Vasulka Lab at Vivid in Birmingham. Steina and Woody Vasulka give a one day masterclass in their midi based video manipulations. Steina uses a violin to control the timeline and distortions to prerecorded video. Midi notes are assigned to the notes on the strings of the violin and the open string is assigned to and ‘all off’ midi note. Another work used the midi violin to control a robot with midi notes assigned to different hydrolic movements in the robot. Brian Duffy (electronic musician and artist) gave a demonstration of his manipulated sound making toys.

John Keane exhibition Fifty Seven Hours in the House of Culure at Flowers Gallery. Large paintings taken from video stills from the Beslan Seige. Very powerful images especially as there were subtitle style text on each painting. The images were well chosen and looked filmic in their widescreen format. There was an extra level of opaque paint over the images that gave the effect of the reflection or flare you get from a television which seemed to make the images affect me less. An interesting conversations about the ethics of the images with Alex afterwards.