Part 1 Part 2 Since the year 2000, there have been far too many films made about people traveling to new spaces to do them all justice- and that’s just ones written or directed by Charlie Kaufman- but I will try and cram in enough of them to give...

Part 1 is here. I’ve been looking at examples of films – mainly – about characters that travel to a ‘new or a different space’ in order to see how films have reflected our changing understanding of where we are over the years. In the early era of film,...

There are Artists… and then there are People Who Call Themselves Artists. There are people who do Art without calling themselves an Artist, of course… and there are people who call themselves an Artist without doing capital A Art. Is it enough to just ‘create, create, create’ without, for...

This week we looked at Wade Guyton AND HIS FREAKIN’ AMAZING PRINTS. I just love them so much. “Wade Guyton (b. 1972) is an American artist known for using large format printers, desktop computers, and scanners, to make digital “paintings” on canvas. Guyton’s process does not involve the traditional...

I’ve noticed people using the word ‘dehumanise’ a lot recently. We all understand the very basic idea of it – eg calling groups of people ‘cockroaches’ or ‘animals’ which conceptually strip the group of the qualities that give them ‘humanness’ which then turns them into ‘legitimate targets’… But when...

I messed up this week and missed the first half hour. I was exercising and lost track of time! This week we listened to Alvin Lucier’s ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’. I’m interested in repetition and the unorthodox use of technology, so when I first heard this, it...

This week in our independent study group we watched Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. I saw Mark Leckey’s show at the Tate Britain a few years ago https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/mark-leckey where Fiorucci was shown along with several other works of his. I’I’d only ever seen it on YouTube before, so...

NEW BIBLIOGRAPHY Abele, R., 2022. Ben Stiller, Adam Scott on the claustrophobia of the ‘Severance’ set, Innies and Outies. Los Angeles Times, [online] Available at: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2022-06-08/ben-stiller-adam-scotton-the-claustrophobia-of-the-severance-set-innies-and-outties. Aylesworth, G. (2015). Postmodernism. [online] The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/. Bartleby, 2022. Do not bring your whole self to work....

This week we watched Channel 4’s show Jimmy Carr Destroys Art. I loved it! The premise: they take two piece of art both by ‘problematic’ people, they get two people to defend each piece (or explain why the other shouldn’t be defended), then the audience votes for the one...

Last night I had a very interesting Zoom discussion with several people who attended and presented papers at the Metamodernism conference in Seattle. After an initial ‘de-brief’ about the conference – what worked, what didn’t (it was a ‘hybrid’ conference, both in-person and online, and we talked about how...

In my previous newsletter I wrote about how I found it difficult to answer the question ‘And what do you do?’ after I stopped working in TV which provided me with an easy answer. My friend Elliot (one of the AWESOMEST people at Chelsea) WhatsApped me and said ‘Just...

Stop motion. 4 second shutter. One layer. Unstable base for both the laptop and the camera. Trying out different shapes and techniques. Update: More layers…...

I remember the interview Jeremy Paxman did with David Bowie in 1999. I was deep into the web at the moment and was constantly trying to convince people that it was very definitely the start of a revolution and not just ‘the 1990s version of CB radio’… Partial transcriptions...