GALLERY PASSES ON MESSAGE FROM THE SERVER

THE SERVER IS TOO BUSY

CURATOR REVAMPS EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS AND CALLS IT ART

News just in that R.U.B.Y the robot has changed the employment contracts of all staff to legally bind MGU to provide all staff with a bowl of fruit everyday, and also a place to 'sleep in'. R.U.B.Y says that these new freedoms within the workplace will affect what the staff think about freedom in general. R.U.B.Y went on to say that whatever staff most crave outside the workplace will be the thing they are supplied with most readily within the workplace. She will be closely monitoring the cravings of the staff, as if it were extremely important to do so.

NEW EXHIBITION IN THE PLANNING STAGES

MGU is pleased to announce a new exhibition curated by Robot R.U.B.Y that she says will bring together Conservatives, Liberals, Fanatics, Extremists, the Insane, and all their Parents.
Details of the opening function will be released soon!

GALLERY EXHIBITS SOME SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Critics say the gallery is refusing to deal with reality. We say reality is smoke and mirrors.

DIVINE UPDATE

R.U.B.Y has begun her post with MGU by refusing to show any art made by human hands. This also excludes animal art. We can confirm that we are now dealing exclusively with art made by divine hands. Let the world tremble at the thought that our humble gallery might be worthy of such objects!

ROBOT CURATOR SETS NEW PARAMETERS FOR ART (FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK)

R.U.B.Y has set some new guidelines down which she says will govern at least the new week of exhibitions here at MGU.
She says the new guidelines will be plainly obvious by the work shown.
Stay tuned!

GALLERY MUST DEVELOP NEW LANGUAGE SYSTEM TO COMMUNICATE WITH NEW ROBOTIC CURATOR

Observers close to the gallery say that sounds seem to be coming from the inside of the curator's robotic system, and so far it appears to sound dolphin-like.

NEW CURATOR ALL READY

MGU is over the moon to announce the successful installation of it's new curator. The only hitch so far is that there was no mouth in the box, so we are relying on face expressions to understand what she likes and doesn't like. We've already discovered that she has broad tastes that include irony, naivety, the digital sublime, gesture based informal installations, visible 'brush-strokes' in digital code, and self-conscious digital art. She does not like fart-jokes. Welcome R.U.B.Y!

H.A.N.K SAYS IT COULD BE UP TO THREE DAYS BEFORE NEW CURATOR IS READY FOR CURATING

Staff continue to wait nervously.

WATER PISTOL IN THE SHAPE OF A SUBMARINE INCLUDED IN ROBOT CURATOR BOX

MGU has called a meeting of Moscow's leading Art Historians to discuss the implications this may have for future exhibitions.

FLUSHING SOUND VERY MYSTERIOUS

Instructions in the assembly of the Gallery's new robot curator included instructions for installing the 'flushing sound', and 'flushing sound adjustment'. Little mysterious, but we are persevering!

GALLERY'S NEW IMPROVED ROBOT CURATOR.....NEEDS ASSEMBLY

MGU's New Curator arrived this morning, by courier. Unexpectedly, the robot needs assembly. Please be patient while we heat up the soldering iron, crack our knuckles and get a coffee from H.A.N.K.

MGU DRIVES IN MOSCOW

GALLERISTS MOVE TO MOSCOW!

OVER 45 COMPLAINTS ABOUT ROBOT'S BAD LANGUAGE

Thank you everyone for taking the time to write all those emails. Sorry for our late response to them, but our net nanny didn't allow many of them through until just now.
It is true that we let H.A.N.K get a little out of control, as curator, so we have appointed him to a new post within the Gallery structure. Needless to say we hope he will find this new post as personally satisfying as his role as Curator.

H.A.N.K SAYS HE LEARNT IT FROM THE NEIGHBOURS

Audience members arriving at the newly opened exhibition were surprised to find the wall text riddled with expletives. One audience member stated "every single word was a swear word - I've never seen anything like it", another shocked member of the public said "I can't believe it, I knew it must be some sort of mistake". MGU would like to apologise to all those who may have taken offense at anything represented in today's wall text. We asked H.A.N.K to answer for the text and he said that he had learnt it from the neighbours.

