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Enjoying pressing refresh on this online project by Candice Jacobs and Fay Nicolson. Featuring contributions from 100 different artists and writers, each web page loads with according to a random sequence, featuring a different selection of works each time. Highlights so far: George Vasey's youtube film of At The Drive-In in Jools Holland, video montage by Katy Woods and a video work by Benedict Drew, Jonty Lees jokey cucumber pic, random pixellated puff clouds and moveable paint smears by Henrik Potter and Majed Aslam's serene blue photoshop abstraction. 

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Ha Ha Road, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, 03 Dec - 11 Mar 2012

A second chance to catch my work in the group show Ha Ha Road at the Oriel Mostyn Gallery in Wales. It opens this Friday and will run until 11th March 2011. Artists include: Boris Achour, Chantal Akerman, Bobby Baker, Fischli + Weiss, Rodney Graham, Ellie Harrison, Pipilotti Rist, Ariel Schlesinger, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Michael Shaw, Roman Signer, Charles Stankievech, Bedwyr Williams, Dan Witz, Erwin Wurm and many more. 

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Ha Ha Road Review 2011

Super kind words about my work in the group show Ha Ha Road. Thanks Kieran Harrod!

By far my favorite piece was Michael Shaw’s “Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar” which base comprised of an Acoustic Guitar, a desk fan and some ‘sparkly shred’. The shred was attached to the fan whose projection was set just within reach of the guitar strings, as the shred danced in the fan’s airstream it occasionally lightly plucked a string producing a feint plink or two. Quite hypnotic.

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(Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 - Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby

Michael Shaw (Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Acoustic guitar, desktop fan, guitar stand, sparkly shred Courtesy of the artist Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby, 12 August – 23 October 2011

Departing from experimental turntablism and circuit-bending, the London-based Michael Shaw’s artistic practice occupies the spectrum between found object installation art and noise music. Amongst many other things Shaw creates unexpected sonic experiences by combining recycled and modified hardware, household items and musical instruments like drum-kits, keyboards and stringed instruments. While his work—whether live on stage under the alias DJ Tendraw, or in the gallery—is often loud, rough, and full-on, for Ha Ha Road he has devised a surprisingly subdued yet highly hypnotic piece. A bunch of silver tinsel woven into the metal cage of a small desktop fan incessantly blows against the strings of an acoustic guitar, which ever so often responds with an almost inaudible “plink”. The work at the same time inheres an air of gentle beauty and pathetic failure.Michael Shaw - (Encore) Prepared Fan & Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Text by Sophie Springer from the Ha Ha Road exhibition guide:  http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/fil es/ha_ha_road_booklet.pdf

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(Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 - Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby

  Michael Shaw (Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Acoustic guitar, desktop fan, guitar stand, sparkly shred Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby, 12 August – 23 October 2011