Ellsworth Kelly
March 30, 2006
 Ellsworth Kelly was born in Newburgh, New York in 1923, and lives and works in Spencertown, New York. His career began in Paris, where he lived and worked from 1948-54, and was influenced by artists such as Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
Throughout a career that has spanned more than 50 years, he has worked independently of trends and movements and the resulting body of work is one of the major achievements of American art.
For his exhibition at the Serpentine Kelly has selected 18 works made since 2002, which will be shown together for the first time.
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London
W2 3XA
Tel: 020 7402 6075
18th March - 21st May
10:00 - 6:00 Daily
FREE
Good link at the Telegraph
Categories: Art, London
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NY Gum DIY
March 28, 2006
Starting today [28th] is Bande a part. An exhibition of a cross view of 11 photographers on the New York underground scene from the late 60's to the mid 80's that is both pop and punk, hippie and disco, punk rock and glam rock, excess, attitude, sex, drugs and rock n' roll, and finally, mostly, it's about New York City. It's at The Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, until April 16th.
Tuesday - Sunday 11 - 6:00pm
Thursday 11 - 9:00pm
And check out these Gum Blondes
Art made from bubblegum of various colours blended by chewing!
They are the work of Jason Krunenwald from Ontario, Canada. I don't know if he sells any or not. But he can be contacted at jay[at]gumblondes.com
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| Node.London concludes with three days of talks, workshops and performances that is TAKEAWAY: The Festival of Do It Yourself Media. Learn how to make your own mark in new media. Create a blog or podcast, install and use free operating systems and learn about free software. Explore ideas for distributing and marketing your work - and how to get paid for it. Talk to those who are making tools and those who are finding new and innovative ways to use them. There are lectures and panel discussions which will introduce concepts of Free Software, Open Source and the Peer-to-Peer approach. Interactive design, learning and teaching and the changes in the way we create culture and art. It runs from tomorrow [29th] until Friday at the Dana Centre and is supported by Ravensbourne College MA Postgraduate Studies. Check out their online project mazine.wsThese events are free but places must be booked by calling 020 7942 4040 or by emailing tickets@danacentre.org.ukYeah yeah, I know - I only found out today and I can't make any day, except possibly late Friday afternoon.
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Categories: Music, Art, London, Web, Photography, Blogging
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Jenny Holzer: For London
March 27, 2006
Don't miss this series of projections of Beckett's texts on London buildings. Between 7th - 14th April 2006 at Barbican Sculpture Court/Barbican Waterside/City Hall/Senate House/Somerset House/St Paul's Church. It's part of Beckett Centenary Festival. Details on the Barbican website.
Apologies for any incessant feed pinging while I add these categories. I notice a lot of visitors via their Del.icio.us feeds since I started work last Thursday.
Categories: Art, London
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New Look
March 19, 2006
I've been clumsily re-designing the site on the fly - The new font size means a lot of my, carefully laid out, previous posts needed a bit of a re-jig and anyone with a feed from here may have been relentlessly pinged as I did so... Apologies for that.
There's still a little to do - But the obvious changes are that the Starck and Digitalia pages are now accessed via the Projects link, above. There is more to be added to the Projects page - and there is now a seperate Archive page, complete with Tag Cloud. Just conteplating the addition of Categories now, although that might be a mammoth task!
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Musical Meme
March 15, 2006
I've been passed the baton, so to speak, by the Thimble - I sort of forgot to do the last one passed to me - Took too much thinking about and I didn't have the time...
I found the time for this one! Although I may not have taken it entirely seriously...
Pick a band/artist. Then answer these questions using only titles from the band/artist's songs.
1. Name of band/artist: Underworld
2. Are you male or female?: Cowgirl or Spoonman
3. Describe yourself: King Of Snake
4. How do you feel about yourself? Shudder
5. Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: Moaner [not really!]
