Here’s a first glimpse at some new work, its in my studio and in development at the moment,

My first solo show at the Wyer Gallery. The private view is on the 17th January, then from 18th January till 15th February.

Wyer Gallery
191 St. Johns Hill
London
SW11 1TH
www.thewyergallery.co.uk

Theres some info here:
http://www.thewyergallery.co.uk/b4.htm

I have a solo show opening at the Wyer Gallery on 17th January 2007. Check out the video advert appearing in the online issue of Art Review.

An online version of my new work Paramount Pictures can be seen in the portfolio here: Paramount Pictures

You cant help but be completely amazed as you watch the News at Seven it presents the news in the most original and compelling ways i’ve seen, definately one of the most interesting developments on the web i’ve seen in a long time.

News at Seven is completely automatic, it uses the web to find news for each day, then goes and finds videos and images that are relevant to play along with it, it also searches the blogosphere to find relevant comments on that news story, the whole thing without human intervention. more here.

My first proper solo show is coming up in January (opening reception January 17th). So I’m working hard to get everything finalised.

The piece in the picture is called Paramount Pictures, its taken from the intro animation at the start of Paramount Pictures’ films. The animation in the form of a series of 35mm slides shows only a section of the snowline where the sun hits it on the Paramount mountain. A series of 80 slides forms a slow motion abstraction of a very recognizable logo.

The Dark Side of the Rainbow has been included in the Cologne Online Film Festival - their press release is below, the website is here:
http://coff.newmediafest.org/

Media/Art/Cologne - Press Release
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VideoChannel is proud to launch
Cologne OFF II
2nd edition of Cologne Online Film Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
online on 12 October 2006
and simultaneously offline on occasion of
PI Performance & Intermedia Festival Szczecin/Poland
via screenings on  PI 5 VideoFestival 2006
20-22 October 2006
at National Museum Szczecin and Officyna Space of Art Szczecin..

Cologne OFF II stands under the theme of “image vs music”
and includes 34 digital short films and videos
curated by Agricola de Cologne.

In “Image vs Music” - the visual component of the moving image goes
into a competition with the invisible component, i.e sound & music.
The selection is presenting a wide range of digital short film and video productions
from abstract animations to figurative narratives,
featuring these artists/directors—>

Andreja Andric (Italy), Mauro Arrighi, Mauro & Marco Buziol (Italy)
Babel (Canada), Bret Battey (UK)
Daniel Blinkhorn (Australia), Carol-Ann Braun (France)
Bundaberg Media Research Group (Aus), David Burns (USA)
Matthieu Capel (France), Sean Capone, Sean (USA), Jason Paul Cardot (USA)
Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (Iceland), Angie Eng (USA)
Erika Frenkel (Brazil), Doron Golan (USA)
Sinasi Günes (Turkey), Anatol Kraczyna (Italy), Lane Last (USA)
Daniel Lo Iacono (Germany), Girolamo Marri (Italy),
Alistair McClymont (UK), Dennis H. Miller (USA), Mylicon/EN (Italy)
Leticia El Halli Obeid (Argentina), Jimmy Owenns (France)
Simone Paterson (USA), Samuel Pellman(USA)
Laurent  Pernot   (France), Pygar - Hugo Olim & Joao Ricardo (Portugal)
Rob Seward, Rob (USA), Gabriel Shalom (USA), Shawn Towne (USA),
VJ 1MPAR aka Henrique Roscoe  (Brazil), Sonja VUK (Croatia)

CologneOFF is publishing on occasion of CologneOFF II launch
a PDF catalogue available for free download
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_2nd_edition_2006.pdf

The screenings include selections  of
CologneOFF II - image vs music
list of the 17 selected artists can be downloaded as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_2_image-vs-music.pdf
and
CologneOFF I - 1st edition of Cologne Online Film Festival,
entitled “genderscapes”, which is dealing the gender identity issues,
list of the 13 selected artists can be downloaded as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_I_genderscapes.pdf

CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
is a mobile film and video festival
founded & directed by Agricola de Cologne
and organised online and offline by VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

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PI  Performance & Intermedia Festival
–>Performance
–>Video Art - PI 5 Video Festival,
–>Video Installation
–> MEDIA ART EXHIBITION
selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - show for Peace
–>20 -22 October 2006   SZCZECIN-SWINOUJSCIE / POLAND

Organiser: :
–>place of art OFFICYNA

Co-organisers:
–>National Museum Szczecin,
–>City of Swinoujscie
–>Agricola de Cologne, director of Media/Art/Cologne  and CologneOFF- Cologne /D.

Curators:
–>Agricola de Cologne  (D)
–>Antoni Karwowski  (PL)
–>Andrzej Pawelczyk   (PL)

more info on. http://www.newmediaserver.org/off/pi_festival2006.html
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the global window to mediaart from Cologne/Germany
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I’ve just got a new studio in Forest Hill - for a few days anyway - to prepare for a show starting on the 31st May. The show is called Parable, and its at Temporary Contemporary in Deptford. I’m making a piece of work called Dark Side of the Rainbow which stems from an old rumour that if you combine the Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd with The Wizard of Oz (i.e. use the album as the film’s soundtrack) they merge perfectly. This mash-up of film and album was dubbed by previous remixers as The Dark Side of The Rainbow.

The work will involve a few different elements related to The Dark Side of The Rainbow phenomenon.

I gave my first lecture after the Royal College (if you don’t include a seminar at Hull) last Monday 27th March. Daunting, but really rewarding. I had 2 full days of tutoring the students on the Fine Art BA course at Leeds Met. Theres some great work being made there and a real determination amoung the students - can’t wait to back and see how its all progressing.

If you saw the show 6, 180 milligrams of the Evian mountain and were wondering why the name has changed in my portfolio - well this is why:

Its part of an ongoing project that started at HAL (see it here in the portfolio) where i boiled Evian away as part of an installation. When the show at Reception Space was named I envisaged that 20 litres of Evian water was the maximum I would be able to boil by the time the show started. However, I refined my evapouration technique and managed to get 50 litres boiled away.

It was too late to rename the show at the time, and conceptually it wasn’t too much of an issue, but I felt that I wanted the exact amount in the online portfolio - so i’ve renamed it.