[spectre] HOST: *candy factory

[Chris Byrne]

New Media Scotland presents a new project for HOST:

*candy factory @ EDINBURGH

http://host.mediascot.org

*candy factory often take as their starting point the cultural forms of
globalised capital, whether manifested physically or through electronic
media. Their works build a sense of the hyperreal from the lanscape of
contemporary culture. There is a spirit of enquiry, focussing on the
unnoticed or abandoned spaces which surround us. *candy factory's Takuji
Kogo has documented a number of phenomena in Edinburgh and Yamaguchi,
Japan. The results, plus a collaboration with artist Ola Pehrson have been
brought together in five works for HOST.

Broadcasting non broad casting time of a television studio in Yamaguchi
Japan titled DO. A department store in Edinburgh now on CLEARANCE SALE. A
re-working of a non broad casting view of EBC program WHY from Seoul,
Korea. Computer icon becomes sculpture becomes digital still, becomes web
art with the re-purposed WIN.EXE with Ola Pehrson. Also remixed daytime
television boredom in the UK: MY DAD SEDUCED MY FIANCEE.

*candy factory undertook a residency at New Media Scotland as part of Art
in the Home, artists working in domestic spaces in Yamaguchi and Edinburgh.
Organised by City Art Centre, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art,
with Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Art, Akiyoshida International Art
Village, Prefecture. Funded by Japan 2001, Scottish Arts Council and Daiwa
Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to online
projects by artists. Previous projects have featured a range of Scottish
and international artists including Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth,
Claude Closky and Roshini Kempadoo.

For further information on HOST or New Media Scotland, contact:


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