CURRENT EXHIBITION
Decorative Newsfeeds
by Thomson & Craighead
+ Lingo scripting by Gavin Baily | Supported by The University
of Huddersfield
DOCUMENTATION
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+ EXHIBITION AND OPENING EVENT PICTURES CAN BE VIEWED HERE
+ MORE DOCUMENTATION
+ PREVIEW BY ELIZIA VOLKMANN FOR THE LEEDS GUIDE
Fri 23 April - Fri 25 June 04
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Mon - Fri
Decorative Newsfeeds is a networked installation employing
a live text based news feed from the Internet re-presented in the
context of the Medialounge gallery. The news feed is projected on
both sides of a screen suspended in the middle of the darkened space,
and accompanied by the sound of data passing. The animated sequence
of textual characters are constantly updated and follow a series
of shifting decorative curves; global headlines overlap themselves
and each other rendering the text beautiful but obscured.
Decorative Newsfeeds, Thomson & Craighead,
2004
Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead work primarily
with video, sound and electronic networked space to create gallery
and site-specific artworks and installations. They have exhibited
widely both nationally and internationally, having earned an excellent
reputation as leading UK practitioners in the field of New Media
art.
Much of Jon and Alison’s gallery and web-based
works follow the artistic traditions of appropriation and manipulation
while exploring the myriad ways in which new technologies and
electronic global communications networks are changing the way
we perceive the world around us.
Recent exhibitions include a presentation of their
major new work, ‘Short Films about Flying’ for
Mobile Home Gallery in London, and a mini-survey of three
recent installations at V2 in Rotterdam; group exhibitions
and special commissions include 010101: Art in Technological
Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art & Money
On-line, Tate Britain; Beuro Friedrich, Berlin; Game-show
at the Massachusetts Musuem of Modern Art; Re:mote at The
Photographers Gallery, London; BananaRAM in Ancona, Italy
and Mobile Phonics at z33, Belgium.
http://www.thomson-craighead.net
A Short Film About Flying, Thomson & Craighead
Thu 19 Feb 04
7:00pm - 9:30pm
Café Bar
The Media Centre
FREE
Licensed Bar
A relaxed event to mark the opening of each new
Medialounge exhibition, the evening includes artist's talk and
audience Q&A session.
SPEAKERS: Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead
Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead will present and
discuss their work, including Decorative Newsfeeds, which
opens in the Medialounge on Fri 23 April [see above for info].
For further information please contact Clare Danek on 0870 990
5007 or email:
[email protected]
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Confirmed Medialounge exhibitions for 2004:
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Jen Southern
July - Sept 2004
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Oct - Dec 2004
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