Sunday, 3 July 2011
Friday, 17 June 2011
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Artificial Kingdom
Thursday, 9 June 2011
THREE PROGRAMMES THE THIRD FACTOR SHOULD WATCH
Unnatural histories:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011s4k0/Unnatural_Histories_Serengeti/
Megacities:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011ql6k/Andrew_Marrs_Megacities_Living_in_the_City/
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Embrace: (especiall episodes 2 and 3)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011k45f/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_Love_and_Power/
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
If you're using Twitter this term
@dWorkMe
www.dWork.me Get private-only invitation by following us! Our mission is to gather only the best design, art & education video clips and share it with you. http://www.dWork.me
@Booooooom
art+photo blog with a soft spot for hand-made work by unknown people. http://www.booooooom.com
@Foam_magazine
Foam is an international photography magazine dedicated to showcasing some of the worlds most influencial and interesting photographers. http://www.foam.org/magazine
@ThePansyProject
I am an Artist and The Pansy Project is an ongoing artwork; I plant Pansies at the site of Homophobic Abuse on the Streets! http://thepansyproject.com
@HappyMuseum
Re-imagining museums for a changing world. http://happymuseumproject.org
@museumnerd
Museums. Art. History. Art History. Education. Museology. Historiography. Logophilia. Punnery. I often post as I explore museum exhibits. I am a museum nerd. http://flavors.me/museumnerd
@newcurator
Looking at the future of museums, through changes and trends in design, individualism, internationalism, expansionism, politics, presentism and technology http://newcurator.com
@art_whats_on
Autofeed of What's on listings posted on Interface: Contemporary visual art exhibitions and events, with a platform for critical writing.
@LCC_Students
Info for current students at the London College of Communication. Want to shout about your event or exhibition? Email Kellie communications@lcc.arts.ac.uk http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/
@UAL_Platform
Exhibitions / Events / Projects / Competitions http://www.suarts.org/platform
@AIR_artists
Artists' Interaction & Representation: membership benefits and advocacy for all practising visual and applied artists. Online editor: @JackJHutchinson http://www.air-artists.org
And of course...
@ArtificialKingd
Artificial Kingdom brings together five artists; each responding to the idea of the Cabinet of Curiosities. http://artificial-kingdom.com/
@TrondEOlsen
i am stronger than yesterday
@junojuice
Fashion/Beauty/Art Photographer from East London. http://www.juno.carbonmade.com
Wapping Project bankside
ZELDA CHEATLE IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER MARLOW
The Wapping Project Bankside, SE1, Saturday 18 June 2pm, free entrance.
RSVP is kindly required.
Zelda Cheatle worked at the Photographers Gallery in the 1980’s and opened her own gallery of photography in 1989. She began the Tosca Photography Fund in 2005 with Mehmet Dalman, collecting over 5000 extraordinary images for the Fund. She lectures and curates for different universities, institutions and the WPO, and is also nominates for Prix Pictet, and Trustee of the Koestler Trust (art from prisons).
Peter Marlow, Point of Interest runs until the 2nd July: Peter Marlow joined Magnum in the 80s and throughout the yearsestablished himself as one of the most respected UK photojournalists. During the last 20 years, while on assignment, he carried out his own project,shooting more than 10,000 images. The Wapping Project Bankside shows a small selection of photographs from this personal body of work Marlowis one of the gallery artists and this is his second exhibition with the gallery. His first, London by Night, was widely praised and the vintage prints nowreside within a number of important private and institutional collections.
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
Talk at Photographer's Gallery
27 June 2011 18:30-21:00
Self-publishing your own photo book has become a popular way of keeping creative control of how your work is seen.Presenting your own work in this way is no longer seen as a vanity enterprise, but has that sigma entirely gone? How can you get your self-published book or magazine seen?
This evening we will ask how to get the best out of self-publishing websites, when is it better to go it alone, and when is it worth holding out for a publishing deal...
The Social is a monthly bar-night with tips and advice about how to get on in the photography world, organised by The British Journal of Photography and The Photographers’ Gallery
Location:
Barrio Central
Poland Street
London, W1F 8PS
Free, no booking
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974
10 March- 19 June 2011
In 1960 Ida Kar became the first photographer to have a retrospective exhibition at a major London art gallery. Fifty years after her groundbreaking installation at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery presents a re-evaluation of the work of one of the key figures of twentieth-century portraiture.
