[NetBehaviour] Thomson & Craighead show Flat Earth Trilogy in Lochmaddy on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.

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Thomson & Craighead show Flat Earth Trilogy at at Taigh Chearsabhagh Art 
Centre in Lochmaddy on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.

For the whole of the rest of August, the single screen versions of all 
three parts of our Flat Earth Trilogy will be showing at Taigh 
Chearsabhagh Art Centre in Lochmaddy on North Uist in the Outer 
Hebrides. More information here:

http://thomson-craighead.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/flat-earth-trilogy-on-north-uist.html

It's the first time we have displayed these works in this way and if 
you're lucky enough to be out on the Western Isles this month then do 
pop in and take a look. The entire cycle of works last around 30minutes.

Flat Earth Trilogy is a series of documentary artworks each made 
entirely from information found on the worldwide web. The trilogy covers 
a six-year period beginning with Flat Earth (2007), A short film about 
War (2009/2010) and ending with Belief (2012). In each case, the viewer 
is taken around the world encountering fragments taken from real 
peoples' blogs, which are knitted together to form something resembling 
a story.

In Flat Earth, we see the visual language established where Google Earth 
is used as a way of joining each of these narrative moments together. A 
short film about War focuses more specifically on the collective gaze of 
photo-sharing communities like flickr as a way of apprehending the 
locations being spoken about, while Belief looks to the video sharing 
community youtube and the phenomenon of video blogging and to a lesser 
extent ‘trolling’, where individuals attempt to sow discord online as an 
end in itself.