T.G. Hamilton’s Photos of Ectoplasm

26.10.09
Spirit photography by T.G. Hamilton To mark all hallow’s eve, a video showing some of T.G. Hamilton’s incredible photographs of seances and ectoplasmic manifestations. Taken in the 1920s and ’30s in the custom-built seance cabinet he had fitted with a dozen cameras, Hamilton’s photos depict all manner of milky, gauzey and gelatinous ghosts. The images might not be especially convincing as evidence of the hereafter ...
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Cream – International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama

26.10.09
Showing at Cream: Masaki Fujihata's Simultaneous Echos The inaugural Cream festival runs throughout November in Yokohama. Cream “embraces a variety of different fields, including  contemporary art, media art, animation, film and photography” and an impressive array of artists – including Chantal Akerman, Christian Marclay, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sun Xun, Walid Raad – are set to contribute. Direct from Liverpool’s AND Festival, Duane Hopkins will be showing his ...
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Duane Hopkins

26.10.09
Duane Hopkins, Sunday. Image courtesy of the artist Duane Hopkins, director of the acclaimed feature Better Things, talks to APEngine about Sunday, a new series of installation works drawing on material from a short film he made seven years ago. Sunday has been shown at Baltic, Gateshead, the Open Eye Galley in Liverpool as part of the AND Festival.  It shows at Cream International Festival for Arts ...
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Independent Film Show in Naples

24.10.09
Project Instructions, Morgan Fisher 1976 Dates: 3-7 November 2009 | Location: Naples Fresh from their terrific job as guest curators at this year’s Impakt Festival,  curators Maria Palacios Cruz and Stoffel Debuysere are presenting two programmes for the Independent Film Show in Naples, 3 – 7 November 2009. (DE)CODING includes works by John Smith, Hollis Frampton and Robert Nelson, and there’s a programme of films by the ...
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The Caravan Gallery

23.10.09
thecaravangallery.co.uk The Caravan Gallery is a moving image site in so much as it is a mobile photographic exhibition venue that can be found temporarily visiting many UK locations. The project is run by artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale who are on a mission to record the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in 21st century Britain. If you haven’t yet been fortunate to chance ...
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Tate and Aardman recruit UK Schoolkids

23.10.09
Production still from Sarah Cox's 3 Ways to Go Wallace and Gromit-siring Aardman Animations are working alongside the Olympics Legacy Trust charity and creative agency Fallon to harness the creative talent of a million UK primary school children for a film to be showcased at Tate Modern and cinemas across the country. The 20 minute film – the first to be produced by Tate – will be ...
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Mariscal – Drawing Life at the Design Museum

22.10.09
Mariscal - Drawing Life, 'Shower Tunnel', Photo: Timothy Davey Just a few days left to catch this delightful retrospective of Spanish designer and artist Javier Mariscal, one of the world’s most innovative and original designers, with a rich and diverse body of work that spans cartoon characters, interiors, furniture, graphic design and corporate identities. And best known for giving Barcelona its graphic identity as it emerged from ...
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