Visuals for Com Truise

On June 13th I provided visuals for Com Truise‘s gig at Bull’s Head in Moseley, Birmingham. Aside from a few technical errors (I am a glitch artist afterall 😉 ) the gig went really great! Here’s a render of some of the visuals I did set to Terminal and Air Cal from his debut album, Galactic Melt


(Sorry about some of the freezes in the video. It seems VJing and recording the video at the same time causes Pure Data to slow down a bit)

It was a great night and thanks to This Is Tmrw for having me do visuals for such a great musician!

TOYBOX at TROVE

TOYBOX at TROVE opened on Friday 15th June. The opening was a great success! Thanks to everyone who braved the rained and came to the opening.

The exhibition featured modified and hacked toys and similar-themed films and performances. Here’s the toys:

TOYBOX at TROVE

Horsing Around by James Gill

TOYBOX at TROVE

Untitled by Katy Morrison


TOYBOX at TROVE

Panther by David Lee


TOYBOX at TROVE

Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy by Claire Davies


TOYBOX at TROVE

Untitled by Sam Underwood


TOYBOX at TROVE

Mid Life Crisis by Duncan McKellar

And here’s a video of some of the more interactive toys in action

The opening also included performances from Richard Peel, Daniel Salisbury and Kate Spence, as well as videos from Emilie Crew, Rosie Curtis & Steph Bryant and Maria Mattos.

Charlie Levine has also written an overview of the opening with some additional pictures

Thanks again to everyone that came!

GLITCH COP!3R

I recently got a very nice package in the post all the way from Australia! Drew Taylor (aka bowsneak) sent me a package of art and zines, one of which was GLITCH COP!3R

GLITCH COP!3R

GLITCH COP!3R

[GLITCH COP!3R] was created as part of Sticky Institutes Target 168 2012 zinemaking challenge, in which a zine had to be created within 168 hours (1 week). The ‘secret’ theme for the challenge was ‘C3100 photo copier’.

All of the images in this zine were ‘stolen’ from the internet, and glitched to produce ‘a new work’. Images were selected from Google image search using the phrase ‘c3100’. It was maintained that the file name of each image must include the letter ‘c’ and the number ‘3100’. The masthead of the zine – titled ‘GLITCH COP!3R’ – also includes the alphanumeric ‘C3100’ (the ‘O’ is made up of an ‘O’ and a zero).

GLITCH COP!3R

GLITCH COP!3R

GLITCH COP!3R

GLITCH COP!3R

If you take another look at the front page you’ll notice that the font used in the masthead is Dataface. I think this is the first time that someone – other than me – has used the font for a project!

Zines!

I was also sent lots of other zines including many issues of Death-Beam Dinosaurs, which you can download and print for yourself

A grid of Death-Beam Dinosaur zines

Thanks again for the zines!

Speaking of zines, Birmingham Zine Festival is coming back again later this year.