Mark Hancock

name Mark R Hancock

email mark@memecortex.net

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Bio

Mark R Hancock is an editor, writer. He has written art criticism for the BBC, Furtherfield, NewMediaFix, Neural, Digicult, as well as several commisions from the Arts Council. His essay on Expanded Literature was included in Hothaus Papers from Vivid, as well as several exhibition catalogs and festival reports. His interests are the human condition and anything that causes our everyday lives and thoughts to derail for a moment, causing us to view the world anew for however briefly. Often this is an art work, sometimes just a great conversation with someone. If art works are able to capture or facilitate this process, then even better!

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Disrupting the Continuum

Mark Hancock looks at Rob Myers’ Shareable Readymades, which combine Open Source culture with a new perspective on the idea of original and copyrighted artworks. As Hancock discovers, the result is a project that explores our consumerist ideas about owning art, alongside the way the Internet changes our relationship to production and sharing. Artworks are also found to be no longer constrained by time and space. Access to the raw data of the source file might be all that is needed to create them and a new version of art history.

By Mark Hancock - 16/11/2012

Industrial landscapes of the future/past: DataisNature and the work of Paul Prudence

Mark Hancock reviews the research blog DataIsNature and its curator Paul Prudence, whose work captures the landscapes of post-industrial places and filters them through the clean/modern frameworks of contemporary media arts practices to produce some exhilarating and fascinating live performance cinema.

By Mark Hancock - 19/08/2012

Echoes of the Past & Future: Gridworks by A Bill Miller

Mark Hancock investigates the video works of AB Miller. His nationally and internationally exhibited works include his acclaimed Gridworks Project, which comprises abstract ASCII drawings, ink drawings, animated GIFs, and video elements. "We exist within a built environment that is constantly mediated by the grid. Grids organize space through coordinate mapping and patterns of development. Grids compress, redisplay, and reorder information. Grids are an enforcement system imposed upon both nature and culture."

By Mark Hancock - 20/01/2012

Remixthebook: Everything, all at once

Mark Hancock reviews Remixthebook by artist, author Mark Amerika and co-curator and artist Rick Silva, consisting of over 25 contributing international artists, poets, and critical theorists, all of them interdisciplinary in their own practice-based research, who sample from remixthebook and manipulate the selected source material through their own artistic and theoretical filters.

By Mark Hancock - 18/08/2011

Sensity by Stanza

Sensity by Stanza monitors the changing state of the environment and transmits it from remote sensors back to a central hub that visually represents the location. Through this observation of the location and data gathering, Sensity brings to mind questions regarding our urban society.

By Mark Hancock - 19/05/2009

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29 Jun 2013 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm - or-bits.com presents On the Upgrade – WYSIWYG at Banner Repeater, London

or-bits.com is pleased to present On the Upgrade – WYSIWYG at Banner Repeater, London, on Wednesday June 5 2013, 6:30-8:30pmOn the Upgrade – WYSIWYG is a POD book, also distributed as a PDF, which...

added by Marialaura Ghidini on 23/05/13

23 Jun 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm - sound.art event @10 vyner st. sunday 23rd june 5-8pm

ARTISTS:Left Hand Cuts off the Right https://soundcloud.com/lefthandcutsofftherightCementimentalhttp://www.cementimental.com/Emmanuel Spinelli http://www.emalorienweb.webs.com/Thom &...

added by laure les aus on 17/06/13

21 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 23 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 360º Conference: Time around Space

Call for Papers and Contributions:Theme: The development of new technologies has made more possible the production and presentation of visual images and sound within the 360 degree environment...

added by dwstrang on 18/02/13

14 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 30 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - Currents 2013: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival

The "collection" project has been selected for inclusion as a web based art work in the new media festival.

added by Carrie Ida Edinger on 15/05/13

13 Jun 2013 - 6:00pm - 15 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm - Turning FACT Inside Out

This summer at FACT Liverpool, a selection of provocative international artists tackle some of the most pressing, controversial and literally ground-breaking political issues of today, as Turning...

added by FACT on 11/06/13

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acronymationphobia

the infuriating phobia of being infuriated about the proliferation of acronyms used to describe concepts in new media.

By Marc Garrett on 11 Nov 2009 - 1:00am

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