The Photographers' Gallery May events update
The Photographers' Gallery is located at: 5 & 8 Great Newport Street London WC2H 7HY telephone 020 7831 1773 fax 020 7836 9704 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photonet.org.uk Thursday 2, 9, 16 and 23 May 2002 19.00 Talking Networks: 'Are You There?' Co-organised by The Photographers' Gallery and the MA Spatial Culture at Middlesex University, Talking Networks: 'Are You There?' is a series of discussions addressing ideas and debates around networks and their impact upon everyday life. For updates on speakers and to join the text and email discussion group, text NETWORKS from your mobile phone to 07816 225 290 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with NETWORKS in the subject header. Tickets are �5 / �3.50 members and concessions for each session. Booking is essential for all events. Contact The Photographers Gallery telephone 020 7831 1772 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday 2 May 2002 19.00 Mobile networks with Robin Hamman, Richard Lander and Thomson and Craighead Robin Hamman is currently Community Producer, English Regions, at the BBCi and runs the web site http://www.cybersoc.com. Richard Lander is Director of Brand2Hand (http://www.brand2hand.com/), and will demonstrate how SMS text to mobile phones can be used to develop electronic communities in a commercial context. Alison Craighead and John Thomson are artists working primarily with video, sound and networked spaces. They recently exhibited in Remote at The Photographers' Gallery . Their web based work can be seen at http://www.thomson-craighead.net Thursday 9 May 2002 19.00 Fixed networks with Sandy McCreery, Miles Ogborn and Jane Rendell Sandy McCreery is programme leader of the MA Spatial Culture at Middlesex University. Recently he has edited The New Babylonians. Miles Ogborn is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He has written on the transformation of eighteenth-century London in Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies, 1680-1780 and is currently working on the English East India Company and the historical geographies of globalisation. Jane Rendell teaches architectural theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her publications include The Pursuit of Pleasure,Gender Space Architecture, The Unknown City and Strangely Familiar. Thursday 16 May 2002 19.00 Digital networks with Sarah Cook, Sean Dodson and Adrian Rifkin Sarah Cook is a doctoral research student at the University of Sunderland in conjunction with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art investigating the practice of new media curating. When not online working on CRUMB at http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk she is a project coordinator at Locus+.Sean Dodson writes for The Guardian, focussing on the development of virtual spaces. Adrian Rifkin is Professor of Visual Culture & Media at Middlesex University. He has researched and written widely in cultural and art history on topics ranging popular music and opera to Kantian aesthetics and gay subjectivities, and is currently preparing a series of extended studies on this latter subject. Thursday 23 May 2002 19.00 social networks with Mick Fuzz, Geoff Mulgan and Jon Anderson Geoff Mulgan is currently Director of The Performance and Innovation Unit at the Cabinet Office. He is co-founder and Demos, and his publications include Connexity : How to Live in a Connected World and Politics in an antipolitical age. Mick Fuzz has spent a number of years looking at social networks and how they are best supported and developed through the use of the internet. he is active within the alternative news service undercurrents (http://www.undercurrents.org/) and is currently developing the project http://www.beyondtv.org. He will talk with reference to Social Justice and Environmental projects on the web and how they interface with real live social networks. Jon Anderson takes emergent technologies and develops ways of making them available to everyone. He is a researcher in electronic, digital and linguistic communications technologies. In 1996 he established Locust, the world's oldest text message community. ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
