I submitted work to Mis-IN-Formation in Bath although it wasn’t the work I said I was going to submit in yesterdays post. I decided upon what’s going to happen with my A-Board… the (very) short statement I sent off with my submission read as follows:
The work has a series of images and fragments of text spray mounted onto the front side of it each day; they create a layered, physical and printed view of the nonsense and occasionally important moments that people have invested time in online. This process provides changing views of time-based (un-)important information. The other side of the work acts as an advertisement for my practice using a QR Code linked to my website (www.ryanhughesprojects.net).
Whilst hunting around online for the best place to get die-cut vinyl made up I considered using stencils and painstakingly cut a stencil for the QR Code that links to my website. I then painted it and tested it to find it doesn’t work. Looks nice though.
More Die-cut vinyl shopping. I’ll keep you informed on the submission!
I’ve had a few days off from work at Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum and have taken the oppertunity to work on making an A-Board (see attached photo)… its still not finished, It needs the chains trimming and a lot of sanding yet, but I’m quite pleased so far…
I’ve not decided what its going to display but have decided that one side is going to have a link to my website (www.ryanhughesprojects.net) and probably a QR Code link to the same site as well… I think I’m going to get some die-cut vinyl made for these!
The other side will end up being process based I think, it’ll either be a space that I curate and invite others to show things in or my be used as a space where I layer printed fragments of internet things maybe… I’m not sure yet.
I found myself woundering why I had made this object without really knowing what I was intending to do with it and I realised that it is potientally the same as a platform like facebook (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=547524741&ref=tn_tnmn) or twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/ryanhughes2) it is a very public method of information distribution and is a really versitile object… More info on whats happening with this when there is some!
In unrelated news I have submitted We’ve been Re-Distributed to the Woolgather Art Prize 2012… and am intending on submitting Private Property (www.ryan-hughes.co.uk) to Mis-IN-formation in Bath.
Dates for my residencies with The Lombard Method and Southam’s Cardall Collection are being discussed now and both look set to begin in Jan 2012… I think the one at Southam’s Cardall Collection will have its own blog made as it is a year long residency, however my time at/with (it might be fairly virtual) The Lombard Method will feature on this blog… again more info when there is some!!!
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!!!
Lots going on. Will post details soon. Very busy.
In the mean time have a watch of this in relation to my show We’ve been Re-Distributed @ ARTicle Gallery in Birmingham.
