2011
UNIVERSAL RECORDS
12/11/11 22:36 Filed in: installation
Images from a recent product shot for Universal records alongside the direction of Nice & Polite.
NewFutureNow providing video mapped structures and realtime graphics as the basis for an assemblage of Universal music videos and album covers, re-positioned and re-recorded back into digital film for a future edit.
To be uploaded soon . .
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NewFutureNow providing video mapped structures and realtime graphics as the basis for an assemblage of Universal music videos and album covers, re-positioned and re-recorded back into digital film for a future edit.
To be uploaded soon . .
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MOTHER
16/10/11 22:50 Filed in: communication
My Mother just accused me of being accumulation posing as independent free will.
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WHITE GLOVES
17/09/11 16:32 Filed in: communication : graphics
MICKEY MOUSE had them
MARIO wears them
MICHAEL JACKSON had one of them
KID ROBOT does it
KAWS loves them
ADFUNCTURE bombs the city with them
Speaker stacks were covered in white gloved ravers throughout the early 90s.
Long has there been a history of white gloves and long may it continue..
So just whats in it ?
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MARIO wears them
MICHAEL JACKSON had one of them
KID ROBOT does it
KAWS loves them
ADFUNCTURE bombs the city with them
Speaker stacks were covered in white gloved ravers throughout the early 90s.
Long has there been a history of white gloves and long may it continue..
So just whats in it ?
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DENKI
Denki are creating some incredibly ambitious moves in the iPad game scene.
Alongside longtime NEWFUTURENOW collaborators DOMINO RECORDS. Denki are now moving into music videos, well music games to put it more succinct. Mini applications that users play along with, making the whole experience of listening to music more immersive and personalised. It is a great concept and seemingly simple interactions are proving wonderful results.
An artist / indie game is being developed between NEWFUTURENOW and DENKI this very moment, and a possible 3D screen and DCA live performance has also been suggested, hosted and commissioned by NeoN Digital Art Festival Director Donna Halford Lovell. Thank you Donna!
For his part in the process JAYGO BLOOM is impatiently seeking professional HAND DANCERS . .
Smiley Daze is back indeed.
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Alongside longtime NEWFUTURENOW collaborators DOMINO RECORDS. Denki are now moving into music videos, well music games to put it more succinct. Mini applications that users play along with, making the whole experience of listening to music more immersive and personalised. It is a great concept and seemingly simple interactions are proving wonderful results.
An artist / indie game is being developed between NEWFUTURENOW and DENKI this very moment, and a possible 3D screen and DCA live performance has also been suggested, hosted and commissioned by NeoN Digital Art Festival Director Donna Halford Lovell. Thank you Donna!
For his part in the process JAYGO BLOOM is impatiently seeking professional HAND DANCERS . .
Smiley Daze is back indeed.
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AMBIGUITY
14/09/11 10:52 Filed in: communication
The voices which whisper to us from crystals, herbs, housewives.
The invisible fields from all dimensions which impinge on us.
The imagined histories and futures which introspect the present moment
If all of these models or even a small portion of them are given credence the density of human experience is considerably deepened.
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FLEET COLLECTIVE
10/09/11 16:11 Filed in: communication
Dundee is one of my favorite cities in the UK. Not suprisingly it also has some very well kept secrets.
In the lofty attic of the old city chambers building is housed the new Headquarters of one of the cities most active digital media organisations. FLEET COLLECTIVE keep in it Lo-key. Behind the majestic brickwork there is little in the way of digital signage to direct a visitor to their lofty studios, but the works and production that results, bears witness to nothing short of a Dundonian miracle.
‘Proud to be private’ this team of experienced creatives are shifting the boundaries and concepts of arts in the North / North East of Scotland and bravely waving their talent on an international level.
Donna Holford Lovell their Director is just about as well-versed in the arts and cultural engineering of projects all things media that you can get. Along with business partner Lyle from sooperdooperdoubleD she is also the revered director of NEON a digital art festival which spreads the width and breadth of Dundee every year.
