Took a little wander down to peacock visual arts last night for the launch of "recoded", a new media exhibition running from last night until the 31st May 2008. Definately worth a look I thought.

I was a bit challenged by the "Monument" installation, Pecock digital media geezer and all round good guy Jack Keenan explained that the artist had written a program to scan over 4000 news feeds looking for murders reported and each time the program found one, a ball bearing is dropped from a ceiling mounted device onto the floor of the gallery...didn't quite know what to make of this, whether the ball bearings under my feet made me uneasy, kind of like walking on graves uneasy? or if it was my own curiosity staring at the device almost willing one to drop so I could see it in action and then realising thats pretty much wishing someone to get killed....shudder....definately a thought provoker!

Another highlight, and by that I mean complete surprise was the parkour film shot entirely on a shopping centers cctv cameras and I believe, released to the artists by means of the data protection act. The most surprising thing about this film is the quality of the video, when you think cctv you think crackly, noisy, blocky video but you should see the quality of this stuff, it looks like HD! it could almost have been professionaly filmed, quite unsettling to know thats the quality of video a shopping center gets of you, I'd imagine the increasing number of cameras on our streets would probably be the same if not better...but I'm touching on a whole different discussion here.

My opinion is that Peacock have done well with this exhibition but this IS my kind of thing, although going on the numbers of people in attendance, this would appear to be a lot of peoples kind of thing as well. Looking forward to the rest of it.