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

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.

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

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)

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

http://introducingart.com/

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'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

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

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

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.

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