Foto8 Events at HOST
Event
- Title:
- Documentary Screening: How to Make a Book with Steidl
- When:
- 18.Jul.11 18.30
- Where:
- HOST Gallery - London
- Category:
- Film Screenings at HOST
Description
The screening is the second in a monthly programme of film screenings at HOST. Join us at 6.30pm to grab a good seat, get a drink and have some free popcorn!
Monday, 30 May 2011
ARTIFICIAL KINGDOM
Thursday, 26 May 2011
East London photomonth
photomonth east london
international photography festival oct/nov 2011
CALL FOR ENTRIES
photomonth is an international photography festival focused on East London. Founded in 2001 and taking place in October & November each year the festival aims to demonstrate the diversity of contemporary photography and reach the widest possible audience.
photomonth owes a great deal of its success to the open call for exhibitions giving the opportunity for emerging artists to be appreciated in a variety of interesting and unusual spaces alongside leading internationally renowned photographers.
photomonth is committed to the creative development of photography. The exhibitions present work of the highest possible standard, giving exposure to photographers from the world over as well as those that are locally based or come from other parts of the UK. A programme of special events creates interest and participation in photography and includes the photofair, photolounge, photo-open, portfolio review, lectures, seminars, discussions, talks by artists, walks and workshops.
Galleries & Venues are invited to participate in this event at some point during October/November 2011. Curators select their own photographers for exhibition or contact Alternative Arts for a list of suggestions that they may contact direct.
Photographers must contact galleries & venues directly to arrange for an exhibition or create their own space for a show or exhibit online. A list of galleries can be provided on request, but finding a suitable new and interesting venue in East London is equally acceptable. For good examples search the listings on www.photomonth.org
The photomonth brochure lists all participating galleries/venues giving details of each exhibition and featuring a location map. Brochures are widely distributed free of charge all over London and beyond to other cities across the world so that photomonth receives international recognition. Alternative Arts produces the brochure and provides information on photomonth to the Press and Public.
The photomonth website www.photomonth.org will carry all the latest festival information, features every exhibition and event plus updates, and is linked to photography festivals around the world, reaching a global audience.
Participation is free. Please find entry form attached and return to info@alternativearts.co.uk
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2011.
photomonth is produced by alternative arts Top Studio, Montefiore Centre, Hanbury Street, London E1 5HZ info@alternativearts.co.uk+44(0)20 7375 0441 www.alternativearts.co.uk
ISAAC JULIEN
EVERYONE 3 MONTHS FREE ART PASS
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
(ica) Media, new media, post media.26/05
To discuss these issues, Professors Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert of the International College for Cultural Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM, Bauhaus University Weimar) are joined by Boris Groys (Distinguished Global Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University and author of Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of the Media, 2002) and Éric Alliez (Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy, Kingston University). The event will be chaired by Peter Osborne, Director of the CRMEP.
interesting series
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Max Pinckers- "Not in order of appearance"
Max Pinckers is a young emerging artist who took up a challenge posed by the artist Setareh Shahbazi to make a film composed of all the fictional artists that have ever appeared in fictional films. "Not in order of appearance" was commissioned by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, this year's curators of Krakow PhotoMonth.
Supported by Self Publish Be Happy.
http://selfpublishbehappy.com/2011/05/spbh-heart-not-in-order-of-appearance-by-max-pinckers
Friday, 20 May 2011
Thursday, 19 May 2011
The Flea-Pit [E2 7RG]
The Freedom Gallery at The FleaPit hosts a regular changing program of exhibitions.
We aim to present shows of high quality contemporary art in an accessible and welcoming manner,
with a view to help artists build their reputation.
A premier art space gallery[Cork Street]
Mayfair
London
W1S 3NG
Email:enquiries@premierartspaces.com
Tel: +44 (0)207 287 8408
Fax: +44 (0)207 287 2018
Hot Shoe Gallery
An exhibition of work by graduates of LCC's international online Ma programme in
Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.
