Event overview
A walk through the wikileaks Afghan War Diaries by NGRAM analyses. The talk will be contextualised by showing segments of the Artwork, Endless War by YoHa and Matthew Fuller which was begun 2012 for Void Gallery Derry.
The Thursday Club Presents on Thursday 28th March 2013 at the Centre for Creative Collaboration
at 6pm for 6.15pm start
Centre for Creative Collaboration, 6 Acton Street London Greater London WC1X 9NG just down the road from King's Cross Station. Nearest tube is King's Cross.
Buses 17, 45 & 46 drop off on Gray's Inn Road near the end of Acton St.
6pm for a 6.15pm start
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GRAHAM HARWOOD
Title - Endless War, a work in progress.
A walk through the wikileaks Afghan War Diaries by NGRAM analyses.
The talk will be contextualised by showing segments of the Artwork, Endless War by YoHa and Matthew Fuller which was begun 2012 for Void Gallery Derry.
useful links:
http://Yoha.co.uk/cfc
http://yoha.co.uk/database_documentary
http://yoha.co.uk/invisible
Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji (YoHa English translation
'aftermath') have lived and worked together since 1994
YoHa's graphic vision, technical tinkering, has powered several celebrated collaborations establishing an international reputation for pioneering arts projects, including the first on-line commission from the Tate Gallery London and work in the permanent collections of the Pompidou Centre Paris and the Centre for Media Arts in Karlsruhe (ZKM), Manifesta07 (Balzarno,Italy).
Harwood and Yokokoji's co founded the artists group Mongrel (1996-2007)
- an artists group working in a fusion of art, electronic media and street culture, they tried to reach beyond the hierarchies of power and knowledge involving those normally excluded from the main stream. In 2005 they went on to establish the Mediashed a free-media lab in Southend-on-sea which reached international fame through it's film Duallists shown at over 30 film festivals around the world.
In 2008 they joined, Richard Wright to produce Telephone Trottoire’, a Congolese telephony project in collaboration with the London radio programme Nostalgie Ya Mboka. The project collected and told stories about the Coltan wars in Central africa that has led to 4.5 million peoples deaths. This was twined with Tantalum Memorial, a telephony installation built out of old strowger switches animated by the live telephone activity of ‘Telephone Trottoire’. Tantalum Memorial went on to win the Transmediale first prize for 2009. Tantalum Memorial also featured at (ZeroOne Biennial San Jose - USA, Manifesta07 Bolzano, Italy, Science Museum London, Ars Electronica, Plugin Switzerland, Laboral Spain, Eyebeam New York, Arnolfini and many other UK venues)
Continuing to articulate the relations between Power, Art and Media,YoHa produced Coal Fired Computers in 2010 with Jean Demars for AV Festival and the Discovery Museum in which a one-hundred year old, 35-ton showman's steam engine powerd a computer with 1.5 tons of coal. Black lungs inflated every time a database record of miners' lung disease was shown on computer monitors. The work responded to the displacement of coal production to distant lands like India and China after the UK miners' strike in 1984/85 and the complexities of our reliance on fossil fuel and especially on how coal transforms our health as we have transformed it.
In 2011 YoHa produced Invisible Airs, Database Expenditure, Power with Bristol Council and the Pervasive Media center exploring the emerging field of open data.
"Power, Governance and Data has been conducting a naked love dance on this island since before the Doomsday book, it's rhythms have quickened of late, multiplied and become amplified through database machines. New abstractions that order and compare the world are spawning new technologies of power out of the orgiastic revelry of a bookkeeping gone mad" YoHa YoHa's investigation of Open Data took place in and around the city producing a number of pneumatic contraptions that experimenting with the Bristol Councils expenditure data over 500 pounds. Invisible Airs culminated in May with a pneumatic soirée held in the council chamber room with the Lord Mayor taking up the reigns of or expenditure riding machine.
YoHa current activity involves, Goldsmiths, University of London research initiative into potential uses of National Health Service datasets for collaborative art project that reflect on wellbeing.
Graham Harwood is the convener of the MA Interactive Media at the
Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
All welcome
Refreshments provided
This is the last Thursday Club for this session.
Easter Greetings
See you in May.
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Dates & times
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28 Mar 2013 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
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