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WMMNA on Samsung Art+ Prize launch

2012-01-18T00:08:00.000-08:00

We're just recovering from last night's Samsung Art+ Prize opening, which was busy busy busy! Anyway, there's a piece on the exhibition today on we-make-money-not-art. Take a look:

www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2012/01/samsung-art-prize.php

SAMSUNG ART PRIZE / BFI SOUTHBANK

2012-01-13T02:08:00.000-08:00

We are showing Horizon and A short film about War at the BFI Southbank, London as part of the Samsung Art Prize opening next week. The exhibition only runs until 29th January but please do come along if you are in London during next couple of weeks. Also there is a pull out magazine on the artists involved in tomorrow's (Saturday 14th January 2012) Financial Times.

More info here: http://www.samsung.com/uk/artplus/

Carroll / Fletcher gallery website goes live

2012-01-12T03:55:00.000-08:00

The new London-based Carroll / Fletcher gallery website has just gone live. We're delighted to be a part of this and are looking forward to the inaugural exhibition in their fantastic new gallery space opening in February. More info here: http://www.carrollfletcher.com

LECTURE & SCREENING TOMORROW AT PHOTOWORKS IN BRIGHTON

2011-11-21T01:14:00.001-08:00

We're giving a talk about our work and screening our desktop documentary A short film about War in Brighton tomorrow at Photoworks starting at 6.30pm. Do come along if you're about the place although we think there is a charge at the door. You can find full details by following this link:

http://www.photoworks.org.uk/programme/talks-and-events/00000000035

The Rencontres Internationales 2011

2011-11-13T23:57:00.001-08:00

Our desktop documentary A short film about war will be screening next week in Paris at the Gaîté Lyrique on Tuesday 22nd November at 15.30hrs. The screening is part of this year's Les Rencontres Internationales taking place in Paris from November 18th to 26th, at the Centre Pompidou and the Gaîté Lyrique. You can find out more about the festival here:

http://www.art-action.org/site/fr/prog/index.htm

SOLO EXHIBITION IN BRUSSELS

2011-10-18T03:08:00.000-07:00

We are showing six installations at Watermael Station and Vénerie Stables in Brussels from 26th October to 18th December 2011. The Vernissage is in two stages across each site on 25th October -first at Vénerie Écuries from 18.30hr and then at Gare de Watermael from 20.00hrs. If your around and about please do come and see the show or come to the opening. Oh and we'll be giving gallery talks at each site on Saturday 19th Novemeber from 15.30hrs too! Click on the ticket below for more information:

Tomorrow Never Dies exhibition, Poland

2011-09-08T05:46:00.000-07:00

A set of our Google Tea Towels (2001) are being put in a Time Capsule for 100 hundred years in Poland next week as part of the exhibition Tomorrow Never Dies, opening tonight at 6.30pm in the Design Gallery – BWA Wrocław. Our manipulated feature film, The Time Machine in alphabetical order will also be screened as part of this exhibition organised by the European Culture Congress.

More information can be found at:
www.culturecongress.eu/english/event/exhibition_tomorrow_never_dies

HICA Book Launch at Stills - 23 August, 1-3pm

2011-08-16T01:36:00.000-07:00

So, documentation of our solo show at Highland Institute of Contemporary Art in 2010 is available in this lovely new publication being launched at Stills next week! It also includes an excellent essay by Alistair Rider on our show, and of course the other essays and documentation from the rest of the year's activity at this special gallery. And at only £5 a pop? Well...

Launching at Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP (www.stills.org) from 1pm - 3pm. Launching HICA's new publication; Exhbitions 2010.

This book documents exhibitions by Jeremy Millar, Thomson + Craighead, Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum (including the Great Glen Artists' Airshow), and Boyle Family, with accompanying essays by Pavel Büchler, Alistair Rider, Murdo Macdonald and David Harding.

http://www.h-i-c-a.org/publications.htm

Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and the Scottish Arts Council
HICA, Dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven, Dores, Inverness-shire, IV2 6UA, UK

T: +44 (0)1808-521-306
info@h-i-c-a.org
www.h-i-c-a.org

Concretely Immaterial HICA + grey) (area

2011-07-25T02:12:00.000-07:00

We're showing The Time Machine in alphabetical order in Croatia as part of this exhibition opening today. Here are the details and go take a break from the beach or the glittering sea and take a look if you're in Korčula :

25 July - 11 September, 2011

This collaborative project will form an exhibition in two parts, showing at grey) (area space of contemporary and media art, Korčula, Croatia, from 25th July - 7th August and then HICA, the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire, Scotland, from 14th August - 11th September

Artists showing at grey) (area will be Geoff Lucas (UK), Eloi Puig (Spain) and Thomson + Craighead (UK). Artists showing at HICA will be Samuel Cepeda (Mexico), Nina Czegledy (Canada) + Marcus Neustetter (South-Africa), Darko Fritz (Croatia / Netherlands), Andreja Kulunčić (Croatia), Edita Pecotić (Croatia / UK), Transfer (Croatia) and Goran Trbuljak (Croatia).

Virtual states are variously employed in the artworks, especially through computer technology. In line with the title, Concretely Immaterial, the exhibition proposes these states, as well as such things as the works’ effects in the spaces of the galleries, and the experience of the viewers, as substantial and real.

The collaborative form of the exhibition provides a framework for this exploration, as both galleries are at some distance from each other, and occupy what might be considered remote locations; viewers, it is expected, will experience the exhibition at least partly through technology or their imaginations.

