January 2016

  • Common Property opening

    Common Property held its opening event at Jerwood Space on 14th. Jerwood Encounters: Common Property seeks to demonstrate how artists engage with and relate to copyright through the work of six emerging and mid-career artists, including three new commissions. The exhibition and accompanying events programme seeks to generate new conversations about how copyright is…

  • archiveremix.com

    I’m happy to announce the launch of archiveremix.com. The site presents a small selection of artefacts from the archives from the University of Birmingham’s Research and Cultural Collections with the intention of them being starting points for new remixes. There has been much movement towards encouraging galleries, libraries, archives and museums to open up…

  • Remix Party photos

    The Remix Party happened on 20th January to celebrate the closing of my exhibition, Permission Taken, at Birmingham Open Media. Throughout the night remixes art artwork from the University of Birmingham were displayed in the main gallery space whilst Ryan Hughes took on DJ duties with soundscapes and the occasional R&B hit. It was…

  • Remix Party, 20th January

    To celebrate the closing of Permission Taken, on 20th January I’ll be having a closing Remix Party at Birmingham Open Media from 19:00 – 22:00 Artwork from over 20 national and international artists will be projected onto BOM’s walls, floors and ceilings in celebration of artists that appropriate, remix and rework. All this set…

  • Copyright and Intellectual Property, 21st January

    On 21st January I’ll be in London for a discussion about Copyright and Intellectual Property at London Art Fair This panel discussion will consider how contemporary artists contend with issues of copyright and intellectual property in their practice, taking the most recent Jerwood Encounters exhibition, Common Property, as its starting point. Panel: Hannah Pierce,…

  • Remix Animation Workshop, 19th January

    With the closing of my solo exhibition at Birmingham Open Media fast approaching, on 19th January I’ll be holding the final workshop. In the Remix Animation Workshop we’ll explore the art of remixing and reappropriation! In this workshop I will introduce open source software programs and discuss ideas around free culture. You will then…

  • Open Online Six: Too Long for iTunes

    On January 1st the sixth edition of the Open Online year-long online exhibitions from Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, titled Too Long for iTunes, went online. Terre Thaemlitz’s 2011 album Soulnessless included a nearly 30-hour piano solo filling a single maximum length 320kB/s MP3 file of 4GB – yet the file playback was limited to the…