People Like Us get a mention in Slate Magazine on an article about UbuWeb‘s 20th Anniversary. Viva Ubu!
DO or DIY radio show – Vicki fills in for Ken on WFMU
If you are by the radio or internet on Wednesday 21 December between 9am-noon NY time (that’s 2-5pm UK friends) then tune in to a mega 3-hour DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU with your radio host Vicki and 20,000 mp3s. Listen on the live link at http://wfmu.org/ at the time, and join us on the Comments Board and follow the live playlist at https://wfmu.org/
Citation City at Dundee Contemporary Arts
People Like Us will perform Citation City at Dundee Contemporary Arts on 23 November 2016 at 7.30pm. Price £5. This performance of Citation City will be preceded by a selection of short films and a brief interval. http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/event/people-like-us-citation-city
Here’s a Q&A: http://www.dca.org.uk/stories/article/qa-with-creator-of-citation-city-vicki-bennett
Support WFMU
It’s the WFMU Silent Fundraiser. If you like what we do, please pledge now, you can’t start something like this all over again, you know, so keep it going!
WFMU PRESENTS: A CRISIS FUNDRAISING INFORMATIONAL FILM from WFMU
Recombinant Festival symposium
Sunday 2nd October 2016 4.30pm, Gray Area Art + Technology, San Francisco
Re-Cog-Ignition: A Substance Immersion Symposium
This is the first in an ongoing series of Recombinant panel discussions. Using the context of the works shown in Recombinant Festival as a starting point for debates around our contemporary understanding of time-based works, spatial media, and experiential enactments. Featuring two festival artists and other special guests and cameos.
Speakers include:
Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), Erik Davis, Ulf Langheinrich (formerly of Granular Synthesis AV group & co-creator of Motion Control MODELL 5 and solo work), David McConville, Steve Mason, Edwin van der Heide
Co-presented by: Naut Humon and Li Alin
http://recombinantfestival.com/program/#symposium
NYC Screening of People Like Us documentary
7th October 2016 from 7.30pm
The premiere NYC screening of Nothing Can Turn Into A Void – An Art Apart: a documentary about Vicki Bennett/People Like Us will screen in a double bill with Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
A documentary focusing on the British artist Vicki Bennett and her project People Like Us. Her work takes you on a journey into a world where literally anything can happen. Using her skills as an editor and a great sense of humor, she lets you roam through a world of imagination filled with contrasts and chance encounters between the past and the present. In performances, video work, music and collages, Bennett conveys that nothing is really what it seems. TRAILER: https://vimeo.
Final DO or DIY of the 2016 Season & Free Download!

From the final DO or DIY with People Like Us of the 2016 season on WFMU, keeping with a tradition we’ve been doing a “Best Of” show, here’s a release version of a megamix (minus mic breaks!) called MEDDLE MIX, downloadable from the bandcamp:
https://peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com/album/meddle-mix-best-of-do-or-diy-with-people-like-us-2016
Playlists:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/68229
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/68260
Nothing Can Turn Into A Void at Norberg Festival
The documentary about People Like Us will screen at Norberg Festival in Sweden on
Friday 29 July 2016 from 12:00-13:00. Go if you can, it’s a great festival.
http://norbergfestival.com/artist/kino-kraftwerk
Can’t make it to the festival? Watch it at home courtesy of our lovely friend UbuWeb http://ubu.com/film/plu_void.html
List of Lectures, Workshops
As well as working as an artist, Vicki occasionally teaches/lectures, as well as being the subject of student PhDs. She has given lectures, workshops and guest tutorials at Goldsmiths, UCPenn, RCA, Leeds Beckett, Newcastle University, Wimbledon, Middlesex, Camberwell, LCC, Lighthouse Brighton, Johns Hopkins Baltimore, University of Pennsylvania, UC Davis, SF Art Institute, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Bilbao, Universidad de Morelia Mexico, on music, media and the arts, film and creative writing. Also, she taught audio collage to 10-12 year olds at Croxteth School.
