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