Concretely Immaterial will run at grey) (area, Korčula, Croatia, from 25 July - 7 August, and HICA, Inverness-shire, Scotland, from 14 August - 11 September.

The exhibition at HICA is open on Sundays 2 - 5pm, or by appointment.

http://grey-area.org

http://www.h-i-c-a.org

ROOFTOP FILM SCREENING IN NEW YORK

2011-07-01T08:10:00.000-07:00

Our desktop documentary, A Short film about War will be screening tomorrow evening in NewYork at Rooftop Films -an outdoor cinema among the rooftops of Brooklyn, New York. It's part of the program Where Soldiers Come From and tickets are US$10 with proceeds going towards the Rooftop Films production funding scheme. So go take a look if you're in New York for July 4th weekend!!

More info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2011/schedule/where-soldiers-come-from/

New documentation online!

2011-06-14T02:57:00.000-07:00

We have just uploaded some documentation of our new work, 'The distance travelled through our solar system this year and all the barrels of oil remaining', which has just closed as part of the Current exhibition in Harris Museum, Preston, UK.

You can view pics and information about this installation here: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/distance.html

2 reviews of Biennale de Montréal 2011

2011-05-23T22:57:00.000-07:00

Here are two reviews of this year's Biennale de Montréal at Centre International d'Art Contemporain, that mention our Template Cinema installation available in the gallery but also online. First off in Canadian Art magazine and secondly La diagonale canadian blog (links below):

http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2011/05/19/bnl_mtl_2011/
http://la-diagonale.blogspot.com/2011/05/neddam-amerika-craighead-et-thomson-la.html?spref=fb

More info here: http://magazine.ciac.ca/en/summary.html
More about template cinema here: http://www.templatecinema.com/

SUMMER UPDATE 2011

2011-05-10T03:37:00.000-07:00

Here are a few things to take us into the summer:

+ LA BIENNALE DE MONTREAL 2011, Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada.

We are showing three pieces of template cinema called, 'Somewhere in Sweden', 'A short film about nothing' and 'Five Ghosts' as part of the online component of this years biennale curated by Paule Mackrous. The exhibit is published by the centre international d'art contemporain de montreal's electronic magazine, issue 39/2011. Other artists include: Mark Amerika, Grégory Chatonsky, Jhave and Mouchette (aka Martine Neddam).

More info here: http://magazine.ciac.ca/en/summary.html
More about template cinema here: http://www.templatecinema.com/

+ GATEWAYS. ART & NETWORKED CULTURE. Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

We are exhibiting 'Tallinn Wall' (a re-working of our installation 'London Wall') and 'BEAON' as part of this group exhibition curated by Sabine Himmelsbach. This is the museum's keynote exhibition for Tallinn's year as European Cultural capital in 2011. Others artists: Aram Bartholl, Clara Boj & Diego Diaz, boredomresearch, Petko Dourmana, Escoitar.org, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Kirsten Geisler, Ingo Günther, Hanna Haaslathi, Karel Koplimets & Ivar Veermäe, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Christina Kubisch, Andreja Kuluncic, Marc Lee, Les Liens Invisibles, Jenny Marketou, Eva & Franco Mattes, Achim Mohné & Uta Kopp, Tanja Ostojić, Julius Popp, RIXC, Sašo Sedlaček, Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák / Márton Fernezelyi, Timo Toots, Anna Trapenciere, You Must Relax

13th May 2011 - 25th September 2011. Private View, May 12th at 6pm
More info here: http://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/prj/gtw/aus/enindex.htm
Catalogue information: http://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/prj/gtw/aus/kat/enindex.htm

+ FLIPPED_CLOCK. Berkeley Art Museum, California.

A solo presentation of our FLIPPED_CLOCK curated by Richard Rinehart runs from June 1st - August 31st 2011. Previous artists in this series have included Vuk Ćosić, Jeff Crouse, Marisa Olsen and Joe McKay.

Preview information: http://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=42669&date=2011-06-03&tab=all_events
From June 1st see the work here: http://netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
More information on Flipped_Clock here: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/flippedclock.html

+ CURRENT. Harris Museum, Preston, UK

You can still see our new realtime installation, 'The distance travelled through our solar system this year and all the barrels of oil remaining' as part of Current at the Harris Museum in Preston until June 3rd 2011 alongside work by Harwood/Wright/Yokokoji, boredom research, James Coupe and Michael Szpakowski. We will be posting documentation of this artwork on our website at the end of May!

ELECTRONIC VILLAGE GALLERIES

2011-04-14T07:36:00.000-07:00

Our online artwork Weather Gauge is part of this great new project coming to a village hall near you!

Well actually it begins in Penryn Town Hall in Cornwall tomorrow, Friday 15th April 2011. Here's more information about the projects and its inaugural event:

Friday 15th April @ 6.30 – 8.30pm
Penryn Town Hall, Higher Market Street, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
http://evg.dematerial.org

[ ] Free event
Electronic Village Galleries Penryn is an event exhibiting four collections of network, sound and new media art. The evening will be hosted by Fi Henshall and include discussion with Rob Gawthrop and Patrick Simons. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the artwork, food, wine and discussion.

