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5 Reasons Why Every Art Critic Should Know How to Code

by Laura Davidson on May 12, 2013 • No Comments

1. The Rise of Code Education and Code Literate Nations As global populations are required to develop skills in relationship to emerging and established digital economies, it is correct to assume that this economic demand for skills will result in the growing emphasis of computer science within national curriculums....

Project : Open Source Mountain View

by Laura Davidson on Apr 28, 2013 • No Comments

I’m starting a small project on Tumblr, crowd sourcing interpretations of ‘mountain view’. It’s based on some thoughts I had in my previous post : Error Uploading Content #2: Landscape and Architecture in Silicon Valley. Here is the blurb: Open Source Mountain View For European settlers, the American landscape presented...

Art World / Digital Realm

Error Uploading Content #2 : Landscape and Architecture in Silicon Valley Part 1

by Laura Davidson on Apr 17, 2013 • No Comments

I have decided to turn Error Uploading Content into a series where I try and index some of my thoughts and research interests together, hopefully to work towards a more cohesive body of work. I appreciate that some of the items I discuss may seem lacking in academic rigour, so...

Art World / Digital Realm

Error Uploading Content #1

by Laura Davidson on Apr 10, 2013 • No Comments

I’ve been stuck in a writing hibernation for quite some time and searching for ways to work my way out of it. Ok, I lie. I’m having multiple internal system failures leading to an error uploading content. So this post is more of a discussion of thoughts and texts in...

Art World / Digital Realm

Snow is Falling : Algorithms in [Digital] Art Documentary

by Laura Davidson on Apr 2, 2013 • No Comments

I am featured in a documentary with Matthew Plummer Fernandez and James Bridle, talking about the role of algorithms in digital art. Produced by research students at Queen Mary University, London.

Art World / Digital Realm

David Blandy: Mobile Suit Academy at Peckham Space

by Laura Davidson on Feb 26, 2013 • No Comments

Blandy‘s exhibition Mobile Suit Academy may promote itself as a futuristic voyage through Peckham, attaching science fiction narratives to the lives of students at Harris Academy. However, only last month Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google) was photographed on the New York subway wearing augmented reality glasses. Brin’s image reminds us that...

Art World / Digital Realm

Guardian Video Series : How Art Embraced the Digital Age

by Laura Davidson on Nov 29, 2012 • No Comments

The Guardian have produced a two part video series exploring the importance of digital art within our contemporary culture. Now that the internet is embedded within our daily lives, one would expect this short journalistic analysis to provide some discourse about how this medium of artistic production has progressed....

Art World / Digital Realm / Publications

Digital Sizzle: Untitled Paste Project

by Laura Davidson on Oct 7, 2012 • No Comments

This project had two specific aims, to archive the activity on Pastebin somewhere static: The British Library (using an ISSN), and to curate the diverse subject matter for a wider audience who may wish to utilize the content as entertainment or for further creative endeavours. I had become interested in...

Art World / Digital Realm

dOCUMENTA(13) : Erkki Kurenniemi

by Laura Davidson on Sep 11, 2012 • No Comments

Upstairs from David Link in the Orangerie was the first retrospective of Errki Kurenniemi’s work. It was without doubt for me, the most compelling work in Documenta 13. Kurenniemi is a mathematician, nuclear physicist, inventor, musician, filmmaker and expert on a range of digital technologies – including the production...

Art World / Digital Realm

dOCUMENTA (13) : David Link

by Laura Davidson on Sep 3, 2012 • No Comments

Prior to my trip to Documenta, I associated Ferranti computer systems with the second floor of the Science Museum in South Kensington. The Ferranti Pegasus has a prominent home in the history of computing as one the first programmable computers which were marketed and sold. To put this into...

