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Work hanging in San Sebastian, Spain.

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Jeremy Gluck's surreal NFT diary day one

Today marks the first day of Jeremy Gluck's surreal NFT diary, and it's already been an incredibly exciting journey. Gluck, a renowned artist and designer, has crafted a unique and beautiful world through his NFT diary. Filled with ethereal landscapes and surreal creatures, Gluck has created an immersive experience that is truly remarkable. The diary features a variety of NFT artworks, which are all created using blockchain technology. Each piece of art is backed by a digital asset, making it a truly valuable piece of work. Gluck has also added a unique twist to his NFT diary, allowing viewers to interact with the artworks through a virtual reality experience. The diary also features original music and soundscapes, making it an even more immersive experience. Gluck has crafted a unique and captivating journey for viewers to explore. As the diary progresses, viewers will be able to witness Gluck's creative process as well as the evolution of his art. The diary is a perfect example of the potential of NFTs and blockchain technology. Gluck's use of these technologies has created a unique and captivating experience that is sure to inspire!

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Hypnogram (Edit) 

Work begins on “Dream Termination”, a no-production collaboration for Bath Arts Fringe. 

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In the process of a Messenger chat, the correspondent was copying and pasting text from a PDF into the window but when it sent the above appeared. Immediately noticing the first three characters - -G% - I interpreted them as “minus Gluck percent” and soon created an image to mark this, plus two others.

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Storm morning.

Q: But a dream is fleeting and unreal. It is also contradicted by the waking state.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: The waking experiences are similar.

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My responses to the work of Simran Kaur. 

Taking two of her images, I manipulated them in Pixlr and using Guelgram added text in the Cody font. The text reads: GOOD POISON CUTE AND DARK SK. The phrase “good poison” just came to me abstractly; “cute and dark” came from an exchange Simran and I had in which she told me that all her work is not just cute but also can be dark. Her initials, “SK”, complete the text. 

The third image is my no-production logo manipulated and overlaid with the text.

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In a masterstroke of no-production practice, an Instagram collaboration with London-based Punjabi artist Simran Kaur (see post below) eventuated her fantastic doodles responding, it was planned, to a work of mine. (My responses to her work appear in the post above). As it transpired, though, she responded not to actual work of mine but a post to Instagram I made of a black hole. The perfection of this filled my heart with rejoicing. Not only had I no-produced her amazing artwork, but it was a response to work of mine I had not done, and not any work, but an image of a black hole, a great analogy for a cosmic no-production factory or machine. 

Simran Kaur’s description of her response: When I was a child I used to think that space was colourful and full of stars and other things. I probably used to imagine that it was full of objects flying around and even food like mango pudding ( my favourite). Of course I was wrong. The image @nonceptualism posted reminded me of how I used to think when I was a child. I used to imagine and dream a lot, and now I can only record those visions and dreams with my doodles and creative practice in general.

Simran Kaur Artist Statement

Simran Kaur is a surrealist still life and creative portrait photographer and artist. She is Punjabi and she is currently based in London.

​Simran's main objective is to make the viewer's dreams come true by creating intriguing setups, but she does also create mental health or environmental awareness with her experimental photography. At the same time, she also creates dreamlike abstract visuals to make the viewer explore another reality.

​Simran Kaur's work was featured in various magazines and zines such Serenity Zine, The Sour Collective, Lux Lucent Zine, Bloom Magazine, Sunbow ZIne, Outlander Zine, Between Spaces, Unapologetic Zine, Isa Magazine, Pocket Baby Zine, Primavera Zine, Superfroot Magazine, Collective Collections, Painted Faces Co. , Sumou Mag, Sunnies Magazine, I'm your venus zine, Rambutan Mag, Stargazette Magazine, Starsick zine.

Simran Kaur is currently studying Photography at the University of East London, as she wants to expand her knowledge and horizons.

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Simran Kaur, London | Surrealist Still Life & Creative Portraits Photographer & Artist | UEL

My collaboration with Simran Kaur, a third year photography student at UEL, was initiated by me when I happened to see on Instagram (where we have been following and admiring each other’s work for some time) that she was working on an illustration for a character in a story she was creating that she had named Null. At the time I was using this term myself to various ends as part of the growing no-production praxis. I invited a collaboration and sent her some work to respond to, in fact the No-production Manifesto. 

