We're part of a panel discussion at The Photographers Gallery on Friday 4th December starting at 7pm. The title of the panel is Networked Images: Art, Photography & Technology and as part of it we'll be talking a bit about our recent work.  Please do come along if you're in London.  Oh and the event is Free but you do need to book on eventbrite.  More info on the event and another rsvp link if you follow this link:

thephotographersgallery.org.uk/the-networked-image-art-photography-technology

We're showing a London Wall & our webcam clock Horizon as part of Big Bang Data exhibition opening at Somerset House in London on 3rd December.

Other artists include: Brendan Dawes, Ellie Harrison, Eric Fischer, Erica Scourti, Eva and Franco Mattes,  Ingo Günther, Jaime Serra, James Bridle, Jonathan Harris, Julian Oliver, Julie Freeman, Laura Poitras, Lisa Jevbratt, Ryoji Ikeda, The Long Now Foundation, Timo Arnall and more....

More info at: bigbangdata.somersethouse.org.uk/

We are showing Stutterer and some of our Corruption series as part of a group exhibition opening at The Lowry this week called Right here right now. The exhibition runs from Sat 14 November - Sun 28 February and there is an online catalogue too. 

Atists include; Daniel Rozin, Robert Henke, Branger Briz, Julie Freeman, Mishka Henner, Stephanie Rothenberg, Felicity Hammond, Ed Carter, Joe Hamilton’s, Nikki Pugh, Eva and Franco Mattes, Elly Clarke and Timo Arnall.

More info: http://www.thelowry.com/event/right-here-right-now

This week we've been working at the fabulous HUMlab in Umeå, Sweden developing a new art work called A temporary index. 

A temporary index is a system of decorative counters that mark significant sites of nuclear waste on our planet.  These are all sites that require provisions that must last from a few decades to hundreds of thousands of years and our system will attempt to count these time periods for each identified site creating a map of human influence concerning deep time.

A prototype was exhibited in Sapporo, Japan last year at Oyoyo project space, but we have been constructing a database here at HUMlab that will allow us to map a host of repositories, accident sites and entombed research reactors from all over the world.  A version of this work will be part of a touring exhibition next year curated by Ele Carpenter initially for the Bildmuseet also in Umeå. 

More about: HUMlab; http://www.humlab.umu.se/sv | Bildmuseet; http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en | Nuclear culture project; http://nuclear.artscatalyst.org | Oyoyo Art Centre; http://www.oyoyo16.com

We are showing our documentary artwork A short film about war in the group exhibition Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare, which opens in Rotterdam TODAY at Witte de Whit Gallery (11 September 2015 – 3 January 2016, Opening and Artist Talks: 10 September 2015, 4 pm). So please do go if you're around and about.

With: Abbas Akhavan, Sven Augustijnen, James Bridle, Broomberg & Chanarin, Crass, Claire Evans, John Gerrard, Terence Gower, Isao Hashimoto, Glenn Kaino, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Trevor Paglen with Jacob Appelbaum, Mohammad Salemy, Susan Schuppli & Tom Tlalim, Nida Sinnokrot, Thomson & Craighead, and José Antonio Vega Macotela.

A short film about war is the second part of our Flat Earth Trilogy

More info here: http://www.wdw.nl/event/art-in-the-age-of-asymmetrical-warfare/

IMT Gallery in London asked us to contribute a small work for their benefit exhibition I'm Ten running from 4th September – 2 October 2015, so we've sent them a concept drawing (actually it's a collage) for an as yet unmade work called Unmade Bed, which will join the host of other work to be auctioned on Paddle8 during the show to help IMT continue their good work for the next ten years! So go take a look.  More info on the exhibition here:

http://www.imagemusictext.com/exhibitions-archive/imten

So our artwork Here was erected on the Thames towpath by the meridian over the weekend and is now part of London's new sculpture trail called The Line.  Other artists along the way are:

Richard Wilson, Gary Hume, Antony Gormley, Sterling Ruby, Martin Creed, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, James Balmforth, Damien Hirst, Abigail Fallis, Piotr Uklanski, Thomas J Price, Bill Viola 

It's a fun walk on a sunny day starting at North Greenwich and taking you up into the Lea valley so go take a look when you can!

