• The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion

    …to say you’re a true Glaswegian, you’ve gotta be attacked! [audience laughs] Darren McGarvey: Comment of the night! Audience Member: So welcome to Glasgow! [audience laughs] Darren McGarvey: Jesus Christ!…

  • Day-to-Day Data

    …makes it impossible, though, to know if anything unpredictable has happened. Christian Nold’s project is visually intractable but conceptually comprehensible. Volunteers venture into the area wearing fingertip sensors that measure…

  • The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint

    …and it functions as documentation of an artwork, that interrogates dominant narratives including curator Hans Ulrich Obrist’s 1996 christening of the city’s thriving art scene as ‘The Glasgow Miracle’ –…

  • Love your local? Liverpool joins cohort of community currencies

    …and Lewes were joined, just in time for Christmas, by the Liverpool Local Pound. Glasgow and Birmingham are expected to follow suit within the next few months. The economics are…

  • From Below: A Visual Arts Reflection on ArtCOP Scotland

    …to artists so that they can work without institutional compromise. She quotes one of the RRAAF founders, Chris Fremantle, ecoartscotland, “This is a great initiative to use the production of…

  • Minus 20

    Paul Allitt, Phil Coy, Nadia Gisler, Nat Goodden, Ellie Harrison, Vicky Isley & Paul Smith, Christopher Otto, Random77 (Friedrich-Wilhelm Graf & Nadia Gisler), Tim G Taylor, Anna Williams & John…

  • Insignificance

    …five sections of whose 1973 book Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry each close with a page of double-entry bookkeeping accounts in which the eponymous protagonist attempts to balance the positive and…

  • UK Weather Report

    …from the Met Office and the Office for National Statistics, she observes the short-term impact these conditions had on retail sales in the run-up to Christmas, in the hope of…

  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Logger

    …to generate data about themselves, including Christian Nold’s Bio Mapping and Lucy Kimbell’s Physical Bar Charts. How were the first two exhibitions and have they in any way informed the…

  • Minus 20

    …about twelve seconds whereas the heftier peanut, at seventeen kilojoules would power our computer for some forty-two seconds. Christopher Otto’s timeascolor counts us through the work in a different way….

  • BA (Hons) Fine Art

    …Conolly, Anne Constantine, Chris Cooper, Hannah Cork, Simon Crampton, Kate Duckham, Adam Dunne, Anne Edwards, Rebecca Fitzsimmonds, Sarah Flewellen, Graham Flisher, Benjamin Flynn, Ryo Fujikura, Victoria Furze, Lisa Gascoigne, Ellie…

  • The top artists at this yearโ€™s Venice Biennale

    …footage combined with still of colonial photographs and horrible images of whale hunting. Imagine a beautiful baby of David Attenborough and Christian Marclay. Arseny Zhilyaev Zhilyaev’s presentation on Guidecca alongside…

  • Fair Exchange

    …the city’s most exciting independent organisations, including SWG3, David Dale Gallery and The Mutual, to sell work by early career artists alongside more established practitioners such as Alex Frost, Christine…

  • The best Glasgow books to read this World Book Day

    Chris McQueer McQueer’s second collection of short stories shows a surreal and often hilarious take on the lives of ordinary Glaswegians. We see the return of some much loved character’s…

  • Welcome to the 15-minute city

    …industry, which is part of the city’s strategy to become carbon neutral by 2030. I ask Christy Mearns, Scottish Green party councillor for the city’s central ward, how Glasgow can…

  • Artistโ€™s stay at home project has wrong effect

    …they could better tell their experiences instead of some artist?” A Creative Scotland spokesperson said: “Ellie’s project met the criteria for Open Project Funding to develop her practice.” Chris McCall…

  • Politicians Quizzed on Quirky Bike Ride

    …the unique ‘conference bike’ today, while Christopher Kennedy and Jessica Webb appear on Friday along with MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, Meg Hillier. Ms Harrison said: “We have had…

  • Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at CCA Glasgow on 24 April 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Strathclyde)

    …Heather McDougall, Heather Roberts, Molly Uzzell and Lauren Crone; Mean City Roller Derby: Ruby East and Ruth Brandon, and Chrissie Ardill and Libby Odai from the Sugar & Spin Skate…

  • Top Five Galleries

    …Centre, Cardiff Day-to-Day Data Abigail Reynolds, Christian Nold, Ellie Harrison, Hannah Brown, Helen Frosi and Lucy Kimbell, investigate aspects of daily life and the ordinary things that we do, to…

  • Transmediale

    …free download of the e-book. Transmediale also runs in conjunction with the CTM Festival of experimental sound, with events held at world-famous clubs such as Berghain and Tresor. Chris Hughes…

  • Data Dystopia

    …today. I have visited the Big Bang Data exhibition in London, just before Christmas. This photo was taken by my friend Cecilia Wee on 22 December 2015. But, as I’m…

  • How Can We Continue Making Art?

    …new wave of artists (including Jens Haaning, Christine Hill and Rirkrit Tiravanija) who were using social interactions between humans as a ‘material’ with which to visualise their ideas. The works…

  • Creating a cultural legacy: the National Museum of Roller Derby

    …from the sidelines, I could get involved myself. So, I got skates over Christmas and back in Glasgow on 10 January 2012, I went along to join the Glasgow Roller…

  • eel: East End Live

    Victoria Bickell, Sarah Doyle, Dagmar I Gausnitzer-Smith & Anna Gatgal, Ellie Harrison, Remy Lamont, Liane Lang, Lisalouise, O & Shan, Gary O’Connor, Oxen of the Sun (David James, Chris Nunwick…