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DATA Event 39

2009-11-12T00:19:25Z

Friday, 13 of November, 6.30pm IMOCA, Lad Lane (Off Baggot Street), Dublin 2 Presenters: Martin John Callanan is an artist whose work spans numerous media and engages both emerging and commonplace technology. His work includes translating active communication data into music; freezing in time the earth’s water system; writing thousands of letters; capturing newspapers from around the world as they are published; taming wind onto the Internet and broadcasting his precise physical location live for over two years. Martin is currently Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Jules Hackett & Paddy Cahill Jules Hackett is an multimedia artist based in Dublin. He works with installations, digital media and live visuals. He’s currently undertaking an MA in digital art in the National College of Art & Design. Paddy Cahill is a documentary director based in Dublin. Since graduating in 2006 from IADT, he has worked the past two years for ‘Mind the Gap Films’. He has just completed a short documentary on the Irish Times cartoonist Tom Matthews which is currently doing the festival circuit. The music video for the band ‘the 202s’ is a frame by frame animation using a technique called rotoscoping. This process firstly involved shooting and editing video of the band. Once projected onto a surface from above, we went about drawing and photographing just under 3000 frames using 11 phonebooks in total. The video has recently been nominated for an Irish Music Video Award. Live performance by: Benjamin Seror Benjamin Seror (Lives and works in Paris) His work underlines links of non communication in his practices of drawing, music or writing. He aims to understand their specificities and extract possible uses. Any shape, object, colour or people produces an incalculable number of pieces of information. From anecdote to History, they reveal, their own temporalities, according to their rules. Many pieces of information echo together, others fade away. The question remains, how long this silence will keep on going, and, if the absence of understanding is necessary for understanding. The complete story of Marina Bay A theoretic solo-opera about the dangers of living on a volcano island. by Benjamin Seror after a sculpture of Grégory Cuquel. Marina Bay is a small island where the sculptor Gregory Cuquel discovered how fascinating a volcano can be. After few weeks on he Island, back in his studio, he built, in one illuminated night, a replica of the volcano he saw on the Island. At this point of this story, the theoretic opera will be a way to analyze the different faces of volcano across many legends and figures to solve this question, can a love song touch a volcano. More information and map

DATA 38

2009-10-09T09:46:18Z

I'll be part of a panel talking about art, technology and nostalgia for the DATA #38 part of the Darklight festival at the Cobblestone in Smithfield at 7pm tonight. The panel will be Sarah Glennie, Rachel O'Dwyer and Tim Stott with the session chaired by Francis Halsall. It'll be an interesting session well worth coming along to. More information here.

Space is the Place documentation

2009-09-25T15:28:44Z

Video and images from the Space is the Place exhibition, documentation of the exhibition of documentation, nice.

Culture Night

2009-09-25T15:24:12Z

Don't forget it's culture night tonight, lots of stuff going on around Dublin . More here

Psychogeographical Mapping/Drawing workshop

2009-09-24T16:20:38Z

This looks like fun Seoidin O'Sullivan is organising a 1-day Psychogeographical Mapping/Drawing Workshop at The Back Loft at La Catedral Studios in Dublin 8 on 27 September 2009. After an initial derive through the city each participant will make a new typographical map of Dublin (influenced by pychogeography - a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences) through collage and drawing bringing emotion, sound depiction, the weather and experience of the derive into their mapping creations. The workshop will take place in English and/or Polish and there are max. 10 places. Cost: €30. More info here

Space is the Place closing reception

2009-08-31T08:58:40Z

The closing reception for Space is the Place takes place today from 18.00-20.00 at the NCAD gallery. There will also be a live work from 12.00 with Glenn Loughran creating a window drawing on the topic of ‘Precarity and the University’.

The Bench Project

2009-08-29T14:18:35Z

Manchester's favourite psychogeographers the loiterers resistance moment (LRM) are taking over a bench in Manchester for a day and twittering the event live to us in the NCAD gallery for Space is the Place. Check out the live twitter feed

ISEA 2009

2009-08-26T01:10:28Z

I'll be giving a paper on Joyce Walks tomorrow at ISEA in Belfast. I'm on at 12 on the Positionings : local and global transactions panel and will be in Belfast until Thursday trying to get to see as much as I can in a very short time.

