Following on from the success of our involvement with the AV Social Live at the Tate series. DECOLLAGE have produced an online blog documenting the works and artists featured, including the work O:.O:.O:.
Created in collaboration with the DANCEHOUSE Glasgow. NEWFUTURENOW Director JAYGO BLOOM and musician HAMMERSCHMIDT.




The Blog and all other featured works are now online HERE and HERE

AV Social is an audio-visual event series, that places international audio-visual live acts and art into a public, social happening with food and spirits.

The latest event in November 2008 took place in the Tate Liverpool as a “Late At Tate” program and the night was really nice with very positive feedback from all sides. Besides the live AV acts, one part of every AV Social happening is a screening of short movies with a balanced relation between what you hear and what you see.



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NEWFUTURENOW taking bookings . . . For more information on this
exciting new workshop visit the website HERE






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JR Flash' 'Tight pants bwoy' embracing Neon Euro Rave and roots upsetter skanking
fresh moves from Kingston. Jamaica -










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The WHACK site is now online, packed full with images and video from the SWG3 event.

Check it out HERE!!






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MARIE LECHNER - Reporter with the Liberation newspaper in France has written an excellent review for the WORLDWIDEWEGG. Below is a translated version in 'pigeon english' thanks to the google translating service.
An online version is also available at ECRANS.FR the website for Liberation News.

Bon Appetit





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Some days all i really care for is this kind of Trans - Global
audio visual mistake!
All the way from Iquitos - The Tigress of the East . . . .
Its so bad its wonderful.







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LUCKY CLUCKY has less than a week left to hit the JACKPOT!!
The latest in feather brained lottery tickets recieved a grand total of
ONE correct number!!




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No not the BREAK-BOOTY-ELECTRO-HORROR-PORN COCK ROCK run by JASON FORREST
Equally stimulating, yet vegetarian and far less deviant is the Peck controlled iTunes sound system
operated by lil' rooster LUCKY CLUCKY from the network connected coop on GORGIE CITY FARM

After many requests heres the chicken inspired playlist to view, and visit the WEBSITE to hear the
resulting cacophony of flutterings controlled by the feeding frenzy in realtime.

One Peck
One Song
Wont last long . .

Chicken Baby Chicken Tony Harris
Chicken Flop Hasil Adkins
The Truncated Life Of A Modern Chicken Matthew Herbert
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Louis Jordan
Funky Chicken Fabulous Emotions
Funky Chicken Parts Willie Henderson & Soul Explosions
Chicken Dame Darcy
Turn That Chicken Down Geraint Watkins
The Chicken Song Spitting Image
The Chicken Lady's House Mustaflo
Chicken and Booze Manny Corchado
Kicking Chickens Mike Fornatale
Pickin' A Chicken Jim Reeves
Chicken Coop Valentino Sound Effects
Chicken Flight Kid 606
Chicken Scratch Count Suckle,
Chicken Fat Lynn Roberts
A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off Magnetic Fields
Chicken Is Nice Howard B. Hayes and Malinda Parker
Chickens Move Out 24K and Elephant Man
Run, Chicken, Run! Link Wray
Don't You Ever Dare Call Me A Chickenhead Andy Partridge
I Play Chicken With The Train Cowboy Troy with Big And Rich
Chicken Feet Sean Bergin's Song Mob
We Don't Play Guitar (Chicken Lips) Chicks On Speed
Chicken Yiamas Von Sudenfed
Chicken Rock Scott Wood
Love That Chicken Meatus Murder
Chicken Bird Stomp The Bats
Chicken Bone George and Black Eyed Snakes
A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off Magnetic Fields
5 Piece Chicken Dinner Beastie Boys
Chicken Wing Da Hip Hop Rascals
Finger Lickin' Chicken Radars
Chicken The Cramps
Tic Tac Toe Chicken M Shanghai String Band
Chicken Rhythm Sim Gaillard
Tandoori Chicken2 Sudden Infant
Hey Chicken Loose Fur
Chicken Master Hermits
Know Your Chicken Cibo Matto
Eat That Chicken Charles Mingus
Chickens Vs. Tilda Chickens and Tilda
Frozen Chicken Lord Christo
Like Irregular Chickens Kid Koala
A Chicken Ain't Nothing But A Bird Cab Calloway
Theme To Beverly Hills Cop As A Chicken Unknown Dude
Greasy Chicken Andre Williams
Chicken Legs People Like Us, Wobbly, Matmos
Tandoori Chicken Ronnie Spector
Chicken Salad Beats Miles Tilimann
Chicken Gas Mofungo
His Imperial Highness Prince Chicken Rag Rick Hayward


Recordings and LUCKY CLUCKY DJ bookings available by request.
for more details and greater efficiency contact NEWFUTURENOW



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Click HERE to go check out the latest wegg inspired review of the WORLDWIDEWEGG
Thanks to Marc Garrett and Ashley Wong over at FURTHERFIELD for showcasing this project on the Furtherfield site.

