30/05/2008

BBM - Beobachter der Bediener von Maschinen (observers of operators of machines)

Artist Presentation

Friday 30th May, 7.30 – 8.30pm

Machine performance group BBM will present a selection of work, from their public space performances and "riot re-enactments" (1989-1997), to their "research projects" (about sensory deprivation, examplified by Stuttgart-Stammheim high sec jail for RAF terrorists and a 2nd project on the artificial rubber plant of IG Farben in Auschwitz); the swarm robot project on world exhibition 2000, the biggest test in collective roboting and multichannel video ever made (with 72 robots); TROIA a Culture 2000 project about "technologies of political control"; and finally, embedded art.

01/06/2008

Work [from Kino Fist collective]

Sunday 1st June, 2pm

The usual - 2 quid, nibbles and booze available and free zine.

We will be screening Godard's 1969 'British Sounds', made for but ultimately banned by London Weekend Television, followed by Schrader's 1978 'Blue Collar'.

If you would like to contribute something on the theme of either (or both) of these films, or on the theme of work and cinema more broadly, please send illustrations, photos and texts to infinitethought@hotmail.co.uk by May 20.

06/06/2008

TUOMAS TOIVONEN: WORDS, CHASED BY SOUNDS

The second in a series of encounters with artists in residence at ambient.space.

Friday June 6th, 7.30pm

The ambient.vista residencies invite artists to address the unique and spectacular aspect over London from the ambient.space studio in Hackney. The programme launched with Wolfgang Staehle (New York / Berlin). Currently in residence is Finnish architect and musician Tuomas Toivonen, who brings his valuable perspective to the vista.

Following the open studio day at ambient.space (Thursday June 5th), on Friday Tuomas Toivonen will speak at E:vent about the work installed during the residency, which tests architectural effects and ideas through an optical experiment. He will also discuss his wider practice, and later create some sounds.