A smashing intro to an evening of curious AV events live at the RAINBOW

JAYGO BLOOM has been invited to present his immersive GREENSCREEN experience to the Birmingham AV- teers
7 INCH CINEMA.
Expect a night of maudlin nostalgia and a-v revelry. Including one off performances from JUNEAU PROJECTS - MIKE IN MONO - MICHAEL VALENTINE WEST - GRANDMASTER GARETH - FILMFICCIONES YOUTUBE ODYSSEY - PRIME OBJECTIVE + DJ DOM - Plus lots of shorts, installations, birthday cake and barbeque…

PIXELPOPS Is an international film festival presenting works under one three minutes long, to be screened on Britains shortest air flight in Orkney this November / December.
Curated by ROBB MITCHELL Co host / cheif inflight engineer to the CHATEAU once longtime now gonetime hangout of JAYGO BLOOM and his PALS
Jaygo will present his ever popular TABLE PONG airborne at a northern isles airfield near you!



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NEWFUTURENOW has been invited to speak at the 'Projecting the Future' Conference, as part of the BFI 51st London Film Festival. This will be held at the BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE. Southbank. London. The conference is aimed at educators and new media specialists and will approach the subject of engaging communities with new technology.



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SURFBLOOM is traveling East
A three minute bluescreen constructed experience to be presented at this years Belgrade Summer Arts Festival as part of BELEF - Here and There is Over here.

And if Serbia isn't on your Summer hit list, then go ahead and check the movie out right here -






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Scotland Rocks - a one of event held in New York celebrating and showcasing new talent from the Scottish music and video art scene.
My latest videowork 'Mirroball' was one of the selected works being shown and you can see it here.

MIRRORBALL online



This piece was premiered as a 3 channel monitor installation at the Intermedia Gallery space. The Centre for Contemporary Arts. Glasgow and is a re-master of one of my all time favourite film scenes - A psychedelic post-apocalyptic explosion scene from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film 'Zabriskie Point'. For this re-edit I slowed down the selected footage and extracted the motion into its appropriate R.G.B. channels, an aesthetics reminiscent of the 1970's post processing video mixing board.
Further documentation available online HERE soon.

A hazardous journey across the mid andes in a 4x4 passing all the various para military check points without a hitch, we finally arrive at our second destination PIXELAZO MEDELLIN.
Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia



Here we are to present our work and perform in around the various Communas, as part of the cultural exchange network - PIXELAZO

Pixelazo is the new Colombian node in the Pixelache festival network. Organised by Intermundos.org and in collaboration with Pixelache Helsinki a festival of electronic and digital arts which we performed at during April 2005.

Pixelazo has developed and become informed by the need for dialogue, encounters and collaborations between Westernized Cultures and the more developing cultures of the world. Using art and technology as its mode for communication and discovery.

This cultural exchange can be seen in divide -

South * North
‘Developing countries’ * ‘Developed countries’
Traditional culture * Western culture
Marginalized communities * International creative networks
Natural/Organic * Digital/Synthetic
Lo-tech * High-tech
Slow * Quick

So far a great deal of Latin America has been left out from the Western media art events and through the Pixelache / Intermundos exchane program it is intended that both communities gain valuable experience from one another.



The goals of Pixelazo are:

* To make possible exchanges between artists from the Southern and Northern hemisphere.
* To introduce electronic art and culture to populations that have not had an opportunity to come into contact with these forms of expression. Ex.; marginalized communities; rural population; indigenous communities.
* To promote multidisciplinary collaborations through involvement of scientists, media professionals, philosophers, indigenous people, writers etc.
* To introduce alternative spaces for working with and showing electronic art.
* To share and multiply knowledge through conferences, round table discussions and theoretical or practical workshops.
* To generate encounters that foster creativity and plural and multidimensional thought.



The Pixelazo schedule includes workshops, conferences and public events, These have been concentrated in one of the marginal neighborhoods of Medellin (comuna 13). The goal, to introduce the local audience to electronic art and the idea of open communication tools and technologies, and through this process Intermundos will be able to locate the urban artists living in Medellin and who are already working with new medias and interested in developing this global network and cultural exchange practice with western artists.

Pixelazo will run monthly events throughout the next few months with a final program to be scheduled for July and to take place at the SELVATORIUM JUNGLE LABORATORY - Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia

Bogotrax 2007 in Bogotá, Colombia // ‘Laboratorio Urbano’ //

The Pointless Creations crew travel again. This time myself Dava Bernard and Dan Norton will be Presenting a series of workshops on DIY screen construction and midi triggers for live digital performance as well as an extensive live set performance schedule, creating visuals for some very big acts on the international electronic music circuit.

