production update 2012

PRODUCTION UPDATE 2012

// The outline of an identity : Jeff Instone is now aged 71 ; this list is in REVERSE chronological order

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var DigitalMediaWorkOne 2012—2007

(With NinaZammit-Zorn And ZX191724B) = new makeArray(4)

      DigitalMediaWorkOne[0] = “2009 Publication of ‘Intercourse’ in ‘/seconds issue 11’ September/2009 online magazine UK

www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/003/articles/nzzorn/index.php”

      DigitalMediaWorkOne[1] = “2008 Publication of ‘Cat Mat Sat’ in ‘/seconds issue 9’ Oct/2008 online magazine UK

www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/001/articles/nzammitzorn/index.php”

      DigitalMediaWorkOne[2] = “2008 Publication of ‘Cat on Spec’ Fall/Winter 2008/9 edition of Specs Journal Rollins College Florida USA Inclusion of JavaScript version on 2008 online edition

      DigitalMediaWorkOne[3] = “2007 Award for screen-shots from ‘Net-curtain Nazism in Middle England’ publ. Mute / Culture and politics after the net Vol 2 #6 ‘Living in a Bubble: Credit debt and crisis’”

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var DigitalMediaWorkTwo 2007—2000 = new makeArray(7)

      DigitalMediaWorkTwo[0] = “ON UNREALIZED INTERCOURSE WITH AN INTELLIGENT BUILDING

(work in progress) in part-time residence at pva Labculture from 2004 working on the development of screen installations which use Mac OSX AppleScript to activate applications and automate machine to machine instruction across a network”

      DigitalMediaWorkTwo[1] = “IN THE IMPERFECT PRESENT : IN THE FUTURE PERFECT Development funded by Arts Council England South East”

      DigitalMediaWorkTwo[2] = “VIEW (THE SOCIAL FIELD) JavaScript (unshown)”

      DigitalMediaWorkTwo[3] = “TEXTLAB trAce Online Writing Centre Nottingham Trent University”

      DigitalMediaWorkTwo[4] = “AT ED INSTONE’S AUTOS JavaScript search-engine Commissioned for Burning Bush 2 University of Dundee”

      DigitalMediaWorkTwo[5] = “LABCULTURE 2 BURSARY

pva MediaLab Project at Lighthouse Brighton”

      DigitalMediaWorkTwo[6] = “QUOI DE NEUF PUSSYCAT? JavaScript search-engine Artist in residence at CAMAC France”

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var DigitalMediaWorkThree 2000—1992 = new makeArray(8)

      DigitalMediaWorkThree[0] = “SO SPOKE THE RUSKIN MASTER JavaScript Internet work As EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTIST IN RESIDENCE EXCHANGE (EMARE) The Werkleitz Gesellschaft Germany www.werkleitz.de”

      DigitalMediaWorkThree[1] = “NEVER HEARD OF THAT HANDLER SuperCard standalone for MacOS

Bursary to use facilities made available by Loughborough University of Technology”

      DigitalMediaWorkThree[2] = “MICRONET EXPURGATOR 1 JavaScript Internet work Commission from var e-zine Cambridge”

      DigitalMediaWorkThree[3] = “THE WORD BEYOND SPEECH II : KISS THE BONY STRUCTURE Internet commission with Julian Weaver from Camerawork London launched at Transmediale 97 Berlin and Ostranenie 97 Electronic Media Forum Bauhaus Dessau now archived at www.bak.spc.org/instone and also www.hypo.io/index.php?twbsii”

     DigitalMediaWorkThree[4] = “THE WORD BEYOND SPEECH I SuperCard standalone for MacOS Idea and construction

Jeff Instone sound files Julian Weaver limited edition CD-ROM launched VIDEOFEST 8 Berlin”

     DigitalMediaWorkThree[5] = “APARTHEID STAINED US FOREVER. CD-ROM publ. Electronic Arts component of Freedom in our Lifetime Commissioned by ANC / YO!SA designed at mindBath Interactive London”

     DigitalMediaWorkThree[6] = “QUO VADIS JOE SIXPACK? SuperCard standalone for MacOS”

     DigitalMediaWorkThree[7] = “FOREVER AMBER AT ZEBRA CROSSING Re-formed printer text publ. by Jeff Instone Publications”

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var PreDigitalMediaWork 1987—1974 = new makeArray(9)

      PreDigitalMediaWork[0] = “ECHOES : MATT'S GALLERY London latex stencil text paintings” 

      PreDigitalMediaWork[0] = “TRANSFERS : AIR GALLERY London plaster cast text collages”

      PreDigitalMediaWork[1] = “CASTS : MATT'S GALLERY London plaster cast radio transcripts”

      PreDigitalMediaWork[2] = “SCRIPTS : GALERIA AKUMULATORY 2 Poznan written drawings”

      PreDigitalMediaWork[3] = “479,970 NUMBERS ON

A TILED FLOOR : RIVERSIDE STUDIOS London written drawing”

      PreDigitalMediaWork[4] = “69,000 WORDS ON

A BRICK WALL : MATT'S GALLERY London written drawing and publication of ‘Scripts’”

      PreDigitalMediaWork[5] = “CRATYLUS : SAO PAOLO BIENNAL British Council exhibition”

      PreDigitalMediaWork[6] = “SCRIPTS : GALERIA AKUMULATORY 2 Poznan written drawings”

      PreDigitalMediaWork[7] = “THE TERRE VERTE VENUS PROBE : SERPENTINE GALLERY London written paintings extracts published in Bananas Literary Magazine Decipherment Issue”

      PreDigitalMediaWork[8] = “WORDPRINTS : GALERI GRAFIKHUSET Stockholm screen prints”

