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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Free Learning Festival in February
Open Learning Ireland are proud to announce our first week long first Learn Something; Share Something; Do Something event this February. This is a new event in association with AONTAS and their Adult Learning Festival, and the Dubzland Audio and Visual Gallery, featuring free workshops and classes, open to all. Read more
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Franck Omer, Exchange Dublin Gallery Residency
Some months ago the Block T gallery and studios in Smithfield, organised a show of an enormous number of european visual artists, called Link Culturefest. At the show I noticed the work of an enormously talented sybolist / pop-surrealist painter and sculpter Franck Omer. I’d never organised a residency before, but I took a chance… Read more
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Next Steps for Open Learning Ireland
The most recent OLI event in Exchange Dublin, June 2012. Cross posting this from the Open Learning Ireland google group, as there’s a good chance it’ll reach more folks here. Some background: OLI is a non-profit education group set up in 2011 to work towards creating a new free (as in beer), open (as in… Read more
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A Mysterious Package For Dr Freeman
I checked my post this morning, only to discover a mysterious mystery. An apparently ordinary looking envelope… But dear reader, this modest parcel was in truth anything but ordinary, for inside lurked something tremendously suspicious. A typewritten letter accompanying a second, plastic envelope. Text of the letter (misspellings preserved): Dear Gareth, I hope this letter… Read more
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Dead Medium, making radio
I love radio. I love making radio even more. Pre-recording shows, live broadcasting, racing between decks as the last song fades out and you still haven’t picked the next one, tripping up your co-host with an outrageous comment right before you go on air, sitting in the outer studio watching the clock jealously lest someone… Read more
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Hollywood Ending
I’m running an exhibition of video art this week at Exchange Dublin. Below is the text that accompanies the work. Hopefully as entertaining a piece of pseudo-philosophical junk as ever graced a graduate art show. Show is 16th – 23rd of August, with a launch at 8PM on the 17th (no booze but cake, all… Read more