Each collection has been selected especially for the Electronic Village Galleries by a diverse range of new media curators and artists. At the Penryn event there will be collections by Beryl Graham, Patrick Simons, Furtherfield.org and Kurator. These will include works by nationally and internationally known artists Rob Myers, Moddr, Karen Blissett, Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev (newstweek.com) Susan Collins, Carry Peppermint and Leila Nadir (ecoarttech), Rachel Reupke, Thomson & Craighead, Les Liens Invisibles, Oliver Ressler, UBERMORGEN.COM and from a number of art radio stations.

[ ] Discuss Online
Texts by Verina Gfader on a few of the artworks being shown at the event are featured on the Electronic Village Galleries Website
Many of the artworks featured at the event are viewable online. You can post your thoughts and interpretation of the works on the Electronic Village Galleries Website http://evg.dematerial.org

[ ] Come and Have Your Say
VOX POPULI : Vidocumentation by Delpha Hudson will be through ‘vox pop’ interviews, negotiated with the public at the event, through dialogue. Audiences will be asked which digital work they most like or dislike, and why. Drawing on the idea of 'found’ sound or footage, the vox pop interviews will not be controlled or edited by post-production processes, just placed on the web.

[ ] Website
http://evg.dematerial.org

Electronic Village Galleries Penryn is part of a pilot project devised by Kate Southworth at University College Falmouth which is supported by Arts Council England. Electronic Village Galleries aims to develop a distributed platform that supports artists to host new media art events in their local village or town hall, and which links together local art communities in Cornwall and the South West of England with network and new media art and its global communities. It’s an experiment, so please join in and help to shape it!

THE MINI MUSEUM

2011-03-28T05:53:00.000-07:00

We have just made a new work called Here for The Mini Museum -an itinerant institution set up by Domenico Quaranta that will be travelling from artist to artist over the next two years or so. Here is a site-specific photographic work that shows you how far the museum is from 'here' whenever it is placed on a North - South axis. You can find out more about Here and The Mini Museum by following this link

CURRENT EXHIBITION / HARRIS MUSEUM

2011-03-16T00:47:00.000-07:00

Our new work, The distance traveled through our solar system this year and all the barrels of oil remaining is launching next week as part of Current at Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston, Lancashire.

There's an interview with us on Imperica that relates to the exhibition and you can read that here. The exhibition is an experiment in collecting digital art and also includes work by boredomresearch, Michael Szpakowski, James Coupe and Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji. The private view is on Friday 25th March and the exhibition runs from 26th March to 4th June 2011 at the Harris Museum. More information on Current here. Do come along if you can!!

VITAL SPARKS 2011

2011-02-07T09:08:00.000-08:00

We're delighted to announce that we've won one of this year's Vital Spark awards! Last year we were nominated, but we only found out today, which means we will be able to complete our Flat Earth Trilogy -the final desktop documentary called Belief (following on from Flat Earth & A short film about War. We'll be making it in collaboration with Steve Rusthton, John Cobban and Matt Jarvis, but it won't be completed until 2012, so we won't say 'watch this space' but rather let you know when it's done closer to the time.

More on Vital Sparks here...

WINTER UPDATE 2011

2011-01-23T03:01:00.000-08:00

Well here we all are in 2011 and we've got a few things coming up in the next few weeks (see below). As ever, if you're nearby any of them, please do come along.

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+ SEVERAL INTERRUPTIONS
North Lodge, Gower Street, University College London

A sequence of exhibitions celebrating 15 Years of the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art in 2011 with Martin John Callanan (24 – 30 January), Tim Head (15 – 20 February), Simon Faithfull (22 February – 6 March), Brighid Lowe (8 – 13 March), Melanie Jackson (15 – 20 March), Susan Collins (23 March – 17 April)

Our slot is from 2nd - 13th February and we will be show our recent work, 'The Time Machine in alphabetical order'
More about the work here
More about the show here: scemfa.org/15

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+ ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam

Our second desktop documentary 'A short film about war' has been shortlisted for a Tiger Award at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival, screening on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th, with the award ceremony taking place at 10pm on Monday 31st at the VPRO Late Night Talk Show on Monday evening January 31.

More info on the festival here
More about 'A short film about war' here

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+ CLOUD SOUNDS
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

An exhibition to coincide with the 5 Days Off festival with Harm van den Berg, Jonas Bohatsch, Stijn Demeulenaere, Anthony Hall o.v., Aaron Koblin, LoVid, Decker/Offenhuber produced by Ushi Reiter/servus.at, Yuri Suzuki o.v, Roel Wouters & Jonathan Puckey. We're excited to be re-staging our installation, 'Unprepared Piano' for this exhibition

19th February - 29th April 2011, Opening Friday 18th February at 6pm
More info here: nimk.nl/eng/calendar/cloud-sounds
More about 'Unprepared Piano' here

TIGER AWARDS, ROTTERDAM

2011-01-11T03:58:00.000-08:00

We just found out that A short film about War has been nominated for the Tiger Awards at Rotterdam Film Festival. The Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films 2011 comprises twenty-eight films, ranging in length from six to fifty-two minutes. Five short films will see their world premieres in Rotterdam.

For the Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films’ Jury the IFFR welcomes Fiona Tan, an artist known for her audiovisual installations, films and photographic works (The Netherlands), Anocha Suwichakornpong, filmmaker and Tiger Award winner for MUNDANE HISTORY and Thom Andersen, filmmaker, film critic and lecturer (USA). The Jury will hand out the three equal Tiger Awards for Short Film (3,000 Euros) to the winning filmmakers during the VPRO Late Night Talk Show on Monday evening January 31.

