Drawing Skirts: New Papercuts
18 April – 30 May 2008
University Gallery and Baring Wing, Northumbria University, Sandyford Road, Newcastle upon Tyne
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The Textile Futures Research Group, University of the Arts London (UAL) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) explore the coded enquiry of three artists and researchers. Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, TFRG Guest Artist, Dr Barbara Rauch, Deputy Director SCIRIA (Sensory Computer Interface Research & Innovation in the Arts), UAL and Nicola Naismith, Lecturer at Norwich School of Art and Design.
http://www.tfrg.org.uk/node/10865
Following presentations, Dr Jane Harris (Director of TFRG), Helen Sloan (Director of SCAN) and Jess Laccetti (Institute of Creative Technologies) will conduct a panel discussion with the artists.
Tickets are £10 / £8 Concessions / £6 ICA Members
Available from the ICA: www.ica.org.uk / Box Office: +44(0)20 7930 3647
Institute of Contemporary Arts, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH. (GOOGLE MAP)
Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print
January 18-April 3, 2008
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
U.S.A.
This groundbreaking new exhibition examines the intersection of
digital technology and the graphic arts. Imaging by Numbers surveys
the use of computers in printmaking and drawing through approximately
60 works created by nearly 40 North American and European artists
from the 1950s to the present. The exhibition focuses on artists who
wrote their own computer code or collaborated with computer
engineers. Beginning with photographs of electronic waveforms by Ben
Laposky and Herbert Franke, Imaging by Numbers includes drawings made
with plotter printers by the likes of Manfred Mohr and Edward Zajec,
explorations of virtual worlds composed with 3-D imaging software by
David Em, and works created with inventive modifications and
combinations of traditional and digital printing techniques by such
artists as Lane Hall and Roman Verostko. Contemporary artists writing
their own computer programs or altering existing software – Joshua
Davis and C.E.B. Reas, for example – are also represented.
Imaging by Numbers is curated by Block Museum senior curator Debora
Wood and artist Paul Hertz.
Information about the show is here:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/current/imaging.html
Across the Water:Symbolism in the digital wilderness-Paintings by Dan Hays
24 Nov- 23 Dec. 2007 The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust 183 Bow Rd, London E3 2SL
www.bowarts.org
Dan Hays paintings reflect ‘An interest in the immateriality of digital imagery and the screen, combined with painting’s traditional focus on the paradox of representing light in coloured substance’. They address the issue of the nature of the digital surface, interrogating ‘found’ images that are mediated through digital technology. Highly recommended. Further reference can be found in Dan Hays Impressions of Colorado. Published by Southampton City Art Gallery.
Michael Craig-Martin A is for Umbrella
Gagosian Gallery 6-24 Britannia St. London wc1x 9jd
Dec 1st 2007-Jan 31st 2008
Latest exhibition of Craig-Martin features new computer monitor works which present an ever changing surface to his library of vector drawn objects. Highly recommended. For more information see www.gagosian.com You might also be interested in an interview I did with Craig-Martin in Morandi’s Legacy; Influences on British Art, published by Philip Wilson 2006.
Paul Coldwell
An exhibition of new system-based artworks produced by Simon Schofield during a two year NESTA Fellowship. Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, WC1H OAB. 1st, 2nd, and 5th November 2007, 1-5pm. Private view 1st November 6-8. For images and more information visit www.simonschofield.net
A review by Guy Begbie (Book Arts Co-ordinator, Herefordshire College of Art & Design) of Paul Coldwell’s recent bookwork, Kafka’s Doll, made in collaboration with the poet Anthony Rudolf appears in Book Arts Newsletter, no 36, Aug-Sept. Book Arts Newsletter is a publication edited by Sarah Bodman and produced by Bristol School of Art, Media & Design, UWE. It is available Online from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk. In the images for the bookwork, Kafka’s Doll, Coldwell explores the idea of surface as a space to conceal and reveal information, integrating the languages of half tone photography and drawing. The bookwork is available to view at the Eagle Gallery, London (www.emmahilleagle.com)
