A Life in AdWords, Algorithms & Data Exhaust. An interview with Erica Scourti with Marc Garrett, Furtherfield
"Millions are blissfully unaware of the technological forces at work behind the scenes when we use social network platforms, mobile phones and search engines. The Web is bulging with information. What lies behind the content of the systems we use everyday are algorithms, designed to mine and sort through all the influx of diverse data."
Field Broadcast are working with Rebecca Beinart, Annabelle Craven-Jones, Patrick Coyle, Oscar Gaynor, Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, Candice Jacobs, Samuel Rodgers, Erica Scourti & NaoKo TakaHashi as a part of Domestic Pursuits with The Broadway, Nottingham's Near Now programme.
Domestic Pursuits is a project that will develop new approaches to live broadcasting through collective experimentation. Working from residency space, PRIMARY House, the project considers the domestic contexts of broadcast reception and the infrastructure that enables its transmission.
Grand Union, Birmingham
Opening Friday 24 May 2013, 6–8pm Exhibition continues 25 May to 5 July, Thursday to Saturday 12–5pm
Is it always good to talk?
‘A Small Hiccup’ is a traveling exhibition, events programme, publication and online commission exploring diseased language, curated by George Vasey.
Featuring new work by Jeremy Hutchison, Leah Lovett, Fay Nicolson & Oliver Smith, Siôn Parkinson, Erica Scourti, Simon Senn, Holly Pester, Charlie Woolley.
This ICA Friday Salon organised by Duncan White (artist, author and researcher, CSM, London) and Louise O'Hare (Publish And Be Damned, London) looks at immediate distribution, teasing out the relationship between experimental writing and publishing practices.
With videos and performances from Caroline Bergvall, Riccardo Iacono, Fiona James, Erica Scourti and Camilla Wills this Salon elaborates on themes established by the video programme installed at the PABD 2013 fair in March this year.
Nice review of The Digital Now on We Make Money Not Art
"Erica Scourti's video were among my favourite. Taking her cue from stock video sites corresponding to the key words 'woman', 'nature' and 'alone', the young artist filmed herself performing each action described in the title."
Had a great time in Brussels seeing The Digital Now at Towner' Art Gallery and attending Look up in the Sky, a mini-symposium on drones by James Bridle and Honor Harger at BOZAR...here's some pics (until the decent ones arrive)
Preview: 10 April 2013 Talk with James Bridle (UK) and Honor Harger (NZ) at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts: 16 April 2013
The Digital Now is an exhibition series which aims to look thematically at relevant artifacts within the current artistic context and media art related discourse.
The first edition entitled “Drones / Birds – Princes of Ubiquity”is inspired by the New Aesthetic and focuses on the ways we experience our digital condition: always on, always there. Drones or UAV’s (Unmanned Arial Vehicles) have been related to this New Aesthetic debate ever since it started.
The exhibition is curated by Bram Crevits (BE) and will present work by internationally acclaimed artists David Bowen (US), Paolo Cirio (IT), Marcus Coates, (UK) Christoph De Boeck & Patricia Portela, (BE/PT), HC Gilje (NO), Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum (NL), Erica Scourti (GR), Addie Wagenknecht (US) and Zimoun (CH).
The Digital Now is produced by Cimatics and featured in the off-program of Art Brussels, the international contemporary art fair (April 18 -21, 2013).
A speculative essay about appropriation, critical detachment and expression (includes Wonder Woman references in case you're wondering what the pics mean)
The Performing Documents Conferenceis the culminating public event of this research project, exploring the re-use of live art archives. Over three days, artists, theatre-makers, digital-media practitioners, archivists and scholars from around the world will gather for a series of lectures, dialogues and performances, reflecting on the state of contemporary performance and its documents.
Becoming Nomad: Hybrid Spaces, Liquid Architectures and Online Domains
10 April 2013 at York St John University, York, UK
By setting up dialogues between bodies and spaces, this event seeks to explore the new practices, philosophies and intensities evoked by the continuously shifting coordinates of contemporary corporealities, and to renegotiate notions and experiences of spatial embodiment in contemporary theatre and performance contexts. TaPRA Performance and New Technologies Inter-conference Event 2013
Couple of photos from Unconscious Archives #7 where I showed Artists Fear (2012) and Woman Nature Alone (2010)
Unconscious Archives transverses noise core and vision spectacle bringing together expanded cinema and sonic propositions from London and afar; #7 featured Alex MacKenzie, Adam Bohman and myself.
