The video above is a short test, using screen captures from Google Mars. I really like the intricacies of the jpegy compression and the bizarrely coloured artefacts that appear in the noise. Not sure where to go from here, I think I need to apply some kind of logic rather than just an intuitive scanning around and capturing. I really want to avoid Koyaanisqatsi-esque nonsense, maybe I would be better off using something else as a source, or finding some method to organise the images. I quite like the idea of collecting thousands of images and which could then be compared to frequency graphs of audio (maybe Mars from the Holst’s Planets) but then sonograms are very dull to watch and are in many ways an arbitrary representation of sound. Or if there was some way to compare to other images, find the images that are the closest approximation of the video for Pump Up the Volume. Hmmm…

Above, scratched acetate slides.
Below, a ghetto light box made from a cardboard tube, a strip light, holes, tape and a piece of tracing paper.

I’ve finally bought a camera so I can take pictures of the things I’ve been making over the past few months.  So I’ve added a page for Books and Multiples, which will house all the little zines, books and screen prints I’ve been doing.

Using bitmap graphics instead of pen and ink these are trying to follow the same procedures as in the previous post. But with the additional ability to stop, delete bits, reconnect lines and reform shapes and set off on a new trajectory.

Maybe I should brave the cold and go to my studio at 4am or, more sensibly, just go to sleep and stop pissing around with Graphics Gale but I quite like them.

Construct.

A small preview of the second in the little series of zines I’ve been making called Anti-Narrative Comics. In a completely different style to the previous one. This is a series of very quick pencil sketches playing with types of mark making in a far looser way than the previous one. I’m still unsure of the final printed product (if it will be printed at all, it might just be a PDF).  The style is either a bit of a homage to Cy Twombly or plagiarised from him depending on your outlook.

The video above is just some images from my travels during the residency cut to the sound of me playing the beaten-up 5 stringed guitar that was in the residency accommodation.

I have a group show opening on the 9th of December at KINOKINO showing work from the Sandnes AiR scheme. I am showing my work Isostasy for the first time.

Some Norwegian publicity for you to decipher:

“Gjesteatelierordninger er i vinden som aldri før. Den 9. desember åpner KINOKINO Senter for kunst og film en utstilling med arbeider av fire av kunstnerne som har gjestet Artist in Residence Sandnes i 2008 og 2009. De har alle kommer fra USA, England, Tyskland og Korea til Sandnes.

Kunstnerne er:

Kevin H Jones (US)
Pete McPartlan (UK)
Per Olaf Schmidt (DE)
Hoyun Son (KR/USA)”

(above) the layout for Anti-Narrative Comic #1

I’m currently starting a residency as part of the Artists’ Access to Art-schools (AA2A) scheme at Nottingham Trent alongside three other artists: Ruth Scott, Priya Mistry and Georgina Parks. I’ve been catching up on technical things that I never learned at Uni the first time I was there -  So I’ve been doing some print making, making screens etc. I’m trying to find ways to make quick turn around publications and artist’s books, to get things out of my sketchbooks and into the real world… I will be adding a publications section to my site very soon.

It’s early days but it looks like it is going to be a really useful and fun experience, as the staff seem keen to make more of it than the minimum requirement of allowing us to use the equipment.

Collectif Jeune Cinema are screening my film Color Phase Adjustments at the 11ème Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris on Wednesday the 9th December in their Textures argentiques / Matières numériques:Expériences paranormales screening.

Essaying Essays: An Assembling #1is now available for free PDF download at www.scribd.com/ESSAYINGESSAYS

featuring experiments in essaying from:

David Berridge; Rachel Lois Clapham; Emma Cocker; Alex Eisenberg; Fiona Fullam; Alex Hardy; Éilis Kirby; Jenny Lawson; Patricia Lyons; Pete McPartian; John Pinder.

Assembled by David Berridge as part of ESSAYING ESSAYS: A TEMPORARY COLLECTIVE OF READERS, one of seven projects by the FREE PRESS collective exploring economies of ideas and alternative modes of dissemination and exchange.

Proposals, provocations, projects, scores and ________ for the always to be emerging, shifting constellation(s) of future ASSEMBLING’s are welcome, inparticular proposals which come with their own form and method of distribution.

Contact David Berridge on essayingessays@gmail.com