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Flat Earth
Thompson and Craighead, UK 2008
Flat Earth is a desktop documentary, which takes the viewer on a seven minute trip around the world so that we encounter a series of fragments taken from real peoples' blogs. These fragments are knitted together to form a kind of story or singular narrative.
The visual effect is not unlike that of Google Earth, although significantly here, nearly all of the visual material for, "Flat Earth" is taken from satellite imagery freely available on the web.
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This is with the exception of the close-up imagery from outside USA, which had to be paid for non-commercial use and a series of images taken from Flickr under Creative Commons attribution license...work
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Brentford Biopsy
Christian Nold & Daniela Boraschi, UK 2008
The Brentford Biopsy Map is the result of a 12 week local residency by the artist Christian Nold with the designer Daniela Boraschi. Initiated by Watermans Arts Centre and the curator Ilze Black, the project consisted
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of a number of participatory workshops and drop in sessions. During the workshops the gallery acted as a live design and mapping studio for working with local people to gather, edit and visulise all the information that was used to create this map.
Instead of taking tissue samples as one would from a human being, this project uses cultural probes to investigate the local social body and its unique ailments. Like eastern medicine, this project takes a holistic view of the body to look at the interconnections between problems to get a sense of the whole...work
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Source Softhook
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Favourite Places
Audiobulb, UK 2008
When ten multitalented and respected international artists/musicians join up and collectively share personal
portraits of their most cherished places via sounds, photographs, and written word, something good is
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bound to result - and it has - a new release from Audiobulb Records titled FAVOURITE, PLACES . A précis of FAVOURITE, PLACES wouldbe that it contains ten individual snapshots of much loved places documented in sound, picture, and written word. As enjoyable and relevant as listening to the sounds unfold on this intimate audio diary of FAVOURITE, PLACES is unfolding the accompanying insert. Printed front and-back, it opens out to reveal twelve square panels/sections. Two of the panels depict the album's cover art while each of the remaining ten sections contains a photograph of each artist's favorite place on one side and a brief description on the opposite side detailing why that particular place was chosen.
Each composition is constructed from field recordings, real instruments, and various degrees of digital processing/editing. The sound styles are as varied as the diverse locations represented which range from pastoral environments (forest, lakeside cottage, land bridge, shrine. lighthouse) to urban settings (ancient Indian city, museum) to very domestic, intimate locales (bathroom, studio, apartment)...work
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How to talk to images
Richard Wright, UK 2008
No one is sure how many images there are on the Internet. Google has nearly a billion. Some say it is hundreds of times more than that.
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For How to Talk to Images, Richard Wright has compiled a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks. “The Internet Speaks” and “The Mimeticon” use this database to create a world where we can “read” pictures, browse “libraries” of endless images or learn to draw with alphabets...work
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