Showcasing new works, performances, and packed with masterclasses and artists talks. This is where NEWFUTURENOW fits in, Jaygo Bloom has been invited to collaborate with one of the cities leading digital toy companies DENKI and come up with something wonderful for NEON 2011.
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In the lofty attic of the old city chambers building is housed the new Headquarters of one of the cities most active digital media organisations. FLEET COLLECTIVE keep in it Lo-key. Behind the majestic brickwork there is little in the way of digital signage to direct a visitor to their lofty studios, but the works and production that results, bears witness to nothing short of a Dundonian miracle.
‘Proud to be private’ this team of experienced creatives are shifting the boundaries and concepts of arts in the North / North East of Scotland and bravely waving their talent on an international level.
Donna Holford Lovell their Director is just about as well-versed in the arts and cultural engineering of projects all things media that you can get. Along with business partner Lyle from sooperdooperdoubleD she is also the revered director of NEON a digital art festival which spreads the width and breadth of Dundee every year.
Showcasing new works, performances, and packed with masterclasses and artists talks. This is where NEWFUTURENOW fits in, Jaygo Bloom has been invited to collaborate with one of the cities leading digital toy companies DENKI and come up with something wonderful for NEON 2011.
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NORWICH COLLEGE OF ARTS
06/09/11 16:21 Filed in: communication : workshops
A visit to the East Coast cultural hub that is Norwich, and a striking encounter
with the very fine team of academics that spearhead the Art and Design departments over at Norwich University.
A good meeting with little time to show a portfolio and lots of time to talk over professional practice
and the possibility of some JAYGO BLOOM involvement for the department of Communication Media this following year.
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with the very fine team of academics that spearhead the Art and Design departments over at Norwich University.
A good meeting with little time to show a portfolio and lots of time to talk over professional practice
and the possibility of some JAYGO BLOOM involvement for the department of Communication Media this following year.
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UP POMPEI!
30/08/11 23:07 Filed in: communication
Images taken whilst scouting around Napoli, prizes for guessing what in the world these are used for. . ?
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MOUNT VESUVIUS
29/08/11 13:41 Filed in: festival
JAYGO BLOOM and PAS live on Mount Vesuvius ! !
Perfectly crafted on a secluded mountain side near to Napoli the River Park Party
flying the planetary assault systems colors. An excellent live set in the most perfect of conditions.
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Perfectly crafted on a secluded mountain side near to Napoli the River Park Party
flying the planetary assault systems colors. An excellent live set in the most perfect of conditions.
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TERRA MITICA
24/08/11 15:34 Filed in: festival
PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEMS - Live in Benidorm!
A night of chaos providing visuals in Benidorm with PAS
and two days of accompanying bliss in our el deserto rancho style hotel.
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A night of chaos providing visuals in Benidorm with PAS
and two days of accompanying bliss in our el deserto rancho style hotel.
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NATURE ONE
13/08/11 18:43 Filed in: festival
Day one Planetary Assault Systems. Live audio visual performance at NATURE ONE - one of Germanys major festivals.
Luke Slater playing a great set of old and new tracks with visuals by NEWFUTURENOW presented on an impressive array of pixel mapped LEDs.
Day two with Luke Slater providing sounds at the Solar Festival in Maastricht
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Luke Slater playing a great set of old and new tracks with visuals by NEWFUTURENOW presented on an impressive array of pixel mapped LEDs.
Day two with Luke Slater providing sounds at the Solar Festival in Maastricht
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LUXNATURA
09/08/11 18:41 Filed in: communication
NNX Development 002 -
luxnatura is the salvational radiance that can be found in the organic kingdom
It has slipped from the grid of modern being, except in exceptional cases where it is cultivated as a sensibility or pursed in the guise of an aspect of psychedelic experience.