More information at http://the-line.org

Our documentary artwork a short film about War is part of this group exhibition opening tonight at Galerie Taxispalais in Innsbruck, Austria.  Here's some more information on the exhibition:

WORLDS IN CONTRADICTION | AREAS OF GLOBALISATION

23. May – 2. August 2015

with Michael Blum, Christian von Borries, Bureau d’études, Cristina Garrido, Andreas Gursky, Kasmalieva & Djumaliev, Rosmarie Lukasser, Eva and Franco Mattes, Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo, Oliver Ressler, Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, Gabriele Sturm, Thomson & Craighead, Gruppo Tökmag, Wang Qingsong, Yin Xiuzhen

Global interconnectedness due to the growing movements of travel and migration, and to increasingly complex flows of goods and data, raw materials and capital has made often ambivalent changes to the reality of life in various regions of the world. The developing processes of globalisation are leading to ever new questions, experiences, images and formal languages of globality, which are manifest in the personal and social reality of life. The international group exhibition Worlds in Contradiction – Zones of Globalisation presents works by 16 artists from Europe, Asia, America and Africa who investigate global and local contexts within diverse thematic fields. In research-based and documentary, but also narrative, poetic and thought-provoking works they reflect on aspects of mobility, the ambivalent links between production, transport and consumerism, the essence of global information and knowledge networks, or the effects of the global economy on work and our environment.

https://www.galerieimtaxispalais.at/en/programm/aktuelle-ausstellung

We're showing selected videos from our series More Songs of Innocence and of Experience as part of this exhibition opening in Paris tonight. The show continues until 10th May 2015 and is curated by Antoine Scalese and Matylda Taszycka.  Do go take a look if you're nearby.

Find out more about the exhibition here:
http://www.plateforme.tk/plateforme_2015/exposition_L-appartment.html

Find out more about More Songs of Innocence and of Experience here:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/songs.html

Our Flipped Clock is showing as part of the 24/7 exhibition -part of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam.  You will find it for the duration of the festival in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel at Weena 10, 3012 CM Rotterdam, Netherlands.

More information on 24/7 and links through to the rest of the festival: https://www.iffr.com/professionals/themes/signals-24-7-2015/

Our video artwork The Time Machine in alphabetical order is part of the group exhibition How to Construct a Time Machine at Milton Keynes Gallery from 23rd January until 2nd March 2015.

Participating artists include: John Cage, Martin John Callanan, Jim Campbell, Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Mat Collishaw, Ruth Ewan, Tehching Hsieh, On Kawara, the Lumière Brothers, Chris Marker, Kris Martin, Georges Méliès, Manfred Mohr, Melvin Moti, Nam June Paik, Katie Paterson, Elizabeth Price, Sun Ra, Raqs Media Collective, Meekyoung Shin,  Maja Smrekar, The Otolith Group, Thomson & Craighead, Mark Wallinger and Catherine Yass. More info:

http://www.mkgallery.org/exhibitions/how_to_construct_a_time_machine/

The private view is on 22nd January and includes Mark Wallinger and Ruth Ewan in conversation with exhibition curator Dr Marquard Smith. More info here:

http://www.mkgallery.org/events/2015_01_22/how_to_construct_a_time_machine_exhibition_preview/

http://thomson-craighead.net/xmas.html?xxxjon&ali/

Thanks to everyone who has supported us and our work this year and since the early nineteen nineties. We are privileged to have got this far having worked together now for twenty years! We wish everyone out there in the noosphere a super 2015!

http://thomson-craighead.net/

Our new artwork Stutterer was started on Wednesday 1st October and is part of Scales of Life exhibition in Dundee's new Life Space gallery, which opens tonight at 6pm.

Stutterer is an instructional artwork –a poetry machine that uses the human genome like a music score to play back a self-assembling video montage spanning the thirteen years it took the Human Genome Project to complete the first documented human DNA sequence.  The four nucleotide bases of a DNA strand are represented by the letters T, A, G and C and Stutterer ‘plays’ all 3.2 billion letters representing the human genome, where each letter becomes a word plucked by the artists from an English language television broadcast made sometime between 1990 and 2003.

