I will have 3 pieces, including one self generating sound piece, in a group show during the Carrigallen Arts Festival. The Prism Artists Group, working under the theme of 'Mask and Illusion', will be exhibiting their work to the public between 2 - 9pm each day from 29th July - 1st Aug 2005 at the Cornmill Theatre, Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim. The official opening will be held at the venue on Thursday from 8.30pm.
An ongoing internet project was started during June 2005. 'Things In My Bin' is an attempt to build a virtual trash pile for the archaeologists of the future. Watch daily as scans of real life trash from the artists bin collect as virtual trash in cyberspace. The contents of this site will never degrade; the design, packaging etc forever preserved for future study.
http://www.thingsinmybin.blogspot.comAnother ongoing internet based project was begun in May 2005. ‘Trail’ is the setting up of a trail across cyberspace. This is a series of web sites connected by secret links, email, hidden clues in source code etc. I am hoping, amongst other things, to explore the democratic concepts of free web space, the ease with which you can amass multiple email accounts and the accuracy of search engines. In this age when the World Wide Web is increasingly used for covert activities by terrorists and by any number of other clandestine groups, there has never been a more topical time to explore how far you can stretch such a trail and test the resourcefulness of those who try to keep up. The starting point is Truth and Infinity. You will have to find the first clue there yourself.
25/8/05:Truth and Infinity is no longer the starting point. Go to the start of Trail
here.
One last art based website I have put into operation is called ‘Signed From Hell’. The site is about context of image. I have been taking images from a variety of sources and linking them with only a single line of text into the same quite narrow idea. The idea being that we are listening to the unfolding story of a madman, Jack the Ripper. Inspired by the Alan Moore graphic novel ’From Hell’ and also the Hollywood adaptation of same. I am doing some image manipulation to make them fit the scenario, but it’s proving remarkably easy to completely change their context and meaning. Perhaps more of a working process than anything, but already I have come up with some striking imagery which I may use or more fully realise in the future. Watch my progress at
http://www.freewebs.com/signedfromhellI will be sending out a separate mail detailing more music related stuff, save to say a new Secret Society album and single will be available by September. Still best to check Truth and Infinity for latest news. On a personal note I recently moved from Dublin to Carrick-on-Shannon in Co. Leitrim.