Art World / Cross References

dOCUMENTA(13) Cross References Special: Etel Adnan and Allen Ginsberg

by Laura Davidson on Sep 1, 2012 • No Comments

Fog rolling down the mountain the tram lift towers above leafless aspen - look at that tree all alone! A mountain outside a room inside a skull above Snow on the mountain flowers in the room thoughts in the skull Snow mountain fields seen thru transparent wings of...

Art World / Digital Realm

dOCUMENTA (13) Highlights

by Laura Davidson on Aug 24, 2012 • No Comments

A quick round up of some of my favourite work at Documenta 13. Will publish some more in depth writing in the coming weeks! Adrián Villar Rojas‘ post-apocalyptical landscape in the decaying (& possibly hazardous) Weinbergterrasen (vineyard terraces). David Link’s reconstruction of the Ferranti Mark 1 installed in...

Art World / Publications

12-Pages Terror Issue

by Laura Davidson on Aug 16, 2012 • No Comments

Open publication - Free publishing - More art I have edited and designed the ninth issues of 12-Pages featuring new work by Beverley Bennett, Charley Peters, Gudrun Filipska and myself.

Art World / Digital Realm

dOCUMENTA (13) Reading List : No. 35 Matias Faldbakken & No.46 Boris Groys

by Laura Davidson on Jul 31, 2012 • No Comments

As my visit to Documenta 13 is imminent, I have reviews of two more editions produced for the 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts series published by Hatje Cantz. As I previously mentioned in this post: the ideas that interest me most in Documenta 13 are those which engage with the...

Art World / Cross References

Sinema Amnesia Comes to Margate

by Laura Davidson on Jul 21, 2012 • No Comments

I visited the new Turner Contemporary in Margate yesterday as part of what seems to be an annual pilgrimage to the Kent coastline. Unfortunately / fortunately I missed Tracey Emin running with the Olympic flame by a day. However, a bright magenta Olympic ribbon was still pasted around the...

Art World / Digital Realm

dOCUMENTA (13) Reading List : No. 55 Ada Lovelace

by Laura Davidson on Jun 17, 2012 • No Comments

As I am due to visit Documenta in August, I have started reading through some of the editions produced for the 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts series published by Hatje Cantz. The ideas that interest me the most in this Documenta are evidently those that engage with the computing...

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UK Grime V Tech Playlist

by Laura Davidson on Mar 3, 2013 • No Comments

Track Listing: P Money 1 Up JME Twitter Freestyle Dizzie Rascal + D Double E Bluku Bluku JME Eastenders iPhone D Double E Streetfighter P Money Blackberry

Digital Realm / Visual Essays

I Have a Personal Collection of Illuminati Memes

by Laura Davidson on Dec 2, 2012 • No Comments

Art World / Digital Realm

iPlayer Glitches on Tumblr : Goodbye Analogue TV

by Laura Davidson on Nov 18, 2012 • No Comments

iPlayer glitch. From series I am posting on my Tumblr. For once a post that is discussing some primary visual material I am hoping to use as a pivot point for further thought. I’ve been hanging out a lot on iPlayer recently and for numerous reasons my internet connection is continually falling in and out. When...

Art World / Cross References

Cross References: Folkestone Last Summer

by Laura Davidson on Nov 12, 2012 • No Comments

After my visit to Margate this summer, I realised I am yet to repost my cross reference of Promised Land and The Grapes of Wrath. I managed to catch the work at the Folkestone Triennial last year. Perhaps saving it for reposting now is the perfect excuse to recall the warm(ish) English summer days! Cross References: Nikolaj Bendix...

Digital Realm / News / Publications

Digital Sizzle : Art Meets Tech at Whitechapel Event

by Laura Davidson on Oct 6, 2012 • No Comments

I haven’t updated the blog for a while because I have been extremely busy working on some new and exciting projects. During the weekend of the 15th and 16th of September I took part in the first Digital Sizzle Hackathon at Mozilla HQ in London. The aim of the event was to get artists and...

