Today brings the solstice and with it Adonai with silvery feet!
upon burning red frost upon frozen white heat!

Rise! Move! Appear!



May your mind span from world to world in holy ecstasy!
May your body drink deeply of the passion of life!
Go forward in your PLEASURE
- Slay, Steal, Perverse and invoke


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ANNO DOMINO - After Chance
' A well attended Midnight Mass here at the SWG3 Halls. Mr Bloom had some intriguing new shapes to explore, well complimented by the harmnics (provided by thre pleasing Mount Vernon Arts Lab) Some new forms were noted emerging from the Saint Rollox All Girls Brownies Brigade and the late evening welcomed some very important guests from the other place.. '
Were hoping that the playback will be well attended by all.
JAYGO BLOOM Has been working on his latest project proposed for the Studio warehouse GallerySWG3
It is intended that the show will become a playback of midnight hocus, expounding the parameters of folklore, mathematics, high modernism and populist thought.
Expect the unusual, including a live performance involving a group of brownies, a ball of string and a strobelight entitled - 'The new mobility'!






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Check out the works of NEWFUTURENOW'S Latest collaborator- DOCTOR SIMPO!!!
Doctor Simpo will be joining the NFN crew to help establish a fluid comic-esque design for the 'Aye But No But' games project. Simpo is designer of allthings rare and uncertain



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JAYGO BLOOM Has been commissioned to build an Online Games Consultation Tool as part of a major redevelopment project in Stirlingshire, Scotland.
The project is a collaboration between business partners RAPLOCH URC and the Visual Arts officer Cristina Armstrong of UZ EVENTS and informed within a larger landscape framework ensuring the projects success and sustainability by Architects and Consultants CRISTINA GONZALEZ LONGO and Keith Frazer
We managed to ask JAYGO BLOOM a little about this exciting project..
IMMEDIATE DEVELOPMENTS - After a series of new media based workshops with the local youths in their new community centre, the gameplan is now taking form.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES - I hope the game will encourage and inform the direction of ideas generated through play by the local community.
FUTURE - The game will be the first stage towards a very well integrated networked public art work which will be housed within the local landscape.









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XXMAS DEATHDISCO!!!!
The end of year xxxmas party with visuals as always provided by NEWFUTURENOW
and Introducing new star to the screen 'LADY MUNSTER' Death Disco's very own shaking, tranny christmas tree!
We actually stumbled across him late last month harranging the boys at Death Discos 5th Birthday bash and really had to do everything in our powers to get him in to the NEWFUTURENOW studios and in front of our greenscreen.








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An annual Festive night of cheap beer and Glasgow Art Scenesters at the TRANSMISSION ART GALLERY Christmas Bash!!

Alongside the narcissitic reflectionists that make up the major part of Glasgows alternative art/rock scene, were the darling SEXY KIDSNu band headed by coiffure-tastic musechild and Guitarist Patrick, (The royal We / Correcto) Songstress is she black? is she blond? Roxanne, Bombshell Crowd TeaserPleaser Andy Browntown on drums, and two others who i cant quite recall...






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PIXELPOPS Is an international film festival presenting works under one three minutes long, to be screened on Britains shortest air flight in Orkney this November / December.
Curated by ROBB MITCHELL Co host / cheif inflight engineer to the CHATEAU once longtime now gonetime hangout of JAYGO BLOOM and his PALS
Jaygo will present his ever popular TABLE PONG airborne at a northern isles airfield near you!



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JAYGO BLOOM Has been commissioned to create yet another inspiring spin on the way the internet can help bring diverse and unusual elements together, this time in the for of the project THE WORLD WIDE WEGG
The project funded by SCOTTISH SCREEN and NEW MEDIA SCOTLAND will attempt to draw comparrisons upon natural interactions with that of new media networks by connecting Chickens from different parts of the globes with toasters from other parts of the globe. The event will present itself as a one day event in a local gallery / cafe and offer the chance to translate the laying of an egg into the poping up of a slice of toast in another country.
With this project jaygo Bloom is interested in utilising sophisticated networking devices to create a seemingly simple action, a labourous way of creating somthing simple as in the works of ........ the project is a development from past Futuresonic commission and will successfully utilise locative technology, translating an analogue action into a digital and back int analogue again - similar to the once sci fi notions of mike TV in willy wonkas chocolate factory - all this is possible now - yet the uncertain nature of the work being at the perils of an unegglaying eg layer is also a concern - not evidently to the Artist Jaygo Bloom - who beleives the project will be a success egg or not!
THE WORLD WIDE WEGG will be live during GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL in April 2008.
NEW FUTURE NOW will be overseeing the project and collaborating closely with cheeseboard architect and pile artist IAN CAMPBELLSTEIN who will be assisting in the development and progress of chicken - brain - technology and the successfull implantation of triggers sensors and diodes to get this thing up and running, incidently his hometown Montreal may just be one of the international nodes as well....








