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On 8th November a new video work of mine will be screened at Tate Britain as part of Loud Tate

Head over to Tate Britain for a fascinating free day of art, music and performance curated by Tate Collective London. BP Loud Tate: Code explores how codes in language, fashion and technology shape culture, inspired by the displays at Tate Britain.

The video work, which will be joined by three other awesome glitch artists, will be projected somewhere in the gallery, so get hunting!

In addition to all the other activities going on throughout the day - t-shirt making, zine making, DJs and music - Rosa Menkman will be giving a talk/workshop about glitch art, which I highly recommend attending. Come meet us all!

On 3rd November I’ll be leading the discussion at Coffee Cake Debate: Rags to Glitches from Home for Waifs and Strays.

Glitch art is enshrined within digital, internet and popular culture, with its distorted and colourful aesthetics being regularly featured in blogs, festivals, music videos, exhibitions and games.

With it now being more commonplace, what can be done to develop it as a concept and aesthetic, and take it past being merely an image of a broken JPG or compression artifacts/datamoshing? Can it jump off the screen into other art forms? How can one glitch their own practice?

Join us at 17:30 on 3rd November Home is where… for some lively discussion about all things glitch art!

For OSP’s Print Party on October 18th I made a bunch of new software and modified some old software that did sonification of text, bitmap, and vector images. I saw it as a way to differently engage with the usually static images featured throughout the festival. Here’s some of the visual output from a Processing sketch that, when combined with Pure Data, would redraw an SVG and convert it to sound:

And here’s an example of a fish being sonfied. Expect lots of bleepy noises:

If you’re interested in using the software the repository is located here and this particular code resides in the listetoSVG folder. The Processing sketch for that piece is a modification of this sketch by emainorbit. I may revisit and develop this software but for now there will be no detailed writeup of how to use it.

As an experiment it was really interesting to “bring to life” a static programme. There is a danger that the performances - whcih I’m sure OSP will write about at some point - deviated too much from the idea of a print party, but in isolation I felt they worked really well!

On 18th October I’ll be back in Brussels to join OSP for their appearance at Balsamine.

Following the path started with the Seoul Fonts Karaoke, continued with the Bits and Sounds worksession at Relearn 2014, OSP is going to scratch its sonic itches once more with the re-thread of this (appropriately musical) years visual material and program.

The gang will do its best to convert as much of the program into sounds, then tracks, then mix them all together, we’re expecting it to be loud, at the very least.

I’ll be doing my now usual thing of converting things to sound :-)

It all kicks off from 17:30 at Théâtre de la Balsamine on 18th October.

The Moving Image Project is a project by Charlie Levine that takes a selection of artworks across the world for screenings. Screenings may happen within the traditional gallery space or may go wherever Levine is, being screened via a projector attachment for her phone:

Glimpses of life caught through windows as you speed past in car, trains or planes: the transient state of time as we move around the world crossing time zones and countries: the daydream of staring, watching and waiting.

The Moving Image Project is a series of short films selected by UK curator Charlie Levine. The project began development and touring in early 2014 when Levine herself toured to the other side of the world. Levine originally commissioned/approached various artists to produce silent short films, or films that did not reply on sound, that touched up this idea of movement and travel, of glimpses, the mundane and the world.

Since early 2014 Neon Plastic by myself and Joe Newlin has been screened alongside other artists in Tokyo, Japan, Baroda, India and Christchurch, New Zealand. For details of other screenings keep watch of the Tour page.