Art World / Cross References

Cross References: Gerhard Richter and Lucky Skaer

by Laura Davidson on Sep 20, 2012 • No Comments

Gerhard Richter Küchenstuhl (Kitchen Chair) 1965 Gerhard Richter Stuhl im Profil (Chair in Profile) 1965 Lucy Skaer Thames and Hudson Installation View (2009)

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Web 2.0 Satire : A Review

by Laura Davidson on Sep 8, 2012 • No Comments

I am super SUPER birthday party excited to unveil the new Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker collaboration: bipling.com. I came across the site about two years ago, completely unaware that the content is in fact the work of Morris and Brooker. Bipling.com is the natural heir of Nathan Barley; where the narrative of Barley...

Art World / Publications

12-Pages Issue 9: Terror

by Laura Davidson on Aug 13, 2012 • No Comments

I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of 12-Pages will be available online this week. I have edited the edition, with contributions from Beverley Bennett, Charley Peters and Gudrun Filipska. Introduction “For reasons that should by now be self-evident, bearing witness does not imply special access to the essential meaning of critical events....

Cross References / Digital Realm / Visual Essays

All Time Greatest Windows Remixes

by Laura Davidson on Aug 8, 2012 • No Comments

Most Viewed Windows Remix Free download All Time Favourite Windows (2000) Remix Dub Step Windows XP Free download Hip Hop Windows Free download Windows XP Start Up Remix Windows 95 Remix Windows XP Dark Remix Windows Vista Remix Windows XP Forward Riddim Windows XP Remix

Art World / Visual Essays

News From Yesterday: William Morris’ Red House

by Laura Davidson on Jul 26, 2012 • No Comments

“Midsummer in the country; here you may walk between the fields and hedges that are as it were one huge nosegay for you, redolent of bean-flowers and clover and sweet hay and elder-blossom. The cottage-gardens are bright with flowers, the cottages themselves mostly models of architecture in their way. Above them towers here and there of...

Digital Realm / Hacking

We Are Legion: The Story Of The Hacktivists: Trailer

by Laura Davidson on Jul 22, 2012 • No Comments

Eagerly awaiting a UK screening of this acclaimed documentary: Hot Docs says: “We Are Legion is a guide into the world of Anonymous, the “hacktivist” collective with no defined leadership or structure that’s responsible for numerous acts of a new internet-based civil disobedience. Through interviews with current members and those awaiting trial, as well...

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When Algorithms Do Unfortunate Things #2

by Laura Davidson on Jul 18, 2012 • No Comments

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5 Reasons Why Every Art Critic Should Know How to Code

Project : Open Source Mountain View

Error Uploading Content #2 : Landscape and Architecture in Silicon Valley Part 1

Error Uploading Content #1

Snow is Falling : Algorithms in [Digital] Art Documentary

David Blandy: Mobile Suit Academy at Peckham Space

Guardian Video Series : How Art Embraced the Digital Age

Digital Sizzle: Untitled Paste Project

dOCUMENTA(13) : Erkki Kurenniemi

dOCUMENTA (13) : David Link

dOCUMENTA(13) Cross References Special: Etel Adnan and Allen Ginsberg

dOCUMENTA (13) Highlights

12-Pages Terror Issue

dOCUMENTA (13) Reading List : No. 35 Matias Faldbakken & No.46 Boris Groys

Sinema Amnesia Comes to Margate

dOCUMENTA (13) Reading List : No. 55 Ada Lovelace

UK Grime V Tech Playlist

I Have a Personal Collection of Illuminati Memes

iPlayer Glitches on Tumblr : Goodbye Analogue TV

Cross References: Folkestone Last Summer

Digital Sizzle : Art Meets Tech at Whitechapel Event

Cross References: Gerhard Richter and Lucky Skaer

Web 2.0 Satire : A Review

12-Pages Issue 9: Terror

All Time Greatest Windows Remixes

News From Yesterday: William Morris’ Red House

We Are Legion: The Story Of The Hacktivists: Trailer

When Algorithms Do Unfortunate Things #2

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