‘88 Constellations’ has been included an internet project being put together by Blackflash Magazine that can be seen here.

‘88 Constellations for Wittgenstein” and “A is for Apple” have been included in a show at The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland in Baltimore. The show is called “A Slow Reveal… In the rapidly changing world of Internet art in the twenty-first century”. There is an essay by the curator, Jennie Fleming. The show includes work by Kate Pullington, Chris Joseph, Andy Campbell, Judi Alston, J.R. Carpenter, Annette Weintraub, Roderick Coover, Mark Amerika, & Jody Zellen.

Baltimore is a fantastic place. I had a large show there at MICA Gallery in Baltimore in 2005 and I really liked the vibe of the place. It seems that there is a really strong underground culture going on.

88 Constellations for Wittgenstein will be included in the Media Art Exhibition as part of the FILE 2009 RIO that will take place at Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from March 10th to April 19th, 2009. I have participated in this festival a number of times before but haven’t been to Rio yet.

The New Genre Festival presented by Living Arts in Tulsa is presenting ‘A is for Apple’ as part of a program called [::ART.net::] Curated by J.D. McPherson.

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‘88 Constellations’ has been included in the HZ Net Gallery that is curated by Sachiko Hayashi. This magazine has excellent articles and curation. ‘A is for Apple’ was included in the first edition of this journal.

hz-Journal

‘Meanwhile’, an interactive, non-linear film I made in 2006 with my collaborators in the group ‘computer.says.no: Shelley Simmons, Chris Mendis and Jeff Howard has won an award at the CINEMA TOUS ECRANS, 14e Festival International du Film in Geneva Switzerland. Our piece won the Reflet d’Or of the best interactive multimedia fiction. The jury said that “The price is awarded to a piece of work that put the multimedia feature in the center of its conception and thus allows to develop a new narrative experience. This experience wanders from the inflexibility of  cinematic narration and of the interactive scenarii of video games.”

We are pretty chuffed and are trying to figure out how we can all get to Switzerland to use the €4000 in production services that comes with the prize.
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The project can be seen here; Meanwhile

‘88 Constellations’ will be included in the installations section of the 12th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA in Novi Sad, Serbia from December 12 – 14th 2008. This is another festival that screened ‘A is for Apple’ in the past and it looks like a really good program with lots of experimental video.

Videomedeja Festival Website.

I’m off to New York next week for an exhibition of ‘88 Constellations’ and ‘A is for Apple’ at the Pace University Digital Gallery. I will be talking on Thursday, November 13 at 6pm. I am showing my work with Michelle Gay who did her MFA years ago at NSCAD. New York should be a blast. Students from the Digital Projects class will be coming down for a class trip and we will be zipping around New York until Tuesday.

Pace University Digital Gallery

‘88 Constellations’ has been included in an exhibition of net.art at the Jyväskylä Art Museum October 29 – November 23, 2008 at the Lower Gallery, Holvi in Finland. You can link to the exhibition here: Live Herring08.

I made it out to the VAD Festival in Girona, Spain. Girona is a smallish city North of Barcelona. The festival took place in the city art gallery and had another venue for performances in the evening. I had a great time hanging out with artists from the US, Germany, Quebec, Belgium, and England. ‘88 Constellations’ was installed  in the gallery which seemed to get  a lot of traffic. The video screenings were great, especially the dance programme.

While I was in that part of Spain I wanted to go visit Walter Benjamin’s grave in the small border town of Port Bou. I made the trip with two artists from the festival and we took a train up to Port Bou, visited WB’s gravesite and even found the hotel where he committed suicide. My motivation for the trip was to research a new project called “The End” that incorporates the story of Benjamin’s death in 1940.

I also made it down to Barcelona where I had a fantastic day exploring the city. I love to wander through a city I don’t know and Barcelona is a great city to explore.