“I made a number of these video tapes and for the most part I found the practise of making them extremely unsatisfactory, a lot of which had to do with the viewing conventions in museums, often times when your work was shown in museums if you were lucky enough to be invited to show, your work was shown in a …
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According to the simulation thesis, the viewer’s faculty for distinguishing between reality and fiction is disabled by the medium. The primary reality is therefore blurred or replaced by a second, delusional one.
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No project operates in a vacuum. All absolute philosophies like this are impossible to achieve; they treat the world undialectically, and disregard practical limiting factors…. But any future local media project… must start with some practical guidelines for its work. These aims must be development on an evolving, flexible basis, through experimentation and as external influences and restraints change.
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A groups fascination for publicity can end up in doing things simply in order to get it, while liasing with the media- to get them to come and loo at you can take up so much time you can’t get anything else done… for who’s the person to go and do an interview – the best talker, the most photogenic, the person who did it last time?… Our will to live is cut down to a soundbite; our collective strength is reduced to a single figurehead who’s easily compromised or rubbished… “We have the image of the movement to think of, people won’t want to join a movement of extremists”
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Visitors to Tethervision may notice that the website hasn’t published any new content since the beginning of 2011. Rather than Tethervision coming to an end with Black Swans Episode 3, we have been working and developing ideas to progress towards an artist run television channel. The initial aim of Tethervision was clear: frequent, short videos on or around contemporary art …
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The work of Jonathan Gillie recently featured in the exhibition Race For The Prize. Gillie’s work references current aesthetics in the visual, as well as the musical avant-garde. His animations are heavily layered compositions in which process and precision play an equal role to instinct and experiment. Attempting to visualize current thinking in science, electronic music and moving image he …
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Over the next 4 months, Alan Armstrong will be working on a new project that primarily involves constructing a soapbox car to participate in the upcoming Cadwell Park soapbox race in Lincolnshire on the 13th November 2010. He has a new blog which will document the project, supported by Tethervision, until the race day in November. Documenting the cart build and its probable …
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SCREEN SHOTS 2009 | single-channel video with audio | 16:9 | 03:33 minutes Screen Shots functions as an abridged interpretation of a crime-thriller-feature-film as six key ‘scenes’ have been spliced together coercing the viewer to supply the connective tissue of the narrative. Any ‘action’ taking place within the film will never be seen but instead heard as if happening in a …
Continue Reading“I made a number of these video tapes and for the most part I found the practise of making them extremely unsatisfactory, a lot of which had to do with the viewing conventions in museums, often times when your work was shown in museums if you were lucky enough to be invited to show, your work was shown in a …
According to the simulation thesis, the viewer’s faculty for distinguishing between reality and fiction is disabled by the medium. The primary reality is therefore blurred or replaced by a second, delusional one.
No project operates in a vacuum. All absolute philosophies like this are impossible to achieve; they treat the world undialectically, and disregard practical limiting factors…. But any future local media project… must start with some practical guidelines for its work. These aims must be development on an evolving, flexible basis, through experimentation and as external influences and restraints change.
A groups fascination for publicity can end up in doing things simply in order to get it, while liasing with the media- to get them to come and loo at you can take up so much time you can’t get anything else done… for who’s the person to go and do an interview – the best talker, the most photogenic, the person who did it last time?… Our will to live is cut down to a soundbite; our collective strength is reduced to a single figurehead who’s easily compromised or rubbished… “We have the image of the movement to think of, people won’t want to join a movement of extremists”
