JULY 10
22.07 THE GARDEN: Project Blog on a-n Artists Talking
I've started a blog to document my Research Residency at Culpeper. Read the first post here.
JUNE 10
21.06 **Exhibition Review on INTERFACE, a-n's platform for critical writing
Melanie Jackson: THE URPFLANZE (PART 1) at The Drawing Room, London
"Sounds of mechanical clicking and white noise lead me up into the gallery, where I encounter a cluster of makeshift tripods under the wooden eaves. Each structure supports a strange, stone-like form - largely spherical but with spikes and protuberances these might be alien fruits or fragments of lunar rock. Striking shadows are cast by these gnarly shapes and, heightened by the uncanny sound and the flickering of an electric light, the space resembles a scene from a German Expressionist film, or perhaps Dr Frankenstein's laboratory..."
Read the full review here. Image: Still from Acéra by Jean Painlevé, 1972
In June I am beginning a Research Residency at Culpeper Community Garden in Islington. Using slide photography, video and homemade magnifying devices I hope to study the forms, cycles and fluxes of some of the flowers, plants and pond life in the garden. The residency is curated and supported by Islington Exhibits and Cubitt Education.
MAY 10
20.05 - 22.05 *Pattern Completion Project Launch* Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Audio-visual installation made in collaboration with Tom Simmons and Hugo Spiers that uses video projections, sound and glass to explore ways in which networks of brain cells recall memories. Join us at Gimpel Fils on Saturday 22 May for an interdisciplinary discussion on memory, with presentations by Tom, Hugo and I, artist Helen Maurer, architectural historian Dr Peg Rawes and poet Andrew McDonnell. www.pattern-completion.net
17.05 | 18:00 Pattern Completion Talk, Garwood Lecture Theatre, UCL
Tom, Hugo and I will be speaking at TESLA, the art and science discussion forum hosted by Gordana Novakovic at the Department of Computer Science, University College London.
Image source: BrainMaps.org
17.05 THE GUARDIAN Science Weekly
Tom, Hugo and I were interviewed for Alok Jha's weekly podcast. Listen to the interview here.
05.05 - 09.05 VIDEORAMA: Timishort Film Festival, Timisoara, Romania
Under Skies screens in a competitive programme focused on experimental films and video art.
APRIL 10
23.04 VIDEOMEDEJA on Tour
Under Skies screens at the Rex Cinema, Belgrade, Serbia as part of a programme presented by Videomedeja Festival Director Ivana Sremčević.
MARCH 10
18.03 - 27.03 700.IS Stills Show as part of the 700.IS Film and Video Festival in Iceland. Venues include: Reykjavik Art Museum, CIA Center of Icelandic Art and LHI Iceland Academy of the Arts.
06.03 - 08.03 Digital ReGeneration Exhibition, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness
Exhibition of video, installation and photographic works produced during my recent residency at Signal Films. The show is presented as part of Signal's Film Insider's Talent Festival 2010.
Image: The Catch (detail) by Julian Milner and Diana Merrick
05.03 | 20:00 InCounter + Artkillart
Under Skies screens at .HBC Berlin as part of a sound and video event programmed by InCounter and artkillart. In association with WHIPPET's Tipping Points exhibition.
04.03 | 14.25 Artinavan// Brixton's Smallest Cinema
Under Skies in an Art Films programme at Brixton Village Market, London. More details here.
FEBRUARY 10
19.02 - 20.02 | 26.02 - 27.02 Flight at the Shunt Vaults, Joiner Street, London