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26|JUN|08 |
| The glider film that
Brian and I are working on now has a title - Take Wing. We can also now
announce that it is a commission for the Shot by the Sea film festival at
the Electric Palace Cinema
in Hastings, which runs from 25th July to 1st August. We went over to Hastings
today to have a look at the space the video installation will be housed
in. It's a shop, opposite the Electric Palace Cinema, that they have acquired
and converting to their own use. Looks great and we're excited about showing
the work there. Off to buy the glider kit tomorrow... |
| Brian will also be showing
his Aurora and Sun
films in the basement of the same space. |
| We are also working on
another stereoscopic cloud film for the Collision
arts festival at Area 10 in Peckham,
South London from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th September. |
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13|JUN|08 |
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| Clouded - with Brian
and Claudia, see below - has been selected to be screened at the Sound:Space
sound art symposium at South
Hill Park art centre in Bracknell on 1st November. |
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12|JUN|08 |
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| I will be talking about
my flat pack projects at Fabrica
in Brighton on 30th July, details here |
| Will
Nash and I will be doing a joint show at Black Dog Studios in Lewes
during the ArtWave festival in August and September. More details shortly. |
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06|JUN|08 |
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| Click here
for a short time-lapse of glider building this afternoon. Due to the instructions
only being in Japanese and my inexperience at building model aeroplanes
I am sure there are bits in the wrong places. Tomorrow I will attempt to
cover the wings and tail with tissue paper so it has some chance of flying
(there doesn't appear to be enough tissue for both wings and the tail so
the instruction sheet may get used as well...) |
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05|JUN|08 |
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| Brian and I are starting
work on a new film project that combines my love of modular construction
and flat pack, and his expertise with stereoscopic video and fondness for
building ad hoc camera equipment. We will be making a two screen, stereoscopic
video, one screen of which will be time-lapse of us constructing a free
flight model glider, the other screen will be footage of the flight using
two cameras attached to the wings. We have no idea how successful the flight
will be but the footage should be interesting! (Brian's
dad is an aeronautical engineer and use to design and make his own gliders,
but this skill has not been passed down the McClave generations - as yet) |
| So this morning we headed
over to Worthing to the Sussex
Model Centre to check out planes and find out if what we are attempting
is actually possible. The staff at the model centre were very helpful but
I suspect they think we are mental. Apparently it should work but there
are quite possible outcomes of crashing pretty quickly after getting airborne
or the glider going for miles and getting lost. They didn't have the model
that we wanted in stock, but they've ordered in a couple for us to choose
from - our choice is defined by a combination of what isn't too complicated
to build but interesting enough to time-lapse, has most chance of flying
with two cameras attached, and looks cool! Whilst we were there we did manage
to get some cameras that are perfect for what we need, so we've got two
of these
to play around with. |
| Whilst we were there
I picked up a much smaller model that I'll start constructing at the studio
tomorrow. May even time-lapse and post here... |
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24|MAY|08 |
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| A
copy of Field Report 2007 (The Field Report of the Field Study International)
arrived from Field Study in Australia on Thursday. This is a limited edition
book of artworks contributed by mail artists from around the world, a kind
of catalogue or archive of some of the stuff that was going on in the world
of mail art last year. It is one of the many publications organised, compiled
and distributed by David Dellafiora (including ReSite, issue no.6 includes
a version of Flat
Pack 4). My piece for the Field Report was an audio CD of two binaural
sound recordings made in Brighton in November walking to and from the BMC
Gallery when the first finetuned
Relay exhibition was on, attached to a page with a corresponding map
of the journey. |
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21|MAY|08 |
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| Been a couple of quiet
weeks since APEC OPEN 2008, the sun came out and was being deafened and
getting no sleep at All Tomorrows Parties last weekend, but have been discussing
a few upcoming projects and events, details of which will be posted here
as they are confirmed. |
| Next Tuesday, 27th May,
Brian and I will be at the School of Art in Burslem for Urban Vision's Art
and Architecture Club talking about our work and the Views From Here project
(unfortunately Tom is unable to make it). Think it starts at 7.30pm. |
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30|APR|08 |
| Open Studios at APEC
this coming weekend, 3rd and 4th May, 12 - 5pm. Full details here |
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15|APR|08 |
| The film and sound installation
with Claudia Molitor and Brian McClave is no longer going to be installed
at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. We are hoping to confirm a new
venue in the coming weeks. In the meantime, some of the stereoscopic test
films that Brian and I have been making will be screened during the Open
Studios at APEC in May |
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03|APR|08 |
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| APEC is holding Open
Studios the first weekend of the Brighton Festival - Saturday 3rd and Sunday
4th May, 12-5pm. I'm working on a sky film installation incorporating time-lapse
projections, a live video feed and stereoscopic video. |
| Brian
McClave and I are working together again, on stereoscopic video of clouds
for a sound / art installation with Claudia
Molitor for Here Hear. (Claudia
composed and recorded the pipe organ soundtrack for the Wrestle film in
Stoke). The work is called Clouded and it is planned to be installed at
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital later this month. |
| Brian and I are also
discussing a long term sky related film project. More news as we figure
things out and they start to happen... |
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