People Like Us return to WFMU for 3 hours on 28 December 2022, filling in for Station Manager Ken. It broadcasts live from 9-Noon NY time, that is 2-5pm UK time. Live playlist and comments here when it’s on.
The Mirror Live in Huddersfield UK
People Like Us will perform The Mirror at Electric Spring Festival at Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield on Saturday 18 February 2023. Also on the bill is our old friend and collaborator Jon Leidecker AKA Wobbly.
Recipient of CuratorSpace Bursary
Vicki has received a Bursary from CuratorSpace to spend some time exploring what people are up to currently with AI:
https://www.curatorspace.com/about/news/curatorspace-artist-bursary–vicki-bennett/270
“As a collage artist combining disparate narratives, the ever-emerging, growing availability and use of AI software appeals, with its creation and manipulation of imagery using keywords and phrases. This resonates with my own methodology of using database content searches and mind maps. Both result in juxtapositions and styles that one would not have thought of, a springboard for new ideas and directions.
My current project will involve developing my skills through learning from a number of artists, writers and technicians with working knowledge of AI (e.g. dall.e, disco diffusion, artbreeder, midjourney and also GPT-3) about how to integrate this with my present digital AV collage work. This includes researching the viability of creating a new touring AV performance, to be later expanded to be a real space 360 immersive cinema work and exhibition.
This project builds on my previous work, including the immersive 360 real-space cinema, Gone, Gone Beyond. This work was a 10 screen / 6 or 8 speaker piece, with seamless wrap around projection and surround sound, and was commissioned by Naut Humon, the founder of immersive theatre project RML CineChamber. It comprised of movie and musical compositions, animated and sample-based, musique concrète collage juxtaposed with filmed and recorded content. The project has been a work in progress since 2017 and was shown for the first time in Autumn 2021 in a feature-length format in venues including The Barbican.”
The Mirror at Ubu@50 – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, November 29th 2022, 7pm
Immersive audio-visual performance The Mirror by People Like Us
Post-performance discussion: Vicki Bennett, Olga Goriunova & Marcell Mars (moderated by Tomislav Medak)
Solo Exhibition: MIND MAPS in Lleida, Spain at intangible festival d’art
The first edition of the new ‘Intangible’ festival, takes place from October 27 to November 6 2022 in Lleida, focuses on creative arts and welcomes British multimedia artist Vicki Bennett as a special guest. It includes the solo exhibition MIND MAPS: THE ART OF VICKI BENNETT which first showed at Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla earlier in 2022.
https://intangible.paeria.cat/#
People will have the opportunity to delve into Bennett’s creative universe with a solo exhibition, as well as enjoy a conference at Lleida CaixaForum gallery and an audiovisual performance of The Mirror live at Espai Orfeó. The event’s artistic director, Antoni Pinent, said that Intangible offers “a wide range of activities” aiming to reach different types of audiences and not only art experts. The festival “wants to be informative but reflective and critical at the same time,” he added.
The Mirror Live in Prague at Stimul Festival
People Like Us perform The Mirror in Prague on THURSDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2022 at Stimul Festival at Meet Factory. https://stimul-festival.cz/
Rhapsody in Glue Ltd Edition Lathe Cut LP
PEOPLE LIKE US & ERGO PHIZMIZ – Rhapsody in Glue
Limited edition 12” lathe cut clear vinyl LP & download
Release Date: 26 November 2022
Pre-order on Bandcamp from Friday 7 October 2022
https://peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com/album/rhapsody-in-glue-lp
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz are pleased to announce the release of a new limited edition vinyl album, “Rhapsody in Glue”.
Rhapsody in Glue began its journey as part of the Codpaste podcast on New York tri-state area radio station WFMU in 2008. With Rhapsody in Glue we find a unique approach to constructing a record. People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz decided to publicly tear apart their respective practices and create an album “in the open”, presenting on a seafood-filled-platter the process of collaborative collage composition – informally discussing and jabbering nonsense to one another, resulting in the Codpaste free podcast series. Rhapsody in Glue was the culmination of the ideas explored in the podcast series.
The album was initially released as an online-only release on Bleep in 2008, and now for the first time ever we are making it available in a Limited Edition of 100, hand numbered copies on 12” high quality remastered stereo lathe cut vinyl, hand cut by Bladud Flies! It comes with 300gsm inserts, lyric sheet, digital download codes, both for this, and also the original digital album release from 2008. The vinyl will ship with a polylined inner sleeve.
The vinyl will ship within a polylined inner sleeve. Includes a ‘lathe cut’ care card. Limited edition of 100, hand numbered.
The Mirror at BBMix Festival Paris
People Like Us play at Festival BBMix in Paris on Saturday 26 November 2022, performing The Mirror.
More details on the BBMix Festival website: https://bbmix.org/
The Mirror live in Tenerife
People Like Us will be performing The Mirror live at Santa Cruz in Tenerife at Keroxen on Saturday 19 November 2022. More details here: https://keroxen.com
People Like Us show on WFMU this week
People Like Us fill in for Station Manager Ken this Wednesday 17 August from 9am to noon, NY time (that’s 2pm to 5pm UK time) on our favourite radio station, WFMU.
Join our playlist and comments board while the show is on https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/118657
The show is archived afterwards on our playlist page at https://wfmu.org/playlists/PL
New summer mix from People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
https://peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-waking-2022-extended-mix
An extended, taking-a-line-for-a-walk remix of People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz “In the Waking”, created for one of the opening concerts of King’s Place, London in the late 2000s. The song, a lullaby of a summer place, was created through the Codpaste podcast sessions which led to the collaborative album “Rhapsody in Glue”, and was later released as a 7″ on Touch. This unreleased version lets the song twirl off into a gentle polyphonic fantasia.
BBC Late Junction The Sound of Summer Mixtape
We created a half-hour mix for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction accompanied by an interview, broadcast on 26 August 2022.
Listen again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001b5n0