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upcoming perhaps

1: For definite: there is our group show happening in Linz, Austria- with KIRSTY LAMONT + R. MacMANUS, BB KLARE, M. TOLLIN, J. WHITBREAD It is Opening: Mon. October 5, 7 p.m.Exhibition duration: October 6 - 28, 2020 Long Night of Museums: Saturday October 3rd To do for this: finish 5 more tasks and collate into one piece of film for Kirsty. Plan a scheduled [...]

2020-08-24T06:25:49+00:00August 24th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Digital Drawing Collaborative Project- Finished. Kind of.

How to treat all this work? I asked artists and creative friends to contribute to this project. In total 21 artists collaborated, which is pretty fabulous. Some of them sent multiple responses which were very different, so in total I had about 30 collaborative responses. It was a great way to objectify my physical self, in an abstract way and address all the issues I [...]

2020-08-05T08:15:41+00:00August 5th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

links from online essay History of Internet Art

https://anthology.rhizome.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Shulgin http://www.teleportacia.org/war/ https://entry.j-mediaarts.jp/en/submissions/943/complete https://frieze.com/article/meme-accounts-upending-art-worlds-class-system links from a switch lecture on the history of internet art. unfortunately for the guy who was lecturing the best thing about this was the chat box, by far

2020-07-28T09:15:59+00:00July 28th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Digital Drawing Collaborative Project- So far

This had started the last time I posted. As in; I had received some works back but I am not sure if I had started posting them to insta. here is what I have chosen to post so far: I have been posting the images I have been sent to instagram, not that that is the final destination as such for the work but to [...]

2020-07-22T22:32:01+00:00July 22nd, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Income streams, funding and other stressful matters

I am sat here reviewing the guidelines for applying for a visual arts bursary with the arts council. It is almost humorous how the very act of reading the guidelines gives me acute imposter syndrome. I then read over the feedback I got from the recent Covid 19 award application, which was just scores, and the feedback for the first round of the bursary awards, [...]

2020-07-14T15:03:28+00:00July 14th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

collabs so far

collaborated images sent to me so far Here are the images people I have asked to be involved have sent back so far. I am happy because what I had hoped would happen is happening- the image is being transformed in the hands of the collaborator. Each time it becomes less about me and more about them which i had hoped for- so it would [...]

2020-07-13T06:39:37+00:00July 13th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Digital drawing project

I submitted 2 items to the CIACLA online program. Pack, unpack and Suck/Blow I did not get an email acknowledgment of submitting. Let's wait and see. It's unpaid but I can't really talk as I am asking people to collaborate with me on my drawing project. This is the info that I am sending out to people: Digital Graffitti- a collaborative drawing project by Rachel [...]

2020-07-09T07:31:06+00:00July 9th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

am

So in a bid to maintain some control over things Ive been getting up early, Im managing 2 or 3 mornings a week at 6am. This is, when achieved, very productive. I get emails sent and this week a job application rewritten and sent- all of which are very hard to do unless I get some peace and quiet to concentrate. So yes its great [...]

2020-07-03T07:32:40+00:00July 3rd, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Making Space Insta Res

Think this starts on 26th? Today being 23 that means I will be starting Friday? OK I jsut checked its the 24th, starts tomorrow. They asked in email: What does the word SPACE mean for you? •How would you use SPACE? •And what do you want to MAKE SPACE for?  SO considering these: Obviously I am constrantly trying to make space and to validate the time I [...]

2020-06-23T06:39:46+00:00June 23rd, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

WTF

OK just spent 20 mins trying to update my passwords in my new mac. Done rnow. Sigh. If you could keep emotion out of things it would be so much easier sometimes. Like yesterday. Ronan came home from work with the news that the house we had hoped to buy, had nearly bought but had backed out of because of the realisation that we were [...]

2020-06-23T06:07:09+00:00June 23rd, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|
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