Seven podcasts, lectures and artist talks are simultaneously filmed and transcribed while wearing weights, and cut together in order of decreasing legibility. to improve knowledge and muscle tone: part of a series on good intentions gone wrong, neo-liberal values and self-betterment multi-tasking.
To be continued.
Shown as part of Artists Videos: Instant publishing at Publish and Be Damned at the ICA, with work by Fiona James, Clunie Reid, Anne Tallentire, Duncan White and Camilla Wills, a showreel reflecting upon practices of writing and distribution, and teasing out the relationship between experimental writing and publishing practices.
Weighted Transcirption Workout on monitor 1
Clunie Reid watching her video on monitor 2
Duncan White's video on monitor 3
Artists Videos: Instant publishing installed on three monitors at Publish and Be Damned, at the ICA.
Tuesday 26th February 2013
Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London, E2 9EG
Door Times: 7pm
Tickets: £6 donation on the door
Unconscious Archives transverses noise core and vision spectacle bringing together expanded cinema and sonic propositions from London and afar.
UA returns with folly and foray into oceanographic plundering, cataclysmic foley and crowd sourced emotions.
Alex MacKenzie (Canada) presents a special extended dual 16mm live film and sound work exquisitely capturing the marine environments of the Canadian coastline present and past using a veritable feast of techniques including hand cranked cameras and camerless film.
Adam Bohman unleashes a creeping array of apprehensive noise from household items and made instruments.
Erica Scourti brings us two video works capturing her unflinching desire to ascribe human attributes to media generated debris.
The annual Publish And Be Damned self-publishers fair returns for its second year at the ICA.
The fair features over 50 publishers with experimental editorial directions and distribution strategies operating outside the mainstream.
Organised by Kate Phillimore and Louise O'Hare as PABD in association with the ICA.
Artists Videos: Instant publishing
Fiona James, Clunie Reid, Erica Scourti, Anne Tallentire, Duncan White and Camilla Wills
11am - 7pm, Theatre
Artists videos are installed throughout the fair, playing with ideas of automatic writing and instant publishing. Reflecting upon practices of writing and distribution, and teasing out the relationship between experimental writing and publishing practices, this installation of silent video will serve as a starting point for talks and discussion at an upcoming ICA Friday Salon.
Curated by Three Letter Words and Duncan White. Organised by Publish And Be Damned in association with the ICA. Special thanks to The Block.
An article I wrote about giving away drawings on Hackney Freecycle and making a new art work of the process for the Hackney Citizen.
‘We were trying to make sense...’
Exploring Artist and Non-Artist Collaborations
‘We were trying to make sense...’
Reality Life (2009) installed at 1 Shantiroad, Bangalore
Photos from 1 Shatiroad, Bangalore (more here)
Publication launching Spring 2013
We were trying to make sense...’, publication developed in collaboration between Magda Fabianczyk and Sophie Hoyle. Contributions from Rachel Anderson of Artangel, Broniowianki Folk Group, Petra Bryant, Sophie Hoyle, Magda Fabianczyk, Tilly Fowler of AIR at CSM, Emaan Mahmud, David Roberts, Alicja Rogalska and Justyna Scheuring.
In ‘We were trying to make sense...’, we focused on a selection of artists who work with non-artist participation in a range of contexts, though in mainly smaller-scale settings through workshops, film-making and interventions. From these artists’ works we look at specific issues concerning ethics, communication, and representation.
Includes edited transcript of Erica Scourti in conversation with Magda Fabianczyk
Some photos and a short video from Friday night's bedroom performance to mark the end of Life in AdWords.
Thanks to Meg Ferguson for the photos (more here!), Emily Candela for the video and to everyone who came and made it such a lovely evening.
January
Life in AdWords, a project in which I emailed my daily diary to my Gmail account and performed to webcam the list of suggested adwords generated by the text, has come to a premature end following a change to the ways ads work in Gmail.
To mark the end of the project, I’m inviting people into my bedroom/ studio for a special event this Friday 8th Feb, including presentation of the full-length video and a performance.
Followed by a visit to nearby Crate (in the White Building) which sells fancy pizzas and decent pints.
Some snacks, and some booze (but do bring more …) provided.
7:00pm- 9pm
Performance at 8
Let me know if you want to come as numbers are limited, and you'll need my address...
