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Posted by Cefn on 05 September 2005 | 0 Comments
Below is a summary of requests for bits which people were talking about at the meeting and could blog with references. By my reckoning the main takeaway from the meeting was the following
Major Developments
Although I’ll get round to writing up the minutes eventually, some key events were…
- Getting a theme. The Common theme has been agreed to be ‘curiosity’ itself. Each piece would then have its own name, like curiosity:pipedreams.
- Setting up some kind of milestone before too long, where we might invite friends, curious people, journalists, others? I’ve set up a tag preview for people to tag their comments on this
- Bunch of opportunities through CSV, IP-ART and others emerging - we just have to decide who we want to work with - there’s a hunger for curiosity
There were a lot of suggestions of things at the meeting which people were going to root out for us and blog up here. I think there was another involving faked broken mirrors in some way, maybe whoever it was could dig it out.
Dave’s twisted map - tag twistedmap
Martin was going to dig out some refs for neural maps which distorted body space according to the density of neurons found at that body part - huge genitals, tiny feet, that kind of thing. Also some stock market representations.
Paul saw something at Edinburgh festival, where countries were swelled according to the media stories which were coming out.
I think Michal had some kind of map thing as well, but didn’t manage to get it down. I’ll blog something up on the Zeitgeist maps if I can find them, and Keith Briggs’ statistician timetables.
Danger High Voltage - tag highvoltage
Chris, do you want to put some stuff up about your coils and other static effects we could use. There was a bit of discussion of making bulbs glow in microwaves, fluorescent tubes glow by rubbing them on your shirt. Any refs of how to do this SAFELY?
This is the amazing growing ball which Dave showed us. There was some kind of link to a massive one in a museum somewhere. Also a link to buy them cheap would be handy if there might be more than one as part of the exhibit.
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Vero - could you post a link to openstudios? CSV make a difference day?
Look forward to seeing your blog entries, and if you don’t know where to start, Click here to blog. Full minutes soon to come.
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Posted by Cefn on 05 September 2005 | 0 Comments
Met up with a girl called Lee this morning - happened to be in the house. Anyway, she told me she’s here doing a project to record in audio and video the memories of people at the Ipswich Caribbean Association.
The Ice Project - Ipswich Carribbean Experience will generate a load of multimedia files which are intended as an archive for Ipswich. I guess this could be a very interesting source for seeding our pipedreams thingy.
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Posted by Cefn on 05 September 2005 | 1 Comments
A couple of things came to mind from Dave’s Twisted Map idea. For now, take a look at Keith Briggs timetable stuff
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Posted by Cefn on 05 September 2005 | 0 Comments
Worth blogging a link to the Boston Cyberarts festival, which inspired us quite a bit to set up the curiosity collective in the first place.
A load of material up there - it ran for more than a fortnight with lots of openings all over the city! There’s also a 25 page list of funky techno art links here.
I guess if we get our act together, it would make sense to imagine visiting and participating one day in the future….
“It’s not too early to start early thinking and planning for 2007! If you are an artist or arts organization interested in participating, or a corporation interested in sponsoring the next Festival, please get in touch with us”
From http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/
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Posted by akopa on 05 September 2005 | 3 Comments
What a great exhibit i missed at ACE Gallery, in NYC. Please see the link, Tim Hawkinson is a real inspiration.
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Posted by Reb on 01 September 2005 | 0 Comments
I think we were talking about this last time…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/01/rollable_displays/
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Posted by Cefn on 31 August 2005 | 0 Comments
There’s an event there called Mechanics Alive which involves the infamous Hunkin and I reckon is worth a visit. Has anyone seen it? Here is the summary…
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6 August - 10 September
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre presents Mechanics Alive!!
Ron Fuller, Michael Howard, Tim Hunkin, Peter Markey, Keith Newstead, Paul Spooner and Carlos Zapata
This summer the Gallery will be alive with the sound of clicking cogs, cranks and cams. Cabaret Mechanical Theatre’s collection of automata blend art, technology and philosophy to create mechanical sculptures with a wry sense of humour, individuality and an offbeat view of life. The exhibition reveals how automata work illustrated by original and new pieces by leading artists including Tim Hunkin and Ron Fuller who live in Suffolk. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the show and can make their own automata at the Gallery. The Gallery shop will be selling a selection of automata kits, books and videos to amuse and distract all ages.
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Go to Bury Gallery Website and click on current programme. I can’t offer you a direct web link because their site is broken with javascript and frame problems.
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Posted by Craig on 30 August 2005 | 3 Comments
Matt Iles and myself went to the Touch Me exhibition at the V&A and enjoyed a number of tactile objects.
Favourites include the dance mat Pacman, the strokeable plant interface and of course Reb’s text pebble. The show was particularly interesting to us because it contained both digital and more traditional exhibits tied together by a strong theme - and one that explores a sense that is often ignored.
Sadly the exhibition has now finished but Matt and myself will tell you all about it on Wednesday or look at the (excellent) website.
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Posted by Craig on 30 August 2005 | 1 Comments
The Wolsey Art Gallery (WAG) has converted St Mary-at-the-Quay in Ipswich into gallery space during its renovation. I visited it on Saturday and experienced a number of installations including video and sound art.
The exhibition is called Regeneration and is open until the 17th September here is the link:-
Regeneration
I felt that although the pieces were interesting in themselves they failed to make optimum use of the space ( i.e. few concessions were made to the fact it was a church nave and not a white cube space.) I would have also liked to see them exploit the the unifying theme of regeneration more.
However having said that it certainly well worth a visit and I think the location is a good one (by the docks; central but not in a shopping centre.)
If we could achieve something at least equal to this I for one would be pleased.
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Posted by Cefn on 29 August 2005 | 2 Comments
Paul and I, with the help of others have been working up some ideas for a multi-channel audio recording piece.
Pipes would hang down from the ceiling which you can both listen to and speak into. Each different pipe would carry a different channel or game.
Many of the recordings you would expect to hear when you interacted with it are from previous visitors talking into one of the pipes. There are likely to be a lot of simultaneous channels running at one time.
Part of the joy of this piece is the spectacle we imagine if a few people are interacting with the pipes at one time, each being asked to search for a different colour pipe, shout a different thing.
There is also a nice temporal disjunction here, with people unknowingly engaging in a dialogue with someone else in the exhibit who could be there right now, or who could have been there last week.
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