24/7 A Wake-up Call for our Non Stop World

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Craighead, Alison and Thomson, Jon. 2019. 24/7 A Wake-up Call for our Non Stop World. In: "24/7 A wakeup call in a nonstop world", Somerset House, London, United Kingdom, 31 October 2019- 23 February 2020. [Show/Exhibition]

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Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Creators:	Craighead, Alison and Thomson, Jon
Abstract or Description:	A large group show inspired by Jonathan Crary’s book and curated by Sarah Cook in which we showed Beacon. BEACON as a unique mechanical railway flap sign built by Solari of Udine in Italy. As with the online and projected version of BEACON, this mechanical half-flap sign continuously relays archived and contemporary web searches made around the world presenting them back in series and at regular intervals as an endless concrete poetry. The BEACON archive comprises over one million searches made between 2009 and 2020 and forms a historic snapshot of human activity during a decade of unprecedented technological change.
Official URL:	https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/247
Keywords:	Beacon, thomson & Craighead, Thomson & Craighead, John, ali
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Date range:	31 October 2019- 23 February 2020
Related URL:	http://www.thomson-craighead.net/beacon_sign.html
Event Location:	Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
Item ID:	27969
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2020 12:40
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 17:23
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27969

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