As artists our point of view is actually gaining ground, 95 percent of this is most likely just intellectual noise and ethics that attempt to coin the perfect analogy, nevertheless there is the remaining 5 percent that is at the cutting edge of the driving image of this meta-culture. What this remaining 5 percent share is the importance they place on the role of nature. For some this results in the recognition of the presence of control mechanisms, using art as a way of coming to terms with the nature that we have resisted.
Before technology people had to store firewood in the autumn and in the spring they had to sharpen tools for the planting, there was an implicit rhythm laid down by nature that entered the human cosmos on every level and this was reflected in the art, in the poetry, in the culture building, in the language evolution etc and when the factors of urbanization removed the influence of these rhythms ending in the final culmination of the modern city where life under the electric light goes on 24hrs a day, there is then a flattening of the human dimension there is no more of being embedded in flux there is instead the myth of the eternal culture.
to be continued. .
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luxnatura is the salvational radiance that can be found in the organic kingdom
It has slipped from the grid of modern being, except in exceptional cases where it is cultivated as a sensibility or pursed in the guise of an aspect of psychedelic experience.
As artists our point of view is actually gaining ground, 95 percent of this is most likely just intellectual noise and ethics that attempt to coin the perfect analogy, nevertheless there is the remaining 5 percent that is at the cutting edge of the driving image of this meta-culture. What this remaining 5 percent share is the importance they place on the role of nature. For some this results in the recognition of the presence of control mechanisms, using art as a way of coming to terms with the nature that we have resisted.
Before technology people had to store firewood in the autumn and in the spring they had to sharpen tools for the planting, there was an implicit rhythm laid down by nature that entered the human cosmos on every level and this was reflected in the art, in the poetry, in the culture building, in the language evolution etc and when the factors of urbanization removed the influence of these rhythms ending in the final culmination of the modern city where life under the electric light goes on 24hrs a day, there is then a flattening of the human dimension there is no more of being embedded in flux there is instead the myth of the eternal culture.
to be continued. .
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ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES
04/08/11 18:36 Filed in: festival
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is an energetic festival, taking place across the Northwest of England.
A catalyst for production and experimentation, AND is a call to arms inviting anarchists of the imagination to propose striking perspectives on technological, physical and social normality.
JAYGO BLOOM has been shorlisted for a canal residency, hosted by ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES
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A catalyst for production and experimentation, AND is a call to arms inviting anarchists of the imagination to propose striking perspectives on technological, physical and social normality.
JAYGO BLOOM has been shorlisted for a canal residency, hosted by ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES
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V4 HACKNEY
26/07/11 10:11 Filed in: workshops
A group of likeminded audio visual professionals, working out of the ELECTRIC MATCHBOX cafe on wednesdays, showcasing talent and presenting practical intensives on working with the software VVVV. First session was handed over to a live set by SUNE and a presentation by KIMCH&CHIPS aka Eliot Woods and his recent LIT-TREE for Futuresonic Festival. Email HAYDEN the event coordinator for more details, or come along to one of the sessions if your interested . .
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RESEARCH INTO SOUND
24/07/11 18:30 Filed in: workshops
JAYGO BLOOM attending a two week masterclass into sound practice research at the Goldsmiths College Music Department.
Developing skills for audio visual performance with software MAXMSP / jitter and MAX4LIVE
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Developing skills for audio visual performance with software MAXMSP / jitter and MAX4LIVE
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RAPTURE IN Xe6s
01/07/11 09:24 Filed in: communication
NNX Development 001 -
A series of lens based works which take the form of staged, social interactions to camera, investigating computer human interaction and the ‘intactable’ supernatural nature of minerals and metals present within computer technology.
I have chosen for this project the title of Rapture in Xe6s (Xe6s being part of the electronic structure code for Lanthanide)
Lanthanide is a rare earth mineral, collectively known as a transition metal and part of the gold series, part of its characteristics is that it physically facilitates electrical connections. Blue Green in color it is used in cathodes, capacitors, electronics, lenses, computer screens and chemical processing equipment.