Life in AdWords: January 2013
Every day, I write and email my diary to my Gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
This is the last installment- the project has come to a premature end following a change to the ways ads work in Gmail. Meant to run for a year, it got as far as 10 and a half months (damn you Gmail...) from March 2012- mid-Jan 2013 with the final video running at 1 hour and 10 mins.
Freecycle Piece
In the summer of 2012 I decided to offer up a series of drawings- originally produced in 2009 for an exhibition but never shown- to subscribers of the Hackney Freecycle network.
I also posted it on other area networks, but the moderators objected as they felt the items were not being given freely; the Hackney moderator, on the other hand, welcomed the idea and even took part in the project.
My original post was as follows:
"Hello, I'm giving away some of my art work, would love it to go to a good home.
The only thing I ask is that you explain why you want it in your response email and on collection you allow me to take a photo of you holding the picture you've chosen. These photos and the (possibly edited) content of the email you write will become part of a new piece of work."
All the photos, of the respsondents and the drawings in situ, are HERE
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!
I've started a new blog, this time not very much to do with art, or theory, or books. Its an easy read!
Every day, I write and email my diary to my Gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
Date: various weekends in January and February 2013
Venue: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion
One Minute Volumes 1-6 are an eclectic mix of artists moving image constrained to the time limit of one minute and includes over 80 artists at varying stages of their careers.
The artists involved range from established figures, such as Guy Sherwin and Catherine Elwes, to comparative newcomers through a multinational roster of those in between; and the methods deployed and content treated of are hugely diverse, a master class in the very short form film.
My video Reality Life is being shown in this exhibition exploring artist and non-artist collaborations; an interview with myself and curator Magda Fabianczyk is included in the accompanying publication.
We were trying to make sense...
1Shantiroad Gallery, Bangalore, India
An exhibition of works by
Magda Fabianczyk
Dhrupadi Ghosh
Matthew Krishanu
Alicja Rogalska
Olga Schulz
Erica Scourti
Justyna Scheuring
Maria Theodoraki
Opening on the 5th of January 2013
It will be accompanied by a launch of the publication with texts and interviews by Rachel Anderson, Sophie Hoyle, Tilly Fowler, Magda Fabianczyk, David Roberts, Erica Scourti, Alicja Rogalska, Emaan Mahmud, Broniowianki Folk Group and others.
The project is developed in collaboration between Magda Fabianczyk and Sophie Hoyle.
Every day, I write and email my diary to my Gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
This is the November installment- 9 months.
NOVEMBER
And here's part 2 of my blog post - about Facebook, visibility and attention (seeking)
Link: Nothing Special
Excerpt:
It’s not just that our brains strain to compute the rivers of info, but the fear, perhaps, that we too have become bits of digital debris on the stage of social media and are thus liable to get lost in the landfill. As anyone who has advertised on the web knows, stayin’ alive is all about visibility in the attention economy; except this time, the product is you. How do you perform your product for public consumption? And who’s listening?
Finally...a new blog post! About depression, panic, selfhood-DIY- and exploding heads.
Link: Nothing Special
Excerpt:
A year on, and I’m still banging on about the same things, but with some new voices added in for variety. For example, where has Franco Berardi (aka Bifo- yes, even theorists have street names these days) been all my life? His book Soul At Work has had me grinning like a fool, which is ironic given that one of his areas of research is the societal psychopathology of panic and depression, two of my favourite things (evidenced by my Life in AdWords project).
An experiment in making art without doing much, by setting a process up and then letting it run its course.
Partly inspired by Dust Breeding, a photo Man Ray took of dust settling on Duchamp’s Large Glass as it lay in storage, this is an attempt to get YouTube to do the work by generating text through the logic of keyword suggestions: meta-data dust gathering in action.
Ten hours of black screen (downloaded off YouTube) is presented as a ‘holding pattern’ for a video that will both remain unchanged in terms of its original form, and will constantly be added to according to changes in its meta-data.
Its textual content is generated by YouTube's tag/ keyword suggestions, in response to the three originary keywords: empty; monochrome; duration. These are recorded in the form of annotations overlaid onto the video, leaving the black video untouched. The keywords will be replaced on a regular basis, using the keywords of 'suggested videos' as starting points, as well as random inputs depending on my mood.
New keyword 'strings' will be added to the video's annotations accordingly and dated, creating a record of the ‘meta-data dust gathering’.
Life in AdWords- October 2012
Every day, I write and email my diary to my Gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
This is the October installment- 8 months.
