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Issue 110, Winter 2004

Regular columns:
Visual Arts North
Visual Arts South
Film and Television
Slave to the Machine
Fifth column

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See (preview section)

Front cover: John Gerrard: Watchful portrait (Caroline) (detail), 2004, medium: 3D model, custom software, equipment: two PCs, two LCD screens, custom corian plastic housing, tracking device; courtesy the artist;

CIRCA 110 Editorial Adviser: Martin Mooney

Feature articles

Theme: ART / PEOPLE

Mhairi Sutherland : Fine Artist - Fine Fishermen, or the educational function of art within a public and social context Art and art education in the community – what’s in it for whom? Mhairi Sutherland gives her views. Heather Floyd: The role of the artist in art education, at a community level The visual arts and community arts projects: do they work together, and do they make a difference? Heather Floyd looks at recent practice and evidence. Vox pop: "how do the arts extend education beyond the expected institutions of school and family?" Pauline Hadaway: Art education – intrinsic purpose or political agenda? Uneasily, we have become used to the idea of art as a tool of public policy, as suited to effecting a measurable social good. Pauline Hadaway traces the rise of such thinking in the UK. WheelWorks Multiple Realities Project November 2003 – October 2004

Project

by Áine Phillips

Reviews

Linz: Ars Electronica Dublin: Marking the Underpass at the Vaults Gateshead: Elizabeth Magill at BALTIC Dublin: Josef Müller-Brockmann at Image Now Belfast: Catherine McWilliams at Naughton Gallery Bray: Reiltín Murphy at Signal Arts Centre Derry: Jenifer Youell at Context Galleries Cork: The Raw, not the Cooked at Fenton Gallery Limerick: Jack Donovan / Tom Fitzgerald at Limerick City Gallery Belfast: Willie McKeown at Golden Thread Dublin: Mark Cullen at Pallas Heights Kilkenny: Four Artists and I at the Butler Gallery Joyce in Art, Lilliput Press, 2004 Dublin: Maria Simonds-Gooding at Taylor Galleries Dublin: Juan Uslé at Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin: Joyce in Art at the RHA Blanchardstown: Mary Burke at Draíocht CD: Ian Breakwell: Vocals Sligo: Maud Cotter at Model: Niland Belfast: Perspective 2004 at Ormeau Baths Gallery São Paulo: Bienal Bray: Feargus Cooney at Signal Arts Centre Dublin: Noel Henzy at Ivy House Lifford: Eamon O'Kane at Cavanacor Gallery

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