Tagtool at McManus Dundee Light Night

The Tagtool will be up and running in The McManus Art Gallery next Friday 19th November 2010 as part of Dundee's Light Night.

More info on the Night Light on the city councils website;

Christmas Light Night 2010 | dundee.com

Tagtool at Carpark Party

Alistair, Billy Bruce & Ange set up two Tagtools at Neon Festival's final event in Greenmarket multi-storey carpark on Saturday night. Alistair set up the library's Tagtool central to the bike-powered set up provided by D-AiR and Guerilla Gallery. It was great to work alongside them.

Well over 350 attended the event.

Bitches Tea Boys work featured in the projections.

Punter pedal power kept the projections going...

Guerilla gallery projections were influenced by the carpark itself.

Here's Billy setting up the second projection and testing it out.

Bruce demonstrates the Tagtool look.

The Tagtool was really popular, lots of people having a go for the first time.

Click for more photos on Guerilla Gallery's Facebook page

Tagtool at Aki's opening

Images from tonight's opening at Hannah Maclure.

Matthias set up a Tagtool guest book

Images from Neon conference today

Matthias presented the Tagtool project.

In between presentations Alistair briefed the audience about the Dundee Tagtool scene.

Billy and Bruce meeting Akinori Oishi from Japan

There will be a Tagtool guestbook for people to sign at the Hannah Maclure Centre opening

6-8pm tonight. Everyone welcome!

3 Tagtool related events

Hey Tagtool people ... 3 events happening, hope to see you!

Thursday 6pm 11 November

Informal gathering at Counting House, Reform St, Dundee for the Tagtool interest group to meet iink (Matthias Fritz) one of the co founders of the tagtool.org who is over from Austria for the Neon Festival.

Friday 6pm 12 November

As well as presenting at Neon Festival Matthias and other Tagtoolers will be at the opening at Hannah Maclure Centre later in the day

Saturday 8pm til midnight 13 November

Guerilla Gallery will be with the Tagtool at the end of Neon party in Greenmarket Car Park.

Everyone welcome but tickets required.

More info on that here

NEoN plans a Party, in a Dundee car park

Tickets are free, get them from the Neon site

North East of North

I've had an email from Portia Simpson from York she is thinking of setting up a monthly Tagtool club for artists with drinking, drawing, making, discussing etc starting Jan 2011

" we would LOVE it if you could come along to one or two? Just trying to locate a chilled, creative bar or space to hold it."

If any of you Dundee based artists are going near York, or fancy a Tagtool trip down, I can put you in touch with Portia.

Tagtool at Illuminating York Festival

iink ( Matthias Fritz) came over from Austria to create four nights of projections at the Illuminating York festival which provided the National Trust's Treasurers House as a backdrop for projecting on. I went over for the Friday evening, many thousands came to view the work that evening.

It was great to meet the festival team members who knew about the Nine Trades project from the Tagtool blog. Alistair and I should have met Portia Simpson ( festivals officer) earlier this year at the Tagtool International Gathering but the Icelandic volcano eruptions prevented her from making it so it was good to finally meet her.

It was the first time I'd been able to use the Tagtool to draw on such a huge scale outdoors. Simple drawings were very effective. I got to mess about with the pen and gamepad for about half an hour. I really enjoyed it.

19 November sees the Winter Light Festival in Dundee, it would be wonderful if one of the Dundee Tagtools could play a part in that.