FURTHERFIELD.ORG is one of the UK's fore-most informative and connected Internet nodes, a regular source of reviews explore the subject of netart, digital art, new media and cross platform diciplines, placing these activities directly within a global perspective and simultaneously representing the maverick media-art makers and grass root community net-art projects that continue to flourish on the periphery of new media understanding..

'utilizing networked media to create, explore, nurture and promote the art that happens when connections are made and knowledge is shared'




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THE WORLDWIDEWEGG continues to present NEWFUTURENOW with yet another opportunity at the crackpot JACKPOT!!
Be sure to visit the website for peck-controlled itunes and live chicken feed until 12:08:08.




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Another six eggs from the golden rooster and another chance at winning the lucky golden egg!
Lottery Ticket purchased courtesy of the SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL who partnership funded this fantastic project alongside ALT-W.

Another get rich quick scheme engineered by the artist JAYGO BLOOM
Weggsite HERE




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One week into this biologically networked project and finally Lucky Clucky eggs total 6!!
And with it one online LOTTERY ticket has just been purchased.



Regular updates coming live from the WORLDWIDEWEGG
Fresh eggs coming direct from GORGIE CITYFARM





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WORLDWIDEWEGG has just been blogged by two of its favourite new tech sites.
Thanks to Jo at TURBULENCE and Régine at ORGANISM
Go check out their sites NOW!




.....A regular source of sunkissed goodness for the wegg inspired




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The consultation based gametool is very nearly finished!
Having spent the last few months co-ordinating a team of programmers and illustrators, as well as regular meetings with consultants from Architecture and Design Scotland. AYE BUT NO BUT is nearing completion!
Expect a launch of the website very shortly, in the meantime feel free to browse the dummy framework HERE





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A recent interview with myself has been published by VAGUE TERRAIN entitled " THE RISE OF THE VJ'.
This Interview was conducted by Edinburgh based writer and curator MICHELLE KASPRZAK and presents an interesting overview of my work pre 2008.

Link to the INTERVIEW





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For anyone interested I recently uploaded a talk i presented as collaborator for BIRTHRITES At the Old Victorian Baths, Manchester.
The Show is set to launch at the GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE this coming May and will be traveling to Manchester, London and Belfast throughout the following year.

Link to my BIRTHRITES PRESENTATION







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Check out the works of NEWFUTURENOW'S Latest collaborator- DOCTOR SIMPO!!!
Doctor Simpo will be joining the NFN crew to help establish a fluid comic-esque design for the 'Aye But No But' games project. Simpo is designer of allthings rare and uncertain



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JAYGO BLOOM Has been commissioned to create yet another inspiring spin on the way the internet can help bring diverse and unusual elements together, this time in the for of the project THE WORLD WIDE WEGG
The project funded by SCOTTISH SCREEN and NEW MEDIA SCOTLAND will attempt to draw comparrisons upon natural interactions with that of new media networks by connecting Chickens from different parts of the globes with toasters from other parts of the globe. The event will present itself as a one day event in a local gallery / cafe and offer the chance to translate the laying of an egg into the poping up of a slice of toast in another country.
With this project jaygo Bloom is interested in utilising sophisticated networking devices to create a seemingly simple action, a labourous way of creating somthing simple as in the works of ........ the project is a development from past Futuresonic commission and will successfully utilise locative technology, translating an analogue action into a digital and back int analogue again - similar to the once sci fi notions of mike TV in willy wonkas chocolate factory - all this is possible now - yet the uncertain nature of the work being at the perils of an unegglaying eg layer is also a concern - not evidently to the Artist Jaygo Bloom - who beleives the project will be a success egg or not!
THE WORLD WIDE WEGG will be live during GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL in April 2008.
NEW FUTURE NOW will be overseeing the project and collaborating closely with cheeseboard architect and pile artist IAN CAMPBELLSTEIN who will be assisting in the development and progress of chicken - brain - technology and the successfull implantation of triggers sensors and diodes to get this thing up and running, incidently his hometown Montreal may just be one of the international nodes as well....








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Another slash dot accross tha nation!
A new review on one of the most popular video archives / vlogs online! - DVBLOG



DVBLOG is curated by a group of visual artists and provides online viewers with the opportunity to watch some quite extraordinary, one off and really interesting moving image projects from around the globe, and most importantly a chance to watch and download the latest from JAYGO BLOOM!!!


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GABBATV slash dot accross tha nation!
Thanks to VVORK.COM my website just maxxed out its daily 250mb bandwidth limit.

