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My good friend Dom has just let me know that the largest graffiti and hip hop jam in Canada happened over the weekend in Toronto. As you will see there was some great art on show. I would have loved to have been there. Maybe next year. Below is my favourite piece. I like it because its clean and simple and reminds me of days gone by *sigh* and stuff I used to do.

I got round to going and seeing the Bruce Nauman installation at the Tate Modern today. It features 11 paired speakers all along the Turbine Hall which when listened to ambiently sounds like interesting background sounds. It’s only when you walk along the centre of the hall and come parallel with each speaker pair the sound becomes clearly audible. It’s quite a strange sensation, if you close your eyes the sound feels like it is inside your head. This with all the hundreds of people in the building and making there own personal noise makes the sensation only stranger.

Well worth a visit.

My friend Gideon has this great link on his site of an amazing flash animation by Michal Levy. It reminds me of an old pink panther film for some reason. With a soundtrack of John Coltrane, it really is an amazing piece of work.

I visited the Tomoko Takahashi installation at the Serpentine gallery this afternoon. I knew her work but had never seen it in the flesh. The show consists of about 5 rooms with an installation in each. Each follow slightly different theme. I’m not sure what I liked about them, I actually think it was the colours, the actual bits and pieces were quite literally junk. I also quite like the order of everything. I am a bit like that myself so I’m told so I found a common interest there. Here’s an intro to the exibition:

Tomoko Takahashi’s sculptural installations strike a delicate balance between chaos and order. She uses an array of found objects and discarded materials, subjecting them to her own complex set of organizing principles. Takahashi spends weeks on site during the making of these installations, and the finished works are often punctuated with references to the time and labour involved. This emphasis on the construction processes that are usually hidden or kept out of the public eye is central to Takahashi’s work.

Now here’s a new use for post-its. These guys have created some scaled up pixel art, done in a Miyamato stylee. Aparently it took 3800 post-it&reg notes to complete. I have always loved the pixel art style and seeing it in that grand scale made me jump back through all my pixels art links again.

I’m on a two day event starting tommorrow bringing together leading international figures to review the emerging fields of locative and pervasive media.

The event launches a new international network (PLAN), bringing together artists, activists, hardware hackers, bloggers, game programmers, free network people, semantic web coders, economists, architects, and university and industry researchers.

I’m not 100% sure what that means but in layman’s terms, it’s about what cool things people can do with mobile and wireless technologies in the future. Looks like there will be some experimental music going on too afterwards.

For non-London readers, PotU is an initiative which has been running for a dozen years or so now, providing poems and other lines of verse in ad spaces within tube carriages for bored commuters to read on their way to/from work.sted in the usual ad slots, usually above the doors.These are being altered and replaced with alternative poemsRead about it here. Very good