OCTOBER
or-bits.com presents "128kbps objects" on basic.fm
Sound Wars and Live Boring Bedroom Scene feature in a week-long internet radio exhibition which explores ideas of objects in transformation across a variety of artistic practices, mediums and sites.
With new commissioned works by Jamie Allen, André Avelãs, Victoria Bradbury, Helen Brown, Ellie and Oliver, Claudia Fonti, Juneau Projects and Sara Nunes Fernandes; works by artists featured in previous or-bits.com online programmes and events (Angus Braithwaite and Beth Collar, Erik Bünger, Rob Canning, Patrick Coyle, Benedict Drew, Extra-conjugale, Jamie George, Jamie George and Richard Whitby, Emma Hart, David Horvitz, Irini Karayannopoulou, Irini Karayannopoulou and Yannis Saxonis, IOCOSE, L-R (Jean-Yves Leloup & Jean-Philippe Renoult),Tamarin Norwood, Radiomentale, Adam Rompel, Richard Sides, Richard Sides and Simon Werner, Maria Theodoraki, Tonylight and Nathan Witt); plus works by artists selected from 128kbps Open Call.
128kbps objects presents newly commissioned and already existing artworks in the form of sound works, live performances and recordings, interviews, readings, thematic playlists and music. These works contemplate and expand on notions of object-hood, looking at the potentials of displaying objects sonically, such as exploring ideas related to the erasure of visual language and the loss of direct interaction with artistic content. They also reflect on the characteristics inherent in the medium employed for the exhibition, an internet radio, interrogating the relationship between speed and quality in the transmission of information on the web, where all the sonic data above a quality threshold of 128 kilo bytes per second is cancelled out.
Just returned from a fantastic trip to Krakow, to help install Cash Nexus, at AS Gallery, a big thank you to our hosts, especially Grzegorz Siembida who took such good care of us. Below are a few images from the install.
Gareth checking out the poster install
Fellow exhbitor Cath Hughes
Cash Nexus
Galeria AS, Kraków
13 October – 10 November 2012
The exhibition presents works by six international artists focusing on socially constructed subjectivities and their political ramifications. Economics and commodification underpin the complex and tense social relations explored by the artists. Cash nexus, defined by Karl Marx as the reduction of human relationships to monetary exchange under capitalism, functions as a lens examining the position of individuals within social and
political space.
Curated by Alicja Rogalska
Artists: Catherine Hughes, Benjamin Orlow , Ji Hye Yeom, Erica Scourti, Jessica Tsang, Alicja Rogalska
The programme doesn’t have theme or central idea but brings together a wealth of artistic approaches to video art. From animation and construction to documentary and performance the artists explore the creative potential of moving image. The artists are both stylistically and geographically diverse, from UK, USA, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Norway and Argentina.
Every day, I write and email my diary to my Gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
SEPTEMBER
If you didn't catch my LIVE BORING BEDROOM SCENE, here's what it looked like- plus the broadcast, recorded live.
The text is a collection of captions of stock video sex and bedroom scenes, performed from my bedroom at The Guesthouse (on the left) and open to any visitors passing through for Cork Culture Night. For those who found this a bit too awkward, the live video was simultaneously being screened on a monitor in my studio space (on the right).
>>> LIVE BORING BEDROOM SCENE!!
Part of my contribution to Cork Culture Night will be a live broadcast of a new text piece from my bedroom
Friday 21st September 8pm UK time (that's 3pm Eastern Standard Time, and 10 pm Greek time)
As part of my residency at The Guesthouse I will be presenting my new and in progress work at Culture Night Cork 2012, in which over 80 venues open to the public.
Cork Culture Night
This is Cork’s 5th Culture Night, running from early evening until very late, when theatres, galleries, observatories, public laboratories, film and artists’ studios, churches and music venues open their doors and put on a range of special events, all for free!
An Art Book today can be seen to occupy various different positions including that of a piece of theory, a catalogue, a printed exhibition, a piece of art in itself, a supplement to a pre-existing piece. It can be a proposal for the future or an examination of the present or what has passed. “What is an Art Book?” will be an investigation of what an Art Book is in terms of material and conceptual concerns. It is a collaborative project that will be produced during the Artist Books Weekend at the Mews Project Space.
The Artists’ Book Weekend is an open affiliation celebration of Artist Books as a medium, taking place between
I'm back from hols and doing a residency at The Guesthouse, in Cork, Ireland.
Apart from sampling the local stout, I have been hard at work on finishing some video pieces, before starting something new here. Below are few of the things I've been working on.
