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.
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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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Original sound loop taken from the classic arcade games Major Havoc, Archon and Space Fury.
This vocal revision by the Voicelab Orchestra and Jaygo Bloom.
Presented as an interactive artgame in the show 'Arcade'.
Public interaction altered the beat loops, time signature and cue points from on a custom made game controller.

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Talks are under way with Curator PATRICIA FLEMING, towards the development of a temporary multi channel, video projection artwork. This new work will be initially designed to fit within the centre space of the BRIGGAIT Glasgow and presented to be ready for audience to coincide with the first year threshold of the building as a new thriving cultural hub in July 2011.

Preliminary sketches including proposed projected objects within space -









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GAS AS INTERFACE is an independant collective of creators and designers regularly publishing zines and dvds internationally referanceing audio visual and graphical streams of practice. Aside from the more commercial works supported by the shift japan. GAS also run a gallery space in Minato-Ku called
CALM & PUNK
A visit to their studios found the crew working hard on a recent new exhibition of artworks from the London based artist . . Their Direcotor Riza Nakazawa gave me a really good welcome.

I presented my new works and we talked of possible collaborations that could happen in the future.
A really good collective doing so much wonderful stuff outside of government funding, proving it possible inna 2011. .








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Flea Maison was an impossible place to find. An independent gallery set up by the international media curator YUKIKO SHIKATA and YOKOTA TAKAO in Tabata.




Yukiko Shikata is an independent curator & critic based in Tokyo, she is working as an associate curator of Mori Art Museum (MAM), guest curator of Shiseido CyGnet and specially-assigned professor at Tokyo Zokei University. Her works include projects at Canon ARTLAB, Mischa Kuball "Power of Codes - Space for Speech"(Tokyo National Museum, 1999), "art.bit collection"(NTT ICC, curatorial support, 2002), "Kingdom of Piracy" and "OPEN MIND" CD (MAM, 2002). She is curatorial committee member of eyebeam (NY) and international advisory board member of Transmediale (Berlin). Her curatorial practice has recently been presented in an online interview available on the network of media arts site CRUMB - This was conducted by Sarah E Cook whom I recently met at my show in Dundee, whilst attending the MAPPING THE FUTURE Conference.






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Another decisive move towards a future Tokyo / Jaygo Bloom audience encounter. This time a meeting with the Arts complex 3331 Arts Chiyoda and GALLERY g3.

g³/ gallery is a project room combining an editorial school “Super School”, “Gallery” and editing studio, “Edit Room”. This facility is based upon the vision and skill of its director SHIGEO GOTO in the investigation of the potentials of editorial activity and will expand the work of “Super School”, which has been established for 14 years.



‘ It is our aim to amplify the transformation of foreign elements and to visualize this in response to the theme of “Tokyo”, a city which connects both the local and the global, presenting the here but not here, the not here but here’（Shigeo Goto）
The gallery Director is Shigeo Goto who runs the education program - A meeting with the gallery member Naoko Hatta proved really useful, the works on show where by the artist Takaaki Akaishi






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An interesting show of sorts and supports by two very exciting artists Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards
FIRST UNAFFECTED UNAFFECTED FORMAL EFFECTS LAST -



The third in a series of Gallery interventions, reusing and incorporating the exact same objects to create a different exhibition in succession.

"The collaborative duo Cullinan Richards make installations that look like studio art labs. All the media of fine art are touched upon – painting, sculpture, photography, film, drawing – yet these tend to be arranged as if in a workshop of cultural enquiry, with references to historical contexts and hints of the autobiographical.''
- Robert Clark, The Guardian, 15 August 2009








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Images from my recent show, open to the public until November 14 2010.





