Sunday, 15 May 2011
NEW MEDIA/PUBLISHING EVENT AT LCC
Interesting event on publishing at LCC. Free for students
Start-up in Publishing: New Media Opportunities
Date: 19 May 2011Time: 6pm-8pm
Location:
Main Lecture Theatre, LCC, SE1 6SB
Event details:
Explore how to take opportunities in the new digital publishing landscape across different platforms (print, digital, social media) and devices (iPad, iPhone applications, e-readers, etc). Find out about different business models for start-ups, how to define your audience, ways to package your valued content, and how you can promote your creative work effectively in the competitive global media space. Pick up tips from experienced publishers and new media experts.
Speakers:
Mia Bennett
CEO, Turned On Digital
Mia has a background in a strategy and technology consulting for over 10 years. During this time, she led multidisciplinary and international teams across sectors for the likes of IBM, Siemens, News Corp and the BBC. She is now the founder and CEO of Turned On Digital – a boutique mobile agency that develops branded and original mobile apps. Working with clients including Harper Collins, Channel Four, ITN, and Optomen. Their apps have been covered by the BBC, the Guardian, Huffington Post, Fast Company to name a few.
www.turnedondigital.com
Andrew Tuck
Editor, Monocle
Andrew Tuck has been Monocle’s editor since its launch in 2007 and is based in the London HQ. He joined Monocle from the Independent newspaper group. Monocle is a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design. Since its launch, Monocle has grown and now seen as one of the most respected voices in contemporary culture.
www.monocle.com
Keji Mustapha
Acting Editor, Sketchbook Magazine
Keji came to publishing having initially started in a career in law. Internships at established publications such as Look Magazine and Sunday Times Style, amongst others, served as the ideal learning curve into the world of publishing on a larger scale. Now the Acting Editor of the illustrative and off-beat publication, Sketchbook Magazine, Keji has collaborated with, interviewed and worked with the likes of Susie Bubble, the Design Museum, Urban Outfitters, Henry Holland, Stuart Stockdale, John Paul Thurlow, Freewheelin PR, and other such renowned brands and figures in the creative industries.
www.sketchbookmagazine.com
Date: Thursday 19 May 2011
Time: 6pm-8pm
Location: Main Lecture Theatre, LCC, Elephant & Castle, SE1 6SB
Cost: Free
ECCA would like to acknowledge the valuable input from Desmond O'Rourke of LCC MA Publishing <www.ma-publishing.com> for the organisation of this event.
Booking: 41 place(s) of 150 available
Student or graduate
Online booking of events are only available to members who meet the eligibility criteria.
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Sony World Photography Awards Exhibitions
Until 22 May
South Wing
Open daily 10.00-18.00 (last admission 17.30)
£7.50/£5 concession (OAP/UK and international students/teachers with ID/unwaged with ID)
See hundreds of images on display from the winners and runners-up of the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards. Experience a vast collection of international contemporary photography, spanning subjects from Current Affairs, Sport, Portraiture, Landscape, Fashion and more.
Friday, 13 May 2011
Museums at night
Night owls can look forward to a weekend of nocturnal adventures as museums unlock their doors for the annual after-hours celebration.
Whether you’re a regular museum goer or someone who normally walks past without venturing in then this is the night for you.
There is a huge range of events on offer that range from family friendly events, tours, and debates to ghostly readings and evenings of music and dance.
Each of the individual museums taking part will be deciding how and when to run their event so opening times and dates will vary.
The venues involved are never usually open so late, so the weekend marks a rare opportunity to take in their exhibitions at a potentially more convenient, and certainly more exciting, hour.
Last year 2,200 museums in 40 European counties took part, including over 150 venues across the UK.
Don't miss the chance to experience London's museums after hours.
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Sunday, 8 May 2011
INGE JACOBSEN
Inge Jacobsen is juxtaposing photographic traditions with the traditional crafts used within fashion to create an interesting perspective on how we view imagery in popular culture.
Friday, 6 May 2011
Exhibition - Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography highlights the work of 17 South African photographers, all of whom live and work in the country and whose images were made between 2000 and 2010. Each photographer is represented by one or more projects that are linked by the depiction of people and a self-conscious engagement with South Africa's political and photographic past.
