We are showing our railway sign BEACON as part of the group exhibition Watching You curated by Julie Solovyeva and Katya Valevich, which opened in New York last night including work by Kohei Yoshiyuki, Cynthia Daignault, Vanessa Hodgkinson, Ai Weiwei, Cindy Sherman, Enxuto and Love and Ernesto Caivano.  You can see the full details here including how to get to the space, which is open 24/7 by appointment only.  The show is on until December 22nd so get there quick!

http://thomson-craighead.net/1011.pdf

Our documentary artwork October is being exhibited at ZKM in Karlsruhe as part of their exhibition global aCtIVISm opening on 14.12.2013 - 30.03.2014.  It's a big exhibition and you can find out more about the many things going on as a part of this here:

http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$8502

Do go take a look if you can and you can find out more about October on our website.  October is a portrait of the Occupy movement when it exploded into a massive global movement during the autumn of 2011.

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

We are showing A short film about War as part of this screening coming up on Mon Dec 2 2013 - 7:00 pm in C Space at Legion Arts in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  So if you happen to be in the American Heartland then maybe go take a look.  The whole screening has been curated by Abigail Addison from Animate Projects -more info here: http://legionarts.org/events/gods-special-envoys

We're just back from installing our new solo exhibition at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen and have posted documentation of three new works online -take a look when you have a moment or two.

The First Person
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/firstperson.html

Broken Webcams
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/webcams.html

Six Years of Mondays
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/mondays.html

You can also see pics from the opening and install in Germany on our flickr stream here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87294765@N00/

We have a solo exhibition opening at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen in Germany on 26th October, which we're excited to say will include three new works!

We're also launching a new publication at the same time looking at this exhibition alongside another show planned for early next year at Dundee Contemporary Arts.  The book will include essays by Sarah Cook, Clive Gillman and a conversation between us and Steve Rushton.

Do come along to Memmingen if you and you can find out more by viewing the flyer here

Transitio_MX 05 is now open in Mexico City and we're showing two pieces for it; our desktop documentary, Flat Earth and our installation, The distance travelled through our solar system this year and all the barrels of oil remaining.  Do go take a look if you're in that part of the world!  It's a really massive show spread across a number of venues and curated this time around by Sarah Cook

We've made work for this publishing project curated by Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen. As well as being an A0 poster for the purposes of this project, the print we've made called Voyager (Micromégas) also exists as a wood block print. Here's some more info about the project taken from Tracy and Edwin's website:

The publishing project and mobile exhibition launches on Thursday at Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference.  It brings together posters by Pavel Büchler, Dora Garcia, Jonathan Monk, Scott Myles, Thomson & Craighead and Marco Stout, and a text by Mark Dorrian in response to Voltaire’s story of 1752 that functions as a commentary on human foible, scientific superstitions and anti-utopias.

Published and produced by Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA).

The second presentation will take place at The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney in Spring 2014 when a new component will be included.

www.mackenna-and-janssen.net
www.conf.dundee.ac.uk/impact8/home/

For the whole of the rest of August, the single screen versions of all three parts of our Flat Earth Trilogy will be showing at Taigh Chearsabhagh Art Centre in Lochmaddy on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.  More information here:

taigh-chearsabhagh.org/taighc_events/flat-earth-trilogy-thomson-craighead/

It's the first time we have displayed these works in this way and if you're lucky enough to be out on the Western Isles this month then do pop in and take a look.  The entire cycle of works last around 30minutes.

Flat Earth Trilogy is a series of documentary artworks each made entirely from information found on the worldwide web.  The trilogy covers a six-year period beginning with Flat Earth (2007), A short film about War (2009/2010) and ending with Belief (2012). In each case, the viewer is taken around the world encountering fragments taken from real peoples' blogs, which are knitted together to form something resembling a story.

In Flat Earth, we see the visual language established where Google Earth is used as a way of joining each of these narrative moments together. A short film about War focuses more specifically on the collective gaze of photo-sharing communities like flickr as a way of apprehending the locations being spoken about, while Belief looks to the video sharing community youtube and the phenomenon of video blogging and to a lesser extent ‘trolling’, where individuals attempt to sow discord online as an end in itself.

In all of these works, we are interested in exploring how our own spheres of influence have been extended and transformed by the internet, allowing us to experience and broadcast information around the globe in ways unheard of even fifteen years ago.