Stutterer was started with around 500 video clips in its library, but this will be extended in the coming years, so that each time the work is exhibited there will be more and more video elements to draw upon offering an ever richer glimpse into a period in history that begins in 1990 with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in South Africa and concludes with the fall of Baghdad to a US and British military coalition in 2003.

Stutterer is a human monument of sorts, which seeks to connect our biological fabric with our unique linguistic abilities –the very abilities, which have arguably enabled us to apprehend our own DNA in the first place.

Stutterer is made possible with generous support from The Wellcome Trust
 

http://lifespace.dundee.ac.uk/exhibitions

http://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2014/10/02/public-engagement-round-up-october-2014/

This year's Nam June Paik award exhibition is opening on Sunday 28th September at Kunstmuseen Krefeld in Germany, and we'll be showing a number of recent works alongside works by the other shortlisted artists: Camille Henrot; Cory Arcangel; Ulf Aminde and Céline Berger.

The exhibition runs until February 15th 2015 and you can find out more information here and at http://www.namjunepaikaward.de

Do come and take a look if you can and please share this with anyone you think might be interested and in the area during the exhibition run.

Our roadsign, Here is going to be part of The Line sculpture trail due to open later in 2014.  The sign will be just where The Meridian crosses the Thames Path and will be pointing North.  The whole project and line up of artists has been announced on 11th July 2014 and you can find out all about the sculpture trail and our part in it through the following links:

About The Line: http://the-line.org/
About Here: http://thomson-craighead.net/docs/roadsign.html

Also: http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/attractions/new-sculpture-trail-the-line-to-appear-along-east-londons-waterways-9599797.html

Our woodblock print and poster Voyager (Micromégas) is part of an exhibition of limited edition prints opening tonight at the fabulous Pier Arts Centre in Stromness on Orkney.

MICROMEGAS > POWERS OF 10 - 58°57’53”N - 3°17’45”W brings together works by Pavel Büchler, Dora Garcia, Jonathan Monk, Scott Myles, Thomson & Craighead, Marco Stout, Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen, a text by Mark Dorrian along with books and print-works published by Orkney based Hansel Cooperative Press and Brae Editions.

Mircromegas explores ideas relating to perceptions of scale, philosophical & scientific thought and human foible. Referencing Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design's unique Artists’ Books Collection Dundee (abcD), the exhibition investigates notions of portability, reproduction, distribution and presentation and the potential for artist’s book in contemporary art and curatorial practice.

http://www.pierartscentre.com/current-upcoming-exhibition/6/6/2014/micromegas-powers-of-10

So if you're on Orkney for the summer solstice why not pop in!!!

Our artwork Beacon is part of this exhibition opening TONIGHT at the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana.  The exhibition runs until 31st August and is curated by Vuk Ćosić & Alenka Gregorič.  Lots of people who were making artworks online in the nineties are included. More information here:

mgml.si/en/city-art-gallery/future-exhibitions/net-art-painters-and-poets/

We are showing the projected version of our work BEACON in this group exhibition just opened in Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.  The Art of Data is curated by Steven Sacks and includes work by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manfred Mohr, John F. Simon and Addie Wagenknecht among others.  The show runs through to 6th July.  More info here:

http://www.bmoca.org/2014/04/the_art_of_data/

Marc Garrett at Furtherfield has written a review of our monograph Flat Earth recently published by Dundee Contemporary Arts and MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen to accompany recent solo exhibitions at both venues.

The book is in both German and English and includes essays by Clive Gillman and Sarah Cook and an interview between ourselves and Steve Rushton.  You can read the review here:

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/review-thomson-craighead's-book-flat-earth

You can order copies of the publication here:

http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/editions-and-publications/flat-earth.html

Our new work Hello World will be switched on this week in advance of Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery's grand re-opening.  We have been asked to make this unorthodox timepiece as part of a massive refurbishment of the the museum, which includes a number of other commissions and a new gallery dedicated to Frank Cohen's contemporary art collection.  Our work will be in the courtyard space (where the cafe is) for the next five years and it will perpetually display the current world population as decorative totem.

More info about Hello World can be found here:
http://thomson-craighead.net/docs/helloworld.html