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The Hypnotised Machine by Francesca Zappia
The Hypnotised Machine Francesca Zappia When I was a child, I was hypnotised by my dentist. The hypnosis went like this: “Dentist George W. Fairfull Smith attached 4 balls of cotton wool onto the length of rotary dental drill. These, he said, were three little rabbits, being chased by a hungry fox. Needing a place…
Read MoreA Letter from Francesca Zappia
So perfectly designed I post it here as it dropped into my inbox… Last news: 🐇 Follow the rabbit in the virtual world – Jane Topping + SIX YEARS Dear friends and colleagues, Hope you had a nice summer! I am sharing some details of my recent collaboration with the art fair ART-O-RAMA in Marseille,…
Read MoreNeMLA 53rd Annual Convention 2022
Delighted to be given the opportunity to present remotely at the Northeast Modern Language Association 53rd Annual Convention this year – my second contribution to this friendly, interdisciplinary affair. I was discussing the flick book A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner (2018) in the context of literary and film adaptation. Thank you Bill…
Read MoreCommunication Measures to Bridge 4.543 Billion Years – GeoWeek at the University of Cumbria Institute of Arts
Last week I met with many heartily missed friends at UoCIoA to deliver this brief introduction to The Man Who Fell to Millom… In 2018 I was commissioned by Irene Rogan, Director of the Moving Mountains Festival (in Millom, Cumbria) to make a film about the operational Ghyll Scaur Quarry. However, after visiting the quarry…
Read MoreThe Peter & nou Handbook: A Field Guide to an SF Practice (So Far), 2021
While this text is too chunky (it’s the quality really) to be accessible from this site, feel free to take a look at it on the GSA online research depositary thing, RADAR. I think you can just jump straight in here. Some context: This text examines The Peter & nou Project, a developing body of…
Read MoreAntennae – Issue 50 Spring 2020
In this issue of Antennae sits Shooting the Messenger, an essay by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson (pp118-135). A delight to have the video Peter (2014) discussed here in this fresh context. Thank you MW. Here’s Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson’s introduction to the piece: ‘In these years, the sea and its behaviours increasingly serve as an urgent and unrelenting reminder of global…
Read MorePeter & nou – new images
Shot by designer Matthew Walkerdine for his website, I’ve half inched these gorgeous new images of Peter & nou. All those ‘corrections’ in Peter – the scoring out, line by line – were drawn by me and then scanned and overlaid on the original text by Matt, and he didn’t bat an eye. Matt is,…
Read MorePeter & nou – The book(s)
Here’s my new publication, Peter & nou. Matt and Jess at Good Press organised this and Matthew Walkerdine designed it too. It’s element heavy, with a sticker of a lab rat in a kaleidoscopic space/time traveling tunnel included for you, gratis. You’re welcome. It comprises a book called Peter (like the film Peter, 2014), a book…
Read MoreEggs and Aliens (2018)
This text was adapted to be part of a performance that happened as part of Alchemy: The Curios Society at Whitechapel Gallery in 2018. The text was read by Fiona, the digital Scottish Female voice found in Word, slowed down as far as she goes. Prof. Robert Williams progressed the slides on Fiona’s command. Robert…
Read MoreTransit #3 and everything crooked will become straight
Published on the occasion of TRANSIT #3 and everything crooked will become straight, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2016, curated by Transit Arts, March 2016. Including contributions from Marcus Jack, Denise Bonetti, Jane Topping, and Stephen Nelson. Black risograph print with red card cover, designed by Marcus Jack.137 x 194mm, 36pp Edition of 120Signed and numbered As I’m not going…
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