More information here: http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/iffr-2011/news/selection-tiger-awards-for-short-films/

International Film Festival, Rotterdam 2011

2011-01-04T03:29:00.000-08:00

We're excited that A short film about War has been invited to be screened at this years International Film Festival Rotterdam. A short film about War is the latest episode in our Flat Earth Trilogy (the first episode is called Flat Earth) and although it's usually shown as a two screen gallery installation, this time it will be screened in one of the short film programmes in Rotterdam as a specially authored single screen composite. Watch this space for screening times and venue when it is published...

More information on A short film about War here
More information on Flat Earth here

Flat Earth / Guggenheim YouTube Play

2010-11-08T23:37:00.000-08:00

Sarah Cook talks about our desktop documentary Flat Earth in her article called On Access just published as part of the Guggenheim's biennial exhibition of creative video called YouTube Play.

You can read Sarah's article here: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/participate/youtube-play/the-take/moving-images/3793-on-access

You can watch Flat Earth here: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/flat_earth.html

You can check out YouTube Play here: http://www.youtube.com/play

Transmission Annual - London book launch

2010-11-02T00:35:00.000-07:00

We have a new artwork called, 'Seventeen Messages' in this lovely book, which is being launched in London next week. Here's the blurb:

Artwords Press is delighted to announce the publication of Transmission Annual. Hospitality and invites you to the London launch party on Thursday 11th November from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. at Artwords Bookshop, 20–22 Broadway Market, Hackney, London E8 9QJ, UK

Transmission is the act of passing something on, via a channel. One might make a list of ways of transmission, including wisdom, enlightenment, education, messages sent over a distance through electrical or electronic means, and disease (which has both locus and route). In transmission, there is a move from one to another, and each may be changed in the move, in the encounter. Transmission Annual has followed a theme, that of hospitality, and as a theme it has no rules other than those of hospitality (to honour the guest, the stranger and the friend). Transmission Annual draws on broad horizons, wide paths, and diverse fields.

Contributors to the pilot issue:
Graham Allen, Kristen Alvanson, Amanda Beech, Jerome Carroll, Clegg & Guttmann, Kris Cohen, Clare Connors, Nigel Cooke, Michael Corris, Eileen Costa, Juan Cruz, Meritxell Duran, Tim Etchells, Marcia Farquhar, Rachel Garfield, Charlie Gere, Judith Goddard, Laura Heit, Vit Hopley, Nancy Hwang, Alfredo Jaar, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Ahuvia Kahane, Sharon Kivland, Esther Leslie, Yve Lomax, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Robin Mackay, Marko Mäetamm, Victor Mazin, Penny McCarthy, E. Elias Merhige, Forbes Morlock, Reza Negarestani, Hayley Newman, Dany Nobus, Haralampi G. Oroschakoff, John W.P. Phillip, Cesare Pietroiusti, Jeanne Randolph, Antonio Santos, Javier Santos, Naomi Segal, Roy Sellars, Blake Stimson, Thomson & Craighead, Irene De Vico Fallani, Rodrigo Villas, Nina Wakeford, Sarah Wood

Edited by Michael Corris, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Sharon Kivland
ISBN: 978-1-906441-24-1
£16.50, £15 at the book launch
Artwords Press
65a Rivington Street
London EC2A 3QQ, United Kingdom

www.artwords.co.uk
www.transmission.uk.com

RESOVISION AT FRIEZE ART FAIR

2010-10-13T09:45:00.000-07:00

Keep an eye out for a five minute extract taken from our feature length video work, The Time Machine in alphabetical order. It's going to be playing in the guest curated slots on Resovision hosted by Resonance FM at Frieze Art Fair.

More about Resovision: http://resonancefm.com/tv
Watch Resovision: http://www.livestream.com/resovision
More about The Time Machine in alphabetical order: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/thetimemachine.html

The Time Machine in alphabetical order

2010-09-20T03:24:00.000-07:00

We've uploaded documentation of new and recent work to our archive website (http://www.thomson-craighead.net) including a video extract of The Time Machine in alphabetical order. We'll be publishing more images from London Wall later on in the Autumn but in the meantime take a look at the following links when you have a moment.

The Time Machine in alphabetical order:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/thetimemachine.html

The End: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/theend.html

London Wall: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/londonwall.html

Flipped_Clock: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/flippedclock.html

What we did this summer

2010-09-07T03:35:00.000-07:00

Charlotte Frost has written a short piece about our summer shows for this month's Artists Newsletter. Here's the piece below. You might have to click on the pic to read it properly. Oh and by the way, our installation in the foyer of Museum of London has been extended into October 2010.

Our Rural Riddle

2010-07-21T09:49:00.000-07:00

Our solo show currently on in Scotland gets a mention in this great article on the Highland Institute of Contemporary Art (HICA) in this weeks Review section of Scotland on Sunday. The little feature is written by Moira Jeffrey and gives a bit of useful context on how the space is run and what shows have been on there and what's coming up! Click on the image below to see it larger, zoomable and legible.

Artists Lottery Syndicate

2010-07-03T01:32:00.000-07:00

We've joined the artists lottery syndicate, launched last night in London. It's a forty-strong collective of UK based artists who are joining forces to play The National Lottery over the course of a year, with the hope of hitting the jackpot.

Described by organising artist Ellie Harrison as, 'a reaction to the recession and its knock-on effect on arts funding, the Artists' Lottery Syndicate is a speculative new scheme for acquiring funds for artists. By utilising the element of 'luck', which plays such a central role in an artist's career, the Syndicate aims to explore the prevalent 'winner-takes-all' market of the arts, described by Hans Abbing in his book Why Are Artists Poor?'

