MachineMachine /stream - tagged with london http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net Writing off the UK's last palaeographer http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1310/writing-off-the-uks-last-palaeographer Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that it was to close the UK's only chair of palaeography. From ­September, the current holder of the chair, Professor David Ganz, will be out of a job, and the subject will no longer exist as a separate academic discipline in British universities. Its survival will now depend entirely on the whim of classicists and medievalists studying in other fields.

The decision took everyone by ­surprise. "It… ]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 10:04:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1310/writing-off-the-uks-last-palaeographer Ignoring the mainstream, spreading enthusiasm for difficult music and sustaining sonic subcultures: Colin Marshall talks to Chris Bohn, editor of The Wire http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1101/ignoring-the-mainstream-spreading-enthusiasm-for-difficult-music-and-sustaining-sonic-subcultures-colin-marshall-talks-to-chris-bohn-editor-of-the-wire Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the generally non-mainstream since 1982, featuring a span of artists from Ornette Coleman to Björk to David Sylvian to Jim O’Rourke to field recordists like Lee Patterson to emerging Chinese sounds artists like Yun Jun. The magazine is also well known as a rarity in its industry for both its profitability and its loyal, growing readership. Colin Marshall originally conducted this conversation on the public radio program and podcast The… ]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:51:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1101/ignoring-the-mainstream-spreading-enthusiasm-for-difficult-music-and-sustaining-sonic-subcultures-colin-marshall-talks-to-chris-bohn-editor-of-the-wire Arcangel and the future of digi/net art http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/87272 Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As the Lisson Gallery, London, opens its archives to Arcangel's curatorial eye, could digi/net art be set to infect the real, fleshy world, like a rampant Conficker Worm? Has YouTube become the truest reflection of our anthropological selves? Are… ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:44:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/884/arcangel-and-the-future-of-diginet-art A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4 hours of continuous readings at Whitechapel Gallery http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/833/a-certain-realism-the-known-unknowns-4-hours-of-continuous-readings-at-whitechapel-gallery The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel Gallery. The festival reflects on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through six newly commissioned works by Adam Chodzko, Ruth Ewan, Babak Ghazi, Beatrice Gibson, Nathaniel Mellors and Gail Pickering. The aim of The Known Unknowns is to gather an interesting number of contributors to publicly read extracts or entire sections of their own texts. The fluidity and the continuity of the act of reading-aloud will unveil a focus… ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:45:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/833/a-certain-realism-the-known-unknowns-4-hours-of-continuous-readings-at-whitechapel-gallery Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/834/whitechapel-volatile-dispersal-festival-of-art-writing Saturday 21 November, 6pm - 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings drawn from open submission. The event is hosted by Maria Fusco with Book Works and structured around issue three of The Happy Hypocrite, themed ‘Volatile Dispersal: Speed and Reading’. A specially produced publication is available on the day, published by Book Works. New commissions include a lecture, readings, performances and installations by Adam Chodzko, Ruth Ewan, Babak Ghazi, Beatrice Gibson, Nathaniel Mellors, and Gail Pickering, together with The Known Unknowns,… ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:43:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/834/whitechapel-volatile-dispersal-festival-of-art-writing Seriousness is the New Black: The Turner Prize at Tate Britain and Anish Kapoor at The Royal Academy http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/743/seriousness-is-the-new-black-the-turner-prize-at-tate-britain-and-anish-kapoor-at-the-royal-academy Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s White Cube gallery, the founding of the annual Frieze art fair, and of course, the Turner Prize, that annual award set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art presented each year to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition in the preceding twelve months. It has always been a controversial affair. There was, of course, that bed (it didn’t win) and Martin Creed’s minimal… ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:50:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/743/seriousness-is-the-new-black-the-turner-prize-at-tate-britain-and-anish-kapoor-at-the-royal-academy Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Holly Pester http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/742/serpentine-gallery-poetry-marathon-holly-pester Holly Pester is a performance poet currently working on a project with the Barry Museum in Manchester. I, raven, the is about the relationship between words and sound, and the title itself inevitably brings to mind Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in which the refrain “Never More” reads increasingly, as the poem progresses, as less like words and more like sounds. Pester’s poem attempts to capture the “shape of words” and as she reads, her mouth contorts into shapes. The result is a series of sounds from everyday life that seem disconnected from the actual meaning of the words. “The… ]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:29:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/742/serpentine-gallery-poetry-marathon-holly-pester Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Saturday and Sunday, 17–18 October http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/732/serpentine-gallery-poetry-marathon-saturday-and-sunday-1718-october The Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon is an ambitious two-day poetry event taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair week and featuring unique performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians. An international group of major figures will be brought together to perform in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009, designed by architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the acclaimed Japanese practice SANAA. The event will include performances of new work, collaborations, discussions and experiments. ]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:04:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/732/serpentine-gallery-poetry-marathon-saturday-and-sunday-1718-october loca london: meta reviews http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/638/loca-london-meta-reviews Reviews of major exhibitions currently open in London. A Meta-Space containing them all ]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:21:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/638/loca-london-meta-reviews The Gallery as Brain http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/503/the-gallery-as-brain At first glance, the central premise of the Hayward’s summer show seems to court too eagerly the tedious controversy around neuroaesthetics. "Walking in My Mind" aims to "transform the gallery’s unique spaces into a giant brain by bringing together large-scale installations that explore the workings of the mind in different ways ... while at the same time inviting visitors to explore their own thought processes." It’s potentially a clunky conceit, and it risks the sort of interdisciplinary pratfalls that have made for such bathetic reading in recent attempts to bring together art and brain science. It’s as yet unclear exactly… ]]> Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:30:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/503/the-gallery-as-brain Night Blossom http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/3414618542/

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