6. Describe current girlfriend/boyfriend: Born Slippy
7. Describe where you want to be: Two Months Off
8. Describe how you live: Dark And Long
9. Describe how you love: Dirty Epic [hahahaha]
10. What would you ask for if you had just one wish?: Everything, Everything [OK, so it's not actually a song]
11. Share a few words of wisdom: Confusion The Waitress
12. Now say goodbye: Mo Move
I'll pass this on to The Ginger DJ
Categories: Music
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Tag That Pigeon
March 14, 2006
 I've mentioned the Urban Eyes Project before but now you can go and see exactly what they are doing at SPACE Media Arts
URBAN EYES public prototype exhibition
Wednesday March 22 - Saturday March 25
13:00 – 18:00
SPACE Media Arts
129 -131 Mare St
Hackney
London
E8 3RH
FREE
A project by Marcus Kirsch and Jussi Ängeslevä
In collaboration with Arts Council England, Furtherfield and V2
Using the everyday urban dweller and bastard son of the carrier pigeon, the ever-present urban pigeon, URBAN EYES establishes a connection between humans and birds using modern technology. URBAN EYES crosses and expands our mobility patterns via the pigeon's pattern, through images from the bird's journey, delivered to viewers.
The installation is based on a combination of modular feeding platforms and tagged pigeons. Using Radio Frequency Indentification [RFID] tags in birdrings, a pigeon landing on a feeding platform sends its images and messages to surrounding bluetooth devices (phones, organizers, laptops).
All the user has to bring is a bluetooth-enabled device and perhaps some birdseed!
Artist Marcus Kirsch will be speaking about URBAN EYES on Saturday, March 25th as part of Tagged: A one-day RFID event.
Space Media Arts is part of Space, which was founded in 1968 by artists Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley.
I'll try to find time, later, to add a few more links here as there is some pretty interesting stuff.
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Public Exposure!
March 10, 2006
 Derek Mossop
"In My Vanilla Life..."
Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street
Kingston
April 7th - 28th
Weds - Fri: 12:00 - 18:00
Sat - 10:00 - 18:00
Sun 12:00 - 17:00
Tel: 07881832291
Google Map
Just need them to update their website now!
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Pac-Man Wheels
March 09, 2006
 How cool is this? Ladyada's Pac-Man wheels - "The technology here is "persistence of vision"...when LEDs move fast enough they can "draw" an image when the wheel spins. That's the basis behind both the MiniPOV and SpokePOV..."
Via MAKE
Got myself a copy of Dummy last night - Immediate thoughts are: Great design, type/layout – nice stock. Images on art paper, text on a nice contrasting, recycled looking material. Only £3.50 but expected a little more content for a quarterly, although there isn’t much advertising yet so what's there is practically all copy… The only thing that lets it down is the cover – That masthead is really dull. Saving reading it for a train journey North tomorrow night though, so I can’t comment on that yet!
We saw Night Of The Iguana last Monday. Bit disappointed to be honest. Clare Higgins and Jenny Seagrove were excellent. Although I think an older woman than Seagrove should have been cast as Hannah, the spinster. Woody Harrelson didn’t live up to my expectations, set by Richard Burton’s Shannon in John Huston’s 1964 movie version, and he fluffed his lines a couple of times! I don’t think sexual tension is really his forte!
And what’s with the Germans… I don’t remember them in the film! Although it's been years since I've seen it. Surprisingly, quite a few laughs as well. Odd! Still we only paid £10 each for tickets and were upgraded to the front row of the dress circle as the other two circles were closed [due to lack of interest I imagine – although this play only has a couple more weeks to run] and to be honest the Lyric is so tiny you’re never far from the stage anyway. Impressive storm though, complete with rain!
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Dummy Copy
March 07, 2006
 Dummy is a new[ish], quarterly, music mag from the founders of, the now defunct, Jockey Slut magazine. They claim to be "the defining music magazine for both the British and international music scenes". I haven't seen a copy yet but the design and layout looks good from the shots on the website, obviously can't vouch for the writing until I get my hands on a copy.
It covers bands from London, Manchester and Liverpool – Detroit, Houston and New York – Berlin, Paris and Stockholm but its main focus will be the U.K.
As well as Lady Sovereign the Spring issue includes Justice, Larrikin Love, Becky Stark, The Noisettes, Be your own PET, Nathan Fake, Forward Russia, Good Shoes, JME & Skepta and New Young Pony Club.
