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‘We are delighted to have installed Evan Roth’s ‘Red lines’ project here in the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, where it will be exhibited until the end of June 2019. We have, since our inception, set out to embrace international perspectives and have gone about this by facilitating conversations between the local and a multitude of locals around the world. Through his exploration of the internet’s landscape, Evan’s project brings to the fore the significance of networks at t...his time of growing fractures in national and international relationships.’ — Peter Richards, Gallery Director
#ArtangelAdvent Day 16: Golden Thread gallery, Belfast’s contemporary art space, is displaying #RedLines.
Look for it when you visit the exhibitions zeropointsixsixrecurring and Dissolving Histories: http://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/even ts/?v=79cba1185463
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#ArtangelAdvent Day 14: From 1870, when the first submarine cable connecting India and the UK was landed there, the remote beach at Porthcurno has been an important site for international communications. Today, like Widemouth Bay just up the coast, Porthcurno has become an important place for the internet. It’s the landing spot for some of the biggest and most crowded fibre-optic cables and forms one of the backbones of the internet.
Housed in the former telegraph facility, The Porthcurno Museum currently has #RedLines on display at their front desk: https://telegraphmuseum.org/…/red-lines -networked-digital-…/

The animations in Evan Roth's A Tribute to Heather were sourced from Heathers Animations, an archive of 90s-era animated GIFs and background images operated by the mysterious 'Heather.' http://www.evan-roth.com/work/tribute-to- heather

Worried that you’re not going to get a copy of Olivia Sudjic’s book Exposure for Christmas? Enter our competition to win a copy that will arrive in the first week of January. As part of #ArtangelAdvent we're giving away one signed copy of #RedLines host Olivia Sudjic’s book Exposure.
‘After the release of Sympathy, her debut novel which explores surveillance and identity in the internet age, Olivia Sudjic found herself under the microscope. Trapped in an anxious spiral of se...lf-doubt, she became alienated from herself and her work. Blaming her own mental -health masked a wider problem that still persists: the tendency for writing by women, whether fiction or personal testimony, to be invalidated on the grounds of sex.’
Olivia Sudjic is a writer living in London. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian and The Sunday Times. Her debut novel Sympathy was a finalist for the Salerno European Book Award, the Collyer Bristow Prize and has been translated into five languages.
Like and comment to be in with a chance of winning. Closes 11.59 GMT on 02.01.2019. PublishPeninsula Press Press
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'Ilya and Emilia Kabakovs Palace of Projects gleams in the gloom of London’s Roundhouse. A spiralling, luminous edifice of translucent walls, it is a truncated Tower of Babel... As much as Kabakov’s projects are funny, they are treated in such a deadpan way that the humour leaves one with a lingering sense of the tragic, of frustrated creativity, of the necessity to make life bearable by any means.' – Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 24 March 1998
From the archives: The Palace of... Projects is a visionary installation by the celebrated Soviet artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov about humankind's endless urge to be visionary. A large glowing two story pavilion structure echoing the forms of utopian architecture was constructed in the vast space of The Roundhouse in north London, a then derelict circular building whose original function in the 1840s had been to rotate railway engines on a huge turntable.
Read an essay outlining the concept of The Palace: https://www.artangel.org.uk/…/descripti on-and-concept-of-t…/
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'Much like the man who jams a chess grandmaster into a dark cage in order to be celebrated for “inventing” the cage, Amazon has built a massive network of casualized internet laborers whose hidden work helps programmers and technological innovators appear brilliant. Their Mechanical Turk program, taking its name from the 18th century curiosity, hires people to do invisible work online—work which makes their client companies’ software look flawless. Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos calls it “artificial artificial intelligence.”'
From @thenewinquiry in 2014: The most magical innovation of the app economy is making the female workers it depends on mostly invisible. https://thenewinquiry.com/the-ladies-vani sh/ #RedLines

#ArtangelAdvent Day 12: Each of these Christmas stockings, shown here alongside #RedLines, is adorned with a new patch each year symbolising something significant from the year: first bike, first basketball game, and first computer. What are your Christmas traditions? Tell us below.

Christmas is about celebrating with friends and family. During that time you’d expect people to untether themselves from the web, but data usage actually spikes during Christmas. Why not disconnect from the infinite scroll by displaying #RedLines on your phone or iPad?
#ArtangelAdvent Day 11: From Archana Prasad’s home in Bangalore, India, to Posy Dixon’s home in London, as people head home for the holiday season #RedLines is quietly connecting strangers to one another with gently moving red landscapes: http://bit.ly/redlinesnetwork

Tonight on BBC One Sean Fletcher heads north east to walk the 8-mile route along the River Lea. He takes in the landmarks of the past & present, such as Longplayer & discovers what the future holds for the river in this fast-growing part of the capital: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bty0j0

‘I’m in London at my parents’ house for Christmas this year, and will be devoting my laptop to Red Lines so I’m not tempted to work.’ — Olivia Sudjic
Writer and #RedLines host Olivia Sudjic is spending Christmas at her parent’s house and is displaying Red Lines on her laptop. Olivia Sudjic is a British writer whose first book Sympathy was published by Pushkin Press Her book-length essay, Exposure, was published by Peninsula Press and explores anxiety, autofiction and interne...t feminism. Next week, we’ll be giving away a copy of Exposure so make sure you tune in every day.
http://bit.ly/redlinesnetwork
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#ArtangelAdvent Day 9: As people make their way home for Christmas, the internet keeps them connects to their friends and family abroad. Red Lines, shot in Cornwall, Sweden, New Zealand, France, Australia, the US, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Argentina, keeps you connected to the landscape of the internet: bit.ly/redlinesnetwork Where are you heading for Christmas?

