My show We’ve been Re-Distributed at ARTicle Gallery in Birmingham City University has been open for a week now! I’m really pleased with how the show came togeather and it sounds like it has been well attended so far! I was ment to deliver an artist talk there yesterday but train delays ment that that had to be cancelled… However I was going to open with a quoat from Hitchhikers Guide to the Gallexy which I think is a good descriptor or maybe point of entry for understanding my practice, the quoat is as follows:
Cave paintings lead to more sophisticated works, lead to books, first with pictures, then without. Back to pictures with television. Onwards to 3-D experencies and finally interactive, multi-sensory, holographic constructs. Better than the real thing.
I also received an email from Southams Cardall Collection this morning saying that my residency proposal has been accepted and I will be starting my year long residency with them on the 11th of Jan… really excited about that! The project/residency is titled Exploring Local History through New Media. It is currently a working title and I’m not massively pleased with the words new media… I think I would have perfered digital participatory culture… but its not a problem.
More on this residency will appear on this blog over the next year!
I have also began considering a few other things…
I’m thinking about a piece of video which takes found internet footage from the london riots and presents that alongside scenes from sci-fi animations and movies (I’m thinking Akeria and Blade Runner at the moment)… this will explore the effects technology has had and will/can have on society and its political ideas and actions.
I’m also begining to think about what I can do for http://www.warwickshireartsweek.co.uk/… I’m sure I can organise some event!!!
