Print Media 2011

December

‘The Storm Towers of Atlantis’

Short story about the Kennedy family, the Space Race and the Nazis included in the New English Heretic Library anthology,Wyrd Tales 2

October

 ‘Parasitic Infestation: Some Notes on the Audiocassette Considered as a form of Technological Infection’

Introductory essay for the volume The Art of Worms, published by Touch/Bookworm to catalogue the designs for their Tapeworm cassette-only release label – cover art by Savage Pencil.

See also The Tapeworm Turns

Worm Eats Bear - A Special Evening just for you from the Tapeworm

September

‘Activate Only When Absolutely Necessary’

KH’s essay on utopian architecture and films of Mika Taanila, originally published in the Migros Museum catalogue Human Engineering is published on line as part of the documentation for the Kassel Documenta

‘Babylon By The Sea: A Coney Island Souvenir’

Essay published as part of a special newspaper supplement to Bare Essentials: the Best of Nude Magazine 2003-2011 – the essay had originally appeared in Nude issue 11 for Spring 2007

‘A Homemade Universe: My Cat  Is An Alien in Conversation, Turin June 2011’

KH’s profile of Italian multimedia space  artists My Cat Is An Alien is the cover story in issue 331 of the Wire

August

‘Rough Notes towards the Psychoanalysis of Trash’

Notes from my lecture ‘The Psychoanalysis of Trash’ are reprinted in Pretty – Ugly, a limited edition publication from Hato Press.

June

‘Temporary Storage: Notes on the Dounreay Fast Reactor, Citadel of the Future’
Specially commissioned essay published as a stand-alone pamphlet to accompany screenings of Gair Dunlop’s ‘Atom Town’ film project. An online version is later made available by the V2 Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam. For more information, please click here.

May

‘Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: The Superhero as Camp Enigma'
KH’s essay on Flash Gordon, Ludwig II, Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol is published in English in issue 2011.1 of the German academic journal Kritische Berichte, available from Jonas Verlag

The Great White Silence: An Interview with Simon Fisher Turner

A short interview with Simon Fisher Turner by KH about his soundtrack for the 1911 silent movie The Great White Silence in issue 328 of The Wire

April

‘From Atlantis to Mars: The Dream of Venus’

Essay plus preliminary draft material for one of the chapters in the Bright Labyrinth (2013), dealing with Dali, The Dream of Venus pavilion, Martians and Modernism, published in Strange Attractor Journal Volume 4.

January

‘Edison Speaks from Beyond the Grave’ 

Essay on how the mechanical reproduction of sound has altered our sense of the past by creating a ghostly eternal present, published in issue 323 of The Wire 

Audiovisual 2011

November 23

‘Ghost Blood Spectrum’

Hour-long live broadcast from the Resonance FM studios of readings from The Bright Labyrinth’ with music from My Cat Is An Alien

See also: Live From Resonance FM with My Cat Is An Alien

May 27

‘Which Way to Techno-Utopia’ Podcast

Available online as a podcast from Little Atoms: the recording of the panel that took place at the Free Word Centre featuring KH, Angela Saini, Becky Hogge and Gia Milinovitch

May 16

‘Invading Present Time: The Politics of Simulation’

A two-camera film of KH’s lecture delivered at the Ecole des Recherches Graphiques in Brussels on February 2 is posted on Vimeo as ‘Politiques de la Simulation’. To see the full video click here.

See also:

Invading Present Time – A lecture at ERG in Brussels

Dead Fingers Talking

April 9

‘How to Archive Yourself’ Archive Hour on BBC Radio 4, presented by Toby Amies, produced by Sarah Jane Hall

KH talks about data networks, the uploaded self and virtual memories. From the show: ‘Ken Hollings has been described as both a genius and an alien. He is the kind of writer who looks up at a million points of light in the sky and starts to connect the dots.’

The programme can be found here.

April 6

‘The Psychoanalysis of Trash’

The video of KH’s lecture for Neville Brody’s Anti-Design Festival on September 21, 2010, is posted on Vimeo by Ignite Creative TV – to access the video click here.