For Homeopathic practitioners Lanthanide draws parallels with the rise of the electronic man. According to the philosopher Marshall Mcluhan in his essay Understanding Media (1964)
'.. An electronic nervous system is rapidly integrating the planet . .(and) we have extended ourselves into its global embrace'.
Homeopaths postulate that anonymous, global communications informed by the internet have now started to affect the bodies life maintaining boundary. Lanthanides are thus being administered to treat such conditions.
‘Know that the first Tincture and Root of all Metals, is likewise a supernatural, flying, fiery Spirit’ Basilius Valentinus. 1671
Rapture in Xe6s will seek to connect to the rare earth minerals inherit within the collapse of massed, barely functional salvaged equipment and software systems, creating realtime graphical processes which cross the division of code and matter, through resonance, ‘entrainment’ and the reading of the energetic signature of vibrations which emanate therein.
To be continued . .
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TIME DOES NOT EXIST
27/06/11 01:01 Filed in: communication
Time does not exist: our lives are too short to 'measure' it, time has astronomical minutes and geological seconds. Time is non-human. What we experience as time is background noise 300 decimals behind the comma. Our time is part of the margin of error, a fluctuation too small to spawn butterfly effects even in geological time.
“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness – in a landscape selected at random – is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern – to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.” Vladimir Nabokov
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“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness – in a landscape selected at random – is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern – to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.” Vladimir Nabokov
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PSYCHOGEOPHYSICS
23/06/11 16:56 Filed in: communication
What is Psychogeophysics?
Psychogeography can be defined as a playful examination of the total effects of geography and place on the individual,
“the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” Guy Debord.
Psychogeophysics extends this research to embrace geophysics defined as the quantitative observation of the earth's physical properties, and its interaction with local spectral ecologies and with measurement of such properties allowing for the mapping of previous traces through techniques of particle/wave detection and data forensics.
This extension of psychogeography into geophysics implies a collision between interpretation (fiction) and measurement, a novel discipline that bridges any such distinction through the medium of code, and offers a speculative take on the future of code as an uncovering of its locative (diagnostic) potentials leading to a new phase of software studies.
Question: you enter a room, what happens to you?
Answer: psychogeography.
Question: what is happening to you from outside the room?
Answer: Psychogeophy.
Question: What?
Answer: Psychogeophysics; just as the entire weight of the earth conspire to pull down suspended objects (gravity; a relatively weak but keystone force) the human condition is being shaped by the entire earth: psychology as plate tectonics of the mind.
Psychogeographers have deluded themselves in their petty BACK YARD regionalism and general lack of ambition to look beyond the city and beyond the contemporary. Cities come and go. The psychogeophysical angle, which has everything going for it, is already deluded by procedural navel gazing and an irrational belief in the supreme objectivity of measurement and raw data.
XXN is a collective founded by Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp
XXN will be hosting the next PSYCHOGEOPHYSICS summit in Suffolk this coming september
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Psychogeography can be defined as a playful examination of the total effects of geography and place on the individual,
“the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” Guy Debord.
Psychogeophysics extends this research to embrace geophysics defined as the quantitative observation of the earth's physical properties, and its interaction with local spectral ecologies and with measurement of such properties allowing for the mapping of previous traces through techniques of particle/wave detection and data forensics.
This extension of psychogeography into geophysics implies a collision between interpretation (fiction) and measurement, a novel discipline that bridges any such distinction through the medium of code, and offers a speculative take on the future of code as an uncovering of its locative (diagnostic) potentials leading to a new phase of software studies.
Question: you enter a room, what happens to you?
Answer: psychogeography.
Question: what is happening to you from outside the room?
Answer: Psychogeophy.
Question: What?
Answer: Psychogeophysics; just as the entire weight of the earth conspire to pull down suspended objects (gravity; a relatively weak but keystone force) the human condition is being shaped by the entire earth: psychology as plate tectonics of the mind.