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MAJOR HAVOC
Interactive Installation
2010

A High Culture / Popular Culture mash up
Repetition as a technique becomes another means by which to deconstruct the work Major Havoc, as users have the opportunity to break up the narrative structure of 3 early arcade game sounds - Archon 1983, Space Fury 1981 and Major Havoc 1983

Fixed controls within a custom made interface allows for interaction of tracks, cue points and beat signatures.
It is believed that loop usage is closely linked to our use of short time memory. Our experience of the presence lasts about three to five seconds,
from this one can draw the conclusion that interacting with loops transfers us into a state of eternal presence, of a now contradicting the continuous flow of time.

Funded by the PAUL HAMLYN foundation. Jaygo Bloom in collaboration with vocalists from the VOICELAB orchestra.
MAJOR HAVOC exchanges 8bit sounds from classic arcade games with 24bit tenor, alto, soprano and bass vocals, and combines these with the original version ready for realtime beat chopping and cue looping via games controller.




Listen to the game sounds HERE



++ARCHON / RIGHT CLICK SAVE TO DESKTOP

++SPACE FURY/ RIGHT CLICK SAVE TO DESKTOP

++MAJOR HAVOC / RIGHT CLICK SAVE TO DESKTOP

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The Flyer that accompanies my latest show as part of Dundee’s DISCOVERY Film Festival.
It is also a great honor to be exhibiting alongside 80’s video activist GEORGE BARBER
The image on the flyer is from a recent new work I will be showing entitled - ‘ I like it you dont. You like it I dont’




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Virtual renderings of the mapped video installation to be showcased by JAYGO BLOOM
at his solo exhibition in Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre 16 Oct - 14 Nov 2010. Show entitled - ‘ARCADE’

The NEWFUTURENOW phenomenon continues next thursday, as Jaygo Bloom provides a dose of AV video medicine as part of MADE UP and the AV SOCIAL night coming live from the TATE LIVERPOOL

Thursday 27th November 2008, 7.30 - 11.00pm

Including screenings and installations featuring live processing by Koichi Chikuhi, a DVJ set by the Audio VJs, an installation by Austrian duo Decollage.tv and video screenings curated by Oli Sorenson (VJ Anyone).

‘MADE UP celebrates the power of imagination. The invited artists are passionate, hold deeply felt positions, give us something unexpected – create something new. They all use desire to move us from our habitual experience into a new space where there are new possibilities, including the potential for subjective creativity’

Big up the NE1CO collective for making this happen, hope to work with you again soon . .
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ZAPP YOURE PREGNANT
Now installed in Manchester Museum right above the Teradactyll display!




An interactive new media artwork by the artist JAYGO BLOOM
Interactive JAYGO AV exploring the subject of Childbirth and labor, documenting observations after an intensive eighteen months of visits, collaborations and discussions with Professor Jim Dornan of the Royal College of Obsteatricians, London.
After a successful premier at the Glasgow Science centre the BIRTHRITES exhibition is now installed within MANCHESTER MUSEUM and open to the public until December 2008.
Check out an online version of ZAPP YOURE PREGNANT HERE!!

Also for anyone interested a review written by Joanna Moorhead for THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER

...Bloom presents an audiovisual installation that combines the digital / technological intervention evident within the maternity ward, alongside a series of video narratives which have been created in response to the feelings and emotional responses of the expectant mothers he encountered whilst resident on the 24 hour ward.
There is a sense of entropic disorder within the visual imagery employed by Bloom, this combined with the use of alchemical and scientific motif, draws comparisons with the archaic notion of rebirth and transformation.
Through a process of paradoxical results, achieved by incompatible elements fluctuating between the digital and the physical, Bloom attempts to offer us an insight into the birthing process and the lucid emotional state of the expectant mothers within the ward.