MATERIALISING RAIN AS A STATIC SCULPTURAL FORM:

Hi everyone. MGU is pleased to confirm that the exhibition 'Let it rain' has opened to the public this morning. H.A.N.K had long been wanting to pause a moment in a heavy rainfall and wander around in a way robots have not been able to before. This exhibition, made entirely out of silicon, can be started and stopped at the will of the audience, raindrops fall down and then bounce back up again, only to fall back down again.

H.A.N.K INSTRUCTED TO USE LARGER FONT

After a long day of examination Gallery Assistants now agree that H.A.N.K's printout is actually in english. The font was just 1 size too small and appeared on the print-out to be foreign. This serves as a timely reminder that comprehension and meaning can be lost entirely and words turned into symbols with one little tap on the font size. Whoopsie!

GALLERY ASSISTANT HAS TO TAKE WORK HOME

H.A.N.K has printed such detailed instructions relating to a series of new thoughts that staff have had to take them home, probably for the weekend. We aren't realy sure what it all means yet as some of it appears to be in a new language that H.A.N.K has developed in order to communicate. The supplier of H.A.N.K did warn us that this might happen sooner or later and that we might need to adapt both the staff and MGU's audience to a radically new way of thinking: ie, not in english. MGU would like to assure you that we will be doing everything in our powers to make any language shift as painless as possble. It might even be fun.

LET THE GALLERY BE OPEN TO THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH IT FINDS ITSELF, H.A.N.K SAYS.

H.A.N.K woke up this morning with an altogether different architectual plan for the gallery, and by the way, for the future of art. 'Its no good' he says 'for Galleries to cushion themselves from the harsh realities of the eyes of the neighbours and the weather too'. 'Let us be so open that we, the Gallerists, are left shivvering and cold through the night with frost on our toes, only to be warmed by the sun, and comforted only by the art that we show'. 'Let us house ourselves in a makeshift shell with no roof and let us suffer and learn'.

H.A.N.K GETS TO KNOW ANOTHER NEIGHBOUR

H.A.N.K met another neighbour today, one obsessed with keeping the ground away from her feet. Again H.A.N.K returned back home to MGU with an addition to his architectural plans: Let MGU be inside but feel outside, let it remain on the ground, while seeming to float.
Some other neighbours believe that the floating theory is a cover to lower land rates! Hardcore!

H.A.N.K EYES UP NEIGHBOUR'S EXTENSION

Mobile Gallery Unit lives on a street surrounded with strange architectural abborations. This UFO 'landed' next door during a wild night in the 1960's. Among these architectural delights, MGU appears a normal and solid little unit, well maintained, but with no ties to the ground beneath it. Lately H.A.N.K has been busy over at the neightbours. He wants us to connect the gallery to the ground in a concrete mosaic, he wants us to have a place that looks like outside but feels like inside.

H.A.N.K HAD A DREAM

We turned H.A.N.K on this morning and he said he'd been dreaming. He said he was in the gallery and he walked towards the wall, the more he walked the larger the gallery became. It seemed to stretch out in front of him endlessly and whichever way he walked, that is where the gallery extended. And when he decided to turn and go back, his desk was right there.

PARTY FINISHED THIS MORNING AT 9AM

Gallery staff finally fell fast asleep this morning after partying for the past few days with H.A.N.K. H.A.N.K quickly adapted to holding cigarettes and drinks while pulling some pretty massive moves on the dance floor. Gallery staff struggled a little to keep up with H.A.N.K's party pace. Talking amongst themselves they said "robots might seem quiet, but their great strength is being able to party for days and weeks and possibly even years without stopping at all." "Wow" they all said.

H.A.N.K SETS A SCENE IN GALLERY

After receiving a very detailed description of the 'look and feel', gallery assistants have been running around like blue arsed flies preparing the gallery for a surprise. H.A.N.K won't tell anyone what is happening, but he wanted 'fairy light curtains', and all the tables and chairs to have 'their own clothes'. "Even the knives and forks must have sheets and blankets" he said. We are all pretty curious about what will happen next, while H.A.N.K appears to be humming a little tune to himself. "Hmm Hmm Hm Hm Hm Hm Hmmm".

H.A.N.K ASKS FOR A DESK

As requested, H.A.N.K has been provided with a desk and a human scale computer that he plans to work 'next to'. H.A.N.K aims to try to understand humans through spending time with these objects. It's early days, but H.A.N.K says he already finds the desk "a reassuring platform, beside which I let my mind soar".