Bogotrax is an alternative, independant festival, which as the name laboratario urbano suggests, becomes a place for artisitic and social experimentation. Bogota becomes the meeting place where artists from different cultures come together. Producers, Deejays, Veejays, Free software creators, digital live performers, graffitti artists, programmers and musicians freely share the exchange of information between themselves and the public. All events and parties are free to attend and are presented within different parts of the city each night ensuring even the most remote of communities are reached. This year Bogotrax's fourth year, there is a real focus on the interchange and exchange between art and the society. A celebration of all the diverse types of cultural and subcultural appropriation. For this laboratory. the city, immersed in the continuous transformation that the technologies impose on society, is the point of beginning. The music and the arts bringing people together, enabling participants to traverse new ideas in a more global context.

As one of the Bogotrax founders explained to me - 'An urban laboratory is the way and the place in which we experience elements both of human and technological networks that escape any precise definition'.

Check out these photos from Bogotrax in Flickr and more info at Bogotrax website.
There is also a report from Bogotrax 2006 by Juhuu / Pixelache.

My latest games console videoworks have recently been presented in a
New Media Festival In Seoul

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One of the BUMP AV portals located within the F.City festival environment.

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PULSAR CARACAS 2006
October 1 - November 18, 2006

My latest gameworks are to be presented as part of the exhibition and screening program at 'PULSAR' an electronic arts festival held in Caracas. Venezuela.

They will be included as part of the « Animations contemporaines » screening to be held at The Chacao Cultural Centre


The event is supported by -
The French Embassy in Venezuela
The Alliance Française in Caracas
The German Embassy in Venezuela
The Spanish Emabssy in Venezuela
The Spanish Agency for international cooperation
The Goethe Institut in Caracas
The British Council in Caracas
The French-German fund for cultural cooperation
The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
Cultures France
Periférico Caracas

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Just back from a really productive session with Mark Daniels
Programs Manager for Folly Lancaster and Drew Hamment Director
of the Futuresonic Festival. Manchester. My Bump commission is
moving along really well, and I have now secured locations for the networked
modules within Music and Arts Venue Oklahoma, within the museum of Science
and Industry and within Futuresonics Headquarters at the Bamber
Art Space on Oldham Street. Folly has also negotiated a giant touchscreen window
display to present the work for public interaction, via digital communications group
pixel inspiration.
Now the context from which I am to present has been set in place, I am looking forward
to designing the online and onsite installation. Images to follow...

Back from an excellent gig in Bristol, performing as part of VJ collective Pointless Creations
Throughout the weekend VENN festival Set in the Stokes Croft quarter of Bristol but spilling into special venues throughout the city, featured bespoke line-ups, free events, processions, radio sessions, workshops, Digital performance and live art installation.

I also met with Teresa Dillon. Teresa is a Performance artist and Director for Polar Produce
Polar Produce are an Arts collective who use new technologies and digital media within live art performance. We spent a good day at the Venn Festival free picnic, discussing a new media collaboration involving traditional concepts from Butoh Dance, and a dynamic multi-camera system used to track the minute traces of movement within a performance.

Recently presented gameworks to IMPAKT festival. This is
hosted in Utrecht each year, it has a very good profile and
will build upon my connections within the Netherlands.
Lots of fun interesting people there making games inspired
works.

Pointless Creations on tour.The first one of 2006 took us into Croatia and
to a beautiful old town called Rijeka. Our part in the festivities was to create
an AV performance and interactive space within the carnivalparty streets.
The town had the most amazing perspex domed phone booths, and I was
quick to appropriate this into a diy interactive video booth station from which I
operated my computer.



Croatia has an amazing culture the people have had quite a history to deal with
but most recently everything is on the up and everybody we met were happy and
accomodating. As is so often the case when we travel to such countries and feel the
warmth and genuine hospitality of such a nation,
I return from these trips always with mixed feelings as to our situation in the UK.
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Big show extravaganza with fire works, a seven foot gorilla and stretch limosines.
Situated right outside of the futuristic Glasgow science centre building.
'Govanwood' was a celebratory night of community film screenings. As part
of the Glasgow based AV team pointless creations I created a huge blue screen
out of a hired Luton van for realtime composition and manipulation.