Portfolio and Blog for Antonio Roberts
On Wednesday I was asked by CECI to help out with the FluxFeast performance at VIVID. From the VIVID website:
FluxFeast is an attempt to undermine the monumentality of art through the use of food
Myself, along with other members of CECI, were slightly sinister, yet at times playful waiters. My favourite part of the night involved the waiters swapping and changing dishes with other diners whilst they were blindfolded!
H4NUM4N has a few more photos of the event
I’m going to be moving into exclusively using open source software to create artwork in the near future*. More on why once I get my head around some of the software.
*that is unless it’s completely necessary that I use a piece of commercial software e.g. GMIP doesn’t support CMYK, yet Photoshop does.
I was at Glastonbury Festival lat week volunteering with Oxfam. When not on my shift watching as people got searched I saw these bands:
Thursday
King Blues
Friday
Ben Folds
Fun Lovin’ Criminals
A little bit of Fatboy Slim
Ozomatli
Saturday
A little bit of Massive Attack
Jay-Z
Sunday
John Mayer
Mark Ronson
A bit of Goldfrapp
A bit of Leonard Cohen
The Zutons
A bit of Solomon Burke
A bit of Manu Chao
As you can probably tell I had my Gameboy Camera with me too 
There’ll be a few more pictures like that coming soon!
On Tuesday I was at the NGA event at the Q club. I could review the work, which was all very good, especially this work by Chris Hodson (who also has a blog about his work and is a member of B-VAC), but instead I’ll talk a little about the venue itself.
It sucks as a gallery/viewing space.
Hmm, maybe that might’ve been a big harsh, so I’ll rephrase: The building wasn’t used to its full potential and for me it distracted me from the artwork on show. Most of the time I was trying to find my way around and many of the rooms were off limits. This wouldn’t have been a problem, except that the many signs were confusing. I think the venue would’ve worked a lot better if all of the rooms were used, so that the exploration of the building actually had more of a reward. Instead we were given a map. I hate maps, mostly because I can’t follow them.
Pretty self explanatory. Contact Eastside Projects if you know a bass player called John.
All of the work’s almost done…
Damn Small Linux, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.
Late last year, after having numerous troubles with my computer (which resulted in me losing lots of my work) I decided to try out Ubuntu Linux distro. I had a few old computers in the house, but Ubuntu wouldn’t install on any of them! I was royally annoyed!
After going to Brumcon 07.5 today I felt inspired to try again and it worked! I had a few problems typing in a password, in that it wasn’t working, but it let me bypass it or something. Will be doing a fresh reinstall soon.
I’ve always been interested in actually learning how to use and program this sort of thing. My friend, Mez, now a php developer, is/was a developer for Ubuntu and I was always curious as to what it’s all about. I guess this, and the installing of Linux on my iPod is just the start of my journey to discover hardcore coding!
I, of course, wanna bring all of this coding knowledge back to the arts. Les Hutchins, who performed at Brumcon, provides a good example of some of the things I want to do.
Right, back to more coding, amongst other things…
Preparing for the Insectoid! performance in London next Thursday. Just a little preview for ya!
I’ve been further experimenting with gadgets! This time I’m trying to get iPod Linux onto my iPod (who woulda thunk it!).
I’m trying to get it to work so that I can install pdPod (based on PureData (a derivative of Max/MSP)) on it. To see what it’s capable of take a look at this youtube video. I’m hoping to use this in conjunction with LSDJ for something.
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