Quay Arts – Newport

10th September to 15th October 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Fantastic Exhibition”
Helen Sloan SCAN 1/10/2011

“A wonderful show for which my students could base an inspiring exhibition. Very different content which has helped them challenge preconcieved ideas of art galleries/exhibitions”
Juliet Lainson – Art Co-ordinator Clatterford 8/10/2011

“Very Interesting, gets the mind working. Escape from the real,worrying world into fantasy”
Roger Brown 14/10/2011

“A short first visit, very exciting. Will be back for more”
Keith Wollon 16/9/2011

“Great Experimental exhibition – makes everything we record seem so finite! I love the interactive part of this exhibition and the look of dying and dead medium like the PAL signal and vinyl”
Carl Rob 15/9/2011

“Really liked the TV box units with interactive channels etc created some amazing images. Thank you”
Grant 23/9/2011

“Quite creepy amazing never seen anything like it”
Scarlet 24/9/2011

Featuring Guest Artists

Ian Helliwell, Rosa Menkman, Anders Weberg

and Jon Pigott

Editing – Jasmin B. Hirtl

Music Composition  – Natalia Data AKA Audiobook Worm

Programming – Stuart Smith

Media Archaeology – Jussi Parikka

Philosophy – Dr Graham Coulter-Smith

Art Criticism – Joanne Lee

 

Ian Helliwell

Ian is a self-taught audio-visual artist based in Brighton. His work encompasses short experimental films, shown at festivals worldwide, and the composition of electronic music with instruments he designs and builds himself. Since the early 1990s, Ian has completed a variety of short super-8 films using different techniques including hand painting, bleaching, scratching, paper cut-out animation and collage. He continues to experiment with abstraction, colour, found footage and electronic sound. http://www.ianhelliwell.co.uk/

Disc Break

An offbeat document of an exhibition at a Brighton art gallery celebrating the vinyl record. The many displays of singles, albums and turntables, are superimposed, intercut with images of vinyl destruction, and combined with a collage of electronics and radio sound

Particle Acceleration

Fast moving semi-abstract film in 2 halves, gathering together super-8 fragments and off-cuts shot over several years. The images include fairground lights and neon signs that have been bleached and hand coloured.

Rosa Menkman

Rosa is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the results of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise.

http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/

The Collapse of Pal Plot: Collapse of PAL tells the story of the PAL signal and its termination. This death sentence, although executed in silence, was a brutally violent act that left PAL disregarded and obsolete. While it might be argued that the PAL signal is dead, it still exists as a trace left upon the new, ‘better’ digital technologies. PAL can, even though the technology is terminated, be found here as a historical form that newer technologies build upon, in- herit or have appropriated from. Besides this, the Angel also realizes that the new DVB signal that has been chosen over PAL is different, but at the same time also inherently flawed.

Anders Weberg

Anders is an artist and experimental filmmaker living in Kölleröd, Sweden. He has exhibited at numerous art/film festivals, galleries, and museums internationally. Specializing in digital technologies, he aims to mix genres and ways of expression to explore the potential of audio visual media. http://www.recycled.se/

Transient

Art made for – and only available on – the peer to peer networks.The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it.After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it.The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist.

”There’s no original”

A project from Swedish artist Anders Weberg started in 2006.Feel free to don’t or download the films, watch it and share it for as long as you like. Or delete it immediately. The aesthetics of ephemerality.

Jon Pigott

Jon is a sonic artist, sonic researcher, musician and lecturer in Music Production Technology at Cardiff School of Art & Design. Much of Jon’s recent work involves ‘prepared speakers’ – loudspeakers that have been physically altered in some way to change their sonic characteristics. He has exhibited extensively throughout Britain and in 2007 he exhibited the worlds first ‘Sonic Marble Run’ at the Sonic Arts Expo in Plymouth as well as in his hometown of Bristol. http://jonpig.wordpress.com/biog/

Unfixed Media Part 1

Unfixed media Pt 1 is an electro magnetic interrogation of a CD player as it goes through its various functions of playing, skipping, pausing and ejecting recorded media. The various electromagnetic fields produced by the player are picked up and amplified by two moving microphones. The resulting soundscape of audible electronic interference illustrates how the fields manifest in space around the unit, and, how the microphones are dynamically exploring that space.

Jon is a sonic artist, sonic researcher, musician and lecturer in Music Production Technology at Cardiff School of Art & Design. Much of Jon’s recent work involves ‘prepared speakers’ – loudspeakers that have been physically altered in some way to change their sonic characteristics. He has exhibited extensively throughout Britain and in 2007 he exhibited the worlds first ‘Sonic Marble Run’ at the Sonic Arts Expo in Plymouth as well as in his hometown of Bristol. http://jonpig.wordpress.com/biog/

Cardiff School of Art & Design – Electro Magnetic Soundscapes

Jonathon Brawn

Lee House

Dom Kane

Elliot Milne

Barry Thomas