The Coin- Operated Artist Build

So the installation has been made, performed in few locations around the country and now is back in storage since the last post. But, as promised here are the photos from the rest of the build. The offical page with all information and photos of the actual show is coming very soon but for now join and 'like' my new facebook page to make sure you get all the updates as soon as they come out.

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And now, the photos.

The first stage of the roof..

The roof after a trim.

Treating the colomns

One dedicated individual, a.k.a. Soph painting her socks off

The front sign

My adopted cat friend throughout the project, Paws.

The front, painted during the night by the wonderous Soph!

Straight through the installation

The colomns

A spot of midnight painting and projecting

Mr. Aaron Brown

Hard at work in the workshop

Still working it

The coin-operated mechanism. That works!

Working on the speaker boxes in the walls

The gorgeous doors!

Just a few of the 100's of OTTER rocks made

Pete Montford's wall. He stands behind this wall and the audience interact with him via the switches and windows.

Everything going white...

Getting there...

The green and red LED's wired and mounted

All the wires from switches and LED's

Everything labelled ready for the installing and programming

Case for the Arduino hooked up.

Bit of a jump now and also almost the last image but everything went very mental after the point of the photo above. Had no space or time capacity to be able to even think about taking photographs during the final weeks of gettting it ready. The photo below is bad but it's a picture of the back of Pete Montford's wall when it was installed at the Secret Garden Party.

The electrics grew and grew until it was an almost incomprehensible jungle of wires. But, at the end of it all, it worked and it was understandable. But only with huge thanks to Mr. Tom Allan amd his massive hands in this whole project. Without him it'd never have got to the level it did, and long may the progression continue! Here's a photo of the finished product at the Garden Party as a little treat for getting to the bottom of this ridiculously long blog! Look out for the plush new webpage coming soon!

Progression...

As promised here are some images. 2 and half weeks, and bags of cutting and screwing later here are a few of the results.. Unfortunately the weather got the better of me today so the main construction itself is hidden but it'll only make the next update better!

A few images from last week..

The panels done.

And today...

"What's he Buillding in there?"


The barn on a break


One colomn structure done.

There will be more to come. 4 weeks and counting until the first show in Reading's Forbury Gardens, June 16th. Put it in your diarys. Fingers crossed the piece wont look anything like this, it'll be knock out by then!

The Coin-Operated Artist

Wow, almost a year since my last post, but at least a lot has happened. 2 shows from before Christmas still not even online yet but more excitingly and importantly 2 shows coming this Summer, taking OTTER to a new level and new audience.

Over the weekend of the 21st-24th July, OTTER with Pete Montford as the Coin-Operated Artist, will be at the Secret Garden Party. Soon after this they will be back in Reading showing at the Outside:Inside festival. Plans have been developing for months now but construction starts in the next few weeks. For those few of you who might know there has been a previous incantation of the Coin-Operated Artist shown in London but this is a new wholly interactive version way beyond the scope of the last one. I hope to keep updating this blog with photos and bits when they happen so keep a look out. This is going to be big.

Here's a little more bumpf to wet your appetites..

New shows!!!!

I've been very bad at updating, as usual really, but I have one show currently up and another about to happen so here's the update!

OTTER IS HERE

Installation in Friars Walk Window on Friar Street, Reading for the art project, Open for Art.

THE PETE MONTFORD ART-MAKING MACHINE

This is the piece of work I am putting in for my final degree show. This is going to be the best show of Reading's century so don't miss out. Reading University Fine Art Degree Show 2010 - http://www.readingfineartdegreeshow2010.com Come to the opening night on June 11th, 4-7pm to see the live performance of the machine working plus many other exciting performances from this years fine art finalists. DO NOT MISS OUT. This is the biggest project I've ever undertaken, and would love the support. Here's a tiny snippet of the installation. You'll have to come down to see the rest, photographs can't do it justice.

The Fictionalists

I've been extremely slow at putting these pictures up onto the internet but here's some images from the last work that I produced for the show 'Urban Utopia'. The idea was that the narrative behind this piece was never made explicit so the viewer was left to act as a detective of sorts. Various clues were left to suggest certain lines of explanation but ultimately it was down to the individual to create the story for themselves.

The full manifesto and images will be up on the website soon..progress has been made with the site and I promise it will be up full and complete soon but for now check out the new front page at www.petemontford.co.uk