We are showing Template Cinema (2004) as part of the group show Looking at one thing and thinking of something else opening at Carroll/Fletcher, London this Thursday 1st December from 6pm.  It's the second part of a four part exhibition running through until the end of February 2017 and you can find out more about that here:

http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/60/overview/

Looking at one thing and thinking of something else - Part Two: Observations includes work by Joshua Citarella, James Clar, Constant Dullaart, Michael Joaquin Grey, Mishka Henner, Christine Sun Kim, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manfred Mohr, Evan Roth, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and us of course.  You can also view an online version of Template Cinema at:
http://www.templatecinema.com

So if you're about in central London this Thursday do come say hello

We will be showing Stutterer as part of the exhibition Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century at Laboral Centro de Arte in Gijon in Spain from 18th November - 21st May 2016.  The show is curated by Marc Garrett on behalf of Furtherfield.  If you happen to be nearby then please do go and take a look.

Participating artists: [AOS] Art is Open Source, Cristina Busto, Equipo Sauti ya wakulima, Mary Flanagan, Carla Gannis, Genetic Moo, Fernando Gutiérrez, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shu Lea Cheang, Gretta Louw & Warnayaka Art Centre, Regina de Miguel, Joana Moll & Cédric Parizot, Guido Segni, Karolina Sobecka, Alan Sondheim, Thomson & Craighead.

Monsters of the Machine is a contemporary take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and asks us to reconsider her warning, that scientific imagining and all technologies have unintended and dramatic consequences for the world. It also invites us to ask the same about the arts and human imagination. Shelley’s classic, gothic horror and science fiction novel, has inspired millions since it was written 200 years ago in 1816, and then published anonymously in London in 1818. It offers a lens through which to look at the practices of arts and sciences today and how they shape society’s relationship with technology.

The exhibition considers the roles of our arts and science traditions and examines these issues as part of everyday life; as they are played out in the anthropocene, and climate change, gender politics, ethics, governance, surveillance, posthumanism, transhumanism, hacking, biohacking,
colonialism, neoliberalism, biopolitics and accelerationism.

www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/exposiciones/monsters-of-the-machine

More information on Stutterer here:
www.thomson-craighead.net/stutterer.html

We're showing part of our Temporary Index as part of the group show: Perpetual Uncertainty / Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene at Bildmuseet, Umeå in Sweden and the exhibition opens TODAY!  It brings together artists from Europe, Japan, the USA and Australia to investigate experiences of nuclear technology, radiation and the complex relationship between knowledge and the deep time.

Participating artists: James Acord, Shuji Akagi, Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, Erich Berger and Mari Keto, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Don't Follow the Wind, Finger Pointing Worker, Dave Griffiths, Isao Hashimoto, Erika Kobayashi, David Mabb, Cécile Massart, Eva and Franco Mattes, Yelena Popova, Susan Schuppli, Shimpei Takeda, Kota Takeuchi, Thomson & Craighead, Suzanne Treister, Andy Weir, Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Wilson, and Ken + Julia Yonetani.

Exhibition dates: 2016-10-02 - 2017-04-16

More information here: http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibition/perpetual-uncertainty/22269
and here: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/temporary_index.html

So there's just five more days to see Party Booby Trap at Carroll / Fletcher, London.  Thanks so much to everybody who has been in touch with us about it: we really appreciate the comments, feedback and support. If you can't make it before it closes then we have a round up of documentation and some reviews detailed below.

A video interview and tour of the exhibition:
https://vimeo.com/167245914

and a bunch of pics here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87294765@N00/albums/72157668333362265

and some reviews, interviews etc:

Crack magazine:
http://crackmagazine.net/article/art/apocalyptic-anxiety-thomson-craigheads-party-booby-trap/

Time Out London:
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/thomson-craighead-party-booby-trap

POSTmatter
http://postmatter.com/#/currents/party-booby-trap

Artlyst:
http://www.artlyst.com/articles/thomson-craighead-orwellian-party-paranoia-at-carrollfletcher

Top seven exhibition in London, May 2016 from Fad magazine:
http://fadmagazine.com/2016/05/15/top-7-art-exhibitions-see-london-week-2/

SAVE THE DATE! On Wednesday April 13th our new exhibition at Carroll / Fletcher will be opening.  Please save the date and do come along from 6pm+.  It's called Party Booby Trap  and will include a bunch of new and recent work all showing in London for the first time.  The exhibition runs from 14th April until 28th May 2016.   You can read and download the press release here: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/partyboobytrap.pdf

And a quick February round up:- You can also still see our work in the following exhibitions in UK and Spain:

- More Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience in Electronic Superhighway at Whitechapel Gallery, London (until 15th May)

- Our flypostered London Wall & narrative clock Horizon in Big Bang Data (extended until 20th March) at Somerset House, London

- Corruption lenticular lightboxes and poetry machine Stutterer in Right Here Right Now at The Lowry, Salford (until 28th February)

- And finally Horizon again in REAL TIME at Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona (until 10th April)

We're showing More Songs of Innocence And Of Experience at The Whitechapel Gallery as part of the survey show Electronic Superhighway.  The exhibition features the work of more than seventy artists and opens on Friday 29th January. You can find more information here:

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/about/press/electronic-superhighway/

and you can find out more about, More Songs of Innocence And Of Experience here:

http://thomson-craighead.net/songs.html

More Songs of Innocence And Of Experience was originally commissioned in 2012 by Film and Video Umbrella, London

We're showing our live webcam clock Horizon in the exhibition Real Time, Art en temps real opening next week at Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona and curated by Pau Waelder. Please go take a look if you are lucky enough to be in Barcelona.

Exhibition dates: 28.01.2016 - 10.04.2016

Participating artists: Guillem Bayo, Clara Boj i Diego Díaz, Martin John Callanan, Grégory Chatonsky, Thierry Fournier, Varvara Guljajeva i Mar Canet, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Nicolas Maigret, Katie Paterson, Antoine Schmitt, Thomson and Craighead, Addie Wagenknecht, Carlo Zanni

You can find more information about the exhibition (in Spanish and Catalan) here:
http://artssantamonica.gencat.cat/en/detall/Real-Time.-Art-en-temps-real

You can find our more about Horizon here:
http://thomson-craighead.net/horizon.html

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/