Presented by the New Zealand Film Archive and Canary Gallery the Artist’s Film Festival brings together over 30 contemporary video works from all over New Zealand. The show is curated by Paula J. Booker and features work by artists including Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Rachel O’Neill, Marnie Slater, Murray Hewitt, Colin Hodson, Tao Wells and Sandy Gibbs. Booker says “This show is gonna kick ass!” And who are we to disagree?

ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL, Friday April 11 – Saturday May 17, 2008
New Zealand Film Archive mediaplex

pod – a new video work by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith will be screened publicly for the first time as part of Séance for Nam June Paik. The screening/ performance event, curated by Daniel Agnihotri-Clark, will take place on the 23 February 2008 at 8pm in the SOFA Gallery Basement, Christchurch Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand. Séance is occuring as part of Tending Networks: the fifth Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) symposium, and in conjunction with The Physics Room’s public exhibitions programme.

Our beloved Amiga 500 Arcade “Agnus” will be available for public use at the Hirschfeld Gallery from 23 November 2007 – 27 January 2008 as part of the exhibition Living Together.
We have chosen a bunch of games that will be able to be played during the duration of the exhibition, including The New Zealand Story.
From the press release:
“Living Together shares and celebrates work from artists’ own collections. Wellington artists and designers have been invited to lend a work of special meaning or interest to them from their own homes. The lenders include artists and designers who have had a recent involvement with the Michael Hirschfeld Gallery.”

Mighty Box first screened in 2006 as part Wildlife (Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2006): a wider investigation into the history and cultural context of Guy Fawkes celebrations.
Wellington’s City Gallery now presents Mighty Box in SQUARE² from 5 November-9 December, 2007 (timed to coincide with Guy Fawkes this year).

Territorial Pissings, curated by Caroline Johnston, August 8-25 2007. Contributing artists include Sarah Jane Parton, Greg Sharp, Marnie Slater, Mark Williams, Bronwyn Smith, Johanna Sanders, Mike Heynes, Caroline Johnston, Carlos Wedde, Shay Launder.
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Press_Releases/08-14-07.html

Now that is is almost April, I thought I’d better follow up on the progress of the Solicitor-General’s action against Fairfax regarding the publication of the leaked information regarding the “Terrorist” raids in the Ureweras. Funny how these things tend to drop off the radar pretty quickly.

Well as of last December (2007) it looks like the SG has decided to issue contempt proceedings. There is also good article about the proceedings here.

Interestingly the incriminating articles have now disappeared from the Stuff site – presumably a consequence of the proceedings. This doesn’t erase the public memory of this however, and there has been plenty of opportunity for people to cache/copy/distribute the information further.

Meanwhile, the country is gearing up to what has been billed as one of the largest trials ever.

Fasten your seatbelts! September 2008 is also predicted by political commentators to be the most likely month for NZ’s national election.

Was Fairfax breaking the law by publishing this and that? And was their justification good enough? Well it seems that the Solicitor-General didn’t think so, and neither do I, so when the opportunity arose for me to have my face in the Dom I thought my opinion should go with it, in the form of a specially produced t-shirt reading “FAIRFAX TRIAL?”. Unsurprisingly it wasn’t published…luckily we took our own photos.

The published article can be found in the Indulgence section of the November 24, 2007 issue of the Dominion Post.

This is the blog of Bronwyn Holloway-Smith. Here you will be able to find various thoughts, comments, recommendations, works and ideas in progress. Thanks world.