It is available in Borders, all good newsagents and independent record shops. Alternatively email Kelly to find your nearest stockist or subscribe online and have it delivered directly to your door. I think it's a fiver!
tunetribe.com
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Light Cyber
March 06, 2006
 Cybersonica, London’s annual festival of electronic music, sonic art and audiovisual fusion, is now in its fifth year
May 4th – 26th.
It is a leading international event for anyone interested in how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists and software developers make and present their work.
Cybersonica 06
Aims to showcase both live audiovisual performance and sonic interactive art works - moving beyond the screen, keyboard and mouse and responding to physical input, proximity, sound, kinetics, elapsed time and the surrounding environment.
It is presented in association with the Science Museum’s Dana Centre and in partnership with the Encompass Festival and b.TWEEN 06 - the Festival of Future Entertainment at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford from 24th - 26th May 2006.
Cybersonica is organised by Cybersalon, currently artists in residence at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.
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| Lights Up: American Structural FilmAt the same time as Dan Flavin emerged onto the 60s New York art scene, a radical new movement was also emerging in avant-garde film. American film-makers started making startlingly bold and iconic works described, in 1969, by film critic P Adams Sitney as Structural Film. Structural Film is sometimes mind-expanding, sometimes ugly, and often leaves you with the feeling that you could have done it better yourself but, four decades on, it still carries with it the spark of revolution.To coincide with Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, a major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, the NFT presents a series of three screenings of key works from the period. It starts tonight. Programme here.
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Future Punk
March 04, 2006
 Future Punk March 10 - April 2
Selfridge's Ultralounge is, according to them anyway, London’s coolest alternative event space. It is, actually, the lower ground floor of a department store in London... But from March 10th it will be hosting Future Punk. A four week celebration of the attitude that has influenced culture since 1976. Check the full list of events here. Tickets are required, but are complimentary, for all lectures, performances and screenings. They are available from Ultralounge, Selfridges, Oxford Street. Limit of four tickets per person, per event.
Tickets for March 10th - 12th and March 17th - 19th. are available from March 8th.
Tickets for March 24th - 26th are available from March 16th.
Tickets for March 31st - April 2nd are available from March 23rd. Available from the Ultralounge [Lower Ground Floor, Selfridges, Oxford Street]. Limit of four tickets per person, per event. First up on March 10th, are The Buzzcocks and The Slits playing live at Alan McGee’s Death Disco. Also DJing are Pam Hogg and Don Letts.
7:30pm - Midnight Also happening that day are a couple of all day events. A fanzine workshop hosted by the people behind Sniffin' Glue [where you can create your own fanzine page that will be published in the Ultralounge] and the best of punk fashion: Exclusive Fendi and Chloé handbags [not at all punk if you ask me], Katie Grand’s POP Shop, Cherry Chau stall, Rough Trade music stall, exclusive Vivienne Westwood, authentic, punk jewellery and much more.
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All Patched Up
March 02, 2006
That'll learn me to edit the template live - Who'd a thought a line of HTML would cause such grief - Still, I didn't expect the PC to crash while republishing... Never mind!
Check out the comments on the Transvision post below - An anonymous reader added a link to some great pics of UVA stuff at the V&A the other night.
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Vinyl Factory
March 01, 2006
I got an e-mail from Phonica Records the other day - I don't know if it's connected to anything I had signed up to elsewhere or just unsolicited and so I just left it in my inbox for future perusal... Then, this morning, I had a quick look to see if there was any interesting Underworld news at Underworld Live and found a link to an act called Kelpe. They sound pretty interesting so I followed a few links from their site to hear more and ended up at, yep, Phonica... Where I discovered they are the retail side of Vinyl Factory, who own a couple of major pressing plants as well as Fact Magazine.
I'm still none the wiser as to how that e-mail ended up in my inbox but I've found a load more tunes I fancy getting! As for Underworld, no more recorded material yet, but it sounds as though the Soundtrack they are working on is complete so maybe they'll get back to Lemon World soon.
It seems a large chunk of my template disappeared as my PC crashed adding the March archive link. looks like it really is time to do that revamp I've had planned since last November after all!
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