Squelched maps
A couple of things came to mind from Dave’s Twisted Map idea. For now, take a look at Keith Briggs timetable stuff
Blog
Distant past, distant future?
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/
Tony Hawkinson
What a great exhibit i missed at ACE Gallery, in NYC. Please see the link, Tim Hawkinson is a real inspiration.
Rollable Displays
I think we were talking about this last time…
Mechanics Alive
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.
Touch Me
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.
WAG - Regeneration
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:-
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.
Audio pipe forest
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.
Cornstarch is the most amazing thing
Check the videos at this page
The videos work for me with the VLC player but not the quicktime player, in case anyone has trouble seeing them.
Meetings
We meet every two weeks, on Mondays - often in McGinty‘s pub in Ipswich. Our next meeting is Monday 11th August, at 8pm.
Introduce yourself on the mailing list and we may have a meeting in your honour, to find out what you’re interested in, and what you can teach us.