Flat Earth was made with Channel 4 and Animate Projects for television broadcast, but A short film about War and Belief have been developed as gallery installations as well as the single screen videos seen here.

In the gallery version of A short film about War, a second screen logs the provenance of images, blog fragments and GPS locations of each element comprising the work, so that the same information is simultaneously communicated to the viewer in two parallel formats -on one hand as a dramatised reportage and on the other hand as a text log.

The gallery version of Belief adds a synchronised floor projection of a compass, which interacts with the montage showing us where each clip originates in relation to the geographical location of the artwork thus placing the viewer at the centre point of a cinematic data-visualisation.

In both cases, the artists’ want us to consider our own relationship with this material -the way in which information changes as it is gathered, edited and then mediated through networked communications technologies or broadcast media, and how that changes and distorts what things mean; especially for (the generally wealthy minority of) the world's users of high speed broadband networks, who have become used to the treacherously persuasive panoptic view that Google Earth (and the worldwide web) appears to give us.

Our solo exhibition at Carroll/Fletcher, London was due to close today but has been extended for an extra week until 13th July.  So if you can tear yourself away from the sunshine and haven't been along yet then please do pop in.  We've had such a great response so far, and here's a mini roundup of some reviews to date:

Between (Virtual) Safety and Security by Mark Sheerin for Hyperallergic
http://hyperallergic.com/74809/between-virtual-safety-and-security/

Eddy Frankel for Time Out, London
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/thomson-craighead-never-odd-or-even

Must see shows in London by Happy Famous Artists
http://happyfamousartists.com/blog/2013/06/thomson-craighead-carrollfletcher

Daniella Rose King for Art Agenda
http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/thomson-craighead’s-“never-odd-or-even”

Robert Strang for San Francisco Arts Quarterly
http://www.sfaqonline.com/2013/06/thomson-craighead-never-odd-or-even-at-carrollfletcher-gallery-london/

Wall Street International
http://www.wsimagazine.com/uk/diaries/agenda/arti/thomson-craighead-never-odd-or-even_20130613114750.html#.UdfQiha51QV

Neither here nor then by Daniel Rourke for Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/neither-here-nor-then-thomson-and-craighead-carroll-fletcher-gallery

So different so appealing
http://www.sodifferentsoappealing.com/2013/06/thomson-craighead-never-odd-or-even.html

Laura Davidson
http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/3464719

William Kherbek for Port Magazine
http://www.port-magazine.com/art-photography/never-odd-or-even-thomson-craighead/

Design Week
http://www.designweek.co.uk/whats-on/london-wall-w1w/3036527.article

A single-channel version of our documentary artwork October,  is available for the first time online at Photoworks for the duration of our solo exhibition at Carroll / Fletcher, London.

October was originally commissioned as a gallery installation by Photoworks as part of the Brighton Photo Biennial 2012 and is a documentary artwork about the early rise and fall of the Occupy movement.

Watch it here: http://www.photoworks.org.uk/news/79

Find out more about the installation version here:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/october.html

More about our show currently in London here: http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/15/overview/

The INMG Gallery have just launched an online exhibition of our documentary artwork A short film about War at www.inmg.org.uk.

Apart from being able to watch a full length streaming version of the piece you can also download the accompanying catalogue, which includes essays by Tom Snow, Dr Alan Ingram and an interview by Edwin Coomasaru and Jo Chard: www.inmg.org.uk/thomson-craighead/catalogue/

Oh and there will also be a Reading Group: Digital Ethics On and Offline at 7pm, Tuesday 28th May at Carroll/Fletcher gallery to coincide with our solo exhibition there.  This event is organised in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, University College London.

Please contact e.coomasaru@inmg.org.uk for details and if you are interested in attending this event

We have a solo exhibition opening at Carroll/Fletcher in London running from 24th May until 6th July.

If you're in town then please do drop by: the gallery is on EastCastle Street in Fitzrovia. Oh and the opening itself is on 23rd May from 6.30 - 8.30pm

We're showing new and recent work alongside a couple of older pieces and a publication will be accompanying the exhibition with an essay by David Auerbach.  We'll also be giving a gallery tour and talk on 4th June in the evening.

You can find out more by going to the facebook event here:
www.facebook.com/events/301772953288387/

or straight to www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/forthcoming/

Regine Debatty, author of We-make-money-not-art blog has also interviewed us for ResonanceFM and that will be broadcast live at 4pm on 22nd May so do listen in if you can.

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