Dirty New Media
Dirty New Media took place on Thursday 21st March at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. It was one of the most adventurous exhibitions that I’ve curated!
Thanks go out to:
- The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, for taking a chance and including something wildly different to their usual programme
- Vivid Projects, for asking me to curate this exhibition
- University of Birmingham for including Dirty New Media as part of their Arts and Science Festival, and for including videos in their Illuminate outdoor projections
- Pete Ashton, Sam Underwood, Leon Trimble and Ben Neal for providing lots of support and equipment at the last minute
- Keith Dodds, for his awesome work on the programme and other graphic design
- All of the performers, lecture-deliverers and artists that got involved (more below)
- And last, but not least, thanks to you, the audience, for travelling from the far reaches of England to attend Dirty New Media! You helped to make it a success!
Here’s a list of all of the works/pieces/artists included in the programme, should you want to check out more:
Exhibition
Benjamin Gaulon [aka Recyclism]- KindleGlitched Jeff Donaldson - 16bit Edition Glitch Scarf – source: Atari ST emulator read error Dec Ackroyd - Cityscape #46 Jason Soliday - Harbinger Variations Charlotte Frost and Rob Myers - #arthistory Kate Pemberton - Tacert Jamie Boulton - C:\Users\5629a7\Pictures\IDDisplay.jpg URRRGH - __KWEEN_CLARISSURRRGH, __YOUCHOOB_4_EVA, __ALADDINZ_CAT Stef Lewandowski - Data Necklace
Super Special Essay
Shawne Holloway + Steven Hammer - 1_approach.dnm: (inter)active viewership in dirty new media. The whole text can be read in the Dirty New Media programme
Lectures
Jon Cates - WTF?! is D1RTY N3W M3DI∆?! (For those that didn’t get one, Jon’s PDF, 1337 ¥³4Γ$ øƒ D1RTY N3W M3DI∆: 2005 - 2012 CH1C∆Gø, can be downloaded from GL1TCH.US) Dan O’Hara - An Irregular and Spasmodic History of Glitches and other Systemic Stutterings
Screenings
(in order) Modulate- O>L>S Nick Kegeyan - i went home this winter (or my friends, lights, a game, and the last time i saw my childhood home) Antonio Roberts - I Am Sitting in a Room Carrie Gates - A portrait of a portrait of a portrait of nn Bryan Peterson - [Dirty] inputs/processes.outputs Theodore Darst - Approach Jennifer Chan - [[[ I’ll Show You HD ]]] Kevin Carey - OTC/DXM [256_l4y3rz_0v_sYrVp_r3m1xxx] Sian Macfarlane - /ˈzi(ə)rˌäks/ (xerox) Michael Lightborne - What Did The Duck Say To The Pig?
A/V Performances
Minuek Norah Lorway Circuit Ben
There’ll be videos appearing soon, but in the meantime check out the photos from Pete Ashton:
Till next time…
Description: A short audio visual journey exploring abstract narrative, movement, shape, colour, non verbal expression and spatial awareness. Sounds sourced from “The Octophonic Loop System"8.1 sound installation by Bobby Bird /Modulate, commissioned by Francisco Lopez.
The images for this work were created in 2003 for a project where Carrie used a piece of OS9 software art by Adrian Ward called “A portrait of Netochka Nezvanova” to create a generative video collage of a collection of over 10 000 .psd files Carrie had prepared on the topic of “cyberculture”. This video is the remix, prepared in Feb. 2013 for an online exhibition by Ellectra Radikal and Systaime Alias Michael Borras at 
In response to an increase in works inspired by DJ Screw’s chopped & screwed sound and the surrounding culture, this piece looks to subvert the smoothness and fluidity of the recent aesthetic focus within the underground rap community. What results is a frustrated trip - a dirty, murky exploration of over the counter and beyond.
A stupid joke, told badly.
Appropriated Phil Morton video, twisted and built through analog video mixers
A copy of a copy; partially reconfiguring x-traterrestrial digital glitch.
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