This isn’t all of them, just the ones we remember – look at the general bio if you’d like to see the bigger picture.
January 2023 – RCA, London
November 2022 – Ubu@50 at Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb
November 2022 – Opening Doors lecture at Intangible Festival, Lleida, Spain
January 2022 – Lecture, Sound Arts Visiting Practitioners Series, a CRiSAP and LCC Sound Arts & Design Department collaboration at London College of Communication / Online
October 2021 – Opening Doors lecture at Somerset House, London for The Wire Magazine
May 2021 – Opening Doors lecture at Gray Area, San Francisco, USA
November 2020 – Lecture, The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania, USA
October 2020 – Lecture, The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, UPenn, USA
June 2019 – Workshop, Newcastle University, Music Dept
February 2019 – Lecture, Goldsmiths, Art Dept
October 2018 – Lecture, Trinity Laban, Greenwich Music Dept
March 2018 – Workshop and Panel at Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens, Onassis Cultural Centre, Spain
January 2018 – Lecture, Roehampton University, Creative Writing Dept
May 2017 – Concerts for school children, Sentralen, Oslo, Norway
January 2017 – Lecture, Goldsmiths, Music Dept
January 2017 – Lecture and screenings, Roehampton University, Creative Writing Dept
November 2016 – Lectures, RCA Visual Communications Dept
November 2016 – Music Research Lecture, Goldsmiths
April 2016 – Lecture – Rose Bruford College (with Max Reinhardt), London
October 2015 – Lecture and concert at Leeds Beckett University, Art Dept
May 2015 – Conference, Goldsmiths Music Dept
February 2015 – Lecture – Goldsmiths Music Dept
February 2015 – Lecture/Conference – Lost/Found in Translation, Royal College of Art
November 2014 – Lecture – Goldsmiths Music Dept
May 2014 – Lecture Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre Here To Go Symposium, MetaMorf, Sweden
March 2014 – Lecture – Newcastle University, Music Dept
August 2013 – Artist talk at Liverpool Biennale
February 2013 – Panel – (Collateral Damage) – Off The Page / The Wire Conference, Whistable, UK
May 2012 – PhD tutoring – Newcastle University, Music Dept
October 2011 – Lecture – RadioVision (WFMU) Conference, NYC, USA
June 2011 – Lecture/Panel – Kinetic Colour: Animation & Robert Breer Seminar – Baltic, Newcastle
March 2011 – Lecture, Morelia Ambulante Festival, Mexico
April 2010 – Lecture – Johns Hopkins University (Arts/Music), USA
January 2010 – Student Tutorials – Wimbledon College of Art
March 2010 – Lecture – Recycled Film Symposium – AV Festival, Newcastle
November 2009 – Lecture – Middlesex University – Sonic Arts Dept
October 2009 – Panel – Vancouver New Music Festival, Canada
September 2009 – Lecture – Hit The Ground Exhibition (Hatton Gallery) – AV Festival/Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
June 2008 – Lecture – Goldsmiths
May 2008 – Lecture – Middlesex University – Sonic Arts Dept
February 2008 – Lecture – Now Hear This / AV Festival – Middlesborough, UK
June 2007 – Lecture, Copy Your Idols Conference, Bilbao, Spain
2006-2009 – Ongoing Workshop Modules, Goldsmiths Music Dept
October 2006 – Residency – Newcastle University, Music Dept
May 2008 – Lecture – Middlesex University – Sonic Arts Dept
March 2008 – Lecture – Middlesex University – Sonic Arts Dept
May 2007 – Lecture – Middlesex University – Sonic Arts Dept
May 2006 – Lecture – London College of Communication – Sonic Arts Dept
October 2005 – Lecture – London College of Communication Sonic Arts Dept
February 2005 – Lecture – Middlesex University – Sonic Arts Dept
November 2004 – Lecture – University of York Music Dept, UK
April 2004 – Lecture/Panel – Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
February 2004 – Residency and Lectures, FACT/Croxteth Comprehensive School, Liverpool (as part of artist residency)
January 2004 – Lecture, Royal College of Art, London
November 2003 – Panel and artist talk at Sample Culture Now at Tate Modern
Summer 2002 – Ongoing Workshop Modules, Camberwell Art (a/v) Dept
June 2001 – Year of the Artist Residency, Lighthouse, Brighton with Brighton & Hove Music Library, teaching sound collage
Documentation Video: Optimized! Expanded Radio & Artist Residency at WFMU
From 6-10 June 2016 Vicki Bennett and John Kilduff were Artists in Residence at freeform radio station WFMU in Jersey City, NJ, USA. This residency consisted of “Optimized!” – a week-long online a/v radio station which experimented with ideas of what radio might be in the world of high speed internet broadcasting.
