We are showing the single screen version of Belief as part of Video Dumbo at Eyebeam in Chelsea, New York on Sunday May 19th at 4.30pm in the Believers screening program.

You can find out more about our screening here:
http://www.videodumbo.org/13-believers.html

If you're in New York that weekend then maybe go take a look!!

Our documentary artwork Belief is showing this weekend on Skye.  The work is being exhibited in the south wing of Dunvegan Castle in close proximity to the Fairy Flag iconic talisman of clan MacLeod, which is used as the starting point for this unique installation.

Belief is made from information found entirely on the worldwide web. In fifteen minutes, this two-screen installation presents a series of fragmented broadcasts about belief, all sourced from the video sharing community YouTube.

Belief is the final work in the Flat Earth Trilogy following on from Flat Earth (2007) and A short film about War (2009/2010). Supported by Creative Scotland's Vital Spark programme, New Media Scotland's Alt-w Fund, ATLAS Arts and Animate Projects. Software development by Matthew Jarvis, sound design by John Cobban and script development by Alison Craighead, Jon Thomson and Steve Rushton. Graphic design by Cavan Convery.

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/belief.html
Saturday 13 - Monday 15 April 2013 10am - 5.30pm (last entry 5pm)
Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
Admission charges apply

You can see a single screen version of the installation here: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2012/belief

You can read an essay on Belief by Morgan Quaintance here:
http://www.animateprojects.org/writing/essays/m_quaintance

You can read interviews with us about Belief here:
http://www.foam.org/foam-blog/2012/june/belief
http://www.animateprojects.org/interviews/thomson_and_craighead_belief

We are showing our installation October as part of an exhibition and talk series at Corn Exchange Newbury and New Greenham Arts.  The exhibition opens on 27th March and runs until 21st April.

More information on the exhibition can be found at:
http://www.cornexchangenew.com/events/info/protest

and you can find out more about October at:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/october.html

We are showing A short film about War as part of Videonale 14 currently on exhibition at Kunst Museum Bonn in Germany.  The exhibition will be touring around over next year or so but you can also download an App for you phone that gives you all the catalogue information and more... Here's the blurb and a download link -enjoy!

"For all of you who have already visited Videonale or still plan to go: all information on the exhibition and festival are for the first time also available through the Videonale App, supported by KfW Stiftung, for the iPhone, iPad and iPad-Mini. The App is available for free in the App Store.

As a guide to VIDEONALE.14, the Videonale App provides additional information about the exhibition, the artists exhibited and their works, and can be used as an interactive plan of the exhibition. In addition, an interview with the jury gives an insight into how the festival was organised. The app also offers short descriptions, opening times and a route planner of the Videonale Parcours in Bonn."

You can download the Videonale app at: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id598881241

After seven years our outdoor version of Decorative Newsfeeds in Forest Hill, London will be decommissioned today.  It was only supposed to be there for five years so we're happy that it has had such a long run.  You can find documentation of the piece on our website at:

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

and you can also still see our other outdoor version of this work in Cambridge by The Junction theatre:

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

Thank you to everyone who has supported both works over the years and if anyone wants to give the Forest Hill version a new home then do get in touch, although it's possibly a bit big for most living room walls :)

We have written a short text for this new publication launching in Paris at La Gaîté Lyrique this Thursday evening.  Here's the blurb on the book and event, which is a retrospective snapshot of artists work online over the last twenty years or so:

NOUVELLE PUBLICATION | "NET ART - WJ-SPOTS#2"
Les artistes s'emparent du réseau / Artists take over the network

LANCEMENT / LAUNCHING: 19h00 - 20h30
Jeudi 13 décembre 2012 / Thursday December 13th 2012

La Gaîté Lyrique, rue Papin  - 75003 PARIS
M° Réaumur Sébastopol / Arts et Métiers

Entrée libre / Free entrance
inscription / registration : info@digitalmcd.com

Avec la participation de /with the participation of:

ALEJO DUQUE // ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO //ANDRÈS LOZANO a.k.a. Loz ANA CARVALHO // ATAU TANAKA // AYMERIC MANSOUX // BRAD TROEMEL // BRIAN MACKERN // CARL.Y & LABOITEBLANCHE (((NOMUSIC))) // CHRISTIANE PAUL // CONSTANT DULLART // DANIIL (DANJA) VASILIEV // DAPHNE DRAGONA // DAVID BLAIR // DEAN WHITBREAD // DOMENICO QUARANTA // EVAN ROTH // FRANCK ANCEL // GEERT LOVINK // GENCO GÜLAN // GÉRALDINE GOMEZ // GORDAN SAVIÇIC // GWENOLA WAGON/STÉPHANE DEGOUTIN // HANS BERNHARD // HEATH BUNTING // I-WEI LI // IGOR ŠTROMAJER // JEAN-BAPTISTE BAYLE // JEAN-PAUL FOURMENTRAUX // JODI // JULIEN LEVESQUE // JULIEN OTTAVI // KAREN DERMINEUR (KRN) // MAGRÉT ELISABET ÓLAFSDÓTTIR // MAJA KALOGERA // MARIA PTQK // MARIE PETIT // MICHAËL SELLAM // MILTOS MANETAS // MINDAUGAS GAPŠEVIČIUS// NICOLAS MALEVÉ // PAULA PERISSINOTTO // PEDRO SOLER // PER PLATOU // RAPHAEL BASTIDE & YANNICK ANTOINE // REYNALD DROUHIN // RICARDO MBARKHO // SAKROWSKI // SHU LEA CHEANG // STANZA // STÉPHAN BARRON // THOMAS CHENESEAU  // THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD // YVES BERNARD//

