The première of the short film ‘Birmingham: The Creative City’ will be held at the Electric Cinema tomorrow afternoon. From the Press Release: Birmingham City Council Creative Development Team and Audiences Central are premiering a short film directed by BAFTA Award Winning Director Natasha Carlish on Tuesday 11 March at The Electric Cinema, Birmingham. Birmingham: … [Read more…]
The Big Picture are seeking artists/design teams to help with the following projects: World Record Attempt (deadline for proposals 18th March) Audiences Central wants to appoint an artist or artist/design team to break the world record for the largest photo mosaic in the world, as the culmination of our ‘Big Picture’ project. The current record … [Read more…]
There’s an exhibition at Baskerville House in Centenary Square running from 12 – 29 March showing “fine art, photography and contemporary craft by new, emerging and established British artists selected by arts professionals and business leaders” with the presumable intention of selling artworks to businesses and corporations. It’s run by Visual whose website isn’t running … [Read more…]
Starting in April the Ikon embark on another of their off-site projects with German artist Jürgen Partenheimer taking over Perrott’s Folly. The 96ft mock-gothic tower in Edgbaston was built in 1758 as an elaborate hunting lodge for the entertainment of the landowner, John Perrott’s wealthy friends. Perrott’s Folly has been closed to the public for … [Read more…]
More great photos from the Outcrowd Collective’s archives, this time from their installation for the Flatpack Festival in the back room of the Jug of Ale (commissioned, as noted in the comments, by Capsule). Apparently it might still be there.
RobotGirl is an art project by Ana Benlloch: a series of performances where the audience interact with the character in various guises. Sometimes RobotGirl is a person trying to be an android; sometimes she lives in text; sometimes she is a doll or an animated character.
Some Insectoid videos have been brought to my attention after the recent post. Here’s a nice piece of recently uploaded glitch entitled Class: Insecta: And here’s a recording of them on the green at 2006’s Artsfest: More on the Insectoid Hive Mind channel.
Insectoid, a collective that’s been creeping into my consciousness of late. Here’s one of their tunes, Giant Termite Queen: [audio:http://404corporate.net/insectoid/insectoid2.mp3] Coming out of the a.a.s. group their members include Ana Milgram and Antonio Roberts, the latter of whom gives the game away in this post. It seems they’ve been active for at least 18 months … [Read more…]