electric angel remixed
feeling all arty today after yesterday’s creative coast brainstorming session. we came up with ideas to go forward to the creative driver partnership and hopefully then to the sub regional investment plan. if that sounds rather dull the ideas certainly weren’t – i was especially excited by ideas for a purpose-built creative hub for the town featuring studios, multipurpose exhibition/performance space and cafe-bar that would have both a daytime and nighttime life, possibly on the harbourside. it was also telling that visual arts was considered vital to having a stimulating place to live – it wasn’t just the artists saying that.
it was fun to spend a couple of hours throwing around ideas with fellow creatives, the only disapointment being that more people didn’t come and take advantage of the opportunity. i tend to think what’s happening right now in scarborough is the best opportunity the creative community will ever have – they’ve often quite rightly moaned and now finally have some genuine opportunities to transform the area with culture. sure, it may not happen overnight but ears, doors and crucially, wallets are open right now. what a pity that many of the moaners are now nowhere to be found. perhaps they just wanted to moan?
so onto to artiness. the image above is this website remixed by shredder – a piece of new media art from the late 90′s that remixes websites. it acts a little differently each time you use it, this was my favourite image it created. although it’s fairly random i think there’s a certain typographic beauty to it, reminds of the sort of graphic design that was so influential at about the same time – especially the work of david carson.
and if you fancy owning art by gilbert & george you only have until 11.30 tonight to download it: planed
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