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var BackGroundOne = new makeArray(4)

      BackGroundOne[0] = “COLLECTIONS The British Council 1979 www.collection.British council.org Neuer Berliner Kunstverein www.nbk.org CD-ROM open digital archive 1998”

      BackGroundOne[1] = “AWARDS The British Council,

Greater London Arts, GLA Publication Fund, The Elephant Trust, Southern Arts International Initiatives Fund, Southern Arts Development Fund, Arts Council England Awards to Individuals Scheme”

      BackGroundOne[2] = “PUBLICATIONS Jeff Instone has written articles and reviews on John Blake, Peter Kennard, Jaroslaw Koslowski, John Murphy, Avis Newman, Cy Twombly and Richard  Wilson (published in Art Monthly  Artscribe International  CV Journal of the Arts)”

      BackGroundOne[3] = “EDUCATION St Martins College of Art & Design 1990-1992 (part-time) PGDip Computer Aided Graphic Design, Institute of Education London University 1963-1964 (full-time) Art Teachers Certification, Winchester School of Art 1959-1963 (full-time) National Diploma in Design (Painting), Intermediate Certificate in Art and Design”

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var BackGroundTwo = new makeArray(1)

      BackGroundTwo[0] = “BACKGROUND b.1941 The above list sets out in reverse chronological order details of works made and shown from the mid 1970s to those now in progress, although in fact production began some 10 years earlier during the mid 1960s following a conventional post-war British and colonial state schooling, prescribed by the selective procedures of the time, followed by study at a regional vocational art and design school, providing an intellectually lack-lustre though technically absorbing skill based design education, one tending to view ‘experiment’ with some alarm until an abrupt volte-face in the regulation of art and design teaching led to a more innovative system, which confusedly, in the context of the early 1960s, appeared to look to the Bauhaus and 1930s Modernism for its inspiration; followed by a working life based in London with brief excursions on mainland Europe; particularly to Poland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and brief periods as artist in residence in Germany in the late 1990s and France in 2001”

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var Contact = new makeArray(1)

      Contact[0] = “interruptusinstone@gmail.com, tel +44 (0)238 061 4665, mobile +44 (0)787 563 7761, skype: interruptusinstone, @ZX191724B”

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proposal update 2012

PROPOSAL UPDATE 2012

// I  work to prepared scripts allowing prominence to system and process

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var ProposalOne = new makeArray(5)

      ProposalOne [0] = “To write a serial of process conscious

applications in AppleScript and Xcode to run across a network”

      ProposalOne [1] = “…Using as a starting point the script-editing

and compilation possibilities existing within Mac OSX”

      ProposalOne [2] = “(a) AppleScript”

      ProposalOne [3] = “(b) Developer (Xcode, Interface Builder)”

      ProposalOne [4] = “(c) Terminal (the Unix component of 

Mac OSX)”

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var ProposalTwo = new makeArray(3)

      ProposalTwo[0] = “To build an online textwork…”

      ProposalTwo[1] = “Using JavaScript to make use

of timed frame loading…”

      ProposalTwo[2] = “And the random selection of items

from prescribed source lists”

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var ProposalThree = new makeArray(1)

      ProposalThree[0] = “To install server software to examine 

the feasibility of individual artists setting up personal servers”

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var Context = new makeArray(3)

      Context[0] = “Work is the systematic organization of material, medium and time ; with some ‘random’ items placed within

the frame, in distant homage to Umberto Eco’s notion

of ‘cogito interruptus’” 

      Context[1] = “And should embody the desire of the bourgeois artworker ‘To find a way of routinizing even bureaucratizing

the exercise of the imagination’…” 

      Context[2] = “A quotation taken out of context as all quotations should be, from the concluding recommendations of the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ; The 9/11 Commission Report”

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var ArtOfTheMatter = new makeArray(3)

      ArtOfTheMatter[0] = “The ART of such a work lies in the fact that it is at base common-place operations set to order : 

the manipulation of the minimum achieving control

of the maximum”

      ArtOfTheMatter[1] = “If IDEAS are no more than a set

of operations then the first value of the work lies in being made then unmade in real time on a screen or a number of screens

or otherwise projected…”

     ArtOfTheMatter[2] = “The MACHINE represented as a succession of tasks and the STORY as a serial of un-folding

often unrelated actions”

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var MissionaryPositionA = new makeArray(4)

      MissionaryPositionA[0] = “To demonstrate the practice

of cogito interruptus as…”

      MissionaryPositionA[1] = “the routines and subroutines

of system events—as the message of the medium which builds itself only to deconstruct as a matter of course during the course of the work—using alphanumeric signage as the record

of the process of the work (in Ogden's Basic English or PNG Pidgin English)”

      MissionaryPositionA[2] = “To insert random reference matter into the events of the system to provide a layer of content irrelevant to the work as a whole”

      MissionaryPositionA[3] = “To insert polemic and cod-polemic references into the events of the system to provide a layer

of content as irrelevant to the work as the random inserts

referred to above but appearing to be of greater value owing

to the more serious nature of the references”

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var MissionaryPositionB—AndNotTo = new makeArray(4)

      MissionaryPositionB—AndNotTo[0] = “Record

moving imagery ; a partial narrative of negligible events”

      MissionaryPositionB—AndNotTo[1] = “Record and arrange photographic imagery ; a partial view of a negligible event”

      MissionaryPositionB—AndNotTo[2] = “Record music ;

a banal interruption of silence”

      MissionaryPositionB—AndNotTo[3] = “Celebrate

the conceit of individualism”

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// Jeff Instone 2012