Title: Open Music Archive and Felix\’s Machines
Location: Gasworks SE11 5RH
Description: Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) will play a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright clips, blips and loops sampled from 19th Century music boxes, player pianos and other automated music machines.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2008-12-19

Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) will play a DJ set featuring out-of-copyright clips, blips and loops sampled from 19th Century music boxes, player pianos and other automated music machines.

This is followed by the performance of a new composition made in collaboration with Felix Thorn, and assembled from samples of out-of-copyright material for the player piano.

This event is part of the current exhibition Felix’s Machines, a series of extraordinary mechanical instruments put together by the artist and musician Felix Thorn. When connected to a computer, Felix’s Machines translate Thorn’s compositions into mechanical actions performed by customised drums and piano parts and animated by solenoids, springs and motors.

Free Gift: On the night, Open Music Archive and Felix Thorn will give away a copyleft licensed CD featuring the new composition and digital source files.

This events is free. Doors will open at 7.45pm, the gallery will be closed between 6 and 7.45pm to set up.

Title: The First Pictures I Enjoyed
Location: Frieze Talks
Description: Writer and artist Alasdair Gray in conversation with novelist and artist Tom McCarthy.

Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2008-10-17

Title: The Aesthetic Responsibility
Location: Frieze Talks
Description: Writer, curator and philosopher Boris Groys will give a keynote lecture on how design today functions as a leading medium of self-revelation and self-positioning in public space. Arguing that design has acquired a new ethical dimension, he contends that where there was once religion, there is now design.
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2008-10-16

Title: The Ideology of the \’Iconic\’
Location: ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Description: Love her or loathe her\’ says Kirsty Wark of Madonna, \’you cannot underestimate the impact she has had on music, or her iconic status.\’
The word \’iconic\’ might be the best way into a discussion of where postmodernism\’s collapse of high and low has led us: to a situation in which opting out of mass market phenomena simply isn\’t considered to be an option. The \’iconic\’ as an ideology means that, regardless of taste, we all have to pay attention to – and analyse, preferably in a sub-Barthesian manner infused with terms like \’guilty pleasures\’ and \’getting my fix\’ – a new canon in which commercial status and cultural status are one and the same thing. As a result, even in the academy quantitative terms have swamped qualitative ones, and criticism – co-opted and confounded by the comforting repetitions of celebrity culture and PR – is in crisis. As we approach the end of this postmodern tyranny, Momus signals what he calls Unpop as one possible exit strategy.

Momus is a singer, writer and artist living in Berlin. As well as 18 albums of \’disorienteering\’ pop music, he\’s written for Wired, Frieze, and has a weekly design and culture slot on the website of the New York Times. His first novel, The Book of Jokes, will appear in 2009, when Sternberg will also publish his Book of Scotlands, a piece of speculative non-fiction listing 1000 parallel world Scotlands.

Future guests in the ‘Pop and Populism’ Lecture series include Sam Jacob.

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-10-14

Title: Felix Gmelin ‘I feel so divided’
Location: Vilma Gold
Description:

I’ve got a machine for seeing, called eyes
To hear, I’ve got ears
To talk, a mouth
But they feel like separate machines
there’s no unity
A person ought to feel unified
I feel like I’m divided
Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot Le Fou, 1965

Vilma Gold is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Felix Gmelin.

In “I Feel so Divided” Felix Gmelin uses painting, photography, film, and sound to create a spatial montage that explores the abilities of cinema and the visual arts to organize and disorganize the senses. The different found, copied, interpreted and quoted elements – excerpts from a 1926 German documentary about a school for blind children, fragments from Vsevolod Pudovkin‘s “Asynchronism as a principle for sound film” and Diderot’s “Letter on the Blind”, and more – are combined with a new series of paintings which depict children judged “good” or “bad” by the Nazi regime. Together the parts of the exhibition form an open constellation of historical and iconographic associations, continuities and ruptures. If the traditions of cinema and the visual arts have today entered into a state of profound uncertainty, then perhaps, Gmelin seems to suggest, their pieces can be disassembled and reassembled to create forms that think.

Felix Gmelin was born in Heidelberg in 1962 but lives and works in Stockholm. Gmelin has participated twice in the Venice Biennale, 2007 and 2003; in the October Salon 2006, Belgrade, and also in the Berlin Biennial 2006. He has had solo shows at institutions including Portikus, Frankfurt, Gasworks, London and Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö. Currently his work can be seen in a group show at Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.

Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-10-09

Title: Assemblages - Loris and Livia
Location: Brag Boutique
Description: ‘Assemblages’ 4 prototypes, first collaboration of Loris Jacquard & Livia Lauber.

URL: http://lorisetlivia.com/
Date: 2008-09-17

Title: Showtime Performances + Discussion
Location: Gasworks
Description: Gasworks\’ third annual open submission programme Showtime continues with the presentation of the four selected works by artists Laura Gannon, Flávia Müller Medeiros, Ruth Proctor and choreographer Nicholas Quinn.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-08-07
End Time: 21:00

Title: The Buildings Are Alive \”With The Music Of Sound\”
Location: Ballroom Floor, Royal Festival Hall
Description: Concert - London Sinfonietta - Culture Collective and Street Genius
Start Time: 11:30
Date: 2008-08-16
End Time: 14:00

Title: SOUND BURGER
Location: Plan B / Brixton
Description: Host:
Two Japs and a Brit
Type:
Party - Club Party
Network:
Global
Start Time: 22:00
Date: 2008-08-01

Title: Ryan Gander & Viktor
Location: ICA
Description: Ryan Gander gives a talk, accompanied by Viktor
a recent history of drawing, by Juerg Lehni and Alex Rich.
Start Time: 19:00:00
Date: 2008-07-24
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