Psychogeographers have deluded themselves in their petty BACK YARD regionalism and general lack of ambition to look beyond the city and beyond the contemporary. Cities come and go. The psychogeophysical angle, which has everything going for it, is already deluded by procedural navel gazing and an irrational belief in the supreme objectivity of measurement and raw data.
XXN is a collective founded by Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp
XXN will be hosting the next PSYCHOGEOPHYSICS summit in Suffolk this coming september
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CRYSTALLOMANCY
09/06/11 18:01 Filed in: workshops
A chance encounter with a very interesting person provides insight into a unique and very relevant practice - The art of crytallomancy: The computational detection of changes in human response when attuned to the art of crystal gazing.
A workshop at APIARY STUDIOS hosted by the silvery tongued Occultist STEPHEN FORTUNE exploring the means of engaging the unconscious mind to change digital behavior through the act of crystal gazing.
STEPHEN asked everyone who was partaking in the gazing to enter with a question, and write that question onto a piece of paper with their bad hand. We then gazed at the crystal while hooked into an Arduino GSR allowing the comuter to register our responses.
All this Hocus draws on past similar experiments conducted in truth / lie detection tests of the early 1950s. Today Stephen uses GSR as a means to draw out objects and practices that can be seen as conduits to trance states, putting them through the reality grinder and the sampling capabilities of an arduino physical interface.
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A workshop at APIARY STUDIOS hosted by the silvery tongued Occultist STEPHEN FORTUNE exploring the means of engaging the unconscious mind to change digital behavior through the act of crystal gazing.
STEPHEN asked everyone who was partaking in the gazing to enter with a question, and write that question onto a piece of paper with their bad hand. We then gazed at the crystal while hooked into an Arduino GSR allowing the comuter to register our responses.
All this Hocus draws on past similar experiments conducted in truth / lie detection tests of the early 1950s. Today Stephen uses GSR as a means to draw out objects and practices that can be seen as conduits to trance states, putting them through the reality grinder and the sampling capabilities of an arduino physical interface.
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DIGITAL ACADEMY
28/05/11 13:20 Filed in: workshops
A masterclass in video mapping for the prestigous DIGITAL ACADEMY of Dublin, with JAYGO BLOOM providing a practical introduction to the new mapping tools available for video artists and the incorporation of moving imagery onto architectural and sculptural surfaces.
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UM FESTIVAL
JAYGO BLOOM invited to present work at Dublins UM FESTIVAL of experiment intermedia.
A 24 hour action packed event bringing together international artists and practitioners to discuss debate, present and perform around the subject of desire within the digital world.
Hosted within the shabby but chic BLOCK T an alternative arts venue and curated by Teresa Dillon of POLAR PRODUCE.
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A 24 hour action packed event bringing together international artists and practitioners to discuss debate, present and perform around the subject of desire within the digital world.
Hosted within the shabby but chic BLOCK T an alternative arts venue and curated by Teresa Dillon of POLAR PRODUCE.
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FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
22/04/11 13:54 Filed in: audiovisual : installation
THE FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN Celebrations (1951 - 2011) along the SOUTHBANK and within numerous venues around the Royal Festival Hall. In partnership with YEASTCULTURE. NEWFUTURENOW has received a moving image commission to celebrate the Festivals 60th anniversary. The work has been created for a 45ft wide led screen and is situated on the exterior wall outside the Hayward Gallery. The commission is the result of a period of development and research, exploring the archived footage made available at the British Film Institute.
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PEACHES
17/04/11 14:52 Filed in: audiovisual
NEWFUTURENOW assisting the London based direction / production duo NICE & POLITE Steve Agnew and Andy Knowles to create a video promo for the new PEACHES launch.
‘Turn it on’ is a cover of the Franz Ferdinand track of the same name, slowed down and slurred up like only Peaches can.
