There are pieces from 10 artists, “experimenting with evolution, hybridisation and the infiltration of technology”. One of my favourites was Reuben Margolin‘s Pentagonal Wave, a kinetic sculpture with 288 strings:
The show is open until 17th October, but closed Sunday 5th & Sunday 12th.
Our next get together is next Wednesday evening (8th October) at 8pm - in McGinty’s opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich. We’re in the Green Room which connects to the outside smoking area.
As before the plan is to preview the proverbs to see what we’ve done and what’s still to do. So if you’ve got something you’ve been working on please bring it along. If you don’t have a proverb, please come along too - perhaps you’ll be able to help someone else out.
Bring along anything else you’d like to talk about too. Alex, Matthew and I will also report on Concrete and Glass.
Last month our curious delegates Alex, Cefn and Dave went off to see the weird and wonderful on show at the annual Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Over the weekend they were entertained by a mix of interactive exhibits, experimental music and absinthe.
It was an inspirational place with both famous attendees such as the guys behind the Absolut Quartet as well as less well-known technoart enthusiasts.
The full spectrum between technology and art was represented, where some exhibits were impressive because of the new nuggets of technology on show, and others, where the technology used was entirely tacit, led the audience into a world of wonder and occasionally astonishment.
Highlights included:
Bleu Remix - An example of one of the more astonishing exhibits because it was human (we think!)
Next year sees Linz as Europe’s Capital of Culture and we can only imagine that the next Ars Electronica festival will be even bigger. The theme will be ‘the future’ and we’ll certainly be going again - we recommend you join us!
Our next get together is this Wednesday evening (24th September) at 8pm, in McGinty’s opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich. We’ll be in the Green Room which connects to the outside smoking area.
The plan is to preview the proverbs to see what we’ve done and what’s still to do. So if you’ve got something you’ve been working on please bring it along. If you don’t have a proverb, please come along too - perhaps you’ll be able to help someone else out.
This was originally planned as a member’s show ahead of the public show. Although there’s been tones of progress, we’re not quite ready for that. Wednesday will give us a much idea of how much there is still to do, so we can set some dates for the show.
We’re having another get together tomorrow evening (Wednesday, 10th September) from 8pm - in McGinty’s opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich. We’ll be in the Collins Bar.
We’ll be talking proverbs and Ars Electronica, plus anything you’d like to chat about - proverbial or not.
We’re having another get together tomorrow evening (Monday, 25th August) at 8pm - upstairs in McGinty’s opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich.
I know there’s new stuff to see on the Watch Pot and Many Hands proverbs and there are rumours of others - excellent!
Also come along with anything you’d like to chat about - proverbial or not. I can report on my adventures at NYC Resistor.
We had another get together the other Monday evening (11th August) - upstairs in McGinty’s.
A bunch of new things were shown including Tom‘s cold steamer for the Proverbial Watch Pot; an arrangement of an ultrasonic mister, pc fan and plastic bottles:
I heard about this today, Rob Higgs’ The Plant Processor is a thirty-foot-high interactive Heath Robinson device, at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
It’s the world’s largest nutcracker - as Higgs says, “It’s a real sledgehammer to crack a nut”. I think this is strictly speaking an idiom rather than a Proverb...
Last Monday evening we had another get together in McGinty’s. Proverb-wise we saw Cefn‘s impressive grass is always greener prototype and we had a lot of fun with Jon‘s one-armed bandit for a fool and his money.
I showed the Baird Televisor kit I’ve recently built, which I’m sure we can put to some unusual use:
The next meeting will be Monday 11th August.
Hope to see you there, Dave
We’re hoping that Mondays will be our new day, with get togethers every two weeks. So we met a week ago at Mark Dixon‘s studio.
We talked about a whole bunch of things and started to work out the collectively built proverb pieces. Our two favourites are currently, “a watch pot never boils” and “many hands make light work”. Over the next few weeks we going to be starting to get these together - watch the mailing-list for details.
