What does it mean to have a holiday? I have a paid part time job at the university, which closes between Christmas and New Year, which this year means that from the 24th December to the 4th January, I don’t […]
1. Introduction: What will you expect to see new and fast-growing social spectacle in globalized cities? Wi-Fi may be the answer. Wi-Fi has been developed fast in the first decade of 21th century. World’s metropolitans have their Wi-Fi infrastructure plans, […]
3. Politics and Ideology: Many cities in UK, USA and Taiwan have their city-wide Wi-Fi plans, but most of them are aborted because of financial troubles. The abandoned plans leave facilities alone to produce ruin landscapes in cities like other […]
1. Introduction: What will you expect to see new and fast-growing social spectacle in globalized cities? Wi-Fi may be the answer. Wi-Fi has been developed fast in the first decade of 21th century. World’s metropolitans have their Wi-Fi infrastructure plans, […]
3. Politics and Ideology: Many cities in UK, USA and Taiwan have their city-wide Wi-Fi plans, but most of them are aborted because of financial troubles. The abandoned plans leave facilities alone to produce ruin landscapes in cities like other […]
The first element. Also the smallest, and ‘the purple one’, as it has a purple exterior face. This was the simplest element to make, as no cuts were involved for interior colour effects. This element would also set a precedent […]
Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
2 December 2009 – 23 January 2010
Today I am sitting pissed by the fire after failing to log in to my account. Auerbach and Freud are off to Brighton, the one day of the year where they don’t crack the ice on the loo bowl. How […]
Wi-Fi networks are popular in many cities around the world and many cities have or had the plan to run city-wide Wi-Fi networks plan. Most plans had financial problem so they need to halt the plan.
“What happens when nothing happens?” Stephen Johnstone Intro to Recent Art and the Everyday in The Everyday: Documents of Contemporary Art 2008 “The banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual? (…) […]
“How many people turn on the radio and leave the room, satisfied with this distant and sufficient noise? Is this absurd? Not in the least. What is essential is not that one particular person speak and another hear, but that, […]
The town clock went beserk last night and chimed 80 times from 3.50 to 4 am. Happy Christmas to all or Nadolig Llawen as is said in Wales.
Time to make a decision about different materials for a larger scale version. At this point the ideal, powder coated mild steel/aluminium, solution is financially unobtainable. Consequently I chose an easily available and workable material; MDF. I was also willing […]
Why I choose Wi-Fi as my study subject? In this project, Wi-Fi is the represented object and Wi-Fi is also a way which can display our ideas and theory. In its first role, this project visualizes Wi-Fi to colour house […]
Why I choose Wi-Fi as my study subject? In this project, Wi-Fi is the represented object and Wi-Fi is also a way which can display our ideas and theory. In its first role, this project visualizes Wi-Fi to colour house […]
NEW CONTEMPORARIES I went to the new contemporaries show at the weekend and saw a few artists who seem to be dealing with what I think I might be dealing with. Adam Bainbridge “I make drawings of places and objects […]
Self-portrait, pastel on Ingres paper. I like pastels because they’re immediate. I can get an intuitive reaction onto paper, and then work it at leisure – no need to dry (like oils), or be worked quickly (like acrylics). Suited for […]
I’ve been considering a couple of the new paintings in my latest body of work for the exhibition. They are by their very nature awkward, as they are stretched across a ninety degree angle. This means that they are tricky […]
Brian Holdcroft – The Process of Rendering Something Sacred As part of Dialogue BoxAirSpace Gallery Window This work examines nature and landscape myths and questions how our sense of place is as much a product of memory. Through the recollection […]
I finished a commission for Enchanted Parks in Gateshead a couple of weeks ago, which went well I think – a local photographic group very kindly sent me links to images they’d taken (see accompanying photographs). It turned out to […]
Bird diary entry Wed 16th Dec 09 Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon en route to UK Low cloud cover, mild, 20’c, rain showers, tops of sky scrapers in cloud. Pigeons swoop from roof of hotel – fast and high. Birds of […]
Old concrete machine plynths have been removed from the ground floor this week after work was stopped by the Harrington Factory Company over a year ago. The new floor will require insulation to meet new building regs.
Bird Diary entry Mon 21st winter solstice northern hemisphere West London 7.20 am Sun rising – prussian blue lightening to cobalt, and light blue in east. Very cold – minus 2′, patches of snow now re-frozen and all water solid […]