NEWFUTURENOW responsible for all video mapping and realtime graphic processes, alongside the excellent D.O.P JACK WILKINSON
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‘Turn it on’ is a cover of the Franz Ferdinand track of the same name, slowed down and slurred up like only Peaches can.
NEWFUTURENOW responsible for all video mapping and realtime graphic processes, alongside the excellent D.O.P JACK WILKINSON
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ABERYSTWYTH ART CENTRE
12/04/11 13:48 Filed in: travel
JAYGO BLOOM back to his ancestral roots in North Wales, with the promise of a residency alongside the ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE. Jaygo will be housed within one of the award winning architectural PODS situated on the impressive ground at the Art centre, expanding his practice into volumetric light forms, digital substances and developing works which exist somewhere between sculpture and architecture.
'.. during my last solo show I was busy promoting ' Advertised Light' The light itself taking precedence over the art object illuminated. I wish now to take a more reflective approach on this subject and to slow the pace down, so that the fastest thing within the gallery will become the viewer. How this will be achieved within a digital medium will be through making evident a direct relationship between time and the passing of a projected light around the art object, e.g. to create a realtime visualisation process so that in a 24 hour cycle no two moments are ever the same.'
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'.. during my last solo show I was busy promoting ' Advertised Light' The light itself taking precedence over the art object illuminated. I wish now to take a more reflective approach on this subject and to slow the pace down, so that the fastest thing within the gallery will become the viewer. How this will be achieved within a digital medium will be through making evident a direct relationship between time and the passing of a projected light around the art object, e.g. to create a realtime visualisation process so that in a 24 hour cycle no two moments are ever the same.'
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TIMEWARP
03/04/11 22:46 Filed in: festival : audiovisual
TIME WARP in Mannheim, first live performance of 2011 for PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEMS. Video mapped projections onto a massive cluster of thirteen cubes spanning the entire stage.
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ICARUS PERFORMANCE
26/03/11 19:39 Filed in: workshops : audiovisual
ICARUS - The final result of a year long Southbank education program. Thanks to Scientist JULIA and Musician FRASER and the three schools involved, Here is an edit from the final audiovisual performance, presented at the Royal Festival Halls.
NEWFUTURENOW also designed an extensive educational package, following the events of the program, which is now being disseminated on Flashdrives to schools around the UK and its sister project at schools in New York.
Anyone interested in receiving this educational / teachers resource drop an email to NFN.
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NEWFUTURENOW also designed an extensive educational package, following the events of the program, which is now being disseminated on Flashdrives to schools around the UK and its sister project at schools in New York.
Anyone interested in receiving this educational / teachers resource drop an email to NFN.
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BERNADINI
21/03/11 15:36 Filed in: audiovisual : installation
A drawing paper is simply paper as long as it is white, but once you draw on it, it becomes “a drawing”.
A design in light is a mental drawing that uses a dark space, as a kind of dark paper on which it forms in negative.
An optical fibre drawing in space can be in harmony with the place itself, but the light can also create an interrelation by overcoming the physical walls and transforming the environment in a deceptive way.
An installation, in fact, has the power to take the space and push it to the limit of an illusionary dimension, the one dictated by the original idea.
A chance to met up with fellow light engineer Carlo Bernadini as he visits to attend the Kinetica Festivsal. It is rare to have Carlos work here on show in the UK and an encounter I always welcome.
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A design in light is a mental drawing that uses a dark space, as a kind of dark paper on which it forms in negative.
An optical fibre drawing in space can be in harmony with the place itself, but the light can also create an interrelation by overcoming the physical walls and transforming the environment in a deceptive way.
An installation, in fact, has the power to take the space and push it to the limit of an illusionary dimension, the one dictated by the original idea.
A chance to met up with fellow light engineer Carlo Bernadini as he visits to attend the Kinetica Festivsal. It is rare to have Carlos work here on show in the UK and an encounter I always welcome.
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NEON
14/03/11 21:33 Filed in: communication : travel
A visit to Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and the chance to catch up with the VISUAL EFFECTS RESEARCH LAB.
