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Please note that this blog has now moved to the following address:http://www.michaelday.org.uk/blogThankyou.

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Here it is - the long awaited Sheffield Pavilion, printed out and ready to be distributed. The launch at the Venice Biennale is on Friday (Bar Margaret Duchamp, Campo Santa Margherita, Venice, Friday 8 June, from 8pm), and copies will also be distributed at Documenta in Kassel next week. I think copies will be on sale after that from the Cornerhouse Bookshop in Manchester, although I suspect Site

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I've had quite a lot on happening recently, and as such postings have been very few and far between. Notwithstanding apologies, I'd like to focus briefly on poor Anthony Gormley's latest piece, unveiled last week at the Hayward Gallery in London. The cube of fog is an extremely interesting sculptural proposition, although not as interesting as a very similar piece by Ann Veronica Janssens, which

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I've been away for a while working on a project with Eddie Ladd, which was completed in February and premiered at the Linbury Studio, ROH2, Covent Garden. This came after a number of exciting equipment malfunctions, and the replacement of one piece of equipment less than 30 minutes before the opening night's performance. Eddie seemed happy with the results and the show did get a positive review,

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After a sleepy train journey from Cardiff, and a spectacular frosty walk in the sun across Hyde Park, I spent an enjoyable Saturday touring the galleries of London, beginning with Tate Modern's new installation of Carsten Höller's work. The installation consists of a number of umbilical structures which are actually artist-designed slides, offering a speedy descent from the very top of the

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I arrived home today after a long meeting to discover an email that started like this:Dear One Minute maker,Congratulations !!!!Your One Minute is in this exhibition!A selection of One Minutes videos from 12 different countriesshown in Shanghai BizArt Art Center China within the frameworkof Fringe festival.Hooray, I thought, a show. Wait, Shanghai? That's China, isn't it. Fantastic! No, wait.

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Things have been rather hectic since I completed the Stafell C project with Eddie Ladd. Immediately afterwards, I did a live performance with Neil Webb in Amsterdam, and then almost immediately after that, the teaching year began in earnest. I'm hoping to get some more time over the next few weeks to make some updates to this blog, but until then, in true On Kawara style, rest assured that I am

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This exhibition at the Stedelijk happened so long ago that I can't believe I haven't blogged it already. The standout pieces in the show were Brody Condon's Karma Physics pieces, which use the algorithms designed to simulate post-mortem judders and twitches in immersive shooter games to create a floating landscape of jerking Elvises. Now, as a man in my thirties, my experience of computer games

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I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to blog any of the exhibitions I have been to since, well, since about February. I'll have a go at filling this gap over the next few days, but in the meantime, I am starting on the Stafell C project with Eddie Ladd in Aberystwyth. There will be a production blog to go with this appearing in the next few days. As it stands, I am looking at a purple

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I am right in the middle of setting up the Good Point Well Made show in Sheffield. Thankfully, the hot weather has abated but the heat is still on. Surprisingly, one of the most moving artworks I have been in contact with recently has been a CD: The Drift by Scott Walker. It's by no means 'easy listening', but is an incredibly shocking and inspiring piece of work.

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This is a bit of a worry. Firstly, in regard to the prevalence of this, I wonder how a $32,500 fine is going to dissuade the multi-million dollar political PR industry from breaking the rules. But then, can we expect laws to be passed to increase the fines? Is it likely that the government will legislate against what is a very effective method of persuasion? And, more worrying still, how much of

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As you might have gathered, I've been a little busy recently preparing for the MA finals - first the research project, and now the final exhibition. To keep you occupied, here's a review of a Thembi Soddell CD that I wrote for Sonic Arts Network, that went out as part of their Diffusion newsletter and was reprinted on the Cajid website.Thembi SoddellInstanceLabel: Cajid MediaMelbourne-based sound

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On the way back to Temple Meads after the John Cage show below, I stopped off at Lot to see the three shows they were running. It was my first visit, and I was really surprised by the size of the place: three floors of potential exhibition space. I was interested to see what had been made of the venue.The Monitor exhibition in ground level space was a collection of artists using the screen as a

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The Playing John Cage exhibition at the Arnolfini, Bristol, was a bit of a disappointment. I think that I'd had quite high expectations bearing in mind the eminent list of participants, and therefore was set up for disappointment...There were two pieces which stood out for me. The first was the Carsten Nicolai and Rjoki Ikeda collaborative sound piece which accompanied Takagi Masakatsu's video

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Last tuesday, I had the pleasure of attending a Hard Shoulder performance at The Grapes, Sheffield. I was a little late because of a delayed train, and arrived about halfway through the performance by Bocman. This was a wonderful, cinematic and engrossing set of sounds and visuals, which thematically addressed movement, stasis, isolation, and the inhabited non-places of travel. Much of the visual