AFC / With:

Isabelle Arvers http://www.isabellearvers.com
Anne Laforet http://sakasama.net

Atau Tanaka - www.ataut.net  (US)
Andrés Lozano a.k.a. Loz - http://andre-lozano.org  (FR)
David Blair - http://www.waxweb.org (US)
Evan Roth - http://www.evan-roth.com (US)
Franck Ancel - http://twitter.com/franckancel (FR)
Géraldine Gomez - www.centrepompidou.fr (FR)
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir - http://reykjavikmedialab.is (IS)
Marie Petit - www.chambrebleue.eu  (FR)
Michaël Sellam - http://michaelsellam.com (FR)
Shu Lea Cheang - http://www.mauvaiscontact.info  (US)
Thomas Cheneseau - https://www.facebook.com/thomas.vaneecloor  (FR)

Rédactrice en chef invitée / Guest Chief Editor
Anne Roquigny
Directrice de la Rédaction / Editorial Editor
Anne-Cécile Worms
Rédacteur en chef / Chief Editor
Laurent Diouf
Visuel couverture / visual cover
Olia Lialina "Agatha Appears" 1997

Bilingue Français - Anglais / Bilingual English - French
9 euros - Disponible aussi au format PDF / Also Available in PDF format
MCD : www.digitalmcd.com

(FRANÇAIS)
Les artistes, critiques, chercheurs et commissaires artistiques, invités à participer à cette publication nous donnent des clés, des repères et des éclairages pour comprendre les différentes formes artistiques qui cohabitent sur la toile, dans ses interstices et ses périphéries. D’un point de vue artistique, les auteurs témoignent de ce qui s’est passé sur Internet ces deux dernières décennies et ils expriment la façon dont ils ont perçu, vécu et traversé cette période. D’un point de vue social, politique et artistique, les participants nous expliquent : comment le réseau a changé leur rapport au monde, à l’espace et au temps; comment il a bouleversé leurs usages, leurs pratiques et leur manière de penser; et comment il est devenu un espace de partage, d’échange et de création.

Dans une démarche prospective, ils imaginent les années qui viennent et se demandent si Internet sera toujours un territoire intéressant à explorer dans le futur, s’il sera toujours un terrain fertile pour produire des formes artistiques hybrides où le monde physique et le monde virtuel fusionnent, se frottent et se télescopent. Les participants proposent aussi une sélection de sites internet marquants et emblématiques à leurs yeux.

(ENGLISH )
The artists, critics, researchers and curators invited to contribute to this publication are giving us the keys, references and insights to comprehend the various art forms that coexist on the net, in its interstices and its peripheries. From an artistic point of view, the authors reflect upon what has taken place on the internet in the last two decades, and express how they perceived, experienced and lived through this era. From a social, political and artistic point of view, the contributors tell us: how the network changed their relationship to the world, time and space; how it transformed their uses, practices and ways of thinking; and how it became a space for sharing, exchanging and creating.

In a prospective approach, they are forecasting the coming years, wondering if the internet can stay a territory worth exploring in the future and if it will still be a fertile ground to produce hybrid art forms in which the physical and virtual worlds merge, rub off on each other and collide. The contributors also present a selection of websites they regard as significant, iconic and essential.

MORE INFOS : Http://www.wj-s.org

PARTENAIRES / PARTNERS
Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Secrétariat général (SG) Service de la coordination des politiques culturelles et de l’innovation (SCPCI), Département de l’éducation et du développement artistiques et culturels (DEDAC),  Orange, Institut Français, Communauté Française de Belgique, Région de Bruxelles capitale Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Relais Culture Europe Production,Sidebyside Studio, Maison Laurentine, Transmediale, Betahaus, iMAL, Festival Mal au Pixel, La Gaité Lyrique, Arscenic, Selfworld, WJ-S, Digitalarti, MCD.

