Sunday, 24 February 2013

Lectures 2011

December 2
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.

December 1
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

May 5
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

April 7
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
Ecole de recherches graphiques, Brussels as part of their CORPS/MACHINE series

January 26


Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Lectures 2010

‘HOLLINGSVILLE CHRISTMAS LECTURE
Special lecture on Welcome to Mars, the suburbs and the rise and fall of the 1950s

December 1
COME DRESSED AS YOUR MADNESS
Lecture delivered as part of the Fashion in Film Festival’s ‘Birds of Paradise’ series to accompany special screenings of Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Max Reinhardt’s Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Horse Hospital

BRIGHT LABYRINTH LECTURE: COGNITION Lecture # 8 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site, December 1

BRIGHT LABYRINTH LECTURE: TRASH Lecture # 7 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site, November 24

BRIGHT LABYRINTH LECTURE: EVENTS Lecture # 6 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site, November 17

BRIGHT LABYRINTH LECTURE: SPACES Lecture # 5 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site November 10

Lecture # 4 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site November 3

Lecture # 3 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site October 20

October 13
Lecture presentation at the International Society of Typographical Designers event ‘Talking Books’

Lecture # 2 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site October 13

BRIGHT LABYRINTH LECTURE: MEDIA,
Lecture # 1 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site October 6

September 10
ALIEN TRANSMISSIONS: Sputnik, McLuhan and the Voices of Space
Lecture given as part of an all-day live radio event curated by Inheritance Projects  as part of Charlie Woolley’s ‘Mysterious Cults’ exhibition at SPACE Studios, London, September 11

May 10
THE PURPLE DEATH: Or Further Notes on Camp and the Heroic Rise of the Lowbrow
Lecture given at Siegen Museum for Contemporary Art  as part of a four-day symposium,  ‘Heroes, Ubermenschen, Superheroes: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Aesthetics and Politicization of Extraordinary Humans’ organized by Kritische Berichte, May 8

April 10
THE IMAGE DEMANDS TO BE HEARD:
Lecture given at a screening of Johnny YesNo at Sensoria 10, Sheffield, April 23

March 10
COGNITION
Lecture # 8 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site March 17

TRASH
Lecture # 7 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site March 10

EVENTS  
Lecture # 6 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site March 3

February 10
SPACES
Lecture # 5 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site February 24

MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND MEDIA THEORY
A lecture to BA History of Art and Design students at Middlesex University, Cat Hill Campus, February 19

DREAMS
Lecture # 4 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site February 17

NETWORKS
Lecture # 3 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site February 10

MACHINES
Lecture # 2 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site February 3

January 10
MEDIA  
Lecture # 1 in a series given to MA Communication Design students at Central St Martins, Back Hill site January 27

Print Media 2010

November
Londres Noir
French language edition of London Noir, including the KH short story ‘Betamax’, published by Asphalte Editions , Paris
See also
London Noir is now available in French, Italian, Turkish and Russian

October
The opening section, parts 1-5 of KH’s forthcoming book The Bright Labyrinth published in issue one of Journal #3

August
KH’s interview portrait of sound recordist and former member of Cabaret Voltaire Chris Watson, published in issue 318 of The Wire

July
‘Sentences on Communication Design Education (With Apologies to Sol Lewitt)’
Text commissioned for MAtters, edited by Paulus M. Dreibholz and published by Gaffa Limited

Airborne
Sleeve notes for the Andreas Böhlen CD of the same name, text commissioned by Microtonal Projects

June
SPACESHIP UK: The British Space Programme as Musical Exploration – The Untold Story
Essay on the history of British electronic music, commissioned by Sound and Music for Sonar 2010 and available at the festival as a stand-alone publication with package design by Julian House and a 10” vinyl record featuring tracks by Daphne Oram and Belbury Poly
For details on this essay and the online version, please click here.

