Dimensions variable
Network data projection
2004

Decorative Newsfeed presents up to the minute headline world news, taken live from the BBC website, as a series of pleasant animations, allowing viewers to keep informed while contemplating a kind of sculpture or automatic drawing.  Decorative Newsfeed is an attempt to articulate the rather complex relationship we all have with rolling news and how such simultaneous reportage on world events impinges on our own lives.

Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead won an Arts Foundation award in January 2005 and were fellows at the prestigious MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire in Autumn 2004. Much of their work to date explores how technology changes the way we perceive the world around us. In recent years exhibitions have included the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; ZKM, Karlsruhe; New Museum of Contemporary art, New York and Tate Britain, London. Their first monograph was published in May 2005 by Film & Video Umbrella, London.