bocs

After our constructive weekly meeting (in the pub) our very own David Bailey, Huw Erddyn stormed the bastille of the Jones family home to create the bocs’ very own blow-up featuring the photogenic Sally and the not-so-photogenic Rhys. To hide his hideous appearance, Rhys decided to dazzle the audience with his barrage of electronic junk and miscellaneous instruments.

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Bocs presents the inaugural exhibition of members work. Opening Friday 6th March at 7pm, this exhibition kicks off the start of Caernarfon on Fire celebrating the Celtic Media Festival here in Caernarfon during 25th, 26th & 27th March 2009 on its 30th anniversary.

To welcome our Celtic brothers and sisters ( there will be 350 delegates & 100 students attending) Caernarfon has arranged a special evening of activities, called ‘Caernarfon On Fire’ on the Castle Square on Thursday 26th March 2009.

The evening will be begin at 6pm (till 8pm) in Oriel Dafydd Hardy with an Exhibition & Musical Happening by bocs members.

The members’ exhibition will actually have two celebrations – first, before the Celtic Media Festival arrives there will be a Private Viewing on March 6th 7-9pm, then the Musical Happening on Thursday 26th between 6-8pm

bocs is also organising a Clic Caernarfon -Photographic Exploration. This competition is open to members of the public and to school and college students. Here’s how it works:

1) Find some Friends! - Grab your mates and form a team of up to 4 people.
2) Turn up! - Come along -with your own camera or cameraphone- to Oriel
Dafydd Hardy, Castle Square, 10am 26th March 2009 for an informal talk and pick up a list of themes.
3) Explore! - Explore Caernarfon. Take photographs. have fun. Then upload your work by 6pm or hand in a CD to Oriel Dafydd Hardy by 5pm.
4) Win & Watch! - See our choice of your best work on the amazing 80 seater Screen Machine on the Maes on Friday 27th March 2009.

This is a unique opportunity for local young people to become personally involved this exciting event in our town - through using their talent & imagination to show Caernarfon from a different angle - then showing their work on the Screen Machine on the Maes.

This looks like an interesting opportunity for any new and emerging artists interested in developing work with a technological bent.  Rhizome, are opening up their doors for submissions to their 2010 grants.  The name suggests that they are an underground, wide-spreading network with far-reaching nodes, of uhm, of artists….

Image : Entropy ≥ Memory . Creativity ² by jef safi

Anyway, in their own words:

Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology… We support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Our organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture.

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