FLUXLIST: water, water everywhere
Press Release June 2005 In an uninspired and dull art performance environmentally stupid, and just plain stupid, like real fucking stupid, artist Mark McGowan is intending to turn on a cold water tap in the House Gallery in Camberwell, London and leave it running for one year wasting 15 million litres of water. The event will start on Tuesday 28th June 2005 at 10am. On average 2 litres are dispersed every 10 seconds from the gallery tap. If bottled and stacked from floor to ceiling it would be enough water to fill several supermarket megastores. McGowan says, 'Basically its an art piece for people to come and look at and enjoy aesthically, though of course they could stay at home and watch the tap as they fill their kettle, it is also an attempt to get people to notice me because I've never got enough attention at other times in my life. In my work, I'm heavily influenced by that other publicity monkey, David Blaine.' The 'Running Tap', can be viewed most days from 1pm-6pm or by appointment. For more info and images 07956084780 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.housegallery.org http://clublet.com/c/c/house?page=3DMarkMcGowan -- idea - a catalyst for art and ideas http://www.idea.org.uk/archive http://www.chapelstreet.org 07976 949853
FLUXLIST: TAYTOGRAPHIES announcement
TAYTOGRAPHIES M. Tayto et M. Tayto are currently on a 12-month research carribean cruise funded by Norwegians. As acting editors we have tayttached a special 'new media' edition which we have reanimated 'Hayes Argot Pit'. It is compatible with Spectrum 16K RAM avec microdrive and Kempston joyfulstick. This comes with a free peace planner and is more pro-gay hate sit. Download from http://www.a-r-c.org.uk/tayto Matt Roy et Tom Arty, Carlingue n.5 train à grande vitesse, entre Warsawza et Monnaco.
FLUXLIST: DRIFT update: Resonant Cities
DRIFT Radio: Resonant Cities 25 - 31 July Sonic Ghosts programme 2 http://www.mediascot.org/drift DRIFT: Resonant Cities How we listen and how aware we are of the 'noise' around us is at the heart of the wealth of works submitted and selected for Resonant Cities, a series of themed radio programmes curated by Robert H. King. The programmes are presented in three distinct themes. The first is Sonic Ghosts: the works presented for this strand of programmes are reconstructed and processed moments in time and space, events now gone, and found sound atmospheres. Sonic Ghosts programme 2 features sound works by two accomplished artists: Fergus Kelly's 'Invisible City'; and John Levack Drever's 'Phonographies: Glasgow, Frankfurt, Exeter'. To listen to the stream, and for further information visit the DRIFT web site at http://www.mediascot.org/drift -- New Media Scotland P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ Tel. +44 131 477 3774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org --
FLUXLIST: DRIFT update: Resonant Cities
DRIFT Radio: Resonant Cities 6 - 12 June The Remembered Journey programme 1 http://www.mediascot.org/drift DRIFT: Resonant Cities How we listen and how aware we are of the 'noise' around us is at the heart of the wealth of works submitted and selected for Resonant Cities, a series of themed radio programmes curated by Robert H. King. The programmes are presented in three distinct themes. The third programme strand is 'The Remembered Journey': sonic postcards of urban architecture, audio picture books and street music recordings. All are pure documentation of events and locations: sonic postcards of urban architecture (Nicholas Economos' 'UnderBrklynBridge, Brooklyn') to audio picture books (Adrian Newton's Resonant Cambridge) and Lorenza Lucchi Basili's street musician recordings in Buenos Aires. All capable of putting you 'almost there'. To listen to the stream, visit the DRIFT web site at http://www.mediascot.org/drift -- New Media Scotland P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ Tel. +44 131 477 3774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org --
FLUXLIST: HOST: Johannes Auer - Paid Leave
New Media Scotland presents a new project for HOST: Johannes Auer - Paid Leave http://www.mediascot.org/host An online archive of Johannes Auer's investigations into his and other people's experiences and perceptions of 'free time'. At the beginning of the 1990s an art strike was proclaimed by the Neoists (Stuart Home et al). The aim of this art strike was to demolish serious culture. Perhaps such a notion was a product of its time. Still relevant is the need to reflect upon the artist's function and situation in society. The biggest unknown is the influence of free time on the artistic process. The aim of this project is to explore the impact of the artist's free time on his creativity. Therefore it is very important that the free time given is paid and not only 'blank' time. Extract from 'Manifesto for the Art of Doing Nothing' Art is no question of technology. Art is indifferent to the means of producing art. Art is concept. Art is doing nothing. All past centuries knew an active and a passive state of being - a vita activa and a vita contemplativa - pottering around and contemplation. Warrior and monk, politician and philosopher. Indeed, the whole digital revolution owes everything to acting and resting, off and on, the one and the zero. But we exploited this antagonism, printed it on circuit boards and, in a state of permanent global-capital-restlessness, forgot what our mobile phone and PDA are really based upon. Johannes Auer (aka Frieder Rusmann), net artist and curator, lives in Stuttgart, Germany. He started creating net literature and art projects in 1996, for example: Wertschoepfung / Creation of Value, 2002; Log-Book of a Common Journey, 2002; concrete_maschine (TM), 2003; The Famous Sound of Absolute Wreaders, ORF Kunstradio Wien, 2003. 