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TXTSPK // MW4MW
No full textTo Compute the Meaning of Words: the Digital Economy the Beginning of the end and the language of Things by Danny Aldred. Questioning authorship and challenging the ideas of production, my response references identity & exploitation, capturing the ideas of consumerism from both sides of culture and then using these same methods to present it back to the viewer. 1/ inboxes: txtspk: series of text-works using unedited sms messages received 2008 - 2009 / nokia 6500s. 2/ mw4mw: sousveillance activity / captured from various website then digitally collaged & cut-ou
The liberation of good over bad
No full text"Ten Days at the Laundry" The Yard an artist studio collective curated an Exhibiton and Event at an alternative venue at the Hyde Laundry Premises in the heart of Winchester. This project brought together artists from different creative groups in Winchester in an sequence of events that cover a range of contrasting disciples never put together in Winchester befor
Drifting through the looking glass [a road less travelled] making living books with old and new tools
No full textFrom Winchester, UK, artist Danny Aldred acts as a stationary, virtual flaneur, processing a far-away geography understood through Google Earth. He selects and transmits his experience of the area surrounding Street Road image by image via fax. The viewer is in turn invited to experience this re-invented version of the very landscape that surrounds him or her through the artist’s digital eye, traveling to unfamiliar territory both within a close radius and across continents.The images, which rhythmically and somewhat loudly enter the gallery space at regular intervals through a hanging fax machine, are fleeting, fragmented, sometimes eerie, pieces of a puzzle which doesn’t quite add up to anything akin to physical reality. The fax, a near obsolete technology, was almost comically difficult to set-up. We first had to track down the kind of fax machine, which would take rolls of paper, on Craigslist, then tinker with it over a significant length of time to get it to print continuously, and test it through internet fax service. In the end, (arrivals) 3531 miles and back again presents us with a convergence of different technologies (fax, satellite imaging, e-mail and data sharing) and art discourses (eastern scroll painting, romantic landscape painting, digital and conceptual art in the post-modern tradition) creating a layered experience of space and a slightly disorienting effect. In A Road Less Traveled, Aldred invites viewers to participate in this subjective map-making of Route 41, to add their own pieces to the puzzle. Multiple processors/participants are introduced and the scroll becomes a never-ending map of subjective geographies.<br/
Which is The: 49 Views
No full textIn September of 2011, I spent a week driving along and across the Irish border, beginning on the north coast near Derry and ending at the shores of the Irish Sea near Warrenpoint. At each crossing I selected a spot with a view across the landscape. I observed and recorded the details in a notebook. These observations were purely factual, ranging from the smallest detail to the most general aspect. The task was simply to, as accurately as possible, put down what I could perceive in front of me.These pages of text are combined with Google map samples of the precise area that each recording was made at in order to create double page spreads of text and image
Was post-digital better?
No full textThe book includes texts by Verena Kuni, Jan Distelmeyer, Manuel Bürger, Clemens Jahn, Nina Franz and a conversation among Danny Aldred, Kristoffer Gansing and Siegfried Zielinski. As a result of a seminar held at the Berlin University of the Arts, it documents the outcomes of the students confronted with the notion of “post-digital
Divisions of joy and comedy
No full textNUREMBERG/VIENNA: “Don’t tell my mother that I work in an advertising agency. She thinks I play the piano in a whorehouse.” This infamous quote from French creativedirector Jacques Sequela represents something almost unheard of in the advertising and design business: a decisive sense of self-deprecation.Of course, advertising in general is rarely a dreary subject — in fact, a humorous element here or there is often considered a welcome stylistic device in consumercommunications. Yet the people behind the laughs tend totake themselves and their profession extremely seriously.Nonetheless, there are signs that the trend is changing. Itwouldn’t be the first time that the so-called “applied arts” follow in the footsteps of pioneering movementssuch as Dada, Fluxus, conceptual art and the like.“Privately, insiders have been whispering for quite sometime that humor will be THE next big thing in design,” the editors of +rosebud magazine explain.“We’re going to find out if there is anything to that.” Thecreative team behind the internationally award-winning magazine has decided to dedicate the upcoming issue of +rosebud exclusively to any and all senses of humor.“To regain our balance after the experience of making IDEAL, the last issue of +rosebud, we seriouslyneeded to lighten up,” the editors explain. The decision toexplore the various facets of humor came naturally as a result. “Especially when the going gets tough, the only way to deal with life is by simply not taking it seriously.”But the magazine’s editorsaren’t interested in just plain oldfun alone. It wouldn’t be +rosebudif they weren’t also searchingfor deeper meaning in theseshallow waters.Humor shares its ambivalence,its ability to shift betweenthe utopian and the destructiveas well as its refusal of absolutevalues with many of those twentieth-century movements that continueto exert an influence on societytoday
Code—x
No full textA new bookRoom Press publication edited by Danny Aldred and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, with a foreword by Alessandro Ludovico and endnotes by John Warwicker.
Code—x brings together a selection of personal histories of the current 'transforming' and 'expanding' of the book medium with the aim to challenge the very notion of what it could be(come) in today's complex information era.
The design of Code—x within codex form represents a playful and daring twist of ink imitating pixel to render composition and design. The content is seen as a continuous scroll, cropped where screen meets paper edge. we celebrate both camps by highlighting dichotomies of edge to scroll, sequence to time and image to place.
Featuring essays, interviews and works by Delphine Bedel, Simon Cutts, Sebastien Girard, Hans Gremmen, Andrew Haslam with Rose Gridneff & Alex Cooper, Alec Finlay with Ken Cockburn, Alessandro Ludovico, Silvio Lorusso, Katharine Meynell with Susan Johanknecht, Gregoire Pujade-Lauraine, and publishing, Colin Sackett, Jodie Silsby, Paul Soulellis, Stefan Szczelkun, john warwicker (tomato), Eric Watier, Maria White, Beth Williamson, David Lorente Zaragoza
Code-X: Paper, Ink, Pixel and Screen
No full textThe Code-X project links early forms of self-publishing by taking a sample of what’s happening within the world of artist book publishing today in relation to what it once was. Twenty-six contributors give an account of or reflect upon their work from analogue production to digital experiences. The project constitutes a timely survey of this new chapter in publishing looking at a range of innovations and alternative approaches but also looking back at pre-digital strategies and examining some of the benefits and limitations of digital publishing. Code-X represents a pause and a reflection on past, to post digital that fully embrace the ideas of making and connecting. The project is an important and timely assessment of what publishing actually could be today in a post everything media landscape.Featuring essays, interviews and works by; Delphine Bedel, Simon Cutts, Sebastien Girard, Hans Gremmen, Andrew Haslam with Rose Gridneff & Alex Cooper, Alec Finlay with Ken Cockburn, Alessandro Ludovico, Silvio Lorusso, Katharine Meynell with Susan Johanknecht, Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine, AND Publishing, Colin Sackett, Jodie Silsby, Paul Soulellis, Stefan Szczelkun, John Warwicker (Tomato), Eric Watier, Maria White, Beth Williamson, David Lorente Zaragoza
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