May
‘Craig Baldwin Conquers the Universe’
Profile of visionary filmmaker and archivist in issue 315 of The Wire

April
‘Edgard Varèse in Five Locations: A Personal View’
Essay on the acoustic spaces and musical experiments of modernist composer Edgard Varèse, published in issue 314 of The Wire

March
The Italian-language edition of Welcome to Mars published by  ISBN for reviews and additional information, WIRED review and serialization in Newton magazine etc click on ISBN Edizioni link

The Future is Back
KH’s essay on Marshall McLuhan, originally commissioned by NESTA, is republished in the Spring 2010 issue of Otherzine

February
KH on why I want to be a Japanese cartoon character from the future, commissioned for the first edition of Electric Sheep  as an online publication 

Audiovisual 2010


December 11
KH in conversation with Dolly Dolly, Glimmung and Dr Champagne on the subject pulp esoterica, alchemic texts and lure of decay – podcast available as a download from the Found 0bjects blog.

October 10
Resovision live broadcast from the Frieze Art Fair: the lecture delivered as online simulcast from the Resonance FM Art Fair Studio  

September 10
‘From Gameboy to Armageddon’
Repeat broadcast of this Radio 3 feature, written and presented by KH and produced by Mark Burman, September 7.
Related posts:
From Gameboy to Armageddon Online
From Gameboy to Armageddon
Full Spectrum Dominator

‘Film – the Music of the Future: the Cinema of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’
‘Hollingsville’ special – Ken Hollings and his guests Tai Shani and Chris Bohn discuss the films of this controversial German filmmaker in advance of an all-day screening of his seven-hour masterwork, ‘Hitler: A Film from Germany’. Engineered by Richard Thomas for Resonance 104.4 FM – first broadcast September 2.
Related posts:
Hollingsville Update

August 10
‘Welcome to Mars’
Marathon repeat of the entire ‘Welcome to Mars’ radio series in two 3-hour sequences as part of Resonance FM’ summer schedule. For more information of this 12-part series, on the evenings of August 28 and August 29.
Related posts:
Welcome to Mars

‘An Overloaded Transmission from a Quasi-Personal Stellar Source’
In a live transmission from John Latham’s Flat Time House KH talks about Tristram Shandy, the aphorism and the digression as literary forms. Engineered by Richard Thomas and first broadcast August 2 by Resonance 104.4 FM   in association with Sound Threshold and Flat Time House.

‘SpaceBaby: Guinea Pigs Don’t Dream’
London Fieldworks  put their film SpaceBaby: Guinea Pigs Don’t Dream up, scripted by Ken Hollings on Vimeo. ‘This video work incorporates SpaceBaby performance documentation and choreographed laboratory procedure with CG elements in collaboration with the composer Dugal McKinnon and writer Ken Hollings with narration by Roddy Maude-Roxby.’ – from the London Fieldworks post.
Related posts:
Spacebaby Screening at Less Remote

‘Read This: You Need Us’
Short film featuring an early Biting Tongues performance with spoken-word by Ken Hollings, posted on YouTube.
Related posts:
Biting Tongues

July 10
‘Spaceship UK’
A ‘Hollingsville’ special, a brief history of British electronic music, illustrated by selected readings from the 1951 Festival of Britain exhibition guide, first broadcast July 1 by Resonance 104.4 FM  . This is to coincide with the publication of my essay Spaceship UK: The British Space Programme as Musical Exploration – The Untold Story, commissioned by Sound and Music for Sonar 10, and a shorter online version  being available from June 2010 issue of INTO magazine.

June 10
‘Monsters’
Fair Warning: Hollingsville TX 10/12, featuring contributions from Laurie Lipton, Mark Pilkington, with musical interludes by the McCarricks, first broadcast on Resonance FM, June 17.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 10/12

‘Wounds’
Blood on The Streets: Hollingsville TX9/12, featuring contributions from Cathi Unsworth and Ross MacFarlane, with musical interludes by Unicazürn, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, June 10.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 9/12

‘Trash’
The Gasp between Clichés: Hollingsville TX8/12, featuring contributions from Roger K Burton and Edwin Pouncey, with musical interludes by Savage Pencil, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, June 3.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 8/12

May 10
‘Events’
The Birth of Chance: Hollingsville TX 7/12 , featuring contributions from Richard Strange and Tai Shani, with musical interludes by Graham Massey, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, May 27.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 7/12

‘Spaces’
Buildings Dream Too: Hollingsville TX 6/12, featuring contributions from Mark Fisher and Andy Sharp, with musical interludes by English Heretic, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, May 20.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 6/12

