Websites
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSmack77?feature=watch#p/a/u/1/TRYSM3...

www.artreview.com/profile/simonmack
http://www.look2011.co.uk/gallery/the-garden-of-eden/
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSmack77?feature=mhee
http://www.artdrivejapan.com/
http://www.independentsbiennial.org/2010events/1221-zero-blank-eye-...
http://www.artinliverpool.com/?s=simon+mack



BIO  / CV :



College / University
UNL / Metropolitan - London
Program / Degree
BSc Hons
Graduation
June 6, 2002
Member type
Artist, Curator, Producer
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Conceptual, Installation, Photography, Video
I am...
a socially concerned artist,photographer + curator having exhibited in the UK and Internationally since 2000 to date.

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Projects - 2013:
photo series as part of Concept -"shadow" curated int'l online contest:
https://www.facebook.com/elkor8 : dec 2012/jan2013 -
video collaborations with -Shortfuse Film - Lebanon - jan 2013
as part of NORM/Lives project - summer 2013: Copenhagen TBC

Ongoing - 2012-14:
1) "Norm/No-madic Lives" inter'l video art project :
Project Curator/artist :travelling/exhibiting video art project- Melbourne, Liverpool, Beirut, Copenhagen, Berlin : + more cities to be added :2012-2014

2) BBC projects :
a) Video Big Screen collaboration – Liverpool (as part of NORM/NO-madic Lives project : Oct-2012
b) Beatles remix project as [d]-fekt : with phil hargreaves)– radio broadcast BBC Merseyside : Oct 2012

TheSmack77 arts channel on YouTube - visual experiments in short film/art video + music. solo artist + collaborative projects

[d]-fekt : experimental drone/noise/sax duo : new material in 2012http://www.myspace.com/572877013

Project Curator / artist :International travelling/exhibiting video art project-at Propaganda Window artspace :march 2012, Melbourne- Australia
BBC big screen + domino gallery :oct-dec 2012 - Liverpool
plus - Beirut, Copenhagen, Berlin : + more cities to be added :2012-2014 TBC



CV :
 

Statement:
i continue to be produce work based on contemporary society,media + social control, consumerism, belief systems + their disjunctions in both collaborative + solo contexts.

Exhibitions -2000 to date:
UK, Germany ,Japan, Australia :

Globe café gallery,Shoredich : London 2000
View Gallery: Liverpool 2000
Hanover Gallery : Liverpool(Curator/artist-joint exhibition 2001
View Gallery : Liverpool 2001
Stringray café gallery: London N1 2001
Jump Ship Rat group show : Liverpool 2002
Liverpool Biennial (Independent group show):2002
Islington Arts Factory, London
(curator + artist of Int'l group show):2003
Public Notice live events - music/film projection series : Liverpool 2004/5
Freestyle group show, TheEggspace gallery: Liverpool 2005
First solo exhibition : The Lauries Centre, Birkenhead, Merseyside 2007
Novas Gallery, summer show, Camden, London 2007
Dot Art , Liverpool (ongoing exhibiting artist) 2007 + 2008
Eggspace gallery,Liverpool 2008
IndependentsBiennial / dot-art warehouse exhibition : Liverpool 2008
Curator of the Lauries Centre - Birkenhead, nr.Liverpool 2009+2010:
multimedia exhibition:"Zero BLank Eye Candy" -w/artists from the UK, Japan , Germany, Greece, France etc as part of Liverpool Independents Biennial sept- nov 2010. + solo show:"[this was-now]" solo show:Mar/Apr 2009
Bereznitsky Galerie/museum man, :"reliquaries of empires dust": Berlin April 2009
LCDP/dot-art public art Commission : Liverpool - July 2009
The Foundry : "post-financial/reversal" exhibition Aug/Sep : London, 2009
Tee Haus Project artshow(w/St.+St.): November- Berlin 2009
Zero BLank Eye Candy (as Curator/artist) at Lauries Centre, Birkenhead incl.Independents Biennial Liverpool - 2010
Solo ten year retrospective artshow :"0-10: Primarni Nation":July at The Gallery-july, Liverpool 2010
Video screening :If Only performance night-the Bluecoat Arts Centre, oct 2010- Liverpool 2010
online auction project :http://www.artdrivejapan.com/:ArtDrive: Japan - May 2011.
1)"The Garden of Eden" -photo series as part of LOOK11 Int'l Photo festival, http://www.look2011.co.uk/gallery/the-garden-of-eden/
online art bid aid project :http://www.artdrivejapan.com/ Japan - may/july 2011
"Little Benefits" group show - Cultivate gallery, , London - Oct 2011
"Easy Objects"- group exhibition, Dirty Linen gallery, Dec 2011 Queensland, Australia
21 Steps group exhbtn w/video installation work :Domino Gallery - Liverpool: April/May 2012
About my artwork
video, installation, photography , soundtracks/remixes

conceptual/political/collaborative/coded/minimal/maximal/image+object/perceptual + visual reconfiguration

contact :
email: simonmack77@gmail.com

early influences
malevich,turner,kruger,tillmans,schwitters,tarkovsky,maholy-nagy, halley,rehberger,reyle,hatoum,viola,rodchenko,june paik,eggleston etc
Interests
art, society, power + politics, music, travel, people: their motives+beliefs