We are taking part in Narrative Futures symposium at FACT, Liverpool, on Thursday 17 November 2011, 14.30–18.00.
For the event FACT has invited artists, developers and thinkers to consider the manner in which new media technologies are changing the way that we consume and engage with narrative and storytelling.
Where:
FACT
88 Wood Street,
Liverpool, L1 4DQ
More info here.
or-bits.com presents On the upgrade, a new limited edition series in a box, during the Artists Books Weekend (Thu 22 to Sun 25 September)
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“Is going to print a type of technological obsolescence ?”
Used stencils courtesy of Hato Press
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For On the upgrade (September 2011), six artists who have previously produced a work for or-bits.com’s Programmes, PATRICK COYLE, BENEDICT DREW, JAMIE GEORGE, TAMARIN NORWOOD, DAMIEN ROACH and DAVID RULE, have been commissioned to create an extension of that very same work for the printed format.
LAUNCH EVENT on SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER, 4 – 6 pm, at The Mews Project Space Common Room.
In response to the Artists Books Weekend and to On the upgrade, artist MAGDA FABIANCZYK will present an ‘act for a consumable text’, On defining a First Class Banana, make an apple a Royal Gala , which is part of her ongoing project The Edible Interventions series. Fabianczyk’s act will be interspersed with the reading We Go Like This by TAMARIN
NORWOOD and the performance Empty Grey Squares (Registration) by PATRICK COYLE.
WHERE:
The Mews Project Space
15C Osborn Street [alley behind the Whitechapel gallery]
London E1
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The Artists Books Weekend is an initiative of The Mews Project Space. Other participating organisations are: Banner Repeater, Donlon Books, IMT Gallery, The Modern Language Experiment, X Marks the Bökship, and more. Please check the ABW website for the many events taking place over the weekend at The Mews Project space and affiliated organisations.
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or-bits.com will take part in Showing and Sharing. Discussing the current ways of communicating through art, a group discussion organised by LOW&HIGH (Folkestone) on Friday 19 August 2011, at 6 pm.
More details below and on LOW&HIGH website:
THE VISITORS – TALK 3:
Showing and Sharing. Discussing the current ways of communicating through art.
FRIDAY, 19TH AUGUST, 6PM.
With: Benjamin Cook (Lux, London), Marialaura Ghidini (or-bits.com), Tai Shani (The Horse Hospital, London), Matt Rowe (B&B Project Space, Folkestone).
This event looks at the accessibility of art as well as the range of media and activities employed to distribute and share artworks. We will look at internet based projects and moving image formats as well as art venues’ programme and community art projects. The speakers will explore issues connected to art and everyday life: participating, collecting, sharing, showing, contributing, representing and curating.
Free. To book your place email: lowandhigh.platform@gmail.com
Location LOW&HIGH 15 Tontine Street,Folkestone, CT20 1JT.
Images of the event here.
Catherine Spencer reviewed Acceleration programme for the online contemporary art magazine this is tomorrow.
On Thursday 10th 2010 we took part in the State of the Arts Flash Conference.
We were invited to respond with a 1-minute provocation to the following question:
What makes a good home for art (and for artists), and how can we ensure there are more of them?
And here is what we talked about:
A BRIGHT IDEA: WHY WEBSITES ARE GOOD HOUSES FOR ART AND ARTISTS
Preamble:
Reconsider the hierarchical dominant conceptions of how art and ideas are distributed within the institutional and commercial system – the web is open and evades intermediaries.
1_ The web is a medium, but it is also a space, and a platform – it enables democratic work processes and reposition our understanding of outcome.
2_ Web platforms generate a network with no boundaries, be them physical, socio-political or cultural – they are open to all, and accessible to many.
3_ Wikileaks, the Egyptian protesters and the conservative reactions by institutionalised web services have just taught us the internet is still a political and critical space – it allows new forms of cultural distribution and enables radical practices.
4_ Web distribution is still an horizontal system – web platforms are based on sharing resources, knowledge and practices.
5_ Producing, displaying and distributing art on the web allow innovative forms of cooperation between people, organisations, and education centres.
6_ Online forms of engagement are yet to be fully discovered – the web facilitate a one-to-one personal and active experience
of artworks.
7_ A few artists considerations on working with web platforms:
– ‘they are a place I have never been to before’
– ‘ there is an all-embracing atmosphere about them – they are open to everybody, and travel everywhere’
– ‘they are unique, because anything can be made for them’
– ‘the convey a real sense of immediacy, accessibility and openness’
– ‘they raise important questions about the relationship between technology and current critical thinking’
8_ The web is a yet-to-be-fully-explored house for art and artistic practices – it has the potentials to reinvent and reinforce forms of production, distribution and engagement.
Please note that Google Art Project is not a project for critical thinking, groundbreaking research and constructive engagement – and Adobe Museum for Digital Media is not a a museum.
Keep an eye on the Flash Conference website!
