Tagtool

Cultural skeptics like to think art and music do not mix ‘and never the twain shall meet’. Well, Kellie O’Dempsey from Australia is an artist who is out there to prove them wrong.

On hand for the sessions was the entire OMA international family along with a hand full of musicians. There was lots of cooking and chatting and drinking, and more importantly TagTool.

A series of drawings by Tinet Elmgren from the Comics Against Racism post release party in Malmö, Sweden.

The Tagtool introductory sessions to comic book artists at SPX went really well. Every artist who tried it gave the ‘cool’ seal of approval, and this despite the 15 minute time limitation.

The Tagtool appeared briefly as part of a series of performances – only the second time I have done this (the first being Digital Natives).

From Groningen, Netherlands: SaHal´s Tagtool Mini and his live painting performances

Ange Taggart, one of the artists taking part in a project called Nine Trades of Dundee, has started to use the Tagtool and is writing about her experiences on her blog.

We met Portia and Dom during the Illuminating York 2009 festival, where they supported our project in many ways. We were happy to hear that they are continuing to work with the Tagtool in York – here’s a video from a school project.

This is the video of the Tagtool drawing session that we prepared for the party at Schmacke’s place in Berlin last weekend. Some of our Super8 found footage includes scenes shot in Berlin in the 1950′s so we thought it would be good to capture this and use it for the background.