Sound

I have been experimenting lately with the medium of sound. These recordings are intended to hear the sounds behind music. It includes unintended audible and inaudible sound from devices used to listen to music including traditional recorder players, tape decks and modern smartphones.

I made this yesterday, amongst other things, in what was an incredibly busy day. At short notice, I had three meetings and attended the launch Cork City's Arts Office strategic plan at Triskle Christchurch. If only I were as productive every day.

Teller's Tale

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 If you like storytelling have a look at the Teller's Tale by Westmeath artist Paul Timoney. It is a digital book illustrated and narrated by the author. Have a look at the trailer. I have always preferred storytelling to story reading. I find it so relaxing, it conjures up the excitment of Friday afternoons at school or the soothing feeling of being read to before bed.

To contact the artist or to see more please visit his website.

META

META is the video piece that was screened as part of the Making Space Athlone event in May. It is part of a new series of work that looks at the relationship we have with ourselves and its manifestation on our relationship with the natural world. It evokes our desire to look towards the unknown with ambition to transcend beyond our everyday existence. It creates a sense of looking through a telescope where our view is obscured by our aspirations. 

The audio is recorded from environmental electromagnetic fields. I have began to experiment with sound, there is an idea that white noise that untuned televisions and radios is electromagnetic noise left over from the creation of the universe. 

My latest work is interested in how man looks out at the natural world as an attempt to understand ourselves and how our view is obscured by our perception. The boundaries of the universe are believed to be ever changing and I like the juxtaposition of these two ideas.  

Spaced

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New drawings, first works from new studio.

SOLSTICE Opening Tonight

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SOLSTICE for the Cork Midsummer Festival are having their visual art opening tonight, Wednesday 15-06-11, at 6pm in the old FAS building. I'll have a few drawings there. It will be open from 10am to 10pm until the 19th. There is no entrance fee.

Making Space Athlone

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I will be taking part in a public art event on Saturday and Sunday the 28th and 29th of May. I will be projecting a video piece, i the that I made recently, in the Civic Square, amongst a variety of works from other artists. The is Making Space Athlone and it is doing just that, making space for contemporary art in Athlone.

Vintage UFO Slightings

Canada, 1956

USA, 1967

USA, 1950

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Fun cheesy UFOs for inspiration.

Solstice at the Cork Midsummer Festival

Solstice from Solstice on Vimeo.

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Solstice, an emerging artist curatorship at Cork Midsummer Festival are looking for support through fund it, the online crowd funder.

It is a multi disciplinary event, taking place from the 16th to the 19th of June. I will be exhibiting a few drawings as part of the visual art programme.

Looking

Monster Truck and the Power of Social Media

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Monster Truck Fundit from Monster Truck Gallery on Vimeo.

Monster Truck are currently looking for funding for a back projection screen for their gallery in Temple Bar through online fundraiser Fund it, an Irish equivalent to Kickstarter. The screen will project media art, day and night, on a window in the busy tourist/night life area. This is a great idea, it is an effective way to increase art literacy by allowing contemporary art to reach a wider audience. It eliminates the boundaries of the gallery walls.

Something similar has been going on in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary for a few years. SWITCH is a video art exhibition in which shop fronts become cinema screens at night. I would love to see town centres, across the country revived in this way.

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Monster Truck have also produced a viral video to promote the fundraiser, which again, is an excellent idea. That makes three great new media ideas, the screen, the viral and the Fund it campaign. Fund it is a website that allows users to post creative projects that they need funded and advertise it to their networks. Backers pledge money to the project and in return receive rewards. MART used a similar campaign recently for a US tour.

There are 28 days left to give. I plan to pledge when my moneys are a little more plentiful and when I have not just had an ebay spree.