We will be showing our perfume Apocalypse and our Temporary Index as part of the group exhibition Anytime Now opening Thursday 19th April at the fabulous TENT in Rotterdam.  The other artists in the exhibition are Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Olphaert den Otter and Anton Vrede.  The exhibition runs until 10th June so if you're nearby do go take a look.

More information on the exhibition here: https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/show/anytime-now/

We are showing a miniature version of our Temporary Index alongside contextual research materials as part of School of Time, which will be at Milan Design Week from 17th to 22nd April courtesy of Z33 House of Contemporary Art.  The other artists contributing to these interactive installations are:

Commonplace, Studio Teis De Greve, Jasmine De Bruycker, Jesse Howard, Tim Knapen, Tobias Revell, Virginia Tassinari, Ive Van Bostraeten, Filip Van Dingenen and Maarten Vanden Eynde

Go take a look if you're nearby!

More information on School of Time here:
http://www.z33.be/blog/2018/3/22/school-of-time

More information on Temporary Index here:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/temporary_index.html

Perpetual Uncertainty at MalmöKonstmuseum opens THIS FRIDAY 23rd February where our entire Temporary Index will be on display. The exhibition brings together artists from Europe, Japan and the USA to investigate questions of nuclear technology, radiation and the transmission of knowledge over deep time futures. How do we communicate to people 100 000 years from now about the radioactive waste we are leaving behind? Is it even possible to imagine what the world will look like then?

Participating artists: James Acord, Shuji Akagi, Lise Autogena and 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, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, Suzanne Treister, Andy Weir, Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Wilson and Ken + Julia Yonetani.

Exhibition continues until 26 August 2018. More info:

http://malmo.se/Kultur--fritid/Kultur--noje/Konst--design/Malmo-Konstmuseum/Malmo-Art-Museum/Exhibitions.html

We are giving a lecture TONIGHT at Reed College in Portland, Oregon which will be followed by a reception for our solo exhibition The Academy of Saturn taking place at the Cooley Gallery. Work included in the show include Control Room, Portland Wall, Untitled (balloon work), a specially made Here sign that adheres to US road sign regulations and a 4k version of Horizon. Come take a look if you're in the area!

More information on both here:

https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/176002/thomson-craighead-the-academy-of-saturn

Our perfume Apocalypse will be part of this group exhibition opening at MU, Eindhoven this Friday 1st December. Other artists in the show include Susana Cámara Leret (ES) & Sissel Tolaas (NO), Guo Cheng (CN), Gil Delindro (PT) , Xandra van der Eijk (NL), Noah Hutton (US), Fujita Keisuke (JP), Katie Paterson (UK), Thomas Thwaites (UK), Wild Vlees (NL), Jiwon Woo (KR), Timo Wright (FI).  The exhibition runs from 1st December 2017 – 18th February 2018. Go take a look!

There's a fb event invite here: https://www.facebook.com/events/391302277966880/

Our short mov London is part of the group exhibition Slow Violence opening tonight at UHArts in Hatfield including works by Ackroyd & Harvey, Adam Chodzko, Emma Critchley, Ellie Harrison, Tom James, Katie Paterson, Michael Pinsky

The exhibition runs from 29th November to 20th January. More info:
http://www.herts.ac.uk/uhbow/whats-on/2017-autumn-and-winter/slow-violence

You can also find out more about London here where you can also see a streaming version of the work: http://thomson-craighead.net/london.html

We are in a few shows just opening and coming up. As ever if you're nearby then please do go and take a look...  First off, our perfume Apocalypse is part of Humansbeingdigital which opened at The Lowry in Salford last Friday. More information here:

https://www.thelowry.com/exhibitions/humansbeingdigital

Our perfume will also be part of the group exhibition Life Time: biological clocks of the universe at MU, Eindhoven opening on Friday 1st December. More info:

http://www.mu.nl/en/exhibitions/life-time

Our karaoke installation More Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience is in the touring version of Electronic Superhighway, which also opening last week at MAAT in Lisbon, Portugal. More info here:

https://www.maat.pt/en/exhibitions/electronic-superhighway-1966-2016

Our short video work, London is part of Slow Violence opening at the University of Hertfordshire from 29th November.  More infomation here:

http://www.herts.ac.uk/uhbow/whats-on/2017-autumn-and-winter/slow-violence

We're premiering our new artwork, Recruitment Gone Wrong as part of the group exhibition The New Observatory launching at FACT, Liverpool on 22nd June 2017. The exhibition will run until 1st October and also includes work by Evan Roth, Julie Freeman, Wafaa Bilal, Natasha Caruana, Phil Coy and others.  For a full rundown go to:

http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/the-new-observatory.aspx

Documentation online here:

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/recruitment.html

Recruitment Gone Wrong was researched during an artist residency at The Open Data Institute (ODI) in 2016 and has been made with generous support from Arts Council England and curator Hannah Redler Hawes.  If you're in the Liverpool area on 22nd June come along and see the insallation in action.  Here's a bit more about the work:

In July 2013, a National Security Agency (NSA) recruitment drive held in Wisconsin University was derailed by students, who took the two recruiters to task over lies told by the agency as revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden's data leak in 2013. A few days later, an audio recording of this exchange was released by The Guardian newspaper. 