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Another slash dot accross tha nation!
A new review on one of the most popular video archives / vlogs online! - DVBLOG



DVBLOG is curated by a group of visual artists and provides online viewers with the opportunity to watch some quite extraordinary, one off and really interesting moving image projects from around the globe, and most importantly a chance to watch and download the latest from JAYGO BLOOM!!!


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'...DEATHDISCO! Cut-up ultrapop, quality electromash and bastardised bootlegs for non-conformist up-for-it revellers. An intimate mixed up orgy of trans-euro excess!'

Monthly visuals provided by NEWFUTURENOW
and this month I got something extra special as its their fifth birthday!!









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NEWFUTURENOW has been invited to speak at the 'Projecting the Future' Conference, as part of the BFI 51st London Film Festival. This will be held at the BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE. Southbank. London. The conference is aimed at educators and new media specialists and will approach the subject of engaging communities with new technology.



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THE CHROMATICS make night grooves for the shadowed eyes.
Synth led, Italo drenched sounds make for a JOHN CARPENTER / GEORGIO MORODER / KATE BUSH-NOGRAPHIC lovefest!



Listen to their remake of the Kate Bush epic 'Running up the hill' right here....
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The latest AV installment from those funloving NEWFUTURENOW creatives.



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Pioneering the way with a new series of digital performance workshops for BBC BLAST. Workshops facilitated by NEWFUTURENOW and held as part of the Discovery Film Festival. at the DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTRE.
Introducing digital dance / tech / ware ISADORA developed by the media-tastic performance group TROIKA RANCH

Watch the online documentation from the days performance RIGHT HERE


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>!!ITS A GREENSCREEN SCREAM!!
Interactive workshops as part of the BBC BLAST 2007 UK tour. facilitated by NEWFUTURENOW

Using state of the art greenscreen technology REFLECMEDIA. And VJ software ARKAOS.








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Call the Cops!! A NEWFUTURENOW 'coup de terre' at the GLASGOW GREEN FILM FESTIVAL.
Green Screen activities, VJing and Bluecasting jam packed into a single workshop as only NEWFUTURENOW know how!
Respect to event co-ordinators 7INCH CINEMA who worked up the media frenzied crowd drawing in players of all ages and even snapping up a few stormtroopers too...





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The latest in a series of artworks by JAYGO BLOOM.
CURRENT 93 Invokes esoteric associations through the use of specific cipher code.

The concept behind CURRENT 93 is lifted directly from Hebrew gematria - The idea behind gematria is that through the conversion of words into numbers, the initiate discovers the revelation of esoteric associations of words of like number.

Presented at the ARCHES as part of 'Is That All There Is?' CURRENT 93 takes the conversion of words - into number one step further - into digitized media - An outline image of a triangle projected at a rate of 93 revolutions per minute upon three rotating chrome balls.


NEWFUTURENOW - Continuing the !!Great Work!! Fusing heretic belief with that of contemporary video arts practice and reiterated in in the forward to recent NFN show ROCK ELECTRONIQUE –

‘…melds materialist negative dialectics to contemporary gnostic, magickal beliefs. The art object is a symptom of this collision of epistemologies; it symbolises the space where correspondences are temporarily knotted, where contingent meaning emerges.’ - Dr Alex Kennedy, art critic

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!!WORLD EXCLUSIVE!! - The latest hot topic buzzing around the NEWFUTURENOW industries is over the recent collaboration with the DANCEHOUSE. Glasgow. After a successful series of workshops hosted by the TRAMWAY art venue and overseen by Movement specialist and Choreographer BRIAN HARTLEY . NEWFUTURENOW has successfully completed the rough cut of a brand new video artwork entitled O:.O:.O:.




We managed to catch a few minutes with JAYGO BLOOM The Project Director and Co-Ordinator

Can you tell us a little about the project Jaygo?

O:.O:.O:. reexamines the theosophical beliefs behind early modernist art in relation to dance, film and sculpture, I am interested in how the body becomes a symbol for the illusory 'artistic' reality between geometric and organic planes within the art object.