'Paid Leave' was made possible by a residency during April and May 2004 at the Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, part of the European Media Artist-in-residence Exchange (EMARE). Supported by the School of Television Imaging, University of Dundee; Dundee Contemporary Arts; New Media Scotland. HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to projects by artists. 21 projects have been presented since 2000. Earlier projects also available to view on HOST feature a range of Scottish and international artists including Beverley Hood, Beagles Ramsay, Mike Stubbs, slateford, Katrina McPherson Simon Fildes, *candy factory, Luci Eyers, Dane, Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky and Roshini Kempadoo. For further information contact: -- New Media Scotland P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ Tel. +44 131 477 3774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org --
FLUXLIST: calling NorthAmerica®
Hello fluxlist Out of lurk mode to see if Cali-forni-folk on this list are interested in responding to this request from the daughter of one of my oldest friends. I imagine interesting invitations from elsewhere in NorthAmerica® might also be considered. Roshana recently threw up a music conservatoire route for visual/audio art - in particular video/film - her mum my friend is ex dancer/actor/perf-arts-curator and R's dada (oops) is a live artist of some renown, currently in China on business. Don't know Jessica but wouldn't bet against her being an interesting young woman also. Best w Chris P Hello everyone, My partner Jessica and I are planning a trip to the states and were wondering if you know, or know of anyone who could accommodate us in San Francisco and/or LA? Or if you know of anywhere cheap and safe we could stay? It will be for approximately one week (in each place) in August. Gay friendly is imperative. Thank You, Roshana and Jessica -- Chris Paul http://www.chapelstreet.org http://www.idea.org.uk/archive idea - a catalyst for art and ideas 44 7976 949 853
FLUXLIST: DRIFT update: Resonant Cities
DRIFT Radio: Resonant Cities 23 - 29 May The Narrative Journey programme 1 http://www.mediascot.org/drift DRIFT: Resonant Cities How we listen and how aware we are of the 'noise' around us is at the heart of the wealth of works submitted and selected for Resonant Cities, a series of themed radio programmes curated by Robert H. King. The programmes are presented in three distinct themes. The second thematic strand is 'The Narrative Journey'. The unfolding stories of this set of programmes are a compelling series of road movies (without visuals) that retrace paths taken and interact as the journey unfolds. From operatics in the street (Viv Corringham's 'Vocal Strolls'), conversations in the car (Sean Burn's sprawling 'North'), glitch drone stories (Charlie Pulford's 'Angels') to radiophonic fiction of tradition and belonging (Michael Rataj's ' African Beauty in Berlin'), all offering to let you into their very personal worlds. To listen to the stream, visit the DRIFT web site at http://www.mediascot.org/drift -- New Media Scotland P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ Tel. +44 131 477 3774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org --
FLUXLIST: DRIFT update: Resonant Cities
DRIFT Radio: Resonant Cities 9 - 15 May Sonic Ghosts programme 1 http://www.mediascot.org/drift DRIFT: Resonant Cities How we listen and how aware we are of the seemingly 'noise' around us is at the heart of the wealth of works submitted and selected for Resonant Cities, a series of themed radio programmes curated by Robert H. King. The programmes are presented in three distinct themes. First is Sonic Ghosts: the works presented for this strand of programmes are reconstructed and processed moments in time and space (John Levack Drevers Sound-Marked Frankfurt), events now gone (Pippa Murphys Postcard From Paris), found sound atmospheres (Aaron Ximms hypnotic Buriganga Canon) and visceral rumblings (Alfredo Ramirez Castruitas Body Territory). Enjoy the journey from calm to unease. Sonic Ghosts programme 1 streams 9 - 15 May. To listen to the stream, visit the DRIFT web site at http://www.mediascot.org/drift DRIFT: Resonant Cities introduction In 'The Art of Noises' 1913, the Futurist Luigi Russolo argued that the limited range of the current musical instruments could no longer satisfy modern man's acoustic thirst and he envisioned entire symphonies composed of the sounds of everyday life, including ...the muttering of motors