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Last week I saw two exhibitions that I wouldn't normally have chosen to have seen. The first was the Paul McCarthy show at the Whitechapel and at an offsite location at the end of Brick Lane.LaLa Land Parody Paradise was a show of two halves, really. I absolutely hate this sort of indulgent, Freudian nonsense, because it so often turns in to an excuse for showing off, for the worst kind of

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I visited the Residual installation at St John's Crypt in Bristol this weekend, which was a collaboration between Isabel Rocamora, Thomas Koner and Helena Gough. It wasn't too clear how the collaboration operated, or who was responsible for what, but the piece itself was very beautiful and engaging. For me, it was all about depth. A depth of resonance, and a depth of experience: slow work for a

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I spent a very enjoyable but tiring weekend at the SightSonic festival in York a couple of weeks ago, and haven't really had the time until now to make a report on what went on there. I was exhibiting as part of the 'Artists Platform Expo', which was a sort of group show by emerging digital artists at York St John's College. There was some interesting work on show as part of the expo. I was

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I don't really rate this. People (including Pall) were discussing this on the Empyre list a while ago, and although I admit I had a pretty cursory look at the discussions, I just didn't seem to get it. The process that is taking place in this work is not rocket science to reproduce. The content seems arbritrary. The aesthetic is far from unique. Its saving grace ought to be the appropriation of

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Not seen much of interest in ages. Will keep you posted.

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Wilson's LinksMore than you can ever imagine, all on one page. Quite a lot of it is out of date, but it begs the question: how much do you need to know?

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Just returned from the Lovebytes festival in Sheffield. Overall, a really good weekend, although I missed a few of the screenings I wanted to see. The key piece that had the most impact was Francisco Lopez. The performance was a huge, whirling, visceral sound piece that started modestly but moved into really interesting and unexpected territory. However, the most useful part of his presence at

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This about sums it up. Is there anything missing from this equation?

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I followed up this guy's site from the CRUMB list, and he has some interesting points to make. I'm not sure I agree with them all. Conceptual Art Sucks discusses the artists' statement as the work in a conceptual piece of art.More of his writing and work is at Lab404.

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Luke Jerram's site has a whole load of very interesting works based mostly on perception. It's a really good example of research-based practice, I guess, using scientific principles to create visual experiences. I was particularly keen on the Matrix piece.

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Mark Napier's Blog The piece itself is, in part, about recreating a particular organic visual language through algorithms. My interest is in Napier's comment: Art on the web has been dominated by conceptual art for years. The low resolution and variable nature of the web and of software/digital art in general has made the message the medium: net art is "read" more than seen. The experience of the

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A few of the posts below are from the Machinista 2004 site. I don't expect it'll be at this link forever.

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Digitalsnapshot by Lo IaconoThis ought to be interesting to me, concerned as it is with time and media, but I feel that it's far too mediatized and narrativised to be any good. The video is just, I dunno, it reeks of desperate optimists' Who Killed Brown Owl. Seen it all before.

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The Unstoppable Hum by Sabrina RaafThe Unstoppable Hum is a kinetic installation work which pays homage to the ceaseless hum found in the human body and emitted from electro-mechanic activity in our surroundings. A sometimes subtle - sometimes deafening - but ever present hum extends from our walls, our refrigerators, our computers, and our whole electronically infused late 20th century living/

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Sundowning by Rob Kennedy/CathodeSending the audio into the video jack: Carsten Nicolai did the same thing (Neil tells me).

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Art Meet Net, Net Meet Art by Matthew Fuller Nice to have a readable introduction to all this for those who are unfamiliar with the new uncertainties that new media bring with them. The Tate demonstrably follows this function of the art museum. But crucially, in coming to some accommodation with the nets it has had to abandon the gold standard that its reserve is founded upon. Individual

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A Sophisticated Soiree appears to do a similar thing. I can't really read the text (in german) but the artwork leads me to believe that there is heartbeat-based biofeedback in this piece. I'm still not sure if this was the one I was reading about though.

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Whisper, by Thecla Schiphorst and Susan Kozel.This might not be the actual piece I was reading about, but it's not far off. Participants enter an exhibition space, which can best be described as a networked ecosystem containing small intelligent devices, which emanate their state based on the wearer's movement and intention. At one end of the space is a projection screen upon which the collective

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It happened today. I was eating lunch and Heike seemed to appear from nowhere, although she had been with Sioned Huws and the 'new media artist' she works with. "Do you know each other?" No, but I know that I was reading about another piece that used biofeedback just this week, in fact it used heartbeats from multiple users to create some sort of visualisation. And, most importantly, it did so a

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