Posters emblazoned with a range of artists’ fears are held up by the artist’s friends, family, acquaintances and housemates as well as random passers-by in a variety of public and private locations in London.
Despite the hand-written aesthetic and seemingly heart-felt opinions expressed, the texts are headlines collected from the internet prefaced with the phrase ‘artists fear’ and utilise a digital version of the artists’ hand-writing as font.
(I'm also working on writing something a bit more intelligent about it, but this will do for now)
Life in AdWords: August 2012
Every day, I write and email my diary to my Gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
August is the half-way point of this year-long project- see below for the full 6-month version...
Life in AdWords: the first half
AUGUST
I'm on holiday, back in September, at the Guesthouse, Cork.
New work online! Life in AdWords: July 2012
Every day, I write and email my diary to my Gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
Thanks to all the people who responded to my Freecycle ad.
My video, Bad Intentions, is included in the online section of Accidental Purpose, part of an exhibition, online project, series of soundtracks and closing event by Candice Jacobs & Fay Nicolson produced in collaboration with QUAD, Derby.
Opens/ goes live 26th July
Accidentally on Purpose takes its title from an American Sitcom situated in the banality of the everyday. Its characters strive to make the best of an unfortunate situation; repetitively re-negotiating the uncertainty of their lives. The exhibition explores the relationship between success and failure using common place materials, everyday situations and repetitious processes as a point of departure.
Interview for Life in AdWords at INTERSTITIAL THEATER is online here
New work online! Life in AdWords: June 2012
Every day, I write and email my diary to my gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
Acronyms >>>>
A new(ish) project of inked acronyms of thigns I'm trying to remind myself, or else song lyrics which are stuck in my head at the time- usually done late at night as a kind of counterpoint to my daily diary (which creates the content of the Life in AdWords proejct)
INTERSTITIAL THEATER presents: Life in AdWords, solo video installation by Erica Scourti
Interstitial Theatre in collaboration with Rustique Studios presentsLife in AdWords a video art project that creates a personal portrait through Internet advertisements. Through a daily exercise of emailing her diary to a gmail account, Erica Scourti is able to compile a list of suggested keywords, linking to relevant advertisements. Scourti then recites these ads to create long lists of brands and lifestyle choices, investigating our relationship to a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
Interstitial Theatre is an artist run contemporary video art gallery in Seattle, WA exhibiting work by emerging artists from around the world with an emphasis on screening work by West Coast based artists.
Q & A with Lucy Reyomds, Denise Webber,
Mark Lewis & me
My video Citizen Choice being screened
Had a fantastic weekend at Open City Docs Fest, well done to Treasa O'Brien for her hard work in putting on the Artist Documentaries' strand-
got to see some amazing stuff (Abigaul Childs, Vivienne Dick and Hollis Frampton to name but a few).
Produced for pop-up show KEGGER, featuring work by myself, Kate Hampel and Guadalupe Martinez, Twenty Press Releases was both a work within the show and a parergon, that is, a necessary embellishment to the main event of the exhibition.
Inspired by the artspeak generator and written in its quasi-nonsensical yet marginally plausible style, Twenty Press Releases consists of twenty different statements framing the show based on the keywords given by the artists to explain their practice.
Made during my residency at Vermont Studio Center, Spring 2012.
Every day, I write and email my diary to my gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
The latter is from 2008, a set of 12 photographs taken within
numerous high street home design stores in London showing framed
drawings reworked
from photos of street graffiti taken off Flickr.
The
photographs represent the found texts’ convoluted route through
both the physical and networked world, starting off as illegal statements
in public sphere and ending up back in the public sphere of shopping,
where they are again if not illegal, then uninvited guests.
The artists in this programme are engaged with “sculpting time” (as Tarkovsky called cinema) as they experiment with movement, montage, slow shots, found footage, reconstructions and deconstructions. Muybridge’s explorations of movement are a precursor to cinema and a monument to movement and speed that define the Twentieth Century and cinema itself. Hollis Frampton evokes the sense of loss inherent in film as every frame documents the death of that moment, while Mark Lewis painstakingly reconstructs banal moments to document the unremarkable. Abigail Child bombards the senses and sense with fragments torn from found footage, and Erica Scourti works with found footage from the web to document images that seem to make themselves.
Made during my residency at Vermont Studio Center,
Postcards from Vermont is a set of 36 hand-made ink postcards sent to friends, family and other contacts worldwide. The postcards bear the names of images found on Google when searching for ‘Vermont’, and thus reflect the clichés associated with this state.