‘Dreams’
While the City Sleeps: Hollingsville TX 5/12, featuring contributions from Julian House, with musical interludes by David Knight, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, May 13.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 5/12

‘Networks’
Welcome to the Labyrinth: Hollingsville TX4/12, featuring contributions from Becky Hogge, with musical interludes by Richard H Kirk, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, May 6.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 4/12

‘Imreadyformycloseup’
Special extended edition of this programme featuring Ken Hollings in conversation with experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin, first broadcast May 7 on Resonance 104.4 FM.
Related posts:
With Craig Baldwin at the Resonance FM studios

April 10
‘Machines’
History and Hardware: Hollingsville TX3/12, featuring contributions from Bruce Woolley and James Bridle, with musical interludes by Radiophonic, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, April 29.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 3/12

‘Media’
The Extensions of God: Hollingsville TX2/12, featuring contributions from Russell Dabies and Richard Thomas, with musical interludes by Graham Massey, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, April 22.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 2/12

‘The Future’
‘Suddenly it’s 1960!’: Hollingsville TX1/12, , featuring contributions from Matt Jones and Steve Beard, with musical interludes by Graham Massey, first broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM, April 15.
Available as a podcast.
Related posts:
TX 1/12  

‘Varese in Five Locations’
A talked on the musical experiments of Edgard Varese based on the Ken Hollings essay of the same name, published in the April issue of The Wire, first broadcast April 13 on Resonance 104.4 FM.

‘Imreadyformycloseup’
Two-part edition featuring Ken Hollings in conversation with experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin first broadcast April 16 and 23 7 on Resonance 104.4 FM.
Related posts:
With Craig Baldwin at the Resonance FM studios


February 10
‘From Gameboy to Armageddon’
Special feature on military use of videogames, combat simulations and special effects, written and presented by KH on Radio 3, produced by Mark Burman. The programme includes in-depth interviews with SIMNET founder Jack Thorpe, military games expert Jim Dunnigen and Tim Lenoir. First broadcast February 21. An MP3 of the programme is available from speechification.The feature was repeated on BBC Radio 3, Septemeber 7, 2010.
Related posts:
From Gameboy to Armageddon
From Gameboy to Armageddon Online
Full Spectrum Dominator

‘Pathological Oversharing’
Broadcast of public panel discussion featuring Ken Hollings, Becky Hogge and Paul May as part of 2009 Media Playground, first broadcast February 8 on Resonance 104.4 FM.
Related posts:
Media Playground Appearance
Pathological Oversharing Panel on Vimeo

Events and Performances 2010

September 10
‘Hitler: A Film From Germany’
Introductory remarks given at the start of an all-day screening of this remarkable seven-hour film by Hans Hans-Jürgen Syberberg at the Horse Hospital, London, September 4.
Related posts:
Hollingsville: ‘Film – the Music of the Future’ - the Cinema of Hans Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

May 10
‘Sonic Warfare: The Politics of Frequency’
Panel discussion with Steve Goodman and Derek Walmsley on the military-entertainment complex, network strategies, dangerous wavelengths, media battlefields and war porn, as part of the Wire Salon at Café Oto, London, May 6 – the discussion was recorded and later broadcast by Resonance FM.
Related posts:
From Gameboy to Armageddon Available Online
Rand: All Your Tomorrows Today Online
Embedded Art
Welcome to Mars

January 10
‘Welcome to Mars’  
Reading with screening and live electronic accompaniment by Bruce Woolley and Mark Pilkington as part of the Strange Attractor Salon at Viktor Wind Fine Art, London, January 22. The performance was recorded and subsequently made available online via Archive.Org.
Related posts:
Strange Attractor Salon  
Welcome to Mars on Archive.Org
Welcome to Mars

Sunday, 29 March 2009

Print Media 2009

December 09
‘And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: At the End Once Again with Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson’
Essay commissioned by Mark Fisher on behalf of Zer0 Books to appear in their anthology The Resistible Rise of Michael Jackson.
Related Posts:
Michael Jackson: A New Face in Hell for 2010
‘Utter Trash’: The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson Denounced by Fan
Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley
Michael Jackson Was Always Good To Me

November 09
‘Background Radiation: The West German Republic Tunes In To The Cosmos’
Essay commissioned by Black Dog Press to appear in their anthology Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy, edited by Nikos Kotsopoulos.
Related posts:
Krautrock Kristmas Broadcast Details
Recording Resonance FM’s Krautrock Kristmas Special
Black Dog Krautrock Launch: Systems AOK

October 09
The Wire 308
New Soundscapes exhibition review.