Find out more here: http://www.artistslotterysyndicate.co.uk

THE END / HICA, INVERNESS

2010-06-15T23:09:00.000-07:00

Both of us are really excited that our solo exhibition opens at the Highland Institute of Contemporary Art this Sunday 20th June at 2pm where we'll be presenting a selection of new and recent works about time and place. It's not so often that we get a chance to connect a group of works together in this (hopefully multi-layered and site-specific) way and in such an inspiring location set in the middle of a nature reserve in the highlands of Scotland.

Later in the year, HICA will be publishing a book about this and the other three exhibitions at the gallery from 2010 and art historian and theorist Alistair Rider has been commissioned to write about our exhibition. We will also post documentation on this blog and our website, but if you are in the area between 20th June and 25th July, then do make the time to visit the gallery and enjoy this beautiful area above Dores at the northern tip of Loch Ness.

More about HICA and all their exhibitions here: http://www.h-i-c-a.org/
The works we will be showing in this exhibition are:

The End. 2010
Vinyl lettering on glass

Flipped Clock. 2009
Live digital animation

Horizon. 2009
Digital archival print

Nearby: within five miles. 2010
Four A3 fly-posters

The Time Machine in alphabetical order. 2010
Re-edited DVD (1hr 38m 26s)

WAR & TEA TOWELS

2010-06-09T08:35:00.001-07:00

Two exhibitions including our work opened last night in London and Oldenberg. First off was the second leg of the MyWar exhibition now moved from FACT in Liverpool to Oldenberg in Germany at the Edith Russ Media Space. We are showing, 'A short film about war' as part of this group show as a two screen cinematic gallery installation.

Second up is the exhibition, 'How we became Metadata' curated by Marq Smith, which launched a new foyer space for art at the newly restored and revamped Regent Street building for the University of Westminster in London. This show includes a complete set of our Google tea-towels framed up and hanging in the cafe gallery space at the side of the main foyer.

More about 'A short film about war':

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/warfilm.html

More about our Google tea-towels:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/towels.html

More on MyWar exhibition at Edith Russ Site:

http://www.edith-russ-haus.de/index.php/Programm/Programm

Lecture / Museum of London

2010-06-03T12:51:00.001-07:00

We're talking about our new commission at Museum of London in context with other work and will be screening (we hope) our very recent work, 'A short film about war' this Saturday in the Museum's lecture theatre. The event is free. Here's the blurb and contact the museum itself if you need more info. Do come along if you can.

Dates: 5 June 2010

Times: 05 Jun 2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Venue: Museum of London

Curator Francis Marshall is in conversation with contemporary art duo Thomson & Craighead about their new work 'London Wall' on display from late May in the Museum foyer.

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/londonwall.html

BBC LONDON RADIO INTERVIEW

2010-05-29T14:12:00.000-07:00

We were interviewed by Robert Elms yesterday live from the Museum of London, where we are currently in the process of making our new installation London Wall. You can find out more about the work and listen to the five minute interview here:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/londonwall.html

LONDON WALL / MUSEUM OF LONDON

2010-05-27T00:11:00.000-07:00

As part of the relaunch of the Museum of London, we are making a new work for the entrance hall called London Wall. The work is a physical manifestation of the invisible city all around us; a poetic snapshot of social networking traffic from within a three-mile radius of the museum itself. Over a ten-day period, publicly available status updates from popular websites like twitter and facebook will be selected then published as a vast array of posters revealing the idle mutterings of ourselves to ourselves as a form of concrete poetry.

The new displays open this Friday; from 28th May 2010, and we will be building the commission over the space of a week ending June 6th, so come along and see us there. Works by The Singh Twins and Keith Coventry will also be on display. Some more info here:

28 May - 5 September 2010

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Special/ThomsonAndCraighead.htm

Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs

2010-05-25T14:22:00.000-07:00

This group exhibition opens at 6pm on Thursday at Image Music Text Gallery in Bethnal Green, London. Come along! We'll be showing a new sound work called, 'Ghosts', where visitors are invited to recover a series of telephone calls made in the surrounding area during the late 1990's by listening to the gallery wall with a stethoscope. The radio scanner that originally captured these calls acts as a kind of cut up device in this instance, as it locks onto, then loses each signal in turn. Ghosts is a reworking of our 1998 installation, 'Speaking in Tongues' and has been made especially with Burroughs work in mind.

Other artists in the exhibition: Alma/Joe Ambrose, Steve Aylett, Alex Baker & Kit Poulson, Lawrence English, The Human Separation, Riccardo Iacono,Anthony Joseph, Cathy Lane, Eduardo Navas, Negativland, o.blaat, Aki Onda, Jörg Piringer, Plastique Fantastique, Simon Reuben White, Giorgio Sadotti, Scanner, Terre Thaemlitz, Laureana Toledoand Ultra-red, with performances by Ascsoms and Solina Hi-Fi.

