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This week at the old Science Museum there’s an exhibition from TROVE that features a video from a.a.s, which features meeee! And now for some details: Pseudo-science, the make believe, the hand made and discovery are themes running through the four artists in this exhibition. a.a.s. have created a new piece of film and…
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Blockparty and Notacon will be taking place in Cleaveland, Ohio from 15th-18th April and for it criticalartware will be showing a range of “Noise && New Media Art; Realtime Audio-Video Performances; Art Mods and Art Games as well as a Glitch Art screening program curated by Nick Briz!“ For this they’ll be showing one…
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On Thursday 21st January I’ll be doing a short bit about my involvement with the Changing Rooms exhibition that’s happening at Eastside Projects. EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE SALON Please join us between 6.30-8pm at Eastside Projects for an introduction to ‘Changing Room’ a project by the Visual Realisation Unit at EP. With an outline of…
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This week I’m putting together a piece for an exhibition in Second Life and Eastside Projects: Changing Room is an evolving mixed-reality installation that considers the inherent mutability and reusability of artefacts, concepts and situations in the Digital Age. Lead artist Michael Takeo Magruder will collaborate with Extra Special People artists Ana Benlloch, Iona…
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Brumcon 9 is coming up this Saturday and I’ve been asked to give a short talk about fizzPOP and hackerspaces. BrumCon is a regular event organised by Brum2600 regulars, featuring a wide variety of talks, discussion, demos and most importantly, alcohol. Incorrectly but neatly dubbed a ‘blackhat thinktank’ by NTK, The Register – ‘We…
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On 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th, 14th, 17th and 19 December I’ll be in the chorus for Othello, which you should all come to see. If you decide to come you can book your tickets here The important stuff Tickets are £17.50, £10 concessions and it’ll be happening from 7:15pm at Argyle Works, Great Barr…
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On Thursday 5th November I was once again part of The Family for The Event. There’s something I really like about dressing in dungarees – which I haven’t done since I was about 10 – and marching around Digbeth! Other highlights include dropping in on an event about saftey in the community where we…
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The fizzPOP crew, in particular Nikki, GBulmer and Charlie Pinder, have been hard to bring you the fizzPOP Howduino hack day at VIVID, which is supported by Hello Digital as part of Fringe Events programme. fizzPOP joins forces with Howduino to host a room full of people sticking together electronics, computer programs, cardboard and…
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Tomorrow I’ll be joining The Family at Birmingham Backpackers in Digbeth to take part in the activities as part of The Event. Ana summarises it all rather nicely: …we’ll be spending the next 5 days changing our name every 6 hours, wearing hand decorated dungarees, playing thought-stopping games, eating brightly coloured food, asking questions,…
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I had a great time with The Family on Sunday as part of the Family Fun Day. The robot petting zoo went down a treat and was probably my favourite thing to do. Perhaps I may build one too next time! Everyone seems to love the Furby… Expect to see more from The Family…