If you missed the show at Faucet April 5th here is a clip of Sonny playing with the piece I made in collaboration with computer programmer Christian Fiddick. It’s called OWENCORRIGAN:ORIGINALCOPY a SuperControlled SuperEvolved project.
The controller for SuperControlled/SuperEvolved. Things are coming together. You can see the working project at struts on April 5th if all goes as planned.
Here is a still from a new project I’m working on with computer programming genius Christian Fiddick. It is temporarily entitled SuperEvolved/SuperControlled. It is, or will be, a series of interactive video game portraits. The viewer uses a homemade game controller to move the subject through simple motions and to activate super powers such as bursting into flames or bursting into tears. Our first portrait is of Owen Corrigan, thanks Owen!
The view from my studio window on a peaceful winter morning.
Hi everyone,
Here is my experimental film The Animals on line for the first time. For what it’s worth I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. It was two years in the making. Many people helped with guidance and insight (you know who you are and thank you so much). However, it’s not for everyone, so don’t say i didn’t warn you.
The Animals (2012) a 25 minute film, shot with video and 8mm film. The Animals tells a story of repetition and regeneration; human and animal characters traverse and explore a landscape in a world without houses and technology, looking for a sense of contentment and purpose.
Thanks to everyone who made it out to Penny Cosmos. If you missed it here are some installation shots. Thanks to Dave Hayden for taking the photos.
Penny Cosmos is an exhibition of some of my recent work and ideas. The opening is at the Parantheses Gallery in Halifax on October 19th at 7pm and the show will be up for a month. “Penny Cosmos is a snake oil salesman’s version of a museum where the fraudulent is profound and the profound is cheap and meaningless, and in between are some of the things I love. All for just one penny.” Parantheses Gallery and art projectsis dedicated to bringing to Halifax an ongoing series of artist’s exhibitions, installations, performance and other art-related events. You can find out more information about the gallery at http://parentheseshfx.tumblr.com/aboutus . I hope to see you there.
Currently I am working on editing video of the Talking Exploding Diamond Talk Show into a 45 minute network television facsimile. What is this you ask? Well…. stay tuned to find out. I’ll be posting clips soon. And if you saw it at Sappy get ready for the augmented, HD, animated version of what you think you saw.
And I am also working on one last painting for my upcoming show at Parenthesis Gallery in Halifax. The opening is October 19th and promises to be unlike any show I’ve done before.
Also I am pretty excited to be included in the Mount Allison Fine Arts faculty show. The show opens on Friday the 14th of September at 7:30 pm. I’m showing a large diptych called, ”So long Mr. Roboto, after Watteau.”
I have had nothing but fun working with www.charley-zzz.com in Japan. They made some lovely scarves with my watercolours on them last year and now t-shirt and pant combos! Above is some of the packaging. The Jon Claytor Logo is my favourite part. Only available in Japan.
Cleaning up my computer I came across some of the drawings I’ve done that we have used for various sappyFest stuff. The Bunny was used on the shirts from the first year and yes we did “put a bird on it” as they advise in Portlandia. Maybe that was our acid wash moment.