Can you explain the modernist like structure that you have imposed upon the performers?

O:.O:.O:. Has developed out of a series of choreographed scenes based around a very strict metronomic time signature and an Alexander Calder composition. For this project I have been interested in adopting a similar approach in direction as that of early modernist painting, one which is restricted by palette, by time and with formula.


What does O:.O:.O:. stand for?

O:. O:. O:. is video invocation, it involves the use of prime denominators and is expressed through a combination of technique and procedure. It manifests itself as 3 dancers, 3 art objects and 3 locations - A black rehearsal space, A white gallery space and a greenscreen video production room. The title O:.O:.O:. makes reference to the pace, the content and the connection between Art , Magick and Science that early modrnist artists often seeked solace.















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NEWFUTURENOW creating monochromatic blown-out visuals for IS THAT ALL THERE IS? over at THE ARCHES Nightclub. Glasgow. A set comprising of cinematic delights by Film makers CONRAD BROOKS, ANDY WARHOL, and POWELL AND PRESSBURGER, re-visioned for the clubbing environment. Performed alongside JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) and PAUL (Franz).

accompanying the EDBANGER superstars JUSTICE who were dropping the beats in Gloriously predictable Parisien style for the Myspazz kidsters back at home.
Check out the phenomenom! or as most of the burnt out kids put it on the night phennomenomenum..






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Lo and Benjamin - The East Coast duo who are living it up the Mr Whippy Dream, travelling and cozzing a scene out of the back of a custom painted ice cream truck. The HEARTS CHALLENGER ice cream truck is known for rolling up to art openings, music events and parties around LA and New York, shaking its 100's and 1000's and spreading its art rock love sauce all over the audience





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More on the Death Doom and GABBATV DECONSTRUCTION
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No more deathblog, doomblog on the gabba. This time its gonna keep fresh right from tha start! The link stays the same WWW.GABBA.TV/BLOG.HTML only what you will get will be less disastro and more fiasco as well as my usual AV meanderings . .
First up enjoy some 90's euro no rave from Molvania.






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GABBATV slash dot accross tha nation!
Thanks to VVORK.COM my website just maxxed out its daily 250mb bandwidth limit.

One week of global attention on one the best artblogs of the web,
VVORK Is an online collective of artists, curators, editors and designers, check them out now!

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An exclusive NEWFUTURENOW audiovisual midi marraka perfromance - Live onstage and In collaboration with TROCABRAHMA. Supporting the moustachioed, brazilian superstar and post punk protester - TONI DA GATTORA

Wielding the circuit bent mayhem, a trademark of Toni's international act was nonsense maker Gruff Rhys of the SUPER FURRY ANIMALS and Nik McCarthy of FRANZ FERDINAND fame.






TROCABRAHMA - Is a cultural exchange and series of UK events showcasing Brazilian and British creative talent - August 2007



Check out the VJ edit from NEWFUTURENOW





And check out the Toni Da Gattora experience! ROCK BAHIAAAAA!!





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SURFBLOOM is traveling East
A three minute bluescreen constructed experience to be presented at this years Belgrade Summer Arts Festival as part of BELEF - Here and There is Over here.

And if Serbia isn't on your Summer hit list, then go ahead and check the movie out right here -






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NEWFUTURENOW was invited to host a weekly series of interactive media events for the young people living in EASTERHOUSE. Part of a Summer schools program for the all new Arts Centre PLATFORM.

A new VJ set created to perform alongside the latest dirge of Glasgow Art Rock bands - Bigface, The Invisibles and Jazz Ham performed last weekend at the final year degree show party for Glasgow School of Art.
A visual re-edit, include montage and scenes by filmmakers - Jean-PierreBouyxou, ColinBarton, and DavidRimmer. reconfigured for Digital playback, extracted from source and incorporated into a new series of flat, percussive CMYK graphics.

Images from my recent Solo show at the Intermedia Gallery. CCA Glasgow -
ROCK ELECTRONIQUE was presented to a score by Pierre Henry, one of the founders of musique concrete interested in the hybridization of ideas and technology, of investigations into used elements of synthesised sounds along with found sounds.

'Jerk Electronique' (1963) Extraction of the heavy bass, drum and song vocals from a rock score leaving an entirely synthesized sound accompanied new works which investigated the artistic strategy of appropriation mixed with reduction.