28 May - 18 July 2010
Opening 27th May 6 - 9pmhttp://www.imagemusictext.com/

SUMMER UPDATE, 2010

2010-05-20T07:30:00.000-07:00

A bit of a list of stuff here taking us into those summer months. Do please pop along to anything in your vicinity. The first few items relate to new and recent work, and the rest of the list is 'and in other news..' You can also hear us interviewed on Resonance FM here: http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php Anyway remember, Summer is a state of mind! OK.. Deep breath. Here's the new work bit:

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+ LONDON WALL. Museum of London
As part of the relaunch of the Museum of London, we are making a new work for the entrance hall. The new displays open from 28th May 2010, and we will be building the commission over the space of a week ending June 6th, so come along and see there. Works by The Singh Twins and Keith Coventry will also be on display. Some more info here:

28 May - 5 September 2010
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Special/ThomsonAndCraighead.htm

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+ THE END. Solo Exhibition, Highland institute of Contemporary Art
This exhibition will include two brand new works, 'The End' and 'The Time Machine in alphabetical order', so if you're holidaying in the highlands this summer and are near Loch Ness, then do pop along because it will be on well into July and H-I-C-A is a great project in only its second year...

20 June - 25 July 2010
Opening: 20 June, 2 - 5 pm
http://www.h-i-c-a.org

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+ A SHORT FILM ABOUT WAR. Edith Russ Site, Oldenberg
Our recent installation is moving with the rest of the MyWar touring exhibition to Edith Russ Site in Oldenberg in June. Other participating artists in MyWar are Phil Collins, JosephDeLappe, Dunne & Raby, Harun Farocki, Harroll Fletcher, Knowbotic Research, Oliver Laric, Renzo Martens, SWAMB, Thomson & Craighead, Milica Tomic, Sarah Vanagt).

You can also read a recent article on, A short film about War in the french newspaper Liberation :
http://www.liberation.fr/medias/0101621681-la-guerre-en-eclats-tout-net

10 June – 29 August 2010
Opening: 9 June, 8 pm
http://www.edith-russ-haus.de/

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+ GHOSTS. IMT Gallery, London
We are showing this reworking of our 1998 installation, 'Speaking in Tongues' as part of Dead Fingers Talk: Experiments of William S. Burroughs. Other artists; Alma/Joe Ambrose, Steve Aylett, Alex Baker & Kit Poulson, Lawrence English, The Human Separation, Riccardo Iacono,Anthony Joseph, Cathy Lane, Eduardo Navas, Negativland, o.blaat, Aki Onda, Jörg Piringer, Plastique Fantastique, Simon Reuben White, Giorgio Sadotti, Scanner, Terre Thaemlitz, Laureana Toledoand Ultra-red, with performances by Ascsoms and Solina Hi-Fi.

28 May - 18 July 2010
Opening 27th May 6 - 9pm
http://www.imagemusictext.com/

And now, in OTHER NEWS:
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+ GOOGLE TEA TOWELS. Data Poetics, Google headquarters in Chelsea, New York
Our Google Tea towels will be part of this exhibition launching a new art thread at the Google Offices in New York (that made us smile!). Other artists in this exhibition are John F. Simon, Jr., Marek Walczak, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas, Aaron Koblin, Brad Paley, Lincoln Schatz, Scott Draves, Luke Dubois.

11 June - 1st September 2010
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/towels.html

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+ GOOGLE TEA TOWELS. How we became metadata, 309 Regent St, London.
Our Google Tea towels will also be part of this exhibition launching a new art thread coming out of the Institute for Modern Contemporary Culture at University of Westminster. Other artists; Martin John Callanan, Corby & Baily, Enju Han, Eduardo Kac, Susan pui san lok, Ruth Mclennon & Uriel Orlow.

09 June - 5th September 2010
Opening 8 June 6.30 - 8.30pm
http://instituteformodern.co.uk/2010/8th-june-private-view-how-we-became-metadata

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+ SEVERAL INTERRUPTIONS, Urban Video Project, Syracuse, New York.
OK, in our last bulletin we said this was on right now!! But it's **not** and has been delayed to June, where a reformatted version of Several Interruptions will be thrown onto the side of a building in downtown Syracuse, New York.

1 June - 20 June 2010
http://www.urbanvideoproject.com/news/id/03_23_10.html

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+ FLAT EARTH. Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein
This is part of the series of solo presentations curated by Thomas Thiel, director of the Bielefelder Kunstverein. It has an accompanying text commission and written by Sabine Himmelsbach both of which can be seen simultaneously in the gallery and online at:

7 May – 03 June 2010
http://www.bielefelder-kunstverein.de/ausstellungen/subjektive-projektionen/thomson-craighead.html

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+ FLAT EARTH. Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
will also be screening as part of the inaugural Film Lounge program, 'City & Stars' at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh alongside works by Jeanne Liotta, Daren Banks and Karen Russo.

18 Jun 2010 - 18 Jul 2010
Launch event 18th June
http://www.stills.org/exhibition/film-lounge/city-and-stars-programme

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+ BEACON. We do things differently here. Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
We are showing the projected version of BEACON for this group exhibition organised by graduating students on the MA Contemporary Art Theory course, Edinburgh College of Art.