'Ideology and ghost stories are timeless. What I'm proposing is the difference between fiction and nonfiction, between imagination and reporting. — Stewart Brand to Esther Dyson' #SundayReading: Read a chain of written correspondence on the subject of long-term thinking inspired by Longplayer. It includes letters by Brian En, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Stewart Brand, Esther Dyson, Carne Ross, John Burnside, Manuel Arriaga and others: https://www.artangel.org.uk/longplayer/lo ngplayer-letters/…

#ArtangelAdvent Day 8: BOMis an art, technology and science gallery in Birmingham. The space was born out of a hacker culture and foregrounds public engagement. It runs a programme of exhibitions and events including Birmingham Open Code, a weekly open study session for folks who program or those who want to get started learning to code; Mini Makers, an activity day for kids under the age of 12, inspired by science, technology and art; and Propeller, a monthly meet up especia...lly for autistic adults. The group will explore art, technology and science with a twist of autism focused design, discussion & opportunity. The gallery is currently closed but that doesn’t mean there’s no art to see: BOM’s café is open and alongside coffee and cakes, you can see Artangel’s #RedLines on display behind the counter. Ask how you can have it in your own home. The gallery will reopen in 2019 with an exhibition entitled We Run This, co-curated with @AfroFutures_UK, featuring the work of non-binary people and women of colour and artists working in the digital medium.
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Saturday Morning Listening: Hear an extract from Katrina Palmer's 2015 audio artwork The Quarrymen's Daughters. It tells the story of the Horrocks sisters, eccentric daughters of a dead quarryman who live in two huts on either end of Portland.
Beginning in the style of an intimate reading enhanced by a spectral soundtrack, the narration is interwoven with the voices of the Horrocks sisters and field recordings from Portland - the swell of the tide, the banging and cutting of quarry work - conveying an unsettling atmosphere: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qq01r

#ArtangelAdvent Day 7: ATLAS Arts' Red Lines screen looks out to Portree Bay, the site of the last manual telephone exchange, which closed in 1976.
Visitors are encouraged to pop into the office to experience the work for themselves and can get help installing it on their own devices: http://bit.ly/redlinesnetwork

Do you have an iPhone, android, an underused tablet, or a laptop? You’re ready to host #RedLines. Find out how here: https://redlines.network

#ArtangelAdvent Day 6: This display isn’t based on the star of bethlehem as you might expect from an advent calendar, but is in fact a unicursal hexagram. The hexagram is a common shape used to depict networks, especially peer-to-peer networks, which #RedLines is.
The hexagram appears in Roth’s work explicitly in his work ‘Kites’, which is a series of infrared internet landscapes printed on kites. These make reference to Guglielmo Macroni who used hexagonal kites to lift the antenna wire that first received a wireless radio signal across the ocean. Less explicitly, the unicursal hexagram features in Roth’s #RedLines. See if you can find it on the site.

At the end of each programme you see a drawing or a painting that hadn't existed 30 minutes before. You may even, if Kane has his way, feel compelled to put down the remote control and draw the model yourself while you're watching. — Louise France, The Observer, 21 June 2009
From the archives: In July 2009 the nation learned to draw through television life drawing classes led by John Berger, Judy Purbeck, Maggi Hambling, Gary Hume and Humphrey Ocean.
Broadcast during the day...time on Channel 4 in a series of five half-hour classes, an audience was guided by a tutor giving insights into the techniques of figurative drawing, art and life.
Each class featured a different type of model and the classes took place in a range of settings from the Life Drawing room at the Royal Academy of Arts to the artist’s own studio and a dance studio.
From the end of June, in advance of the broadcast of the programmes, Artangel organised temporary drop-in life drawing classes in five locations across London – in the City, Soho, Covent Garden, Canary Wharf and Bloomsbury – and in four cities across the UK: Manchester, Bristol, Southampton and Glasgow.
In a different location every lunch-time, a class appeared for just two hours and passers-by were invited to sit behind an easel, pick up a pencil and draw.
Life Class: Today’s Nude continued Alan Kane’s often irreverent attempts at democratising the production and dissemination of art and culture by taking the nude life class model out of the rarified intimacy of the studio and transmitting it nationwide.
Listen to John Berger discussing drawing Maria Muñoz, recorded in July 2009: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/life- class/#audio
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