One week of global attention on one the best artblogs of the web,
VVORK Is an online collective of artists, curators, editors and designers, check them out now!


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NewFutureNow will be my new AV moniker for the foreseeable future.
A new site has been created and I will be adding to this on a regular basis and
with experience, now trying to make it a little more easier to navigate than gabba.tv

check it out here

My latest Audiovisual performance tool 'MARRAKATTAK' is now playable online including full documentation of the performance at Pixelazo last March in Medellin, Colombia.

You can view it HERE



MARRAKATTAK PRESENTATION TEXT

Marrakattak Is an 8bit Latino based Percussive Interface, an audiovisual games module created for performance at Pixelazo the new Colombian node of the Pixelache festival network. Pixelazo was formed to create encounters between indigenous communities and the western electronic art scene.

Marrakattak consists of a pair of modified maracas, which, when shaken drives the audio visual performance. Moving imagery taken from a selection of sampled video sources combines with a series of pulsating Mayan, Aztec and Zapotec ritual symbols and 8bit game sounds.

Marrakattak was created to engage with the stories and traditional imagery of Colombia, it combines the physical sensibility of an authentic pair of maracas, with an altogether different end result, deriving from electronic art culture and western 8bit game aesthetics.

"Video Calendar"

Up to 24 pieces will be shown, each day a little treat up until Christmas. Including works from Marcel Dinahet / Jaygo Bloom / T S Beall / Anna Boggon and many more... A new video every day until 24 December.

Check out the first pieces and watch this space daily: http://www.tank.tv.

tank.tv would also like to announce its next upcoming project, "I Am Future Melancholic" to be programed at the Tate Modern on 20 January. Come and see: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/7362.htm.

Tank.tv is an inspirational showcase of contemporary moving image. It is dedicated to exhibiting moving images in a free and accessible way. Created by Tank magazine in 2003 as an online gallery space, tank.tv presents a range of films by established and emerging artists.

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interesting play

This has got to be about the best interactive flash site I have seen to date
made by those wonderful Fabrica interactive design gurus
for benetton

We are standing on the brink of a new ubiquitous computing and
communication era, one that will radically transform our corporate,
community, and personal spheres. Over a decade ago, the late Mark
Weiser developed a seminal vision of future technological ubiquity, one
in which the increasing “availability” of processing power would be
accompanied by its decreasing “visibility”.
As he observed, “the most profound technologies are those that disappear…
they weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are
indistinguishable from it”.

Early forms of ubiquitous information and communication networks
are evident in the widespread use of mobile phones: the number of
mobile phones worldwide surpassed 2 billion in mid-2005. These little
gadgets have become an integral and intimate part of everyday life for
many millions of people, even more so than the internet. Today,
developments are rapidly under way to take this phenomenon an important
step further, by embedding short-range mobile transceivers into a wide
array of additional gadgets and everyday items, enabling new forms of
communication between people and things, and between things
themselves.



an elephant RFID location collar



a roach ??

- How I lost two cell phones in one week.



The Internet was supposed to bring us all together. Just ten years ago, the world was awash in bold predictions: The Web would obliterate race, gender and nationality. It would break down social barriers. It would usher in a new era of classless communication and interpersonal understanding.

well then? what happened?

"The Net is still a confused social space," says Andrew Shoben, founder of British artist collective Greyworld "and for most of us, it's still a very private experience."

In the meantime, however, diverse artists and engineers have been hard at work implementing networked technology into real world form and function. Incorporating the use of cell phones, GPS Systems, Stamp Technology. C++ with more mundane everyday objects. These artists seek to subvert technology and embed it into a more physical future.

'What can I do other than sit you in front of a computer and show you art?' - Where does it begin? How can I translate the actions and feelings of 'connectivity' associated with the world wide web, into real space, out on the street, in my own backyard?

What starts off as a disruption of the everyday with creative pranks, or simply the investigation of meaning in messages from nowhere. Usually results in interesting and unexpected outcomes.



Take the artist Thorsten Knaub, his latest project GPSdiary is an online archive in which the artist recorded his daily movements over the course of a year by carrying a Global Positioning System(GPS) receiver on him.

To get technical for a minute -
GPS utilises special satellites in the earths’ orbit to record the change of a tracked position on the surface of the earth. Therefore any kind of movement will be charted according to the latitude and longitude grid system, e.g. a walk to the local shop results in a small 'drawing', a day spent at home will be recorded as a dot only but a journey on the London Underground results in a straight line between the tube station where he is out of range of the GPS satellites.

Check his site out, it's a fascinating linear pictograph of the artists day to day movements.

Ironically, lost within this ever expanding multiverse of rapidly increasing networks are two mobiles belonging to JAYGOBLOOM Two phones in as many weeks! it's a bit of a pain but hey, I am enjoying the thought of being constantly engaged.