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  • Remix Party photos

    The Remix Party happened on 20th January to celebrate the closing of my exhibition, Permission Taken, at Birmingham Open Media. Throughout the night remixes art artwork from the University of Birmingham were displayed in the main gallery space whilst Ryan Hughes took on DJ duties with soundscapes and the occasional R&B hit. It was…

  • Remix Party, 20th January

    To celebrate the closing of Permission Taken, on 20th January I’ll be having a closing Remix Party at Birmingham Open Media from 19:00 – 22:00 Artwork from over 20 national and international artists will be projected onto BOM’s walls, floors and ceilings in celebration of artists that appropriate, remix and rework. All this set…

  • Copyright and Intellectual Property, 21st January

    On 21st January I’ll be in London for a discussion about Copyright and Intellectual Property at London Art Fair This panel discussion will consider how contemporary artists contend with issues of copyright and intellectual property in their practice, taking the most recent Jerwood Encounters exhibition, Common Property, as its starting point. Panel: Hannah Pierce,…

  • Remix Animation Workshop, 19th January

    With the closing of my solo exhibition at Birmingham Open Media fast approaching, on 19th January I’ll be holding the final workshop. In the Remix Animation Workshop we’ll explore the art of remixing and reappropriation! In this workshop I will introduce open source software programs and discuss ideas around free culture. You will then…

  • Open Online Six: Too Long for iTunes

    On January 1st the sixth edition of the Open Online year-long online exhibitions from Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, titled Too Long for iTunes, went online. Terre Thaemlitz’s 2011 album Soulnessless included a nearly 30-hour piano solo filling a single maximum length 320kB/s MP3 file of 4GB – yet the file playback was limited to the…

  • Interview with Rosemary Kirton

    Early in 2015, off the back of my appearance at the Loud Tate: Code event, Rosemary Kirton interviewed me for an online magazine. Sadly that magazine is no longer online and the interview was never published. With her permission I’m posting it below. Some of what is said is now irrelevant or old, but…

  • Associate Curator at Vivid Projects

    After eight months of working at Vivid Project as an Associate Producer my role has evolved and I’m now an Associate Curator. In this new role I’ll be continuing to organise the activities of Black Hole Club. This year I, with the input of its members, organised and oversaw the development of events including…

  • Pecha Kucha Birmingham – Ctrl + C

    On 8th December I gave a talk at Pecha Kucha Birmingham. This talk was critical of the one-way system of cultural reappropriation by corporations. The whole video is available below. Ctrl + C If you can at all relate to the issues being discussed in this presentation you can read more about it in…

  • Libre Graphics magazine issue 2.4, Capture

    The latest issue of Libre Graphics magazine (and the final issue in volume two) is now out and available for reading and purchasing. This issue looks at Capture, the act of encompassing, emulating and encapsulating difficult things, subtle qualities. Through a set of articles we explore capture mechanisms, memory, archiving and preservation of volatile…

  • Common Property, 15th January – 21st February

    For my first exhibition of 2016 I’ll be taking in Common Property at Jerwood Visual Arts fom 15th January – 21st February 2016 Curated by Hannah Pierce, Jerwood Encounters: Common Property seeks to demonstrate how artists engage with and relate to copyright through the work of six emerging and mid-career artists, including three new…