We are showing Decorative Newsfeeds as part of the exhibition Paraphrasing Babel opening in Heerlen and Maastricht this week.  If you're in the area then please go take a peek.  The various artworks in the show are distributed across public spaces in both cities.  More info on the website here: http://www.paraphrasing-babel.eu

More information on Decorative Newsfeeds here:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decnews.html

The single screen version of our documentary artwork, 'Belief' is screening tonight at The Duke of York's picturehouse in Brighton as part of the Jarman Award touring programme.  It includes works by all ten shortlisted artists and is a 140 minutes long, so brace yourself!  More info here:

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Duke_Of_Yorks/film/The_Jarman_Awards_2012/

Oh and if you can't make it you can watch it online at Animate Projects:
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2012/belief

Our karaoke videos More Songs of Innocence and of Experience are reviewed in this article about the Film & Video Umbrella's online exhibition Our Mutual Friends. Take a look here:

http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/2012/10/our-mutual-friends/

Our latest documentary artwork, 'October' about the early rise and fall of the global Occupy movement in 2011 opens at the Brighton Photo-biennial tomorrow night (Friday 5th October).  We're really excited about it and it looks great in situe: the installation team have done a fantastic job.

So please come along if you can.  The whole biennial is on for a few weeks.
More information on the Brighton Photo-biennial here:

http://www.bpb.org.uk/2012/whats_on/thomson-and-craighead/

and you can see some documentation here:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/october.html

A single screen version of our new work Belief is being screened at FACT in Liverpool TONIGHT as part of the Jarman Award touring program organised by Film London.  You can find out more about the touring program > here <

You can find out more about Belief here:
www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/belief.html

A new written piece on our work by Morgan Quaintance is now available on the Lux blog at http://www.lux.org.uk/blog/thomson-craighead. It focuses on our video works available at Lux, but Morgan contextualises this with our wider practice too.  Have a read if you get a moment...

We've just made More Songs of Innocence and of Experience as part of Our Mutual Friends commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella, London.  This online exhibition launches at Jerwood Space in London on 30th August and also includes work by Graham Hudson, Gayle Chong Kwan and Janice Kerbal.

More Songs of Innocence and of Experience are a series of karaoke videos that take a fresh look at unsolicited spam emails and their affinities with the romanticism and realism in Charles Dicken's novel, 'Our Mutual Friend'.  In both Dicken's novel and our online culture the language of romanticism and realism becomes intertwined with languages of exploitation whether it be the scam email, the hard luck story that attempts to extort or more generally the realms of advertising, evangelical religion, politics etc.

You can see the first three videos in this series here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/songsofinnocence100

The exhibition website for Our Mutual Friends launches on 30th August, 2012.  Our Mutual Friends is commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and presented in partnership with Jerwood Charitable Foundation, Turner Contemporary, Margate and Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.

We're just finishing up a new artwork we've been asked to make for this year's Brighton Photo-biennial.  The installation is called, 'October' -a documentary artwork about the burgeoning Occupy movement.  We'll post more information about the piece closer to the time of exhibition but for now you can find out more here:

http://www.bpb.org.uk/2012/whats_on/thomson-and-craighead/

A single screen version of our new installation Belief is now available to view online at Animate Projects.  Here's the copy from the Animate press release with links to the essay and interview too:

"Animate Projects is delighted to present the new film, Belief, by Thomson and Craighead. Belief is the final work in the desktop documentary trilogy, following on from the AnimateTV commission Flat Earth (2007) and A Short Film about War (2009/2010). The three films can be viewed online at animateprojects.org.

Belief comprises a series of fragmented broadcasts about belief, all sourced from the video sharing community YouTube.  Belief premiered in installation at Inspace in Edinburgh as part of Edinburgh International Film Festival in June.

An essay by Morgan Quaintance and an interview with the artists accompanies the exhibition of the work online.

Belief is Supported by Creative Scotland's Vital Spark programme, New Media Scotland's Alt-w Fund, ATLAS Arts and Animate Projects.

Belief > animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2012/belief
Essay > animateprojects.org/writing/essays/m_quaintance
Interview > animateprojects.org/interviews/thomson_and_craighead_belief

If you're in Berlin this week then our short film about war is screening this Thursday as part of Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid: new cinema and contemporary art.  The festival itself opens tonight at the Haus der Kuturen der Welt and runs until 8th July.  So take a break from the thunder storms and watch movies...

More info here: http://www.art-action.org/en_index.htm

Download a full programme here: http://www.art-action.org/site/_download/berlin_2012/programm_berlin_2012.pdf

Artist Wendy McMurdo has posted about our new documentary artwork, Belief for the Dutch photography blog and zine FOAM.  It includes a brief interview with us on the work.  You can read the post in full by following this link: http://foam.org/foam-blog/2012/june/belief

Belief is currently being staged at Inspace in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (http://www.thomson-craighead.net/belief), but a single screen version of the work is also going to be hosted by Animate Projects from July with a short accompanying essay by Morgan Quaintance.  We'll post the link here when it goes live!

