From the AXIS RANT page Feel free to bark back… http://www.axisweb.org/dlForum.aspx?ESSAYID=18075 Our new Ranter-in-Residence for February, Shaun Belcher, starts off on a topical, if controversial note, asking ‘has Arts Council England (ACE) failed? Do we really need it anyway?’. Shaun asks if the lottery years have set ACE up for a fall as we move into tighter financial times [...]

I still in a state of shock but thought I’d cut and paste here as well just in case it all an administrative error and when I wake up all gone….still in an ironic world this as ironic as it gets! From: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/schaun_belcher_saatchi_online_critics_choice_by_victoria_chaine_mendrzyk/6192 Shaun Belcher is a prolific artist whose practice encompasses photography, painting, drawing, poetry [...]

Bruce Springsteen lyric from The River album Jackson Cage Down in Jackson Cage Well darlin’ can you understand The way that they will turn a man Into a stranger to waste away Down in the Jackson Cage Well I not exactly this far gone but there some pretty bad side-effects of the always-on internet life. As a lecturer in almost impossible to [...]

I have been reading some interesting post-iPad observations on the ‘t’internet as Peter Kay’s mum would call it and it all pointing to a happier bunch of mums and a way sadder and less happy bunch of ‘geeks’ or whatever you want to call us bloggers, internet users etc etc Basically this means that ‘tethered applications’ [...]

The reflective nature of Facebook means I can post short links then muse upon responses..I then cut and paste here as a kind of ’sketchbook’ for later theorising….a work in progress..in turn it automatically feeds back onto my facebook wall..a complete loop… Momus Altermodern Week 2: What’s it all about, Nicolas? | NoiseLoop http://www.noiseloop.com Welcome back to Altermodern [...]