Photographs showing figures raise pertinent issues of identity: how the gaze of the camera, photographer and viewer is returned by the subject, and the balance of power which that interaction implies. The 'figure' also implies not only the human figure but also the metaphorically figurative. Photographs can be like a 'figure' of speech, composed of familiar words but containing an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation.
As the Fictions part of this exhibition's title suggests, it points not just to the geographical and social specificity of these photographs but also to the enigmatic relationship with the 'real' world that they seem to depict. A photograph is always a translation, distillation or filter of reality seen from the physical and conceptual standpoint of the person creating the image - as well as that of the viewer.
Many of the works shown in the exhibition are extracts from extended essayistic sequences, but can nevertheless be understood as fragments containing the essence of the whole. Many of the photographers' series address, among other concerns: the threshold between documentary photography and fine art practice; the balance of the specific and the universal and the dialogue between the local and the global.
The excitement and urgency surrounding photography in South Africa today is partly explained by its local context: embedded in colonial history, ethnography, anthropology, journalism and political activism, the best photography emerging from the country has absorbed and grapples with its weighty history, questioning, manipulating and revivifying its visual codes and blending them with contemporary concerns. Post-Apartheid, complex and fundamental issues - race, society, gender, identity - remain very much on the surface. This is reflected by image makers who harness the resulting scenes as a form of creative tension within their personal vision. Here, distinctive photographic voices have emerged: local in character and subject matter, but of wider international interest because of their combined intensity.
The Figures & Fictions exhibition and related publication is a project conceived by Tamar Garb, Professor of Art History at University College London in collaboration with V&A Senior Curator of Photographs, Martin Barnes.
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Sitting in a Tree: Me & the Atrworld at EFA
EFA Project Space
Kino: Russian Film Pioneers
Discover why Russian cinema set the world on fire.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/may_seasons/kino_russian_film_pioneers
Detroit ruined building.
Monday, 2 May 2011
This exhibition presents the vibrant and sophisticated photographic culture that has emerged in post-apartheid South Africa. It features works by some of the most exciting and inventive photographers living and working in South Africa today. The photographs on display respond to the country's powerful rethinking of issues of identity across race, gender, class and politics.
Conference
Figures & Fictions: Ethnography and Photography from the Global South
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 June
10.30-17.30
The V & A in collaboration with the centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, University College London, is organising an international conference to coincide with the exhibition Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography.
Speakers include Achille Mbembe, Michael Godby, Jo Ractliffe, Joy Gregory, Zwelethu Methethwa, Roelof Petrus van Wyk, Sarah Nuttall, Elizabeth Edwards, Saul Dubow, Annie Coombes, Ashraf Jamal and Christopher Pinney
£50, £40 concessions, £5 students
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Benjamin Critton
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Wim Wenders.
http://www.haunchofvenison.com/en/#page=london.exhibitions.future.wim_wenders
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
8mm Film
Could you let me know asap please.
Thanks
Sunday, 24 April 2011
Manifesto Project
Guys, could you first introduce us to Manifesto.? What is it exactly?
Manifesto. is an on-going project about design manifestos. It started as an exhibition that was displayed at XYZ Gallery (Treviso, Italy) and then at Shandong University of Art and Design (Jinan, China). Then it became a book and a website. It might turn into something else in the future. It collects the personal and professional beliefs of some of the smartest contemporary designers: Bruce Mau, Stefan Sagmeister, Milton Glaser, Bob Gill, to mention just a few. Some of the manifestos are programmatic pieces of writing, others are detailed work manuals, all are passionate tributes to graphic design, creativity and the design culture. A lot of words and ideas, basically.What do you hope to achieve with the project?
Back when we started in 2009 our goal was to take some time to ruminate on how people design. The idea was that of keeping the final result in the background and focus on the working process. We thought that there was no better way to do it than by asking our favourite designers how they approached their job, day after day, in their studios. While collecting the manifestos we realised that most of them not only explained how the designers liked to do their job, but also why they were doing it. This helped us a lot to establish what the aim of the project really was. Finding the ultimate purpose that pushes designers to design and investigating the way this purpose ends up leading the working process. We would also like to boost a new debate within the design community about these topics. There is a strong need out there for going back to the basics. That’s what we feel at least.Of all the manifestos on the site (of which there are many, both old and new), which is your favourite?
