Dates for your diary
Gateways. Art & Networked Culture
KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
13 May - 25 Sept 2011
News
The ArtSway Associates programme recently commissioned Alessandro Ludovico, founder of Neural magazine, to write an essay on boredomresearch's body of web-based works, on the occasion of their Strange Cargo commission and their newly launched ASPIRATIONstorm. The essay features in the exhibition's accompanying catalogue, which is available through ArtSway and boredomresearch.
boredomresearch are spending the summer working on their new website, and preparing for another busy year ahead. They will be participating in the symposium Stretching New Boundaries: Participation in Visual Arts, on 22 September 2011, Folkestone, organised by Strange Cargo. For further information please click here.
ArtSway Associates have contributed towards research and development time for boredomresearch to look into the potential of an iphone app, as well as a one-to-one mentoring session with independent curator Honor Beddard.
By This Time Next Year
By this time next year... was commissioned by Strange Cargo as part of Stretching New Boundaries. By this time next year... asked viewers to put hurry on hold and make an active commitment to achieving a personal goal; to take a moment to reflect and the time to dream. By this time next year... included ASPIRATIONstorm, the latest addition to boredomresearch’s collection of software tools designed to fight the rush of contemporary life, as well as Real Snail Mail, the world's only webmail service to rely on live snails to deliver e-mails.
Brilliant Cloud Formation
Installation view of Brilliant Cloud Formation, 2010, Millais Gallery
boredomresearch's new body of work and venture into limited edition print artworks was unveiled to the public on the occasion of their solo exhibition, Brilliant Cloud Formation at the Millais Off-Site Projects, Southampton (29 October – 19 December 2010).
In their print works, Brilliant Cloud, hundreds of bands of vibrant colour combine to create cloud like formations. Inspired by patterns formed in agate they are neither cloud or rock but play with the space between these two very opposite substances. You can view images of Brilliant Cloud on boredomresearch’s Flickr account here.
Beyond Cinema: Moving Image Informatics
boredomresearch were guest speakers at the one day symposium, Beyond Cinema: Moving Image Informatics, held at and organised by Southampton Solent University (13 November 2010). The symposium explored how the traditional practices of cinema and the moving image have been irrevocably altered by the Internet and digital media.
Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs
A solo exhibition at [DAM] Berlin in April 2010, saw the presentation of Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs.
Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs was also shown as part of the 2010 ARCO International Art Fair Festival in Madrid (17 – 21 February 2010) alongside some of boredomresearch’s other generative works.
Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs, 2010. Courtesy of [DAM] Berlin/Cologne
Real Snail Mail
ArtSway Associates worked with boredomresearch to develop a Real Snail Mail™ brochure, used to bring attention to the project. The Associates programme contributed towards the production costs of a large scale version of Real Snail Mail for its presence at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial in Gijón, Spain, as part of the group exhibition, Process as Paradigm (23 April - 30 August 2010).
Real Snail Mail was subsequently launched as an educational version at Gloria Fuertes Infant School in Gijón, Spain, where boredomresearch ran some workshops with the pupils (aged 3 – 6). You can see how the children have been looking after the Real Snail Mail and what they have been up to here.
Real Snail Mail went intercontinental and flew—well, boredomresearch remotely installed Real Snail Mail—to Bejiing, at the Today Art Museum, for the group exhibition Stadt am Rande (16 – 28 August 2010).
You can keep up to date with Real Snail Mail via the dedicated blog and see the project featured in TIME magazine, and on Newsround.
Real Snail Mail, 2008. Courtesy of [DAM] Berlin/Cologne