April 1

‘The Last Word’: Paul Baran

KH talks about Paul Baran, formerly of the RAND Corporation and the Institute for the Future, on his contributions to the architecture of the Internet.

March 21- March 25

Requiem for Networks Essay series for BBC Radio 3

A series of fifteen-minute talks on how networks have shaped, and will continue shape, human consciousness
Essay 5: Heads In the Clouds

Essay 4 I’m Your Orange Juice

Essay 3 The Networks Go to War

Essay 2 Victorian Search Engines

Essay 1 Welcome to the Labyrinth

To access the entire series of essays from the BBC Radio 3 website, please click here.

Events and Performances 2011

December 10

Wyrd Tales 2 Launch Event

Backed by electronic sound artist Asterism, KH presents a reading of extracts from ‘The Storm Towers of Atlantis’, a short story published in the New English Heretic Library anthology Weird Tales 2, at Luminous Books in London

See also: Wyrd Christmas Scenes at Luminous Books

November 10

‘The Fear Factor’
Panel convened at the Bishopsgate Institute featuring KH, David Aaronovitch, Julie Bindel and Timandra Harkness, chaired by Little Atoms’ Neil Denny as part of the Institute’s ‘Whose Mind Is It Anyway? series

See also: The Sum of All Fears At the Bishopsgate Institute  

October 20

Worm Eats Bear

Special live music and spoken-word event at South Bank’s Bear Garden to celebrate the publication of Touch’s The Art of Worms booklet, featuring a specially commissioned essay by KH, ‘Parasitic Infestation: Some Notes on the Audiocassette Considered as a form of Technological Infection’

See also: Tapeworm Turns

Bookworm presents the Art of Worms

June 23

‘Atom Town’ reading at Arts Catalyst

A reading of extracts from Welcome to Mars as part of an event organized by Arts Catalyst for the first London screening of Gair Dunlop’s film ‘Atom Town’.

June 17

‘Return to Mars’, reading at the British Library

A reading of material from Welcome to Mars and The Bright Labyrinth as part of a live event at the British Library organized with the Radio Science Orchestra as part of ‘Out of this World’, the library’s exhibition of science-fiction literature and art.

See also: Live Onstage at the British Library with the Radio Science Orchestra

May 23

Which Way To Techno-Utopia?

Live panel event organized by Little Atoms at the Free Word Centre in London to look at the effects of networked technology on human behaviour – featuring KH, Angela Saini, Becky Hogge and Gia Milinovitch 

Lectures 2011

December 2

‘On Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones’

Lecture at Tate Britain on the Pre-Raphaelite painter’s greatest work, The Golden Stairs before a late-night audience as part of the Tate Rehang initiative.

See also: On the Golden Stairs

December 1

‘After Haussman’

Lecture on architecture and social control as part of ‘There’s a Riot Goin’ On’, a special panel convened to discuss the August 2011 riots in the UK. Also taking part are Suzanne Moore, Gavin Knight, Daiv Mathews and KH

See also: After Haussman: There’s a Riot Goin’ On

May 5

LIVING IN SPACE

KH lectures about outer space, architecture and human consciousness as part of the Strange Attractor Salon at the Institute of Contemporary Arts http://www.ica.org.uk/28343/Talks/Ken-Hollings-The-Stuff.html in London

See also: Spacemen of the Free World

April 7

THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF TRASH

KH lectures on Ludwig II, Crown Prince Rudolf, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson as part of ‘Pretty –Ugly’ an event at the Gopher Hole, London

February 11

CAGE POST CAGE
Lecture on John  Cage’s influence on text and its relationship to music as part of Off The Page, a festival on the practice of music and writing, organized by Sound and Music in association with The Wire, Playhouse Theatre, Whistable

February 2

INVADING PRESENT TIME: THE POLITICS OF SIMULATION

Ecole de recherches graphiques, Brussels as part of their CORPS/MACHINE series

See also: Dead Fingers Talking

‘Invading Present Time: The Politics of Simulation’

January 26

WELCOME TO THE LABYRINTH: ON DESIGN AND MODERN THOUGHT