a-n Magazine 2003 May - a-n The Artists Information Company

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Editorial – 2003 May

The bumper issue of [a-n] Magazine this month has a distinctly digital flavour with a critical overview of recent net art and a profile of evolving new media consortium SCAN that aims to promote emergent, collaborative and experimental practice. In […]

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Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus
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Martin Prothero

I work directly with wildlife and environments that surround me; my work comes from a place, rather than being about a place.

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The Bakery of Secrets
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Rosie Leveton

Rosie Leveton, The Bakery of Secrets, baked sugar and abattoir knives (detail), 2002. Rosie is a recent recipient of the Mark Tanner Award. Worth £4,000 the award supports an artist for one year culminating in an exhibition at Standpoint Gallery. […]

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Purse
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Kelly Atkins

Kelly Atkins, Purse, green felt-backed carpet with neoprene inside. Kelly recently took part in the Crafts Council Next Move scheme – an individually tailored programme of mentoring and networking. Look out for more Crafts Council opportunities in future issues. a-n […]

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1970s-Greeks in London
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House boxes

Phoenix Arts Association – a charitable organisation based in Brighton – provides studio space for over 100 artists and supports a gallery and education programme. It holds ten exhibitions a year, eight of which are selected from an open call. […]

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student sculpture workshop in the quadrangle of the College of Fine and Applied Art
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Khartoum challenge

Ruth Claxton reports on her participation in a British Council funded workshop in Khartoum in October last year.

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Great Wall of Lempa at Cyprus College of Art
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Live in

John Cornall profiles the international art college.

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Desert Rain
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Reach for the stars

Jeni Walwin, investigates Blast Theory an innovative, yet pragmatic artist-led company that’s proving to be inspiration for many artists working in performance and new media.

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We Will Destroy You
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Post cybernetic serendipity

Dion Ellis gives an overview of SCAN (Southern Collaborative Arts Network), an evolving consortium of ten independent arts organisations that aims to promote emergent, collaborative and experimental practice based around new media.

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Venetian sides

Devolution in the UK has hit this year’s Venice Biennale, with England, Scotland and Wales each having an independent presence there. This year, the British Pavilion will be showing the work of Chris Ofili; Scotland will be represented by Jim […]

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[transmission]
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Sampling net art

Jessica Loseby searches the net and discovers what’s what and who’s who on the internet art scene.

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User friendly

Helen Parrott considers the possibilities offered and some of the questions raised by the recent changes to arts funding systems in England and impending changes in Scotland.

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Depot on course

Arts Depot, the new visual and performing arts centre in London’s North Finchley is on course to open in May 2004. In the run-up, photographer Thomas Claxton was commissioned to document work in progress on creating the venue that will […]

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Fields
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Binita Walia

I make site- and project-specific architectural glass that I prefer to create through close collaboration with architectural design teams and the community.

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Giant Sphere
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Glass prize

The Bombay Sapphire Foundation has recently called for entries to the 2003 £20,000 prize for glass design. The prize is open to designers, architects and artists who work with glass or use it as a key design medium, based on […]

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Musicians’ Deal

The New Deal for Musicians is to become a permanent policy following a three-year national pilot scheme. Costing around £9 million to set up and run between August 1999 and November 2002, the pilot involved over 10,500 people who met […]

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Scotland celebrates

Two artists in Scotland have been awarded Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards in a scheme that provides £300,000 annually to artists with a proven track record who would benefit from support. Jim Buckley and Ian Hamilton Finlay each received […]

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Drawn up

Wimbledon School of Art has announced its newly-formed partnership with University of Gloucestershire and Jerwood Charitable Foundation in delivery of the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Wimbledon School of Art’s Centre for Drawing has now become the prize’s administrative centre. Anita Taylor, […]

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Mouth exposure
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Artists’ development

Artsadmin has recently awarded £32,500 worth of bursaries to fourteen UK artists, as part of an much-needed support programme for artists who work in live art, performance, time-based media, installation or other innovative areas. The bursaries give artists time to […]

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New Law

Designers are being urged to take advantage of a Europe-wide design registration law that came into force on 1 April 2003. By registering their work, designers are not only given a monopoly right to make, sell, distribute and licence their […]

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Wigs of Wonderment
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Live documentation

A collaboration between Aavaa, Live Art Development Agency and artists, Documenting Live! is a profile-raising initiative for black and Asian live art in the UK. By revisiting and documenting key works, it aims to capture the essence of performance-based work […]

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