September 09
The Transactional Dharma of Roj
Ken Hollings commissioned by Ghost Box to write a set of special texts to go with Julian House’s booklet design to accompany this extraordinary CD release.
Related posts:
Late Mentions and Top-Ten Listings For 2009

How Not To Cook Book
Invited to contribute a short text to Aleksandra Mir’s international catalogue of disaster in the kitchen, officially published in September in a limited edition hardback but also as an unlimited free download.

The Wire 307
Selected book and CD reviews in the September 09 issue The Wire – subjects covered include Susan Strenger, Brian Eno and Olivier Messiaen.

April 09
‘First Love’
Short story commissioned for the anthology Love Hotel City: Twelve Authors, Twelve Visions of Japan, edited by Andrew Stevens of 3:AM Magazine and published by Future Fiction. Publication in the US only: details available from Amazon.com.

January 09
‘Requiem for the Network: Six Degrees of Devastation’
Essay for the catalogue accompanying the exhibition Embedded Art: Art in the Name of Security, published by Argo Books. Design: Gunter Rambow, English, 184 Pages, 2 colors, 21 x 26,5 cm, soft-cover with flaps, EUR 30,00, ISBN 978-3-941560-09-3. Includes a DVD with contributions by the participating artists.
Related posts:
Olaf Arndt: Labyrinth and Camp
Embedded Art: Photo Op at the Brandenburg Tor
Ken Hollings ‘Embedded Art’ Lecture at the Berlin Akademie der Kunste
Requiem for the Network: Warhead
Requiem for the Network: Fifth Stage
Embedded Art: Below Ground
Embedded Art: Above Ground
Embedded Art: The Eyes That Never Close
Embedded Art: Press Quotes
Embedded Art on CNN
Requiem for the Network: Fourth Stage
Requiem for the Network: Third Stage
Embedded Art: First Response
Requiem for the Network: Second Stage
Requiem for the Network: First Stage
Embedded Art

Lectures 2009

November 09
HISTORY AND HARDWARE: A Lecture on the Mechanical Reproduction of Sound and Vision
Lecture to BA Graphic Design students at Central St Martins.
Related posts:
BAGD Lecture Gallery

THE FUTURE IS BACK: A Lecture on Marshall McLuhan
Lecture to BA Graphic Design students at Central St Martins.
Related posts
‘The Future is Back’ Resources

March 09
WELCOME TO THE LABYRINTH: Some Further Thoughts on Requiem for the Network’Lecture given at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, March 21, as part of the exhibition programme for Embedded Art: Art in the Name of Security.
Related posts:
Olaf Arndt: Labyrinth and Camp
Embedded Art: Photo Op at the Brandenburg Tor
Ken Hollings ‘Embedded Art’ Lecture at the Berlin Akademie der Kunste
Requiem for the Network: Warhead
Requiem for the Network: Fifth Stage
Embedded Art: Below Ground
Embedded Art: Above Ground
Embedded Art: The Eyes That Never Close
Embedded Art: Press Quotes
Embedded Art on CNN
Requiem for the Network: Fourth Stage
Requiem for the Network: Third Stage
Embedded Art: First Response
Requiem for the Network: Second Stage
Requiem for the Network: First Stage
Embedded Art

INVADING PRESENT TIME: The Politics of Simulation, The Bright Labyrinth, Lecture Nine

February 09
FROM THE DREAM OF VENUS TO ATLANTIS IN HI-FI, The Bright Labyrinth, Lecture Eight

DURATION Or the Birth of Chance Out of the Spirit of Music, The Bright Labyrinth, Lecture Seven

January 09
GODZILLA HAS LEFT THE BUILDING - And How He Got There, The Bright Labyrinth, Lecture Six