Text by Victoria Gray Technicality (Part 2) Correspondences Question: V and O to A How does the sensor sample and transmit data? Can you give us further information about the SDK (Software Development Kit)? Will this be compatible with OSX […]
Text by Victoria Gray Technicality (Part 3) Correspondence Question: V and O to A What is the transmission distance of the sensors? How many sensors can run at any one time? Answer: A to V and O I’m not sure […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 1/5 The Wretched of the Screen collects a number of Steyerl’s landmark essays from recent years […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 2/5 In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective (p.12) Steyerl discusses that with the […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 3/5 In Defense of the Poor Image Steyerl makes a kind of manifesto or definition for […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 4/5 A Thing Like You and Me In this essay Steyerl discusses the image as fragment […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 5/5 Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation Steyerl’s essay on spam is of interest because […]
RUINS At the moment I’m reading Ruins: Documents of Contemporary Art edited by Brian Dillon. I have been contemplating these following quotes in relation to my own work: ‘…sense immediately of a place in progress, not so much derelict as […]
The typical street art imagery and reclaimed materials I have used seem to be more closely related to the subject matter than traditional oils and canvas. However, there is still some value in the traditional approach as I need to […]
Light and Flesh on Canvas As progression from my face on paper and also my exploration into light & flesh, I decided to work on canvas with the still from my video. A mark on canvas is undeniably made. It […]
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” — Jill Davis, Writer Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” — Robert […]
Last week I walked along the Dunwich Heath coastline heading towards Sizewell power station. As I got nearer and nearer the power station I noticed how more and more spiritually drained I felt with the large hulk of the building […]
I have tried to find books on contemporary landscape painting and came across a few but not many. This is strange. There are lots of good books on the work of individual landscape artists but not, it seems to me, […]
I have decided to work on paper for a while. I think that canvas was too “precious”. Anyway, this has started to work. I have produced looser work that is, I think, a bit better. I just need to remember […]
Went to a talk by the artist-photographer Andreas Schmidt in the Waterfront yesterday afternoon. Really loved his Vegas photographs, and his way of placing them where they have a symbiosis with their surroundings. I also liked his idea of using […]
The recent Europa Re-Imagined symposium in Cardiff was the latest event organised by the European Prospects project, exploring issues of experience and identity through photography and contemporary art in Europe. Rory Duckhouse reports.
We’re still working out what we learned from running Studio 75, but it’s become clear that it’s very difficult to run any kind of independent gallery or exhibition space. That spaces that do exist are largely able to do so […]
I began a painting based on a photograph in the Guardian three weeks ago, of a row of dead Ukranians surrounded by mourning relatives and friends. since I began painting again, my work has addressed the natural world, so to […]
Change in Ideas Lately I have been experimenting with the mixing of colour. After noticing some of my palettes from some of my paintings I found it interesting that I had inadvertently made so many different textures, hues and patterns […]
Artist Research- Katharina Grosse Katharina Grosse is a German artist whose primary focus is colour in and of itself. Her works, according to her, act as an intermediary between the materialised measurable and the imaginative not yet materialised. (materialised measurable […]
Business side of Art I think the business side of art is something that is overlooked in most art practices. I know up until a few days a go I had given little thought to it. However when I leave […]
Artist Reference or Not? Lately I have been looking towards other artists for inspiration and ideas. This is something that we have all done throughout the course and something I have always struggled with, because to me it fundamentally doesn’t […]
an argument … oh monty python where are you now … (video below to what i am thinking about.) monty python showing that an argument can be fun. oh bimble off into lah lah land of waffle and lovelyness while […]