What has been left out becomes encapsulated within its structure, becoming part icon part metaphor.
Reduction from everything to everything
One sound, not sounds, one single sound everywhere, standardised.

1. Stone of the stereotype



2. Jonnie Fever


Zabriskie Point. Director Michelangelo Antonioni
The famous explosion scene, reconfigured and extracted from its original source,
getting rid of what the original valued and leaving traces of monochrome facets post
apocolypse suspension in three channels.

3. Mirrorball






The ' detection, amplification and transfiguration of vibrations given out' by human beings,
living and dead, and by materials such as a diamond or a flower';

..... The geometric limitation and building in silence;

F.T Marinette and Pino Masnata, 'La Radia' in F.T.Marinetti, Teoria e inverzione Futurista,
(Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1968) pp. 176-180.

My latest Audiovisual performance tool 'MARRAKATTAK' is now playable online including full documentation of the performance at Pixelazo last March in Medellin, Colombia.

You can view it HERE



MARRAKATTAK PRESENTATION TEXT

Marrakattak Is an 8bit Latino based Percussive Interface, an audiovisual games module created for performance at Pixelazo the new Colombian node of the Pixelache festival network. Pixelazo was formed to create encounters between indigenous communities and the western electronic art scene.

Marrakattak consists of a pair of modified maracas, which, when shaken drives the audio visual performance. Moving imagery taken from a selection of sampled video sources combines with a series of pulsating Mayan, Aztec and Zapotec ritual symbols and 8bit game sounds.

Marrakattak was created to engage with the stories and traditional imagery of Colombia, it combines the physical sensibility of an authentic pair of maracas, with an altogether different end result, deriving from electronic art culture and western 8bit game aesthetics.

Scotland Rocks - a one of event held in New York celebrating and showcasing new talent from the Scottish music and video art scene.
My latest videowork 'Mirroball' was one of the selected works being shown and you can see it here.

MIRRORBALL online



This piece was premiered as a 3 channel monitor installation at the Intermedia Gallery space. The Centre for Contemporary Arts. Glasgow and is a re-master of one of my all time favourite film scenes - A psychedelic post-apocalyptic explosion scene from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film 'Zabriskie Point'. For this re-edit I slowed down the selected footage and extracted the motion into its appropriate R.G.B. channels, an aesthetics reminiscent of the 1970's post processing video mixing board.
Further documentation available online HERE soon.

An afterword to all the fantastic people I met in Colombia, during the Pixelazo events, especially the people of Comuna13, Medellin.

Social and political regimes rained down on this region for many years and considerable atrocities and lives were lost during the heat. Now a place with extreme millitary presence, but at the heart a vibrant community, together they face a new future, a community full of promise, and with open arms towards our international crew 'POINTLESS CREATIONS'. In fact all pre-conceptions I had of Colombia were instantly crushed, True, its past has had quite a reputation the hostility, drug-rings, government corruption, guns, guerillas, death and danger but today in Medellin all seems safe, socialble and tranquillo.


Me playing around with Eric Sandelin's mobile ophonine pophorn project

Economical difficulties make it hard for people to consider all those creative practices that we are free to think about in Western culture, as for many they find it difficult just to get by, yet all the people i met were so 'turned on', they had a real thirst for new experience and throughout the workshops we held, they all seemed to be with us 100% of the way, share and exchange, like for like.


DJ DAZX, Johanna and Kanela from radiocapsula - Parque San Javier, Comuna13

DJDAZX has two kids and he tries to be a dad but he also has this other part to him, the digital world, and he has a dream to live off making music and being artistic and being creative, but he has this worry he has this stress that he has to provide for his family, and finds it very hard to balance both.

DJDAZX knows that the time is changing, he is preparing for the right time, and his people also have an awareness for the right time, to be ready for that moment which is definatley coming and happening within Colombian subculture is what the many people we met live for.

DJDAZX gave me a letter just before we left, he had help by his english teacher -
The first two lines say it all -

'So glad I am of you to come to my country, because through this you help young people like me.
Not to hold a gun but to click a mix'.






The products of our interactive screen workshop, re-invented and explored by the local kids during the San Javier Pointless Creations performance.

Invitation to my next solo show, to be presented at the CCA GLASGOW.

18 – 31 march 2007 11am – 5pm
Private View: Sat 17 March, 6pm

ROCK ELECTRONIQUE
An octane fuelled explosive AV minefield, inspired by and with direct reference to the works of the Musique Concrete samplist Pierre Henry.