5 June - 19 June
Opening: 4th June 6 - 8pm
http://www.eca.ac.uk/theydothingsdifferentlythere/

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+ THE FRIEND. Transmission Annual publication.
We have contributed an artwork for this publication as part of a chain of 'friends' starting with an article by Dr Charlie Gere, followed by us and then on to writer, Kris Cohen, artist Laura Heit, and artist/writer Nina Wakeford. Transmission annual will be launched in July 2010:
http://www.transmission.uk.com

Furtherfield on Resonance FM

2010-05-09T08:44:00.000-07:00

We're being interviewed on Resonance FM this Tuesday evening by Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost. As far as we know it's a live program, so that should add a certain unpredictability to proceedings especially as we have no idea what they'll be asking us! The other guest on the show is Corrado Morgana and if you're not near a radio for the live show then the podcast can be downloaded here later on in the week alongside all the previous broadcasts:

http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

Flat Earth at the Bielefelder Kunstverein

2010-05-07T03:28:00.000-07:00

Our 2007 desktop documentary, 'Flat Earth' is showing for a month as part of the series of solo presentations called, 'Subjective Projections' curated by Thomas Thiel, director of the Bielefelder Kunstverein. It has an accompanying text commission and written by Sabine Himmelsbach both of which can be seen simultaneously in the gallery and online at:

http://www.bielefelder-kunstverein.de/ausstellungen/subjektive-projektionen/thomson-craighead.html

La guerre en éclats tout net

2010-04-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

This is from February, but we only just saw this article about, 'A Short film about War' from Liberation newspaper in France, and thought we'd flag it up here: http://www.liberation.fr/medias/0101621681-la-guerre-en-eclats-tout-net

Time Out London / A short film about war

2010-04-08T10:22:00.000-07:00

This week's Time Out London has a short review on our narrative documentary artwork, 'A Short film about War' which is available online at animate projects and is also showing in MyWar exhibition at FACT Liverpool.

Recycled Film Symposium

2010-03-11T00:46:00.000-08:00

We're speaking at this conference tomorrow and Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle as part of AV Festival, where we will also be screening, 'A short film about War'. Lots of great speakers and an interesting theme for the day, so should be a good day all round!

This national symposium brings together leading film organisations, filmmakers, artists and archivists to discuss online access to film archives and the creative use of this material in the digital age. Film is a crucial part of our heritage, however, online access to archives is limited especially when compared to other online collections like youtube. This symposium will open up the debate and look at different ways of collecting, archiving and accessing our shared film history.

More here: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/recycled-film-symposium

MyWar exhibition opens next week!

2010-03-03T01:10:00.000-08:00

We will be showing 'A Short Film about War' as an installation for the first time alongside works by Phil Collins, Renzo Martens, Milica Tomic, Knowbotic Research, Harun Farocki, Sarah Vanagt, Joseph Delappe, Oliver Laric, Dunne & Raby, Harrell Fletcher and SWAMP.

We're also really excited that Animate Projects have commissioned Lisa LeFeuvre to write a contextual essay about, 'A Short Film about War', which is available on their website to read and download as a diffusion book alongside a streaming version of the work.

+ See a streaming version of, 'A Short Film about War here: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2010/short_film_about_war

+ Read Lisa's essay here: http://www.animateprojects.org/writing/essays/l_le_feuvre

+ More information about MyWar exhibition: http://www.fact.co.uk/2010/mywar

Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool
12 March - 30 May, 2010 (& Touring)

A short film about War / Animate Projects

2010-02-15T08:50:00.000-08:00

Writer and curator Lisa Le Feuvre has written an essay about A short film about War. This was commissioned by Animate Projects and you can see a streaming version of this narrative documentary artwork alongside Lisa's essay here:

www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2010/short_film_about_war

Thanks Animate. Thanks Lisa, and thanks to alt-w and New Media Scotland who helped us develop the 'movie' component of this two screen work, which you can see installed for the first time as a gallery installation in March at FACT, Liverpool as part of MyWar exhibition -a separate post about that will come later. Final thanks to Steve Rushton who we developed the script with.

Trust in an Age of Loneliness

2010-02-03T06:34:00.000-08:00

Ok here is a more proper blurb on the re-hang at British Council London where our 16:9 version of Decorative Newsfeeds has been installed.

The exhibition is called 'Trust in an Age of Loneliness' and shows works from the British Council Collection selected by Gerard Lemos CMG, Acting Chair.

It includes works by Paula Rego, Lawrence Gowring, LS Lowry, Ian Hamilton Finlay (work pictured above), Victor Pasmore, Stanley Spencer, Bill Brandt and Augustus John.

More info on Decorative Newsfeeds here

Decorative Newsfeeds. British Council, London

2010-01-25T07:35:00.000-08:00

If you're passing by the British Council offices in Spring Gardens (just by Admiralty Arch on Trafalgar Square), then you will be able to see our version of Decorative Newsfeeds for 16:9 screens on display in their foyer. Visible from the street, and in the public area of the reception area for the next few months at least. More information can be found on all our versions of Decorative Newsfeeds on our documentation website:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decnews.html

Twelve International Artists Explore Conflict at Foundation for Art & Creative Technology

2010-01-19T08:32:00.000-08:00

In a period of global unrest, FACT in Liverpool (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) presents a timely exhibition. "MyWar" exploring conflict in a digitally networked world through the work of 12 international artists. Their work investigates the realities and myths of war at a time when the boundaries between the public and the private are being steadily eroded.

For the first time we will be showing our installation, 'A short film about war' in the gallery. For the complete artdaily preview article for this show, please follow:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35731

As Arranged

2010-01-06T04:19:00.000-08:00

We are showing one of our Horizon prints in this group exhibition curated by Highland Institute of Contemporary Art for PS project space in Amsterdam.

