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Happy new year, everyone!

We have some good news… We have two interesting new freelance jobs to help get the new place up and running.

One deals with the day to day activities of our arts centre and gallery - The Arts Centre Co-ordinator.

The other, will help us to carry out our community / public art events - The Community Arts Co-ordinator.

This is an exciting opportunity to get stuck in at the start of something sensational.

Yup, those lovely people at Google have done it again.  Art lovers the world over can now stroll through and view The Prado collection online or rather, “14 of the most important works in the museum” including masterpieces by Bosch, Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt.

The Prado in Google splash page gives you the option of viewing it in Google Earth, or in Google Maps. (You will need to click “Save to my maps”)  These will let you view the pieces in ultra high resolution, meaning that you get to zoom right in and see all the fine details, bringing you far closer than it would be possible with the originals.  Some of the pieces are 3 metres high and art galleries are not in the habit of providing ladders.

Here’s the “making-of” video.

Of course, it won’t be anything like seeing the pieces in person, but it’s the next best thing short of buying yourself a plane ticket to Madrid.

[via guardian.co.uk]

Finally!

Although this was certainly not our first exhibition, this was the first one where we collated work from bocs members.

Hugh Edwin Jones, (Creative Enterprises Officer from Gwynedd Council) was kind enough to open the show for us with some inspirational words.

We had a strong show, curated by bocs member Sevan Garo Nigogosian, that exemplifies the diversity of styles, talents and interests of some of bocs’ members:

• Iestyn Owen
  Achlysuron Hapus/Happy Occurrences, 2009 - £110
  Digwyddiad Od/Strange Happenings, 2009 - £110
• Sevan Garo Nigogosian
  Ionawr tan chwefror / January till February - £800
  Dal mewn haniaeth 1 / Caught up in abstract 1 - £900
  Dal mewn haniaeth 2 / Caught up in abstract 2 - £900
• Meirion Ginsberg
  Dol 1 - £1250
  Dol 2 - £1250
  Smyg - £1400
  O.D - £1400
• Charles Yorke
  Di-deitl 1/Untitled 1 - £60
  Di-deitl 2/Untitled 2 - £60
  Di-deitl 3/Untitled 3 - £50
• Gethin Wavell
  Pen 1/Head 1 - £100
  Pen 2/Head 2 - £75
  Pen 3/Head 3 - £50
  Chwadan/Duck - £75
• Huw Erddyn
  O’r Antelope i’r Anglesey 1/From the Antelope to the Anglesey 1 - £200
  O’r Antelope i’r Anglesey 2/From the Antelope to the Anglesey2 - £200
  O’r Antelope i’r Anglesey 3/From the Antelope to the Anglesey3 - £200
  O’r Antelope i’r Anglesey 4/From the Antelope to the Anglesey4 - £200
• James Toms
  Di-deitl 1/Untitled 1 - £200
  Di-deitl 2/Untitled 2 - £200

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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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Wow, we’ve finally launched, and the christmas bocs nadolig private view went well, if a little bit hectic at the last moment….

We had a really strong show with work by some really interesting artists, all chosen by members of bocs.

Exhibiting Artists

• Alexis Snell, chosen by Charlie Yorke
• Catherine Howell, chosen by James Toms
• Dyfrig Peris, chosen by Iestyn Owen
• Elgan Jones, chosen by Huw Erddyn
• Mick Brown, chosen by Gethin Wavell Lloyd Jones
• Naomi Lethbridge, chosen by Siân Green
• Paul Johnson, chosen by Yvonne Tsang
• Poked Studio, chosen by Sally Kwong
• Robert Pepperell, chosen by Meirion Alan Ginsberg
• Rosie Seymore, chosen by Sevan Garo Nigogosian
• Simeon Coxe, chosen by Rhys Lloyd Jones
• Stephen John Owen, chosen by Dafydd Hardy

We even had a couple of pieces produced by bocs members and of course, we also had our bocs boxes. This is the Super Secret Souvenir I mentioned earlier, over 100 miniature bocs boxes that have been customised by one of our members, our Christmas gift for you to take away.

Bedwyr Williams was kind enough to open the exhibition for us with an inspiring speech, whilst Ioan Thomas launched our bocs co-operative with a pop of the champagne cork.

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