Finnish artist Liisa Lounila currently has an exhibition of her work at the Gallery Of Photography in Meeting House Square in Dublin. Her work was introduced to me a few months back by my friend Leo and I was very impressed. She makes time sliced photographs into a 3D experience similar to the techniques used in the film The Matrix. “Popcorn” was my first introduction and it is a scene of some people throwing popcorn at each other. This is shown here as well as “Gig” and my favourite piece “Play”, which is a number of scenes at a nightclub tied together in this style of frozen life. Also on display are some photos in lightboxes which move when you move and hurt your eyes a bit and some LCD belt-buckles which could well be the rage come 2010!!
Go check it out, it runs from August 15 – September 19. For more info, check out Scene Missing, the portfolio site of the artist where you can view the work, but as always it’s best to see it in the gallery!

Mashthenet is a new night running in Dublin brought to you by The Streamlounge & IT:IS:ON, whereby the internet is remixed live for your eyes on the big screen (and some small screens). The first one was held last Thursday night (26/07/07) in the Hop-House on Parnell St. The event was put on by Eoghan Kidney and myself as a reaction to the YouTube Saloon, which Eoghan had organised as part of this years Darklight Symposium. So we got together to make this a regular fixture, put it in a bar environment and ask people to come along and present their favourite videos, mash them up, remix them and generally have some fun with them. Audience interaction is encouraged and welcomed and requests are based on the flow of the themes from the videos. You get the idea.

Well the night was a great laugh and went down very well. We had guest sets from Sophie Merry and Simon Doyle who both showed us some fantastic videos. We didn’t have as many screen going as we would have liked, but it all worked quite well. As it was the first night it was good to give it a test run to see how we can set it up better for the next time.

Unfortunatley I didn’t get any video footage at this one, but if you want to get and idea of what it was like, have a look at the YouTube Saloon at Darklight from the Bubble podcast.

Big thanks to Lee, Joe, Kim and all the staff at the Hop House and to Sophie, Simon and everyone who came down for the night. The next one should be sometime at the end of August. Stay tuned.