{"id":398,"date":"2020-09-01T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artstops.org\/?page_id=398"},"modified":"2020-09-10T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:32:58","slug":"ben-ponton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artstops.org\/index.php\/ben-ponton\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Ponton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/artstops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BEN1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artstops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BEN1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/artstops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BEN1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Ben Ponton is composer, musician and visual artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. He makes music with two groups, :zoviet*france: and the Black Glass Ensemble and is a founder member of both. His most recent music release is &#8216;Witness 4&#8217; a collaboration with Black Glass Ensemble&#8217;s director, Michael Begg that uses meteorological data to generate music mixed with location recordings from Newcastle, captured at the point when Comet Neowise was at its closest point to Earth.<br><br>The work reproduced for Art Stops is one of a new series he has begun, titled &#8216;Decalcomania&#8217;, that marks a return to painting after a long absence from it. As well as making visual work, he is a producer and curator of contemporary arts projects and, as a curator, is currently working with Allenheads Contemporary Arts as part of their Covid-19 lockdown project, &#8216;Call Centre&#8217;. 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