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After three weeks of Farmyard antics, roosting with the chicks on Gorgie CITYFARM and NEWFUTURENOW front man JAYGO BLOOM and colleague IAN CAMPBELL up to the eyeballs with chicken fried ideas, we are please to announce the WORLDWIDEWEGG is now online !! offline / realtime / peckline you name it! networks connecting a hen coop on a city farm with an art gallery in Glasgow,

The WORLDWIDEWEGG is an online website and low budget breakfast bar presented as part of the ALT-W awards showcase throughout the month of August at the CCA gallery. Glasgow. Visitors to the gallery expect web enabled appliances, peck controlled iTunes and random Lucky Clucky tickets online, all controlled by the daily habits of a bunch of hungry hens.





Each time an egg gets laid a signal is sent to the web enabled toaster (via pd and arduino technology) this sets the coils in motion and returns the action of egg laying to the gallery goers as hot toast for consumption! Not only that, on the breakfast table is a peck controlled iTunes soundsystem, each peck on the piezo mic' attached to the chicken feed bowl causes the 'Cock Rock Disco' playlist to skip forward a track - perpetual flutterings of chicken inspired songs!

Online the same egg laying response generates a single random number, after six numbers are generated / six eggs are laid a lottery ticket is purchased online, therefore returning back to its source a percentage of funds recieved for this project! and hopefully making its creators millionaires! genius eh?!

We at NEWFUTURENOW like it anyhow, the project utilises all the same sophisticated technology as other more respectable sophisticated projects, it pushes the uses of these networks to the limits, with realtime biological actions governed by an equally random factor (the chickens), its a project, its a happening, an event and most importantly at the end of all this it manifests itself as something so spectacularly simple and commonplace (a slice of toast), people would ask why ever bother at all!

Visit the show throughout the month of August at the CCA gallery,
Visit online HERE
and join the LUCKYCLUCKY facebook revolution to receive regular updates and peck reports.


















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ZAPP YOUR PREGNANT!
Latest in a series of interactive new media projects by the artist JAYGO BLOOM recently premiered at the GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE - New Futures Gallery.
This piece was specially commissioned by BIRTHRITES and is part of an exhibition open to the public until September 2008, after that it travels to MANCHESTER MUSEUM.
Check out an online version HERE!!

Also for anyone interested a review written by Joanna Moorhead for THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER

...Bloom presents an audiovisual installation that combines the digital / technological intervention evident within the maternity ward, alongside a series of video narratives which have been created in response to the feelings and emotional responses of the expectant mothers he encountered whilst resident on the 24 hour ward.
There is a sense of entropic disorder within the visual imagery employed by Bloom, this combined with the use of alchemical and scientific motif, draws comparisons with the archaic notion of rebirth and transformation.
Through a process of paradoxical results, achieved by incompatible elements fluctuating between the digital and the physical, Bloom attempts to offer us an insight into the birthing process and the lucid emotional state of the expectant mothers within the ward.

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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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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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.

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

All in all, including the half a dozen power shortages
due to the temporary system we had installed, and the
many kids taking over my whole games installation and showing
their dads a thing or two, and the fact that had I the hindsight to make all
works coin-operated I would of amassed a small fortune during those few hours..
All in all everything went according to plan and looked sweet as....

'Get a room' is an annual charity event hosted by the
Brunswick Hotel in Glasgow's merchant city centre.
For one night only the hotel is taken over by artists,
musicians and performers and all the proceeds collected
go to charity. I was approached with the opportunity to do
something interactive with one of the rooms, so decided, due to
the nature of the long corridors within hotels that i would enclose
the room with a screen and have an interactive pacman piece,
that would be simply triggered each time someone walked past the
screen. this worked really well, As the party revellers got haywire with
the free drinks and stunning bands performing in the penthouse suite.
those loving munching sounds of Pacman resonated along the walls.

Random Screen is a mechanical thermo dynamic display which does not
rely on any electricity.

Each of the 12 by 12 cm pixels is built as a seperate module. A tee
candle lights and controls each pixel. The rising heat of the candle
turns a modified beer can which turns the pixel on and off. Each pixel
has its own frequence. The more bright a candle shines the faster is
the rotaion of the can.