Hackney WickED presents an evening of artist films and performance at Sugarhouse Studios, a pop-up cinema space run by Assemble.
Showing films that represent the urban landscape and our decaying culture.
6.30pm – 3am
Films to commence at 7.30pm
Artists :
Alexis Milne, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Charlie Hope, Noam Edry, Greta Alfaro, Erica Scourti, Minnie Weisz, Helga Dorothea, Aimee Neat, JJ Johnson, Lu Lyndon
Live performance from WE :
WE is a live performance, video and vinyl project by Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Victor M. Jakeman and Emily Rachel Beber. Challenging the individualism of the Western pop song, WE reveals the latent politics of the love song and transforms chart hits by annihilating their liberal subject and replacing it with a collective consciousness.
The first batch of Postcards from Vermont can be viewed here- thanks to all who took part and sent photos.
The Super 8 film I made during HAND OVER CINEMA film-making workshop in Athens, Greece with LabA Athens and the Goethe Centre, is being screened at the 2012 Berlinale. More soon!
New work online! Life in AdWords: April 2012
Every day, I write and email my diary to my gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
April
Back in London after a (brilliant) month-long residency at Vermont Studio Center- until I get around to uploading and organising everything, a few images of the pop-up show KEGGER, devised and featuring work by myself, Guadalupe Martinez and Kate Hampel.
My contribution was Postcards from Vermont; (shown above left, as photos in a line) and Twenty Press Releases, twenty different statements for the show, presented in the usual way of press releases.
New work online! Life in AdWords
For those of you who are Facebook friends this is the video version of the lists I've been putting up on a daily basis: every day, I write and email my diary to my gmail account and copy over the list of suggested keywords linking to clusters of relevant ads. These create a longlist of concerns, brands and things that make visible the subject as embedded in a system of commercially-driven information gathering.
This video covers the whole of March 2012- except 26th March, which was recorded on my iPhone on my flight to the US, which I subsequently lost a couple of days later before backing up the videos on it.
I have just started a residency at the beautiful Vermont Studio Center (April 2012)
"Founded by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is the largest international artists' and writers' Residency Program in the United States, hosting 50 visual artists and writers each month from across the country and around the world."
The people, landscape and food are fantastic- as are the studios and facilities, especially for sculptors. I have been put down as a photographer and even have a dark room at my disposal, though I can't imagine I'll be using it much.
Thanks so much to everyone who posed for my project, Artists Fear.
I will be editing the videos and photos during my residency in Vermont- in the meantime, here are some photos.
I have been awarded the Artists and Collectors Exchange Bursary made available to students of University of the Arts, including Central Saint Martins, where I am currently on the MRes Art: Moving Image course. Thanks!
January
I have been offered a residency at The Guesthouse, in Cork, Ireland.
The Guesthouse is a visual artist-led initiative whose objective is to create a place for production, meeting and cross-practice peer exchange that includes various forms of public discourse and encounter.
Previous Residents include: Ian Helliwell (UK) Kenneth Goldsmith (US) Gavin Prior (IE), Sebastian Buerkner (DE) Stephen Vitiello (US), Strange Attractor (IE)
www.theguesthouse.ie
Manifesto Piece (2011) is being shown at the Rio Cinema's late night event 'At Home With the Ludskis' on 14th January, 11pm- 3am.
Featuring: Dusty Limits, Mary Epworth, Ernesto Sarezale, Harriet Fleuriot, Dalston Underground Studios, Andy Warhol, Granny Ludski, Guy Debord, Sue Frumin, The House of O'Dwyer, Bother, Hanna Rubin, Future Sound of Clapton: Comadisco, Cátia Sousa, Erica Scourti
At Home with the Ludskis' wishes to break away from the traditional art exhibition as well as the typical cinema going experience, to create something startling, thought provoking and entertaining.
Manifesto Piece (2011) is currently being featured on the Media Migrations channel, curated by Duncan White, who has written the short text accompanying the specially-made 15 minute version of the video.
Media Migrations hopes to question modern forms of movement: the real and imaginary boundaries and thresholds that define modern urban experience.
We Want (Manifesto Piece) is the second in a series of artist-led video web installations on 2010Lab – the first was Island Raceby William Raban.
Click here to visit the channel and see the video.
Woman Nature Alone install
Installation view
Duncan White's video on monitor 3 
Gareth checking out the poster install
