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Again I’ve been busy!

Today I’ve had a meeting at the cardall collection to further discuss my project with them. Bernard (collections chairperson), Glynis (warwickshire, coventry and soilhull’s community museums officer) and two members of the friends of the cardall collection as well as myself we’re present and I feel like it was a really productive meeting.

I began discussing my ideas with them and gave them typed versions of these ideas which read:

“1) To create in-depth www.facebook.com profiles for ‘characters’ that feature hevily within the collection such as Jack and Rene (possibly others).

2) Use these profiles to create portraits of them, there relationship to each other and to southam via the fcilities inherent to www.facebook.com such as the relationship status, the ability to post photos and the status update feature (this could become performative over the course of a month for example).

3) Then to make this digital work present in the town it is describing through printed media using paper and dye sourced and made in southam. These would feature colour coding for each ‘character’ and QR codes linking them to the relevent www.facebook.com accounts. These would be large scale (made to fit) and displayed in windows throughout the town.

This process explores how smaller communities engage with their own histories through the development of web 2.0 (and various nomadic devices with the ability to run web browsers) as well as how they use the towns present architectural state to access this history.

The use and manipulation of natural resources from around southam brings the physicality of the printed material into this dialogue around history and place by becoming a point of referance for both the town itself and an access point for the www.facebook.com profiles.”

This proposal was met with a mixed response from the other meeting attendees. There was enthusiasm, some confusion and a lot of talk about things to develop or research! I was given the most recent copy of The Friends of the Cardall Collection Newsletter so I can begin to get to know the organisation better and it was arranged that I would attend a commettiee meeting on tuesday evening to introduce myself and my ideas to a larger cross-section of the collections friends. I’m planning on having some very basic mocked up versions of the prints and facebook profiles I’ve been discussing to help explain the work more visually.

I’ve been working a little on making inks and dyes from materials sourced in southam as well, which has ment a lot of time spent in fields and on wikipedia! I’ve got a very pale purple made from sloe’s, a brown from privit’s, a deeper purple from elderberry and an orange from cotoneaster franchetti… these have started growing mold, but the sketchbook pages I treated are absoultly fine and the colour is holding well!

I will post more about all of this and the developments as and when they happen – but I’m very excited about this project.

I’ve been getting quotes for the print works for we’ve been re-distrubuted and am yet to find one that I’m pleased with so will carry on talking to commercial printers! And I’ve been involved in conversations about showing marking the internet and the physical 2.0 which I’ll post more about soon!

I have had meetings about working at The Event which open accross digbeth in birmingham on friday and i’ll be working at this project – http://the-event.org/projects/b42/ so if your attending The Event come and say hello!

I’ve also been becoming aware of how important my own facebook is to me… so if we’re not already friends add me @ http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=547524741 for daily updates into what I’m upto and what I’m intrested in at that moment!


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I’ve had a really productive day.

Been working on We’ve been Re-distrubuted a lot, the digital prints are now made and I have decided that they are going to be printed at A3 on to A2 newsprint paper to create a dialogue between the production and consumption of media since web2.0 with that of media distrubution before web2.0. Since making this decision I have visited a local printers who wern’t able to help me so the hunt for a printers continues. I haven’t decided how to hang these prints yet but they definatly won’t be framed to advoid refrences to the screen.

I also selected an advert from this months copy of Frieze Magazine which reads What’s Wrong With Re-distrubution? I re-photographed this add and have uploaded it to a digital photo frame so that the printed matter becomes screen based. I like the continuation of dialogue this creates with the other prints and indeed the video projections and emails that make up the work.

I have also been talking to Bernard from Southam’s Cardell Collection and Glynis who is Warwickshire’s, Coventry’s and Soilhull’s Community Museums Officer and have a meeting with them both on wed’s the 19th to discuss the residency/project further so the dedicated post I promised will have to wait until then I’m affraid.

My first shift at Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum was yesterday and my second is tomorrow. Its nice to regually be going somewhere that is filled with art and people who enjoy art again!!!


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Email of rejection from http://gli.tc/h/ still looking forward to seeing the show though!!! And finding an alt. home for 4thD Plinth. Poss. in London…

First day of work @Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum tomorrow. And emailing Bernard up at the Cardell Collection to discuss various things… there will be a dedicated Cardell Collection blog post appearing this week I’m sure…


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I’ve been working on the videos for We’ve been Re-distributed and am now ready to put them on to the VHS on which their being presented… I’m still looking into where I am going to get the large format digital prints made for this work but the JPEGs are almost ready and the email is ready to send out to a gallery mailing list when I find somewhere to show the work!!! The following quote is taken from Manovich’s Art After Web 2.0 essay and is used in the exhibition text for We’ve been Re-distributed.

‘Today we are seeing new kinds of communication in which content, opinion, and conversation often cannot be clearly separated. Consider also online forums or the comments below website entries: the original posts may generate long discussions that go in new directions, with the first items long forgotten.’

I’ve also been working more on an hour long performance work which I haven’t offically titled but am calling the 4thD Plinth the work uses a playststion2 and one of the tony hawks pro skater games which has a level based in London. I have submitted this work to the Birmingham (UK) leg of the Chicago based http://gli.tc/h festival…

Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery has asked me to work Monday as well as the introductory shift on Wednesday which I mentioned in the previous post. I am also going to be working at The Event http://the-event.org/ which is happening in Birmingham later this month… I’ll post more about both of these when there is more info…


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Lots of form filling and email sending going on recently…

Firstly I submitted Marking the Internet and the Physical 2.0 as a project for ISEA2012: Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness. It would be great to see it installed in a more traditional gallery space, however, I did quite like Marking the Internet and the Physical 1.0 when it was installed at the Birmingham Social Centre as part of Preclusion (see photos).

I also proposed a webcam video work based on firewalls for b-side Multimedia Festival 2012 in Weymouth and Portland. I started applying for an AA2A position available at Coventry University but it turns out I’ve graduated too recently…

I emailed the LSA (Leamington Studio Artists) to see about exhibiting We’ve been Re-distrubuted in Gallery 150 and am waiting for a reply from them. The LSA AGM is also approaching an I placed my vote for the chairmanship and posed a question for discussion although I cant actually attend.

Work with the Cardell Collection is also coming on… I’ve recieved the catalogues of the collection (all 11451 KB of it) and am picking things from it I might like to inspect. We’re also starting to discuss the logistics of how we might work togeather.

Also had a brief meeting with the head gallery assistant at the Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum to day and I have my first shift as a gallery assistant a week today from 9:45 – 12:30. I also took the oppertunity to have another look around the LabCraft show!!!


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