It’s always good to visit, but this time was really good, mainly because so many of the other volunteers were so very productice. I was fortunate enough to get a lift with Peter Onion of the Elliott 803 Emulator fame and the car journey included loads of electronic music, Kraftwerk, Tubular Bells and Wendy Carlos’ Switched on Bach 2000. Anyway the archive is up and running and managed to find some information on the TRS-80 Color Computer I bought recently, and information on the EG2000 Colour Genie too, rooms are being opened and work is getting done. So all in all a productive and useful visit.

I was very fortunate to give a presentation of the work I did on Obsolete? at the National Museum of Computing, at the Open University in Milton Keynes Ecologies of Modern Heritage Forum. It was an extremely interesting day to see the vast array of different projects being done at Bletchley Park as a whole. Themes such as  History/Memory, Systems, Transmitting, Decay and Dr. Z Zhadrals excellent CIPHER project from archaeological digs to interaction with modern and old technology.  It was really good to see so many people who were passionate about doing projects that both highlight the amazing things at Bletchley Park and how much the site needs further help.  Overall it was a very good day, lots of interesting people and I am certain lots of interesting projects to come.

This project formed part of the Curiosty Collectives “Proverbial Show” which took place on the 26th-28th of June, at the Graham and Oldham Gallery in Electric House.

The project was created by taking a image and splicing it into five separate images, giving only one part to each of the narrators, they were simply asked to describe what they saw, by editing together in a nonlinear fashion it brought to the front several different and often amusing narratives, and helping highlight the notion that “A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words”.

This was my first venture in public collaborative art and it was a very enjoyable experience, and has inspired me to create a much larger piece, utilising the public based around the exquisite corpse method.

The image was creative commons licensed from photgrapher Tadek Kurpaski and you can view more of his work and the image in full here.

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