Written in Concrete
Pete’s photos from Ben Waddington’s Written in Concrete tour as part of the Still Walking festival last weekend. Onna map.
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Bring Your Own Beamer
BYOB Birmingham is a one-night exhibition where artists are invited to bring their own digital projectors (the beamer of the title) and explore the medium of projection by creating a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance. Antonio Roberts and Pete Ashton are organising things and it’ll be presented by VIVID as part of the Flatpack Festival on Friday 16 March 2012. If you’d like to … [Read more…]
A message from Pete and Matt
I’m not really one for reprinting press releases that are sent to me but I’ll make an exception. Here follows a message from Pete. —– I’m running a couple of courses which I hope will become regular monthly things. The first is Matt and Pete’s Photo School (see poster) Here we’re combining an academic approach to … [Read more…]
A video for Stitches and Hos
Pete‘s made a video about the next Stitches and Hos.
Creative Times presents: The Beauty of Digital
Creative Times are doing a series of events around the country, with the first being a panel discussion at Fazeley Studios on Wednesday November 30 from 6.30-8pm. It’s titled ‘The Beauty of Digital: New technologies, old aesthetics and where the two meet‘. Tickets are FREE and available here. Here’s the info: A panel of four, … [Read more…]
The launch of Birmingham Creative City
So I went to the previously-mentioned Birmingham Creative City launch at lunchtime. I’d still struggle to explain exactly what it is, so here’s some blurb from the council’s press release: The Creative City initiative will play a significant role by: Creating a fund to build on existing public sector funding of the arts through loans, … [Read more…]
Metapod Connect
Four days of training to learn how to talk to people (or audiences/clients/peers/customers if you want to see them that way) about your art – in real life and online. I rate Helga and Pete on those subjects and think there’s a real need for some people to get their heads around this stuff and … [Read more…]
Well done, Pete!
Pete Ashton, occasionally of this blog, launched his first exhibition this evening at the Central Library. I couldn’t get there and was a bit gutted about this. However, there are photos up already courtesy of Fiona Cullinan and I’ve got until 17 June to get down and have a peek, so all is not yet … [Read more…]