The content included 26 new a/v artist commissions selected and programmed by Vicki Bennett, where people were invited to respond to the word “optimized”, John Kilduff’s live “Let’s Paint TV” daily video show which combines, painting, cooking and exercise, and an evening at the station with an in-house studio audience.
This documents just some of what went on. The rest is archived at wfmu.org/playlists/up
Thanks to:
Andrew Sharpley, Bodega Pop Live with Gary Sullivan, Brian J Davis, Brijet Murray, Bryce, Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie, Buttress O’Kneel, Carlo Patrão, Carol McCrossen, Dan, Dan Deacon, Daniel Menche, Dina Kelberman, DO or DIY with People Like Us, Drew Daniel, DW Robertson, Gwilly Edmondez, Hank Lewis, Heather Phillipson, Irene Moon, Jason Willett & MC Schmidt, Jeff Moore, Jem Finer, Jim Price, John, John Dalton, John Kilduff, Ken Freedman, Kimzilla, Leech, Liz Berg, Matt Warwick, Melissa, Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White, Nick the Bard, Osymyso, Pat Byrne’s Desk, Peter Knight, Porest, Pseu Braun, Roy, Ruth Hayduk, Scott Williams, Steinski, The Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon, Tim Maloney, Tom, Vicki Bennett, Will, Wreck This Mess with Bart Plantenga, WFMU, Monty Hall and The National Endowment For The Arts
Interview on Soundproof, ABC Radio National
Recently did a great radio interview with ABC Radio National‘s Miyuki Jokiranta on the program Soundproof – it broadcast earlier today in Australia and is now online here.
LISTEN http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundproof/8july/7499576
Broadcast Friday 8 July 2016 9:05PM
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been working across the field of audio-visual collage, and is a pioneer in the area of sampling, appropriation and cutting up of found footage and archives.
For her Radio Yak, she chooses a palate of music, film and radio that start out familiar but end up somewhere… strange.
Vicki’s playlist:
Dalek Relaxation Tape
Dave Soldier and Komar and Melamid — The People’s Choice Music: The Most Unwanted Song
Dondero High School — Satellite of Love
Stephan Dillemuth — Urban Folkdance, New landscapes, Yesterday’s Cloud and Some of Your Favourite Birdsongs
Christo Graham — Heaven on their Minds, Muppet Christ Superstar
People Like Us — Who’s Watching Who, Citation City
Adam Bohman — At Home (White Sauce Without for Those Who Don’t)
POREST on DO or DIY with People Like Us
Celebrating Independence with POREST
on WFMU’s DO or DIY with People Like Us
4 July, 6pm-7pm NY Time (that’s 11pm UK) on WFMU
Vicki welcomes Porest (aka Mark Gergis) and friends to preview their new album “Modern Journal of Popular Savagery” (on Nashazphone). Celebrate Independence Day, and let’s throw in Brexit too and see how THAT turns out!
Playlist and comments: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/67248