A meeting with NEON Festival producer Donna Lovell about possible involvements with the festival at the end of this year, and a few tutorials with students from the undergraduate and postgraduate Media Arts department.
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A meeting with NEON Festival producer Donna Lovell about possible involvements with the festival at the end of this year, and a few tutorials with students from the undergraduate and postgraduate Media Arts department.
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IDAT PLYMOUTH
09/03/11 13:31 Filed in: communication : travel
A meeting with Plymouth University and a possible through road to developing new work and academic practice alongside the Interacation department.
Plymouth is host to one of the countries few remaining planetariums a 40 foot domed building that in recent years has been taken over by IDAT and transformed into a 360 cinematic space for the development and presentation of academics and researchers, MIKE PHILLIPS heads the team.
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Plymouth is host to one of the countries few remaining planetariums a 40 foot domed building that in recent years has been taken over by IDAT and transformed into a 360 cinematic space for the development and presentation of academics and researchers, MIKE PHILLIPS heads the team.
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BINARIES WITHOUT BINARIES
01/03/11 21:28 Filed in: communication
What happens when we move into a world not described by formality and hard facts but one that encompases an organism akin to that of a bubble ?
The works of theorist Schloterdijk on the NFN reading list.
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ANTHONY MCCALL
28/02/11 13:27 Filed in: communication
Volumetric lightforms in mist, the unwinding of a line as described by the pioneer of video mapping ANTHONY MCCALL himself - On exhibition at PRAKTIKA and in talks at the TATE
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ICARUS AT THE EDGE OF TIME
21/02/11 18:23 Filed in: workshops
The second phase of an international program which bridges education, arts and science through the medium of performance.
ICARUS - Philip Glass's latest incarnation and foray into Orchestral / audiovisual performance is due to hit the Royal Festival Halls this March. YEASTCULTURE has enlisted the aid of JAYGO BLOOM to provide a month long series of projects expanding the possibilities of realtime audiovisual graphical processes within the classroom. The three colleges invited to take part in this project will perform and present their AV outcome during the Icarus inaugural opening.
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ICARUS - Philip Glass's latest incarnation and foray into Orchestral / audiovisual performance is due to hit the Royal Festival Halls this March. YEASTCULTURE has enlisted the aid of JAYGO BLOOM to provide a month long series of projects expanding the possibilities of realtime audiovisual graphical processes within the classroom. The three colleges invited to take part in this project will perform and present their AV outcome during the Icarus inaugural opening.
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SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERIES FELLOWSHIP
15/02/11 15:18 Filed in: communication
Shortlisted for the SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERIES Fellowship award with a project that focuses on one of their greatest treasures from the Royal Collection - The Trinity Altarpiece.
This is a panel painting attributed to the Artist Hugo van der Goes, painted during the late 1470s for the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity in Edinburgh. It is a work of art that did not survive the Reformation unscathed. The painting presents the four remaining panels of a five panel triptych, with the missing presumably that of a ʻVirgin and Child with Angelsʼ and stands literally yards away from its original location today. The Collegiate Church was demolished in 1848 despite a formal protest from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to make way for the North British Railway Companyʼs development, marking the exact location to be somewhere on the grounds of Edinburgh's main train station - Waverly.
For the Fellowship I am interested in creating work which opens up a much wider horizon in the manner of how it invokes and engages with historicity. A period of research will follow an open ended process of revisiting and inhabiting spaces around Edinburgh, a process that will assist in connecting a different temporality to the original artwork. The fellowship will also prepare me for a long term engagement that involves research and a certain politics of re-staging, which will involve negotiation from the wider cultural field.
