bocs

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]

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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Article in the Caernarfon and Denbighshire Herald on December 4, 2008 about bocs and the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition :

YOUNG artists received their perfect Christmas present this week.

For the latest exhibition at Oriel Dafydd Hardy, in Caernarfon, members of bocs, a co-operative of young local artists, drew up a wish list of art they would like to see on display.

The work ranges from artists they have studied alongside, lecturers who taught them, people whose work they have admired or even read about.

The collection opens on Saturday and will run until January 9.

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Visually, Naomi’s work appeals to me due to its use of multiples and repetition. I am also drawn to her choice of materials, such as cardboard, and use of bright colours. Naomi often incorporates recognizable objects and images which, when altered in some way, can result in a shift in meaning.

Ideas and methods of collecting and ordering are apparent in the work, almost like a visual taxonomy, attesting Naomi’s efforts to find ’something permanent’ and ‘absorb’ her surroundings. Her work is sharp and witty, often with a dark humour, combining references from anthropology and history with (those from) popular culture and the kitsch.

I find her work exciting and look forward to see where it may take her in the future.

Naomi Lethbridge is Siân Green’s choice for the christmas bocs nadolig exhibition.