The “detection, amplification and transfiguration of vibrations given out” by human beings, living and dead, and by materials such as “a diamond or a flower";

….The geometric limitation and building of silence;

F.T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata, ``La Radia," in F.T. Marinetti, Teoria e Invezione Futurista, (Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1968), pp. 176-180. Translated by Barbara Poggi and Douglas Kahn.



The artist, as alchemist, demonstrates that Will imparts significance - that the signs that are utilized are essentially empty but can be used to achieve very real ends. The realisation of this emptiness, that there is no innate property in any sign or material that is in itself of any worth, melds materialist negative dialectics to contemporary gnostic, magickal beliefs. The art object is a symptom of this collision of epistemologies; it symbolises the space where correspondences are temporarily knotted, where contingent meaning emerges.

Extended text to accompany the show by DR Alex Kennedy

A hazardous journey across the mid andes in a 4x4 passing all the various para military check points without a hitch, we finally arrive at our second destination PIXELAZO MEDELLIN.
Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia



Here we are to present our work and perform in around the various Communas, as part of the cultural exchange network - PIXELAZO

Pixelazo is the new Colombian node in the Pixelache festival network. Organised by Intermundos.org and in collaboration with Pixelache Helsinki a festival of electronic and digital arts which we performed at during April 2005.

Pixelazo has developed and become informed by the need for dialogue, encounters and collaborations between Westernized Cultures and the more developing cultures of the world. Using art and technology as its mode for communication and discovery.

This cultural exchange can be seen in divide -

South * North
‘Developing countries’ * ‘Developed countries’
Traditional culture * Western culture
Marginalized communities * International creative networks
Natural/Organic * Digital/Synthetic
Lo-tech * High-tech
Slow * Quick

So far a great deal of Latin America has been left out from the Western media art events and through the Pixelache / Intermundos exchane program it is intended that both communities gain valuable experience from one another.



The goals of Pixelazo are:

* To make possible exchanges between artists from the Southern and Northern hemisphere.
* To introduce electronic art and culture to populations that have not had an opportunity to come into contact with these forms of expression. Ex.; marginalized communities; rural population; indigenous communities.
* To promote multidisciplinary collaborations through involvement of scientists, media professionals, philosophers, indigenous people, writers etc.
* To introduce alternative spaces for working with and showing electronic art.
* To share and multiply knowledge through conferences, round table discussions and theoretical or practical workshops.
* To generate encounters that foster creativity and plural and multidimensional thought.



The Pixelazo schedule includes workshops, conferences and public events, These have been concentrated in one of the marginal neighborhoods of Medellin (comuna 13). The goal, to introduce the local audience to electronic art and the idea of open communication tools and technologies, and through this process Intermundos will be able to locate the urban artists living in Medellin and who are already working with new medias and interested in developing this global network and cultural exchange practice with western artists.

Pixelazo will run monthly events throughout the next few months with a final program to be scheduled for July and to take place at the SELVATORIUM JUNGLE LABORATORY - Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia

Bogotrax 2007 in Bogotá, Colombia // ‘Laboratorio Urbano’ //

The Pointless Creations crew travel again. This time myself Dava Bernard and Dan Norton will be Presenting a series of workshops on DIY screen construction and midi triggers for live digital performance as well as an extensive live set performance schedule, creating visuals for some very big acts on the international electronic music circuit.

Bogotrax is an alternative, independant festival, which as the name laboratario urbano suggests, becomes a place for artisitic and social experimentation. Bogota becomes the meeting place where artists from different cultures come together. Producers, Deejays, Veejays, Free software creators, digital live performers, graffitti artists, programmers and musicians freely share the exchange of information between themselves and the public. All events and parties are free to attend and are presented within different parts of the city each night ensuring even the most remote of communities are reached. This year Bogotrax's fourth year, there is a real focus on the interchange and exchange between art and the society. A celebration of all the diverse types of cultural and subcultural appropriation. For this laboratory. the city, immersed in the continuous transformation that the technologies impose on society, is the point of beginning. The music and the arts bringing people together, enabling participants to traverse new ideas in a more global context.

As one of the Bogotrax founders explained to me - 'An urban laboratory is the way and the place in which we experience elements both of human and technological networks that escape any precise definition'.

Check out these photos from Bogotrax in Flickr and more info at Bogotrax website.
There is also a report from Bogotrax 2006 by Juhuu / Pixelache.