(above: flyer for Obtech designed by Hal Camplin)
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Obtech: art made with obsolete technology
Here Gallery celebrated the sometimes cumbersome forms of old tech in conjunction with the Venn, a festival of alternative music makers and performers.
Part installation, part pictures and film and part performance.
The show opened on the third of June 2006 sometime after midday with a performance involving a 70s style modular synth, reel to reel recording and deconstructed Victorian music boxes. This all thanks to Tom (Knowledge of Bugs), Dave Hopkinson and Mike Tanner.
Beyond this, an Aladdin’s cave appeared taking in:
a film made from 16mm optical printers, cassette sculptures, a merry go round animator, a snachet of drawing + paintings of
cordless robots and cordless humans, a postal switch box, a score for a typewriter duet, sewing machine, music box and reel to reel installations, simulations of spectrum style computer games and interactive algorithmic visual displays, analogue photoshop, super 8 loops a sort of homage to the pc/tv screen forming the bulk of the installation
With plenty of things for people to play with, such as:
an installation of old Singer sewing machines,postal switch box and bugbrand effects boxes made form reconstituted electronics
If anything, this show might remind us of the alarming rate at which technology is superceded but also at how irresistible it still is to artists.
Other contributors, international and local include:
contributors: Tom Bugs, Dave Hopkinson, gHOSTboy, Pete Hunter, Simon Daly, Ray Brooks, Joe Twocsinak, Nick Dewer, Ellen VanEngelen, Naomi Kashinagi, Camilla Stacey, Hal Camplin + Kelly Williams, Davy Smith, Micaela O’Herlihy, Ellen Van Engelen, Mike Tanner, Dave Oram + Sarah Doyle
We only wish there were more documentary photos.