David Bellingham, Richard Couzins, Thomson + Craighead, Alec Finlay, Geoff Lucas, Alexander and Susan Maris, Peter Suchin

Opening: 17 January 14.00 - 17.00 hrs
17 January - 28 February 2010

PS
Leidsekade 60
1016 CX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 20 6209303
www.psprojectspace.nl

Open: first Sunday of the month 14.00 - 17.00 hrs and by appointment

Network Art: Practices and Positions

2009-12-19T03:45:00.000-08:00

We wrote a chapter for this book with Kris Cohen, and the book (edited by Tom Corby) is finally out in a more affordable paperback form! It's an interesting catalogue of writing coming very much from artists' perspective as supposed to theorists, curators, historians and critics. Here's the blurb:

Network Art brings an international group of leading theorists and artists together to investigate how the internet, in the form of websites, mailing lists, installations and performance, has been used by artists to develop artwork.

Covering a period from the mid 1990s to the present day, this fascinating text includes key texts by historians and theorists such as Charlie Gere, Josephine Bosma, Tilman Buarmgartel and Sarah Cook, alongside descriptions of important projects by Thomson and Craighead, Lisa Jevbratt and 0100101110101101.org amongst many others.

Fully illustrated throughout, and including many pictures of artworks never before seen in print, Network Art represents one of the first substantial attempts to place major artist's writings on network art alongside those of critics, curators and historians. In doing so it takes a unique approach, offering the first comprehensive attempt to understand network art practice, rooted in concrete descriptions of the systems and the process required to create it.

more here from routledge...

Outside the Material World, Tate Modern

2009-11-26T08:43:00.000-08:00

We are going to be talking about some recent work at Tate Modern on December 12th in this event -do come along if you are able to:

+ Outside the Material World. Saturday 12 December 2009,

11.00–17.00 Starr Auditorium, Level 2, Tate Modern

To coincide with the exhibition Pop Life: Art in the Material World, this symposium explores artists' relationships to the market from the 1970s to the present by focusing on mail and ephemeral art outside the market, and in collections and exhibitions today. Given the present financial crisis, strategies of insertion and the circulation of art are reassessed by artists, curators, archivists and academics.

Speakers: Felipe Ehrenberg, Professor Dawn Ades, Thomson and Craighead, Michael Asbury, Adrian Glew, Cristina Freire and co-curators Pop Life: Art in a Material World Alison Gingeras & Catherine Wood.

See: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20640.htm for booking information and details of the full programme

Horizon at Impakt Festival, Utrecht

2009-10-13T11:14:00.000-07:00

Our live installation Horizon will be re-staged at Impakt Festival in Utrecht, Holland from October 14th 2009 alongside works by Jonas Dahlberg, Guido van der Werve, Vadim Fishkin, Guy Sherwin, Glenn Kaino and Julieta Aranda. More information on this exhibition here: http://www.impakt.nl/index.php/festival/exhibition_2009

Interview with Introducing Art

2009-10-08T00:29:00.000-07:00

'Introducing Art' have just interviewed us for Issue V of their online publication. You can read the illustrated interview here...

http://introducingart.com/

Several Interruptions

2009-10-01T03:24:00.000-07:00

Our new video work Several Interruptions is now available to watch online. It has been commissioned by the Arts Council of England especially for the re-branding of their new website, which went online today! You can watch it online and read a short text about the work written by Sarah Cook here:

http://artscouncil.org.uk/our-work/several-interruptions/

We've just set up a new blog

2009-09-16T08:34:00.000-07:00

We're going to use it to make announcements about new work and exhibitions and other stuff that relates to our work, so please subscribe to it. On average we make around eight announcements a year.

http://thomson-craighead.blogspot.com

Landscape 2.0

2009-09-16T05:53:00.000-07:00

Edith Ruß Site for Media Art (Oldenburg) /
Kunstverein Springhornhof (Neuenkirchen near Soltau)
28 August – 15 November 2009 / Opening: Friday, 28 August 2009, 8 p.m.

We will be showing 'Flat Earth' as part of this exhibition alongside works by Masaki Fujihata, Janice Kerbal, Wapke Feenstra, Ursula Damm, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Monika Studer/Christoph van den Berg, Vaughn Bell, David Hahlbrock, Brett Stalbaum/Cicero DaSilva/walkingtools.net, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Beate Gutschow, Beuro fur Unadwagbarkeiten, Susan Collins, Rachel Reupke, Ulu Braun, Jane Prophet

More info: http://www.edith-russ-haus.de/index.php/Programm/Programm

A short film about War / Burma VJ

2009-09-10T07:21:00.000-07:00

Glasgow Film Theatre
8th and 9th September only

The single screen version of, 'A short film about War' will be screening before Burma VJ by Anders Østergaard for two nights only at Glasgow Film Theatre.

More info: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/warfilm.html
http://www.gft.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s4_1&filmid=51568&filmview=&weekid=1&date=9/8/2009

They told you so

2009-08-14T08:04:00.000-07:00

Bitforms Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, New York
18th July - 2009 / Preview 16th July

We will be showing a new work, 'A universal machine for testing everything' alongside work by John Menick, Brina Thurston, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and Raphael Lozano-Hemmer. Curated for Bitforms by Mireille Bourgeois and Anais Lellouche.

ALT-WIN.NING

2009-08-02T08:00:00.000-07:00

Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
2nd July 2009 / 8pm PREMIERE

We will be premiering our new narrative documentary, 'A short film about war' as part of this evening celebrating New Media Scotland’s 10th birthday. New work also showing by Sarah Kettley and Distance Lab with new writing by Netwurker Mez and Hannu Rajaniemi, choreography by Sue Hawksley and music by Peter Gregson.

More info: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/warfilm.html