[spectre] The Jeremy Bailey Show at HTTP Gallery.

[marc garrett]

The Jeremy Bailey Show at HTTP Gallery.

Private View 7-9pm Fri 19th Sept
Live Performance at 7.30

Open 19 Sept - 19 Oct 2008
Fri-Sun 12noon-5pm
http://www.http.uk.net/


If Jeff Koons had fallen for the Microsoft Help Paperclip rather than 
vacuum cleaners or La Cicciolina, presumably the result would have 
looked a lot like: "The Jeremy Bailey Show".

"Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey creates cutesy digital interfaces which 
facilitate computer-aided performances that bring art and technology, 
techies and technophobes into tension. Fusing an expert knowledge of 
software design and acclaimed performance and video art skills, Bailey 
asks his audience to examine their acquiescence to the GUIs (Graphic 
User Interfaces) that provide the face of contemporary living. More than 
that, he invites one and all to watch his unique brand of 
'interface-off'." (Charlotte Frost)

Disillusioned by the "machine ego" that has characterised much 
technology-driven art practice since computers arrived on the scene, 
Jeremy Bailey creates digital interfaces through which he plays out a 
critique of the digital auteur with deadly humour. "The Jeremy Bailey 
Show" presents many of Bailey's most recent works including VideoPaint 
3.0 and SOS, alongside a new piece commissioned by HTTP and produced 
during his adjunct residency. This brand new performance work pokes fun 
at the value placed on "collaboration" in today's art practice and 
policy-making. Bailey plans to co-demonstrate, with his audience, new 
collaborative software that will allow participants to perform office 
related tasks such as email, word processing, or spreadsheets together 
while simultaneously composing a visual/musical score with matching 
choreography. The performance will be staged live at the exhibition 
opening (Friday 19th Sept 7.30pm) and will be documented for viewing 
throughout the exhibition.

VideoPaint 3.0 documents Bailey interacting with his bespoke software 
that "allows you to paint anywhere, anytime". Responding to Bailey's 
movements and voice, VideoPaint 3.0 lets Bailey draw and tell an 
irreverent story about a desert encounter between a pink serpent and a 
green jaguar, all the while being threatened by a "drawing-wiping bomb".

SOS, a series of short videos made for Canadian television, offers a 
hilarious user's guide to a new "visual operating system", where shapes 
refer to video files and provide commentary on the system user's actions.

"The Jeremy Bailey Show" is Bailey's first solo exhibition in the UK and 
offers so much more than just "discourse analysis for dummies" 
(Charlotte Frost). Pop culture, pastiche and a much prettier version of 
the Paperclip combine, and like any good GUI, make you almost forget the 
technical wizardry behind them.

Jeremy Bailey received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University and 
an undergraduate degree in Visual Studies from the University of 
Toronto. He is co-founder of award winning artist video collective 640 
480. His work has been described by Filmmaker Magazine as "a one man 
revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create 
art". Bailey lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Further info about the artist: www.jeremybailey.net/

Events at HTTP:

Private View 7-9pm
Live Performance at 7.30pm
Your chance to meet Jeremy Bailey in the flesh and view brand new work 
created especially for the HTTP Gallery audience


Contact: Lauren Wright, HTTP Gallery
email: lauren AT furtherfield DOT org
tel: +44(0)20 8802 2827

HTTP Gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Road
London N4 1LD
+44(0)2088022827
Click here for map and location details
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

Funded By Furtherfield.org
Arts Council of England