a-n Magazine 2010 September - a-n The Artists Information Company

For the best part of twenty years, established artist-duo Thomson and Craighead have been experimenting with technology, producing installations and site-specific pieces involving video, sound and electronic networks.

Artists are in effect micro-enterprises that hold long-term objectives for their practice that bear little or no relationship to arts and governmental policy time-frames and achievement measurements.

Transmission Gallery’s resource room and archive opened to the public in July, enabling all to explore what has put Transmission Gallery at the forefront of Glasgow’s art scene since 1983.

ExtInked, a project by collective Ultimate Holding Company, saw 100 people get tattooed by Ink vs Steel last November.

A-n The Artists Information Company and Artquest have recently announced a new partnership programme that will provide increased professional development opportunities for artists throughout the UK.

A research project in North Wales is using a market stall to promote making skills and provide connections between students and the local community.

Sideshow will take place between October and December for the second time around whilst the quinquennial British Art Show visits Nottingham.

Last September, artist collective Tether embarked on a road trip across the UK to visit and interview the many artist-led galleries, arts initiatives and collectives in cities as far and wide as Dundee, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton and Liverpool.