We selected them all, so we can’t really say. Is that too politically correct? No, really, it’s hard. Some were written by those we consider our masters. Others by young, independent designers whose felt so fresh, witty. They even contradict each other in some cases. A special mention must be given to Bob Noorda’s Credo. Before passing away last year, Bob accepted to participate and wrote a manifesto exclusively for the exhibition. It’s as clear as the tube maps and the logos that he designed.Do you, the curators, have your own personal manifestos?
Our manifesto is this research, the collection of the manifestos. For the moment, at least.Finally, can you tell us a little about the traveling exhibition? Where is it now and where is it going next?
Since dismantling the exhibition in China we’ve been receiving requests to take Manifesto. somewhere else, but we’ve preferred to put them on stand-by until the end of April. We are thinking of a slightly different format for the next ones. More space to words, more focus on the concept of exchange and debate. After two years working on this project we realised that, despite their dictatorial reputation, manifestos are open objects, that ask to be analysed and discussed. For example, we believe that the most interesting part of Disrepresentationism Now! by Experimental Jetset is actually the foreword they asked us to add, and in which they partially take distance from what their younger selves wrote back in 2001. We want Manifesto. to boost these kind of debates. We would like it to be the beginning of a global discussion that starts on the web and continues into galleries and design schools. We are open to proposals, and anyway, the debate has started already.http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/manifesto-projecthttp://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/manifesto-project
Matthew Brandt
Matthew Brandt
matthew brandt's work is looking at the photographic landscape and the metaphysical space generated by the image. People intrested in what a landscape can become should look at his work especially his series: Lakes and Reservoirs.
Friday, 22 April 2011
Magic Lantern show - The Last Tuesday Society
It is a magic lantern show which looks quite interesting. I couldnt manage to copy and paste the text over so here is the link
http://thehendrickslectureseries.co.uk/magiclanterngothic.html
THE LAST TUESDAY SOCIETY PRESENTS: Walpurgisnacht - A Gothic Magic Lantern Show with Mervyn Head / Last Tuesday Society / Hendricks Lecture Series
at Viktor Wynd's Academy of Domestic Science, England - London
£10.00
The next exhibition at Raven Row
Next exhibition
At Earth
2 May to 22 May 2011
Open every day 11am–6pm
This three-week long exhibition celebrates the work of London artist Peter Kennard. The exhibition will represent Kennard's practice of forty years through photomontages, paintings, and new digital images made with Tarek Salhany. These works are drawn primarily from Kennard's new book (assisted by Salhany), titled @earth, a 192-page photo-essay (Tate Publishing, £9.99), which will be available from the day of the opening. The book uses images alone to argue that the attempt by a few to dominate the majority and exploit global resources has led to wars and crises of the economy and the environment.
Since the seventies Kennard has been committed to effecting political change by distributing photomontages through the mass media, with remarkable success, notably in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. More recently he has used other media, including painting and installation, to address social injustice generally and globally.
Kennard makes images that are immediate and accessible. They are designed to elicit response from a society complacent to image saturation, as well as gallery audiences unused to straightforward and unapologetically emotive statements. In a gallery context Kennard's work questions how images function rhetorically, and how an art that prioritises political effect might look.
Peter Kennard was born in London in 1949. Between 1965 and 1979, he studied at Byam Shaw, the Slade and the Royal College of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at the ICA, London (1981); Barbican, London (1985); and Pump House Gallery, London (2008). Since 1990 he has also had seven solo exhibitions at Gimpel Fils, London. His work has been included in the group exhibitions ‘Rude Britannia’, Tate Britain (2010) (kennardphillipps); ‘Media Burn’, Tate Modern (2006); and ‘Forms of Resistance’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2007). Kennard is a senior tutor in Photography at the Royal College of Art, and lives in London.
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering - a 10 DVD set of films on a legendary series of theater, dance, music and performances at the New York 69th Regiment Armory in 1966 by 10 New York artists: Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, David Tudor, Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay, Robert Whitman, Steve Paxton, Alex Hay, Lucinda Childs and Öyvind Fahlström.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
The New Gypsies
Krakow PhotoMonth
