David Blyth

David Blyth was born 1976, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. He studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and lives and works in Aberdeen.

David Blyth’s work will involve sounds and drawings relating to animal trackings transmitted from forests near Aberdeen.

Recent exhibitions include ‘Lost Ritual', Marischal Museum, Aberdeen; 'Northern Krypt', Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, 2002; ‘Friend of the Enemy’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; ‘Melt Zone’, Limousine Bull, Aberdeen; ‘Absolut Open’, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 2000.

Presenting:

Sonic deer antler©, 2003; Stereo soundtrack extracted from active deer pathways located on Kincorth Hill, Aberdeen, with accompanying users’ guide.

Dan Norton

Dan Norton was born in 1968 in Leeds. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. He lives and works in Glasgow.

Recent projects include: first Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, 2003; ‘Prototype Cinema’, 43rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival; ‘Cyberbusking’, MIT-MediaLab Europe, Dublin; 'ablab & the paradigm poets', ICA, London, 2002; 'Forty Minutes of Unknowing in "Gagarin"', flat noise AV e-performance at Generator Projects, Dundee; 'Emotionally Clocked: Inside', The Arches Theatre, Glasgow, 2001; ablab tour of electronic sound/light space to European technology festivals in UK, France, Germany and Czech Republic, 2000; 'Psychobabel', video performance, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Newcastle, 1998.

Presenting:

www.RAMshack.de.com, 2003; An interactive and complex ever-generating labyrinth of colour, form and sound.

Gary Rough

Gary Rough was born in 1972 in Glasgow. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and now lives and works in New York.

Gary Rough's main body of work is based on text and textual drawings, sometimes in combination with sound, and for Zenomap they will also adorn t-shirts.

Recent projects include: ‘Mantelpiece’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 2003; ‘I Want to Come Home’, Mobile Home, London, 2002; Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania; ‘G3NY’, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York; ‘One Hundred and Ten Percent’, Dunn Studio, New York, 2001; ‘Use Your Illusion III’, Arnolfini, Bristol; ‘Shot in the Head’, Lisson Gallery, London; ‘Anywhere But Here’, Artists Space, New York, 2000; ‘Free Coke’, GreeneNaftali Gallery, New York; ‘La Premiere Opening Show’, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; ‘Recent Works’, Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen, 1999.

Presenting:

New drawings and sound works and a series of limited edition t-shirts, including Not getting it is the new getting it and Die or die trying, both 2003.

David Sherry

David Sherry was born in 1974 in Newry, Northern Ireland. He studied at the University of Ulster in Belfast and at Glasgow School of Art. He lives and works in Glasgow.

Recent exhibitions include: ‘Beck’s Futures’, ICA, London; Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris; ‘Signal’, Malmö, 2003; ‘Thoughts of the Unknown’, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2002; ‘Metamorphose’, Warf, Centre d’art Contemporain, Normandie; ‘The October Project’, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow; ‘Comfortably Being Alive’, Tramway, Glasgow, 2001; ‘Realistically speaking’, Glasgow Project Room; ‘Citizen 2000’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 2000; ‘Perspective 1999’, Ormeau Baths, Belfast, 1999.

Presenting:

Deflector project, 2003; An illustrated audio work charting the escalation of an apocalyptic global situation.

David Shrigley

David Shrigley was born in 1968 in Macclesfield. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and lives and works in Glasgow.

David Shrigley’s main body of work consists of drawings, combined with hand written text. He has recently started working on animations.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; BQ, Cologne; Kunsthaus, Zurich, 2003; Camden Arts Centre, London and Mappin Gallery, Sheffield; Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; FRAC, Bretagne, 2002; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Bard College, Annandale on Hudson; Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2001.

Presenting:

The Scream, 2003; A brief animation.

Ian Stephen

Ian Stephen was born in 1955, in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. He studied English at the University of Aberdeen. After having worked as a coastguard, he became a full-time writer and artist in 1995.

Narrative work, including recorded sound, photography and text-based sculpture has been presented in group and solo exhibitions throughout the UK since 1980, including: An Lanntair, Stornoway; The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney; Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy; An Tobar, Isle of Mull; An Tuirrean, Isle of Skye; Peacock, Aberdeen; The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; The City Arts Centre, Edinburgh; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall; Pittenweem Festival; Cairn Gallery (Nailsworth); The Eagle, London; The Mission Gallery, Swansea and Ormeau Baths, Belfast.

Presenting:

Saline points, 2003; Satellite-assisted storytelling in instalments on the web as Stephen sails from Norway to Lewis.