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On June 13th I provided visuals for Com Truise’s gig at Bull’s Head in Moseley, Birmingham. Aside from a few technical errors (I am a glitch artist afterall ;-) ) the gig went really great! Here’s a render of some of the visuals I did set to Terminal and Air Cal from his debut album, Galactic Melt

(Sorry about some of the freezes in the video. It seems VJing and recording the video at the same time causes Pure Data to slow down a bit)

It was a great night and thanks to This Is Tmrw for having me do visuals for such a great musician!

TOYBOX at TROVE opened on Friday 15th June. The opening was a great success! Thanks to everyone who braved the rained and came to the opening.

The exhibition featured modified and hacked toys and similar-themed films and performances. Here’s the toys:

And here’s a video of some of the more interactive toys in action

The opening also included performances from Richard Peel, Daniel Salisbury and Kate Spence, as well as videos from Emilie Crew, Rosie Curtis & Steph Bryant and Maria Mattos.

Charlie Levine has also written an overview of the opening with some additional pictures

Thanks again to everyone that came!

I recently got a very nice package in the post all the way from Australia! Drew Taylor (aka bowsneak) sent me a package of art and zines, one of which was GLITCH COP!3R

[GLITCH COP!3R] was created as part of Sticky Institutes Target 168 2012 zinemaking challenge, in which a zine had to be created within 168 hours (1 week). The ‘secret’ theme for the challenge was ‘C3100 photo copier’.

All of the images in this zine were ‘stolen’ from the internet, and glitched to produce ‘a new work’. Images were selected from Google image search using the phrase ‘c3100’. It was maintained that the file name of each image must include the letter ‘c’ and the number ‘3100’. The masthead of the zine - titled ‘GLITCH COP!3R’ - also includes the alphanumeric ‘C3100’ (the ‘O’ is made up of an ‘O’ and a zero).

If you take another look at the front page you’ll notice that the font used in the masthead is Dataface. I think this is the first time that someone - other than me - has used the font for a project!

I was also sent lots of other zines including many issues of Death-Beam Dinosaurs, which you can download and print for yourself

Thanks again for the zines!

Speaking of zines, Birmingham Zine Festival is coming back again later this year.

The show that I’m curating with TROVE opens to the public on Friday June 15th from 6pm

Artists include: Rosie Curtis & Steph Bryant, Emilie Crewe, Claire Davies, James Gill, David Lee, Maria Mattos, Duncan McKellar, Kate Morrison, Richard Peel, Daniel Salisbury, Kate Spence and Sam Underwood

In June 2012 TROVE, with Antonio Roberts, are hosting an exhibition about toys. This project leads on from the discovery that the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, where TROVE is based, used to produce more ‘toys’ than jewellery, guns or pens during the industrial revolution; all things it is now more famously known for producing. When researching what toys were produced in this area of Birmingham it was discovered that the term ‘toys’ was used to describe items such as buttons, cuff-links and belt buckles.

With the misinterpretation of the word ‘toys’ TROVE are presenting an exhibition of the contemporary understanding of the word. With a mixture of performance (preview night only), film and modified/hacked toys, this group exhibition is lively, fun and playful.

Preview: 15th June 2012 6-8pm Open: 16th, 23rd and 24th June 2012 1-4pm

or by appointment email info@TROVE.org.uk for further information

TROVE, Newhall Square, Off 144 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 1RZ (map)

Com Truise will be touring Europe and I’ll be providing visuals for his set at the Bulls Head in Birmingham on June 13th

More details available on Facebook or the This is Tomorrow website. Tickets are only £5!

Also, I’ll be doing my usual set at BOYD on 7th June