DATA 36

2009-08-21T12:27:14Z

As part of the Dublin Hub Events of ISEA 2009 ( here and here) Data 36: with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine Moriwaki and Gijs Gieskes takes place this Saturday 22 August from 18.30 at the new IMOCA building on Lad Lane Dublin 4 (off Baggot st) click here for a map. Expect an interesting turnout there's already lots of international new media types in town for ISEA next week.

ISEA Dublin Hub Events program

2009-08-20T12:24:14Z

The program for the Dublin Hub Events for ISEA 2009 is available here and here (PDFs). Lots of cool stuff including Space is the Place curated by myself. Keep up to date on the Space is the Place Twitter and delicious

Space is the Place

2009-08-20T08:42:25Z

NCAD Gallery for ISEA 2009 27 August - 1 September 2009 Space is the Place is an exhibition I'm curating of documentation of artistic practices which intervene in public space. The focus is on ephemeral, temporary works which take place out of a gallery setting, living on only in their documentation. Participating artists will send documentation of their work as images, texts and video directly to the gallery electronically where the material will be printed out and displayed on walls and screens by the curatorial team with the exhibition being produced in the gallery during it's run. A submission / suggestion system utilising social networking sites Facebook, Del.icio.us and Twitter will also be provided. . The exhibition will have a reading room aesthetic with comfortable seating and texts laid out on trestle tables. Visitors will be encouraged to sit and browse the documentation on offer and engage with the exhibition personnel. At the end of the exhibition the documentation will be collected and archived as a resource. Participating artists & Projects include: Aram Bartholl Blackletter Ralph Borland Cormac Browne John Buckley Martin John Callanan Joseph Delappe Benjamin Gaulon Institute for Applied Autonomy I Left This Here For You To Read Thorsten Knaub Laboratorio de Situaciones Glenn Loughran The Loiterers Resistance Movement Conor McGarrigle Eve Mosher Christian Nold PARKing Katie Paterson Quadrafónica Urbana Gordan Savicic Mark Shepard Surveillance Camera Players Transborder Immigrant Tool Trespass Jeremy Wood You Are Not Here More information: NCAD Gallery Map of Dublin ISEA events here

Refunct 09

2009-08-16T13:12:17Z

The Refunct09 symposium, organised by the IMOCA in collaboration with the DATA, for ISEA09. This event will combine workshops, discussions, performances and an exhibition of some of the main actors of the field of circuit bending and hardware hacking/recycling internationally. The first event will be the Data Event 36: with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Katherine Moriwaki and Gijs Gieskes as part of ISEA09 on 22nd of August from 10.30 to 17.30 at the new IMOCA building on Lad Lane Dublin 4 (off Baggot st) click here for a map.

En_lloc (Now_here)

2009-06-25T12:46:59Z

I'll be speaking about Joyce Walks at En_lloc (Now_here) dialogues among art, land and technology conference at the Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro in Mallorca this weekend. There's an interesting line-up of speakers with Pau Waelder, Santiago Cirugeda, Katie Paterson and Mauro Ceolin and I'll be doing a Joyce Walks in collaboration with Pau Waelder.

Bloomsday Joyce Walks

2009-06-16T00:16:58Z

Happy Bloomsday! If not in Dublin why not recreate your own Bloomsday wherever you may be with a Joyce Walk?

Ivan Twohig @ IMOCA

2009-05-25T18:20:58Z

A Temporary Measure, exhibition by Ivan Twohig at IMOCA's opens Friday, May 29th, 6 to 9 pm, at IMOCA, Irish Distillers building Smithfield. This architectural installation represents the culmination of Ivan Twohig's year long studio residency at IMOCA and the museum's first use of the site in Smithfield. The artist's relationship to the space is filtered through a unique process of measurement, dissection, appropriation and creation. more information and directions here. Show runs four weeks until Sunday, June 21.