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Arse About Face
August 11, 2004

The works in About Face reveal a wide range of approaches from 'straightforward' photography, photomontage, appropriation of found imagery and multiple exposures to complex computer manipulations and challenging our perceptions of beauty and truth. In an age of digital technology and media domination, miracle drugs, plastic surgery and genetic engineering, the artists ask can we still take the portrait at face value?

About Face
Photography and the Death of the Portrait
24 June - 5 September... didn't take me long to notice this was on then!

Are Y.O.B. smart kids from the streets made good or art students with D.I.Y punk svnegali attitude about to be mistaken as the voice of the British Movement? Nice idea, but the Streets comparisons don't bode well... Mike Skinner is as much a poet of British Suburbia as Pam Ayers was... Check out The Rock's renditions of some classic Pammy moments care of XFM!!! I expected something slightly funkier of Y.O.B. for some reason but I'll give 'em the time of day for now.

Bit of a kindred spirit in the way of the Fotombre photoblog.

I've been playing with the blinkx software for a couple of days now. You install it and it searches websites and if you allow it your e-mail and documents for keywords... I haven't given it a chance to realise it's potential yet, I hope... I assume it is supposed to be a kind of poor man's autonomy in as much as it needs to learn a little about your surfing habits etc and begin to "think" as you would. I'll reserve judgement for a week or so I think.

I've sent my first image from digitalia off to be printed on canvas. Don't know when to expect it back but looking forward to it. Will have to get the canvas stretched myself and the final thing framed, so I don't know how cheap it will end up.

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