Martin John Callanan is Okay
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 14:02

Martin John Callanan is Okay

Martin John Callanan is Okay

Paper Space: an introduction
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 1:49

At serial consign, Greg Smith has an interesting post on the evolution of the architecture of information as presented in newspapers.

ThisNext: Letters 2004-2006
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 21:19

RAM Publications - Martin John Callanan

ThisNext users will find Letters 2004-2006 online

070317 Audio – RELEASED by InsidesMusic
Friday, 17 August 2007, 11:05

070317 Audio

Insidesmusic (USA), release 070317 Audio:

Reaction to spending three months in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia as artist-in-residence. Not speaking either official language of Latvian or Russian made life confusing. Complied using: mobile phone field recordings from both my home city, London, and Riga; output from experiments using and combining speech translation software with BBC digital radio broadcasts received in Riga, from the UK, via the Internet.

Listen & download here

Location of I – VELOCITY & The Big Draw
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 15:16

Folly VELOCITY

Part of VELOCITY, folly’s festival of digital culture (12 Oct – 3 Nov 2007). Location: Central Lancaster.

Martin John Callanan will use a mobile phone to publish his physical geographical location to the internet as he travels the VELOCITY festival. Visitors to Lancaster’s map room will interact with a live map of Martin’s location, transforming his physical location into a drawing.

VELOCITY is an extraordinary 3 week long festival of digital art and culture that will stretch from Barrow to Lancaster around Morecambe Bay. VELOCITY’s artworks, performances, games, podcasts, films, workshops and art installations will follow the coastline, showing you this beautiful and sublime setting in a new, creative light. Using the rail route as its navigator, VELOCITY’s journey will encompass new world-class art, technology’s role in society, and contemporary issues that affect the Bay and its communities. There will be art works at train stations, performances on the trains, podcasts you can download to take on your train journey, and much much more.

velocity.greyisgood.eu

Location of I – Rhizome ArtBase
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 17:52

Location of I, Rhizome ArtBase

Location of I has been added to the Rhizome ArtBase at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 2110 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials including software, code, websites, moving image, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends.

I Wanted to See All of the News From Today
Friday, 10 August 2007, 15:21

I Wanted to See All of the News From Today, Martin John Callanan

A work in progress:

Aggregating – on a daily basis – the front pages of newspapers from around the world into one place. The aim is to include all printed national newspapers; daily.

FILE Hipersonica Festival, Sao Paulo
Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 22:40

Audio 041209 (as part of MemoryScape and SoundLab) included at FILE Hipersonica Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

From August 13 to September 9, FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, promotes its eighth edition at SESI Art Gallery, with installations, performances, screenings, documentaries, and lectures with artists and scholars from 30 countries. With free admissions, FILE offers one of the major events of the kind in Brazil, exhibiting the latest production in world Art & Technology.

Letters 2004-2006: book review
Friday, 3 August 2007, 19:08

ram books

A review from RAM Publications, N.American distributors for my book:

Martin John Callanan’s brilliant new book is a stroll down Albert Camus Lane for this artist whose work has consistently explored the clash between the fact of human existence and governments with digital databases which could delete anyone with a single keystroke. Any member of modern society can identify with Callanan’s letters to government authorities, in which he essentially – and subversively – challenges their right to define if he exists according to their records. Each letter poses a deceptively simple question or even inane rhetorical statement and the collected responses (from eminences ranging from the secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury to the offices of President Mubarak of Egypt) reveal the absurdity of bureaucracy and the egos of those that claim power. A wonderful exploration from the London-based artist; one of his best-known projects transmits the phrase “I am Still Alive” to available cell phones, laptops and PDAs in a given area, a poignant plea for recognition from cyberspace.



This blog was originally created with support from At Home in Europe, to document residency time at Riga Centre for New Media Culture RIXC, Latvia. Full details here.

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