We are premiering our new documentary artwork, Belief as part of the Edinburgh Film Festival. It's the final work in our Flat Earth Trilogy following on from Flat Earth (2007) and A short film about War (2009/2010).  Come along this Thursday if you're nearby! Big thanks too to New Media Scotland and Inspace for their support.

'Belief', Inspace, Edinburgh.  21st June - 1st July 2012, 8:30-9pm and followed by a screening of Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire

e-flyer: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/belief

We will be showing, 'A short film about War' as part of this group show -it opens on Friday.  'Image Counter Image', Haus der Kunst, Munich.  10th June 2012 – 16th September 2012.

Artists: bureau d’études / Nin Brudermann / Harun Farocki / Omer Fast / Hans-Peter Feldmann / Téo Hernandez / Monika Huber / Alfredo Jaar / Adela Jušić / Langlands & Bell / Radenko Milak / Trevor Paglen / Thomas Ruff / Roy Samaha / Wilhelm Sasnal / Ahlam Shibli / John Smith / Sean Snyder / Thomson & Craighead / Jasmila Žbanić.

more info: http://www.hausderkunst.de/index.php?id=132&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=170

We are showing, 'BEACON' for the second leg of Gateways exhibition in Basel. Artists: boredom research / Ingo Günther / Hanna Haaslahti / RIXC / Thomson & Craighead / Timo Toots / You Must Relax / etc.

'Gateways: Art & Networked Culture', Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel. 2nd June 2012 - 19th August 2012. More information here:

http://www.haus-ek.org/en/content/gateways-art-and-networked-culture?loc=EX

We are showing our installation The distance travelled through our solar system this year and all the barrels of oil remaining as part of this exhibition opening TONIGHT!  The exhibition runs from 16th May until 15th September, so if you're in Preston at all this summer, do pop along and take a look.

You can find out more about this exhibition here.

You can find out more about The distance travelled... here

We've updated our website and added some new documentation at http://www.thomson-craighead.net. Two main additions are: A live portrait of Tim Berners-Lee (an early warning system) currently showing at the National Media Museum in Bradford and documentation for Tallinn Wall & London Wall (N4) still on show at the new Furtherfield gallery in Finsbury Park, London.  Links below:

A live portrait of Tim Berners-Lee (an early warning system):
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/tbl.html

Tallinn Wall & London Wall (N4):
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/tallinnwall.html

Our new artwork A live portrait of Tim Berners Lee (an early warning system) is launching tonight as part of the new Life Online gallery openings at National Media Museum in sunny Bradford.

There's video about the work here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_dOoIVRv0 

Come see it if you can, or say hello if you're going tonight...

Revue Bleuorange based in Montreal asked us to rework our 2001 webwork e-poltergeist for Issue 05 of their online journal available right here.  

e-poltergeist (2001/2012) is an online art work made entirely out of automated actions that intervene and interfere with normal browsing activity. As the disruptive 'poltergeist' spawns unwanted windows onto the user's desktop, live search data begins to form into a series of messages that appear to be directly addressing the computer user -a lost voice perhaps, caught in the ether. 

This version of e-poltergeist is a reworking of the original piece first commissioned for the exhibition 010101: Art in Technological Times held at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2001. It has also been translated into French especially for the fifth issue of bleuOrange.

Ok so it's not quite spring yet, but we do have a few things coming up that take us through to the end of March.

First off, we are part of the inaugural exhibition 'Being Social' in the new Furtherfield Gallery slap bang in the middle of Finsbury Park, North London where we will be showing a version of our 'London Wall'.  It opens this Saturday afternoon.

http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/being-social

Next up; we'll be showing a new projected version of 'Flipped Clock' as part of the exhibition 'Mirror Neurons' at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland.  The exhibition is curated by Sarah Cook for the 'As slow as possible' AV Festival which launches at the end of next week in Newcastle and Sunderland.

http://www.nationalglasscentre.com/whats-on/2012/03/01/mirror-neurons.html

Then we have our desktop documentary, 'Flat Earth' showing in the next Travelling Gallery exhibition, which launches on 2nd March at Inspace in Edinburgh.

http://www.travellinggallery.com/futureexhibitionsdefault

We've also completely revamped our 2001 online artwork 'e-poltetgeist' for the Canadian journal 'BleuOrange', which goes live on 20th March at 0300hrs GMT. 

http://revuebleuorange.org/

And finally, our new artwork, 'A live portrait of Sir Tim Berners Lee (an early warning system)' will be part of the major new exhibition, 'Life Online' launching in the National Media Museum on 29th March.

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/PlanAVisit/Exhibitions/LifeOnlineExhibition/TemporaryExhibition.aspx

Do come and see the work if you can!

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

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/

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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/

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

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/

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!

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!

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

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!!

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...

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

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/

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