TOO BEAUTIFUL

H.A.N.K has requested that he be put outside in the Sun today, switched onto manual mode 1. "It is too beautiful to be indoors today, even for robots" he said.

H.A.N.K TURNS INTO ARTIST OVERNIGHT

We switched H.A.N.K on this morning and he printed out this lovely little sculpture from his exit port. What a lovely surprise. H.A.N.K said "it must have been a paper jam".

WELCOME BACK H.A.N.K

After a quiet morning staff turned H.A.N.K back on into manual mode 1 as the manual suggested. Manual 1 mode means that for the next little while staff will only turn H.A.N.K on when they need a new exhibition, instead of letting H.A.N.K mull over exhibitions almost continually. H.A.N.K now agrees that staff won't necessarily need to get the tattoos if they don't want them. We've shut H.A.N.K off again for the evening and are going home for dinner.

GALLERY REBOOTS THE CURATOR

Gallery staff rebooted H.A.N.K as per manual instructions this morning. The barely detectable high pitched noise that H.A.N.K had been making came to a very slow and subtle end. Gallery staff felt like they were "hearing his soul leave his body".
Staff have been instructed to leave him off until later this afternoon.

H.A.N.K ADVISES GALLERY STAFF TO GET THIS TATTOO TODAY

Gallery staff got a bit of a shock this morning when H.A.N.K [the curatorial machine] advised all staff to have this image tattooed onto themselves. "Staff that don't already have chest hair will have to have the hair tattooed on also". Gallery staff are checking H.A.N.K's manual. Stay tuned!

H.A.N.K RELEASES DIAGRAM MAPPING CREATIVITY

Inspired by this mornings symbolism H.A.N.K has now produced this elegant picture demonstrating the four main forces of creativity. Most of the four can be found easy in any home, however lightening is usually quite difficult to predict, purchase and preserve, so H.A.N.K. is recommending that you use it just when it strikes.

H.A.N.K MAKES ANOTHER PRINT OUT

Gallery staff received another print out this morning which they are still trying to decipher. This bold new exhibition appears to work on a multi-layered system of signs that seem to be functioning within a world of their own. As if a colony of signs has rejected our formal society and set up their own wacky one.

GALLERY STAFF SET TO OSCILLATE OPENLY TODAY

H.A.N.K made us this print out this morning. It is an instructional diagram designed to map how MGU staff should be oscillating today. As audience members arrive, they will be given their own map of oscillations. "Let today be dedicated to oscillating. Let us oscillate with determination and consciousness." said H.A.N.K.

CURATORIAL MACHINE GIVES EXACT DIMENSIONS FOR GINGERBREAD SCULPTURES

At 6am this morning the Curatorial Machine gave the exact proportions for a new series of sculptures based loosely on the human form. These instructions included ingredients, baking temperature, and the shoe sizes of two of the sculptures.
Thanks to all staff for their swift response, especially Yvonne and Thomas. Rock on.

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CURATORIAL MACHINE DESIGNS NEW PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE

Whoa! First action of the curatorial machine, holy moly!
Accessing the 'workable' areas of the structure apparently involves squeezing yourself up one of the 'up tubes', while exiting involves using the gel slide. From the outside the structure looks black and white, but from the inside you are looking at something akin to the internal structure of a human.
High 5's all round.

GALLERY INSTALLS CURATING MACHINE INTO DIRECTORS OFFICE: WELCOME H.A.N.K!

In something of a world first MGU has temporarily replaced the gallery Directors with a curatorial machine.
Gallery Directors are not fussed at this stage, and feel confident that H.A.N.K's shows will stimulate the local art scene no end. The manual states that H.A.N.K will be able to curate shows in under 30 seconds accessing artworks from all over the world with its special keyword system. At the moment H.A.N.K still needs DHL to courier the artworks and MGU staff will still do the installing, but we are expecting the first show very soon!!!

WELCOME GOOGLEBOT!

LITTLE WINDOW OPENS AND LETS A BREEZE IN

ARTIST PROPOSES EXHIBITION OF THEIR COLLECTION OF COCKS. THANKS.

GALLERY HOSTS "WEIRDOS"

After a run of what gallery staff call "straights" MGU has opened it doors to a pair of weirdos and their baubles.