196,329 research outputs found
Storio - store
No full textAn idea of a possible museum, a collaboration between Mike Tooby and past participants and exhibitors in ‘Made in Roath
Another side of Stanley Royle
No full textMike Tooby visited the Graves Art Gallery to talk about the career of Stanley Royle and his close Sheffield and Canadian contemporaries
A Quality Of Light: A Collaborative Visual Arts Event
No full textCurated by Mike Tooby. Invited artists included Peter Freeman; Peter Freeman; Mona Hatoum; Carl Cheng; Paul Ramírez Jonas; David Kemp; Glen Onwin; Roger Ackling; Víctor Grippo; James Hugonin; Martina Kramer; Bridget Riley; Carol Robertson; David Medalla; Ron Haselden
wavespeech (2015) [REF2021 collection]
No full text'Wavespeech' was a site specific collaborative project curated by Mike Tooby at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney in 2015. In collaboration with the artists Edmund De Wall and David Ward, the in-house gallery curatorial team, poet and writer Rhona Warwick paterson and local volunteers.
The primary goal of the project was to test collaborative curating methodology, for the purposes of creating new collaborative works, and for the first ever redisplay of selected works for Margaret Gardiner's founding collection at the Pier.
This Collection comprises documentation of the exhibition as the primary output, and contextualising information in the form of a 300 word statement, research timeline, research questions, exhibition pamphlet, exhibition outline, and the book chapter '"Who me?": The individual experience in participative and collaborative projects', authored by Mike Tooby
When forms become attitude: a consideration of the adoption by an artist of ceramic display as narrative device and symbolic landscape
No full textWhen artists ‘intervene’ in museums, the material at their disposal is not merely the collections and the galleries in which they are displayed. At their most ambitious and effective, they take on the entire conceptualization of an institution. This remains the case even when a museum’s collections per se are not the content explicitly addressed by the artist. Instead, notions of a canon, a shared understood narrative about history, even signifiers of a community’s collective identity, may be wrapped in the work’s grasp
wavespeech [curator]
No full text'wavespeech' is a joint exhibition by Edmund de Waal and David Ward, including a major new collaborative work and a group of new individually made and inter-related works by each artist. All are made especially for the unique galleries of the Pier and the context, seascape and landscape of the Orkney Islands.
The artists are also making a new re-hang of selected works from Margaret Gardiner’s founding collection at the Pier.
The project is curated by Michael Tooby in collaboration with the Pier Arts Centre
A journey with T. S. Eliot’s 'The Waste Land'
No full textMike Tooby collaborated with Poet and playwright Rommi Smith and actor Damien O’Keeffe to create a compelling reading of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, This event was part of the Modernism and The Waste Land Festival Strand
At the mad shepherdess
No full textThis project plays with our ideas of art history and museums, as well as how we relate to each other, as strangers, friends and neighbours. The Art in the Bar programme at Chapter - and the Diffusion Photography Festival taking place across Cardiff during May (see pp4-7) - prompted Mike Tooby to think again about Édouard Manet’s famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère (1882). The picture shows the reflection of a mysterious man meeting - or not - the gaze of a woman serving drinks. This encounter - and Manet’s interest in photography and modern life - also inspired Jeff Wall’s iconic photographic work Picture for Women (1979), at the time, an ambitious attempt to relate the artistic and spectatorial demands of the late 1970s to modernist pictorial art. Audiences are invited to ask the question: “What do I ever know about a worker behind a bar?“ and can participate by buying a drink at the opening; or by reconstructing the scene represented through the camera lens
A journey with 'The waste land'
No full text'A Journey with ‘The Waste Land’' is a new project by Turner Contemporary in Margate. Members of the community are working with the gallery to co-curate a major exhibition in 2018. It will explore the connections between the visual arts and T.S Eliot’s great poem ‘ The Waste Land ’, partially written in Margate in 1921. The exhibition will then be shown at Leeds Art Gallery and Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre.
Mike Tooby initiated the project with Turner Contemporary and is Guest Curator for the exhibition. Trish Scott is
Research Curator, and lives locally in Margate. Mike and Trish are currently working with forty members of the local community to develop the exhibition, although at different points many more have already been involved.
In the email exchange published in 'Arts & Education', Mike, Trish and three participants – Alicia Box, Elspeth Penfold and Franca Pauli - reflect on the project to date
Recommended from our members
Embedded Soundscaping: Audio-reactive Instrument Design for Generative Sound and Music, Interactive Sound Installations, and Acoustic Experimentation
No full textABSTRACTEmbedded SoundscapingScott Tooby Embedded Soundscaping encompasses interdisciplinary research and a series of three sound installations realized with the Sonic Mirror: an interactive digital audio software instrument created for applications in generative sound and music composition, sound installation design, and acoustic experimentation. Capable of real-time digital audio recording, analysis, and synthesis, the instrument's functionality is open-ended and highly reconfigurable for both performative and autonomous contexts. Embedded Soundscaping presents the Sonic Mirror in two primary functional modes: first, as an interactive instrument that automatically transforms the sounds of its environment into musical soundscapes; second, as an automated system for performing processes of recursive acoustic convolution to reveal the resonant frequencies of physical structures. The latter of these functions has been applied in the context of an interdisciplinary research collaboration with engineering researchers of UC Santa Cruz's Dynamics, Autonomous, Surface Engineering, and Robotics (DANSER) Lab, to explore the feasibility of using acoustic means to analyze the structural health of digital cellular solids, a type of digital material. Created by researchers at NASA’s Coded Structures Lab, digital cellular solids are currently the strongest ultra-light fiber composite digital material available for applications in fields ranging from robotics to aerospace engineering. Altogether, this work integrates elements from the fields of electronic music, acoustics, engineering, sound art, and soundscape ecology to define Embedded Soundscaping as a technical process and artistic practice for using technology to create interactive audio systems that interface with the soundscapes of different environments
- …