Recruitment Gone Wrong reperforms this exchange by animating each of its four main characters through the robotic automation of four ventriloquists’ half-masks.  Unlike conventional ventriloquists’ dummies, half-masks can be worn by an individual, transforming a person into a comical ‘living’ dummy, and so although each mask will be moving according to its assigned character even when left suspended and unworn in the gallery space, a visitor or group of visitors can also choose to wear any of them at prescribed times and channel the words of the students and/or recruiters through their own (cyborg) bodies.

We think of Recruitment gone wrong as an automated mechanical reenactment and a kind of karaoke, re-breathing life into a covert audio recording that touches on issues of privacy, surveillance and our human rights to freedom of information in our contemporary world.

If you're in Aberdeen next week, come and see our new generative moving image work Control Room at the new Peacock Visual Arts project space on Castlegate.  We'll also be making an Aberdeen Wall flyposting status updates posted within a few miles of the gallery and our roadsign Here will also be in there too. This is all part of the Look Again Festival which launches on Thursday 27th April more info here:

http://www.lookagainfestival.co.uk

In other news...

Our solo exhibition Wake me up when it's over is still on at Young Projects Gallery in West Hollywood.  You can read up about the exhibition in the LA Times >here< and about our scent Apocalypse in The NewYorker >here<

You can play our modified computer game Triggerhappy, 1998 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery AND also at Carroll/Fletcher, London in these two exhibitions:

I Want! I Want! Art & Technology
http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/whats-on/i-want-i-want

Looking at one thing and thinking of something else
http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/62/overview/

If you're in the north of Spain you can also go see our installation Stutterer at Laboral LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijon as part of the exhibition Monsters of the Machine curated by Furtherfield director Marc Garrett.  The show has been extended until the end of August.

We're continuing our recent medley of showing some older work, this time at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as part of the group exhibition I Want! I Want! Art and Technology where we'll be exhibiting our modified computer game Triggerhappy.  The exhibition runs from 1st April - 1st October and is a group show made up entirely of works held in the national Arts Council Collection.

You can find out more about the exhibition here:
http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/whats-on/i-want-i-want

And more about Triggerhappy here:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/thap.html

And you can actually play an online version of the game recently hosted and emulated by the fabulous rhizome.org based out of New York here:
http://www.triggerhappy.org

We are showing our modified computer game Triggerhappy made way back in 1998 as part of Looking at one thing and thinking of something else - Part Four: Disrupt / Disorder / Display opening at Carroll/Fletcher, London this Thursday from 6pm+ 

The exhibition runs from 17th March to 29th April and also includes work by Michael Joaquin Grey, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Mishka Henner, Eva and Franco Mattes, Manfred Mohr, UV Production House (Joshua Citarella and Brad Troemel) and John Wood and Paul Harrison. 

More information on the exhibition is available here:
http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/62/overview/

You can find out more abou Triggerhappy here:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/thap.html

The group show Looking at one thing and thinking of something else: An Exhibition in Four Parts has been extended until 4th March, where we're showing Decorative Newsfeeds (2004) alongside work by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, James Clar, Constant Dullaart, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Eva and Franco Mattes, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and UBERMORGEN. 

This is Part Three: United We Stand and it is at Carroll / Fletcher gallery in London.  Do go take a look if you can.

More info on the exhibition here:
http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/61/overview/

More info on Decorative Newsfeeds:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/decnews.html

Our solo exhibition Wake me up when it's over also opened at Young Projects Gallery in Los Angeles last week. More info on that here:
http://www.youngprojectsgallery.com/thomson-craighead

We're showing our live webcam clock Horizon as part of the touring exhibition REALTIME: Art en temps real opening tomorrow night at Lo Pati | Centre d'Art - Terres de l'Ebre. Go take a look if you're in the area.

We also have a solo exhibition Wake me up when it's over opening tomorrow in Los Angeles at Young Projects Gallery. More info here:

http://www3.onthemailinglist.com/readonline/xIblNnmeQkO2RVyAx5sglQ.html

We're pleased to announce our solo exhibition Wake me up when it's over opening this Friday at Young Projects Gallery in West Hollywood, Los Angeles.   It's our first major solo exhibition of work in the US and although it focuses for the most part on recent work there are a few older pieces too going back as far as 1996.  So if you're nearby come along, say hello and shelter with us from the maelstrom of post truth. 

January 27 - April 15, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday Jan 27th 5:30 - 9:30pm

Young Projects Gallery
8687 Melrose Ave #B230
West Hollywood CA 90069
323-377-1102
youngprojectsgallery.com

We'll be showing Decorative Newsfeeds (2004) as part of Looking at one thing and thinking of something else: An Exhibition in Four Parts, which opens TOMORROW from 6.30pm+  Come say hi if you're in London.  This is Part Three: United We Stand and it runs from 13th January until 4th February 2017.

Other artists in the show include Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, James Clar, Constant Dullaart, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Eva and Franco Mattes, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and UBERMORGEN. 

More info on the exhibition here:
http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/61/overview/

More info on Decorative Newsfeeds:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/decnews.html

We're showing Six years of Mondays (2013) and the projected version of BEACON (2006) as part of the group show Glut: Images, Information and Excess open from 16th January to 3rd March at the Holden Gallery in Manchester. Other artists in the show are: Viktoria Binschtok, James Bridle, Esther Hovers and James Richards. Go take a look if you can... 

More information on the show here:
http://www.holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk/2017/glut/


More info on Six years of Mondays:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/mondays.html

More info on BEACON:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/beacon_gallery.html

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/