As much as I am interested in the actual presentation and physical translation of the Trinity Altarpiece through a digital medium, I am also interested in what is lacking or what is not there, the presence of the painting suggesting what is missing at the same time. In his publication ʻWay of the Masksʼ Claude Levi Strauss discusses how all the elements of a mask point to the absence of what they produce. He states it is not just important what the masks produce, but what they negate through the elements that are missing within the mask. To translate what is missing from the original work of art into physical space for a temporal moment, and to depict this through the moving image, I will also be examining the medium in which I choose to bring
these ghosts back, not just dealing with spaces and images as artifacts but also with events in history. I expect for the new work to offer an insight into understanding the perceptive shift in our current position when reading an original work of art within the gallery alongside the new translation of the work within its original location. The work will allude to a very specific moment, how will we choose to inhabit it?
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This is a panel painting attributed to the Artist Hugo van der Goes, painted during the late 1470s for the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity in Edinburgh. It is a work of art that did not survive the Reformation unscathed. The painting presents the four remaining panels of a five panel triptych, with the missing presumably that of a ʻVirgin and Child with Angelsʼ and stands literally yards away from its original location today. The Collegiate Church was demolished in 1848 despite a formal protest from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to make way for the North British Railway Companyʼs development, marking the exact location to be somewhere on the grounds of Edinburgh's main train station - Waverly.
For the Fellowship I am interested in creating work which opens up a much wider horizon in the manner of how it invokes and engages with historicity. A period of research will follow an open ended process of revisiting and inhabiting spaces around Edinburgh, a process that will assist in connecting a different temporality to the original artwork. The fellowship will also prepare me for a long term engagement that involves research and a certain politics of re-staging, which will involve negotiation from the wider cultural field.
As much as I am interested in the actual presentation and physical translation of the Trinity Altarpiece through a digital medium, I am also interested in what is lacking or what is not there, the presence of the painting suggesting what is missing at the same time. In his publication ʻWay of the Masksʼ Claude Levi Strauss discusses how all the elements of a mask point to the absence of what they produce. He states it is not just important what the masks produce, but what they negate through the elements that are missing within the mask. To translate what is missing from the original work of art into physical space for a temporal moment, and to depict this through the moving image, I will also be examining the medium in which I choose to bring
these ghosts back, not just dealing with spaces and images as artifacts but also with events in history. I expect for the new work to offer an insight into understanding the perceptive shift in our current position when reading an original work of art within the gallery alongside the new translation of the work within its original location. The work will allude to a very specific moment, how will we choose to inhabit it?
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BOX CODAX PROMO VIDEO
08/02/11 13:14 Filed in: audiovisual
A recent promo video created for Nick Mcarthy of Franz Ferdinand side project BOX CODAX.
Look out for their new album in record shops soon.
Directed by NEWFUTURENOW with heaps of assistance from the wonderful and very professional Anna Druka of TRIXTONVALLEY.
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Look out for their new album in record shops soon.
Directed by NEWFUTURENOW with heaps of assistance from the wonderful and very professional Anna Druka of TRIXTONVALLEY.
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TEMPORARY SUSPENSION
29/01/11 20:45 Filed in: communication
Today art education has no definite goal, no method, no particular content
that can be taught, no tradition that can be transmitted to a new generation—
which is to say, it has too many. Just as art after Duchamp can be anything, so
can art education be anything. Art education is an education that functions
more as an idea of education, as education per se, because art education is fi-
nally unspecific. But there is one characteristic of traditional education that has
remained unchanged throughout the history of art and, generally, throughout
the cultural revolutions of modernity. Now, as ever before, education suspends
the student in an environment that is meant to isolate him or her, to be exclu-
sively a site of learning and analysis, of experimentation exempted from the ur-
gencies of the outside world. Paradoxically, the goal of this isolation is precisely
to prepare students for life outside the school, for “real life.” Yet this paradox
nonetheless is perhaps the most practical thing about contemporary art edu-
cation. It is an education without rules. But so-called real life, where we are
subject to an endless variety of improvisations, suggestions, confusions, and
catastrophes, is also finally without any rules. Ultimately, teaching art means
teaching life.
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