handful of global newspapers via their respective rss / xml feeds, yet placed without context or explanation.
more about the work here

I've been thinking about Warhol a lot recently and really seeing his influence on a lot of current 'media art' so I was amused when I discovered (via Kottke) that Barneys department store in New York are selling

limited edition soup cans with authentic reproductions of Andy Warhol designed labels. Printed on special quality paper and with Andy's signature (reproduced). Campbell's soup with Warhol labels

Keeping with that theme I also discovered recently the BMW art car project which Andy did in 1979 painting, unlike other artists, directly on the car with a paintbrush and seemingly unlike other artists the only one who had a bit of fun with such a naff idea.
via hanne mugaas artblog

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?

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.

As part of the all hawaii eNtr�es / 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 Entr�es / 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 H�ller, 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.

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.

Net art by Claude Closky, I liked Pedagogy, U and his free wallpapers aren't bad either. And he's blogging too.

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

The Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center in Second Life has a call for proposals for their artist in residence (AVAIR)programme

Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR) is an extended performance that examines what it means to reside in a place that has no physical location.

Ars Virtua presents artists with a radical alternative to �real life� galleries: 1) Since it does not physically exist artists are not limited by physics, material budgets, building codes or landlords. Their only constraints are social conventions and (malleable-extensible) software. 2) The gallery is accessible 24 hours a day to a potentially infinite number of people in every part of the world simultaneously. 3) Because of the ever evolving, flexible nature of Second Life the �audience� is a far less predictable variable than one might find a Real Life gallery. Residents will be encouraged to explore, experiment with and challenge traditional conventions of art making and distribution, value and the art market, artist and audience, space and place.

deadline is 21st of November and there is a stipend in real money.
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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.

Installation view of the Paper Rad exhibition at the Green on Red gallery, Dublin. The exhibition continues until the 19th of November.
More images here

Trevor Paglen's photographs of 'secret' US military bases and CIA 'black Sites' using high power telephoto lenses in the 1300 - 7000mm range at distances of up to 40 miles.

via Rhizome