She soon had created the image above, which I adore. Her style can seem almost childlike and naïve, but as she told me when I asked what she found of interest in my much “darker” work: “ I might like cute and dreamlike aesthetic or soft, but I love mixing some dark aesthetic or meaning to my work. Sometime is not in the actual composition but is in the meaning and the words or the feelings behind the work. I just enjoy mixing cute and dark aesthetics together, is like sweet and salt they taste good together ( put a bar of chocolate between 2 salty biscuits) “ 

Her second response she addressed with doodling, and called ‘Kira Kira’:

“きらきら ( Kira Kira) means shiny in Japanese, you can just say Kira but you can also say Kira Kira especially if you want to emphasise the word shiny...”

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Simran Kaur is a surrealist still life and creative portrait photographer and artist. She is Punjabi and she is currently based in London.

​Simran's main objective is to make the viewer's dreams come true by creating intriguing setups, but she does also create mental health or environmental awareness with her experimental photography. At the same time, she also creates dreamlike abstract visuals to make the viewer explore another reality.

​Simran Kaur's work was featured in various magazines and zines such Serenity Zine, The Sour Collective, Lux Lucent Zine, Bloom Magazine, Sunbow ZIne, Outlander Zine, Between Spaces, Unapologetic Zine, Isa Magazine, Pocket Baby Zine, Primavera Zine, Superfroot Magazine, Collective Collections, Painted Faces Co. , Sumou Mag, Sunnies Magazine, I'm your venus zine, Rambutan Mag, Stargazette Magazine, Starsick zine.

Simran Kaur is currently studying Photography at the University of East London, as she wants to expand her knowledge and horizons.

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Established in 2004, OUTSIDELEFT International Arts, Music and Culture Magazine has been for a few years a faithful publisher of my writing on art - for example interviews with Jamie Reid, and Mark James - and on my own art practice. In March 2021 I offered them my newest art manifesto to debut online. 

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The No-production Manifesto. 

The genesis of this artist manifesto - one in a series beginning in 2017 - is now a mystery to me, but involved my usual process of cutup and randomisation. I also applied some harsh no-production reductionism to the grammar and syntax of the text to produce a somewhat jittery, truncated energy...the energy indeed of no-production: No next. 

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Shutting down the machine that produces life for one thousand years

Deny yourself creativity

No-production logo Pencil Sketch effect

The top part of the document in these screenshots is actual work in progress on my PhD. The 'production' line came to me earlier. The 'deny' line later. It's part of...I don't know what. It's actually a breakthrough for me, almost devoid of...anything. I can't even remember why it seemed worth doing.

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Recession, 2021, Digital art

Interested in the idea of “recession” as an element of the no-production praxis, in the sense of a receding from, I created this simple image wherein the no-production logo is literally in recession. Another example of the highly disposable, self-dismissive no-production (sic[k]) art style. 

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The No-production Events series. Created in early 2021, these simple text memes, inspired by the text art of the Fluxus artists, no-produce life into four discreet events. 

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No-production Logo Variant 1, 2021

A photograph of a mark (possibly lime) on a sea wall on the Swansea seafront, that reminded me of a letter ‘n’, once processed became the first of a series of logos for no-production. Due to its lo-resolution origins, the source image is ideal for processing, bringing many degenerated gifts as the processes are laid one upon another. 

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On the penultimate day of my MArts work, with perfect timing, Thomas Newton delivers The Benefactor, the fulfilment of months of work leading to this outcome I could not have foreseen even six weeks ago. En route to further work with Thomas Newton and Charlie Kramer, and in a sense enfolding work with the consummately gifted Don Tyler, whose collaborations with me have been equally fulfilling, this work marks a new departure and adventure for me in post-digital art.

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On March 13, 2020, the third Volcano Theatre Axe Head to Everything Swansea College of Art group show opened. The fifth of Axe Head Collective’s shows, featuring twelve artists, it was a great validation of four years of the creative camaraderie of three of my fellow College alumni and myself. With lockdown looming, the opening had all the atmosphere of a fin de siècle party, with heavy drinking and a pronounced lack of social distancing and buffet etiquette to the fore. Meant to close on the 19th, the show – with the closure of Volcano to the public that week - entered a sort of lockdown limbo, frozen in time for weeks, further unseen, forgotten, become art of the void.