LUX UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK Thursday 3 - Wednesday 9 July 2008

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS THIS WEEK

1. Friday 4 July How to Talk to Images, Richard Wright. HTTP Gallery,  
London

2. Monday 7 July Nought to Sixty: Redmond Entwistle Screening. ICA,  
London

3. Wednesday 9 July Archivos OVNI - Programme 3. LUX 28, London

4. Wednesday 9 July Aura Satz’s Automamusic. Artprojx Space, London






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1.
Friday 4 July 6pm
How to Talk to Images, Richard Wright
HTTP Gallery, 71 Ashfield Road, London N4 1LD
Preview: Friday 4th July 6-9pm Exhibition open: 4th July - 3rd August  
2008 Fri-Sun 12noon-5pm

No one is sure how many images there are on the Internet. Google has  
nearly a billion. Some say it is hundreds of times more than that.  
For "How to Talk to Images", Richard Wright has compiled a database  
of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks.  
"The Internet Speaks" and "The Mimeticon" use this database to create  
a world where we can “read” pictures, browse “libraries” of  
endless images or learn to draw with alphabets.

In this era, finding our way through the world of images is so  
overwhelming, that the dominant mode is to “search” rather than  
to “see”. An image is an answer to a question, a search query. The  
Internet Speaks gives us one of the simplest imaginable ways of  
searching this set of images, stepping through them, one by one in  
random order, without context. In contrast, The Mimeticon is a  
wilfully complex and ‘baroque’ search engine that allows us to  
search for images by visual similarity rather than by typing in  
keywords. These 'search images' are 'drawn' using letters from the  
history of the alphabet.

As part of How to Talk to Images, Richard Wright’s first solo  
exhibition in London, a selection of Wright’s animated films  
demonstrates the development of his current interest in the Baroque.  
The exhibition is also the occasion of publication of a limited- 
edition poster featuring an essay by the artist illustrated by the  
entire visual history of the Western alphabet – from its pictorial  
Egyptian origins 5,000 years ago to its perfected form under the  
Romans, as well as a new book documenting the artists twenty year  
long practice.

Richard Wright has been making digital animation and interactive  
pieces since the eighties. Heliocentrum, an animation about Louis  
XIV, was described by writer Hari Kunzru as “…an amazingly  
effective way of showing how a sovereign manipulated power” and The  
Bank of Time was nominated for a BAFTA in 2001. Richard was most  
recently a member of artists group Mongrel and is currently working  
on an urban media project called “decorative surveillance”. Since  
summer 2007 he has been Artist in Residence at Furtherfield.org.

Opening Reception
Your chance to meet Richard Wright, to enjoy a few drinks and  
conversations about the exhibition.

www.http.uk.net





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2.
Monday 7 July
Nought to Sixty: Redmond Entwistle Screening
ICA, The Mall, Cinema 1, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

Monday 7 July, 8.45pm
ICA, The Mall, Cinema 1
This event is free but booking is required: 020 7930 3614

The works of Redmond Entwistle employ documentary and abstract modes  
of filmmaking, often investigating histories of social displacement.  
For Nought to Sixty the artist is screening Skein, a work made in New  
Jersey that draws on testimonies of migration. The screening will  
incorporate live aspects within the ICA cinema that further pursue  
Entwistle’s interests in the use of the physical space of the  
auditorium.

www.ica.org.uk/




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3.
Wednesday 9 July
LUX 28: Archivos OVNI - Programme 3
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ
Open Wednesday - Saturday 12-6. admission free

Weekly Screening Programme 9th - 12th July
PROGRAMA 3.

El Batalett – Femmes de la Medina
Morocco / France, 2002, 60′
Dalila Ennadre
We follow the director’s camera into the kitchens and living rooms  
of a community of Moroccan women. inside the walls of their apartment  
in Casablanca’s old Medina, the women cook, clean, take care of  
their families and help each other. With their hands in the dough, in  
the soap whilst washing the laundry, doing the house chores, in the  
market or at the hammam, between laughter and tears (”We are  
housewives, that’s all. … Our sport? House cleaning!”). These  
courageous women, proud of their role, talk about their miserable  
lives (?) with a great sense of awareness, but without self-pity.  
They show a surprising vitality, curiosity for life and solidarity.  
These house-proud housewives may not all know how to read, but they  
know exactly what would improve their lives: equal rights for women  
and men, more money, and a better future for their children so they  
wouldn’t have to emigrate to support the family. A sense of hope and  
the possibility of change radiate out of the everyday lives of these  
heroines (”batalett”).

Archivos OVNI (Observatorio de Video No Identificado) is an  
independent artists' video archive project based at the Centre for  
Contemporary Art in Barcelona. Founded in 1993, it aims to encourage  
a critique of contemporary culture and society through the collecting  
and dissemination of a wide range of independent media works,  
particularly from  Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.  
Alongside its geographical breadth, what makes the archive unique is  
its disregard for conventional categories: it incorporates  video  
art, independent documentary and mass media archaeology, on the  
principle that a commitment to freedom of expression is the most  
important common denominator.

Archivos OVNI presents the project for the first time in London with  
a specially curated selection of works presented at LUX 28 in the  
form of a video library and weekly screening programme. The selection  
particularly focuses on questions of exodus and resistance, two  
principal themes within the archive, and the tensions that draw a  
line from subjective experience to specific social and political  
realities.

www.lux28.org.uk




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4.
Wednesday 9 July 6pm
Aura Satz’s Automamusic
Artprojx Space, 53 Beauchamp Place ,London SW3 1NY
Preview 9 JULY 6-9pm Exhibition: 10 July - 16 Aug 2008 Open Mon-Sat  
11am-6pm or by appointment

Aura Satz’s ‘Automamusic’ project has at its core a film about  
mechanical music. Intricate views of self-playing violins,  
accordions, drums, pianolas, and orchestrions are offset by scenes in  
which floating musical instruments are played by invisible hands. The  
film highlights the similarities between the beginnings of musical  
reproduction in the 19th century and spiritualist invocations of the  
dead through sound. ‘Automamusic’ breathes the ghost back into the  
machine, inhabiting the figurative space between sound and source,  
when music had not yet become abstracted into the grooves of the  
gramophone record. In addition to the series of hand-printed  
cibachrome photographs which recall spiritualist photography, the  
exhibition includes drawings inspired by early patents for mechanical  
or hybrid musical instruments.

The film ‘Automamusic’ was developed with support from Film and  
Video Umbrella, funded by Arts Council England and Artsadmin, with  
kind assistance Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network and a  
special thanks to the Museum of Music Automatons, Seewen, Switzerland.

Weds 16 July 6.30-8.30pm
Andrew Renton (art critic/curator and Director of the Curatorial  
Programme, Goldsmiths University) in conversation with Aura Satz on  
the withdrawal of authorship in relation to sound, sound technology  
and sound art, with live mechanical music performance by Aura Satz.  
RSVP required to info at artprojxspace.com

Aura Satz’s solo sound installation  
‘GLISSOLALIA’ (Beaconsfield’s third annual Soundtrap commission)  
is showing at Beaconsfield Gallery until the 20th July.  
www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk

Automamusic at Artprojx Space has been extended to Saturday 15  
August. The Gallery is open normal times and days through July and by  
appointment throughout August.

www.artprojxspace.com

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