Tumblelink April 20, 2008
Me And Billy Bob: artist Jillian MacDonald has a thing for Billy Bob Thornton.
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Tumblelink January 17, 2008
Nicola Atkinson Does Fly is doing some fascinating public art stuff in Abbeyview, Dunfermline. And, unlike most pesky artists, she has a great website and project weblog.
« »Tumblelink December 14, 2007
Excellent Stirling gallery The Changing Room is moving to new premises after ten years.
« »Tumblephoto December 13, 2007
From a brilliant game of ‘guess the album from an MS Paint version‘ at Optimo (Echatio).
« »Tumblelink May 22, 2007
Her Noise – The Making Of–a film about the 2005 show at South London Gallery.
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Tumblequote February 1, 2007
The machine has rejected ornament and the machine has everywhere established itself. We are irrevocably committed to a machine age.–Herbert Read, Art & Industry, 1934.
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Tumblelink January 22, 2007
The Ad Generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language.
« »Tumblequote January 20, 2007
A coarsely understood modernism is at once an historical scandal and a contemporary disability–Michael Levenson
« »Tumblequote January 17, 2007
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger, because he’s already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn’t been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively–Alisdair Gray, Lanark
# art, cities, glasgow, psychogeography
Tumblelink August 8, 2006
Empathic Painting, an interactive painterly rendering whose appearance adapts in real time to reflect the perceived emotional state of the viewer.
# art, empathy, painting, recognition, technology
Tumblelink August 3, 2006
Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv–A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner’s closed world. Crudely constructed from such things as spoons, shoelaces and upholstery tacks, shivs lie somewhere between the graceful and the grotesque.
« »Tumblephoto July 7, 2006
Still From Laddy And The Lady, by Henry Coombes, uploaded by Mot.
# art, film, glasgow, tramway, video
Tumblequote July 7, 2006
(1) The artist may construct the piece. (2) The piece may be fabricated. (3) The piece may not be built. [Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist, the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.]–Lawrence Weiner
« »Tumblelink May 1, 2006
VideoDownloader is a Firefox extension that, well, lets you download video from YouTube, Google Video and more than 60 other sites.
Try it out with the lovely videos listed here, ranging from Basquiat painting to Borges lecturing.
# art, extensions, firefox, video
Tumblephoto April 24, 2006
Briony danced outside a pub to mark the opening of the Anderson Magee show at Limousine Bull, Aberdeen.
# art, dance, performance
Tumblequote April 13, 2006
The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.–Douglas Huebler
« »Tumblephoto April 6, 2006
Since 1970, all of my drawings have been made with just one kind of mark. I put the pen on the paper and flick it… Most of my drawings contain thousands of marks.
« »Tumblephoto April 5, 2006
Morse Video, by Mot.
This is a still from a video by Andres Ramirez Gaviria that “uses Morse code to visualize and sonify a section of the index from the book, Point and Line to Plane, written by Wassily Kandinsky in 1926.”
« »Tumblelink April 1, 2006
10 Banned Albums–artist/musician Brian Joseph Davis took ten banned records, set fire to them, then played them, resulting in some surprisingly lovely sounds.
« »Tumblephoto February 17, 2006
Contact Sheet, by Mot.
These photographs by Janet are for the book we’re working on with art duo Anderson & Macgee.
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Tumblequote February 3, 2006
Fingere ex argilla similitudines Butades Sicyonius figulus primus invenit Corinthi filiae opera, quae capta amore iuventis, abeunte illo peregre, umbram ex facie eius ad lucernam in pariete lineis circumscripsit, quibus pater eius inpressa argilla typum fecit et cum ceteris fictilibus induratum igni proposuit, eumque servatum in Nymphaeo, donec Mummius Corinthum everterit, tradunt. — Pliny, via Lacus Curtius, telling the tale of the Maid of Corinth.
« »Tumblephoto January 12, 2006
Children, by Govan. (I’ve been meaning to photograph this for ages myself)
# art, children, graffiti, stencil
Tumblelink January 3, 2006
EGOBURGER Winter 2005/06 – a new quarterly online magazine type thing edited by Torsten Lauschmann, with art, music photography, essays, &c. (I have a photography, audio and text piece in the next issue, coming in Spring.)
« »Tumblephoto December 8, 2005
Cathy Wilkes Installation, Selective Memory, SNGOMA #7, by Mot.
The Selective Memory show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is one part mince, one part brilliant, and one part truly great. This is a little detail from the truly great part.
« »Tumblelink December 2, 2005
“China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795″, Royal Academy, London — a passionate review by Dan Hill. If your read this and don’t want to see the exhibit as soon as is humanly possible, I’ll eat my hat.
« »Tumblelink November 18, 2005
Tired of the Soup du Jour? Some Problems with ‘New Formalism’ by Nick Evans, who has a show coming up at Sorcha Dallas which, in part, looks set to explore further the issues he discusses here.
# art, formalism, glasgow, theory
Tumblephoto November 2, 2005
A still (I think) from Cathy Wilkes’ new film piece, Most Women Never Experience. (Read me gushing about her most recent show in Glasgow.)
