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WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY 17th Feb 2008

After the initial success of WCAD 2007, join communiversity.org.uk in 2008 by marking the day with community event and contributing to their website.

Japanese women could be "safer" at night by wearing vending-machine disguises

Media Art Net

Sarah Tripp

Leonhart Fuchs De Historia Stirpium

To celebrate the completion of Christine Borland's 'To be Set and Sown in the Garden' 2002, based upon the design of a medieval physic garden, Glasgow University published on line, Leonhart Fuchs' De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (or, Notable commentaries on the history of plants) which was first published in 1542. A massive, folio volume, this landmark work describes in Latin some 497 plants, and is illustrated by over 500 superb woodcuts based upon first-hand observation.

visit pOstage

pOstage is setting up an international mail art project.....and for this wants YOUR postal address! If you would like to take part in this and find out more about other 'Mail Art' events and projecst, follow the image link above.

Hair Growth by David Shrigley

Mike Kelley, Kandors

An interview with Tracy Emin courtesy of Tate Magazine

The Aphrodite Project

The Aphrodite Project is a series of new media artworks inspired by the cult of Aphrodite. Started by Norene Leddy in 2000, The Aphrodite Project consists of three multi-media artworks: Sanctuary, Platforms, and Kestos Imas, a work in progress.

Cornelia Parker takes you on a gallery tour

Take a video tour of Cornelia Parker’s current show, Never Endings at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery courtesy of the BBC

Notes on Brocken spectre

Cath Keay – 1000 Tides

Cath will be running a casting project with our first year students early next month. keep an eye on the blog and our Flickr site for images from the project.

Cath Keay’s doctoral project builds on her previous, long-running work on bees and wax sculpture to investigate ways in which art and the natural world can interact, exploring dynamic natural processes that can influence the final form of a sculpture. Keay’s sculptural works provide a basis for animal colonisation in natural environments (a wax architectural sculpture in a beehive; terracotta text sculptures in the sea); over time it is possible to investigate the way in which these animal forms adapt to and alter the artworks, creating beauty in nature’s response to human intervention. Her work highlights the role of nature as collaborator in the creation of the artistic product.

Anthony Schrag

body intelligent – that which is understood phenomenologically before it is understood mentally or intellectually

glimmers in limbo

113 -117 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD
(entrance in New Wynd)

18 – 27 October 2007

18 October, 6.30 – 9pm: preview and live performance
(invite only)
19 - 21 October, 2 – 7pm
22, 23 October, closed
24, 25 October, 2- 7pm
26 October 2 – 9pm
27 October 2 – 6pm

Four interventions interleave layers of the Britannia Panopticon building’s histories with its present, fragile existence, and uncertain future, in Glasgow’s regenerating Merchant City district.

Mark Melvin

What can be seen in Mark’s work throughout is a preoccupation with the work as process, and in turn looping, sequence and rhythmic iteration have been prominent in their construction. Repetition is evident in his practice and he often experiments with various cycles and levels of repetition, be it a discussion of the habitual and routine, investigations into recollection and memory or the use of music, the art of iteration.

Year_07 Art Projects

Showcasing 58 international galleries exhibiting young and established artists in the rich architectural setting of Country Hall, London.

Mark Kermode on Douglas Gordon

IT'S OKAY TO PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD...SOMETIMES. :)