that breathe and pulse with an undeniable animality, the throbbing of valves, the bustle of pistons, the starting of a streetcar on the tracks, the flapping of awnings and flags. In the 1950's the American artist and philosopher John Cage was listening for what he described as the subtle harmonies that were generated by chance in the natural and built environment. From Glasgow to the Dominican Republic and from Berlin to Mexico City, sonic explorers have engaged with the fragmented city soundscape: the streets, people, snatches of conversation, traffic, obtrusive music, communication intrusions: mobile phones radio traffic, city wildlife and the general clutter of everyday life. When the open call for submissions for Resonant Cities was issued I had no expectations as to what would be sent in, rather, just a hope that the idea for such a programme would strike a chord and that enough material would be submitted to compile a few broadcasts. When the closing date fell and the entries were sent through to me I was overwhelmed by the sheer scope of the works and their geographical origins. Selecting what would be broadcast was a difficult but enjoyable task. I feel that the works to be presented over the coming weeks show a real sense of originality and experimentation for what was after all a very 'loose' brief. Those that have been selected come from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds: home-taping enthusiasts, musicians, phonographers, artists and radio art producers alike all move between recordings from hand-held cassette recorders to those utilising state of the art in ear binaural microphones. The programmes shift effortlessly from pure documentation, meanderring narratives to processed and structured field recordings that will take you on a sonic journey without leaving the comfort of your own headphones. The programmes are presented in three distinct themes. 'Sonic Ghosts': reconstructing and processing moments in time and space (John Levack Drever's 'Sound-Marked Frankfurt') and events now gone (Pippa Murphy's 'Postcard From Paris') and found sound atmospheres (Aaron Ximm's hypnotic 'Buriganga Canon'). 'The Narrative Journey': road movies without visuals that retrace paths taken and interact as the journey unfolds. From operatics in the street (Viv Corringham's 'Vocal Strolls'), conversations in the car (Sean Burn's sprawling 'North') to radiophonic fiction of tradition and belonging (Michael Rataj's ' African Beauty in Berlin'), 'The Remembered Journey': sonic postcards of urban architecture (Nicholas Economos's 'Under Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn NYC') to audio picture books (Adrian Newton's 'Resonant Cambridge') and (Lorenza Lucchi Basili's) street musician recordings in Buenos Aires. Resonant Cities features work by Lorenza Lucchi Basili, Asa Maria Bengtsson, Sean Burn, Lidia Camacho, Claudio Yituey Chea, Heman Chong, Thanos Chrysakis, Joshua G. Churchill, Viv Corringham, John Levack Drever, Nicholas Economos, Simon Fildes, Camilla Hannan, Sebastiane Hegarty, Erdem Helvacioglu, Thomas Joyce, Fergus Kelly, Lara Kohl, Alistair MacDonald, Mhairi Macfarlane Andrew McKee, Paul Matosic, Roger Mills, Michael McLoughlin, Julianne Monroe, Mario Mota Martinez, Pippa Murphy, Jay Needham, Adrian Newton, Ed Osborn, Herve Perez, Claire Petersen, Andrea Polli, Charlie Pulford, Alfredo Ramirez Castruita, Giuseppe Rapisarda, Michal Rataj, Michael Rodgers, Stanza, Anabella Solano Torres, Pete Stollery, Mark Vernon, Nicholas Virgo, Aaron Ximm. Further information from the DRIFT website at http://www.mediascot.org/drift --
FLUXLIST: HOST: Beverley Hood - Doppelganger
New Media Scotland presents a new project for HOST: Beverley Hood - Doppelganger http://www.mediascot.org/host Doppelganger is a real-time 3D interactive environment featuring a series of portraits of artists, set in simulations of their homes and studios. Doppelganger examines the role of digital technologies in representating real space. This work for HOST forms part of the exhibition Doppelganger, at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, 30 March - 8 May 2004. The artist will give a talk at Street Level Photoworks on Saturday 17 April @ 3pm, and will undertake a 3D character modelling workshop on Sunday 18 April, both as part of Glasgow's Real Art Weekend. Beverley Hood is based in Edinburgh. Her work with interactive media examines how we negotiate, identify and interpret transitions between real and virtual space. She has exhibited in the UK, Europe, North America and Japan and she has collaborated with a range of international organisations including: c3, Budapest; LUTCHI Research Centre, Loughborough; Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Japan; iaab, Basel. Currently Beverley is artist-in-residence at the Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre (EdVEC), University of Edinburgh. HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to projects by artists. Earlier projects also available to view on HOST feature a range of Scottish and international artists including Beagles Ramsay, Mike Stubbs, slateford, Katrina McPherson Simon Fildes, *candy factory, Luci Eyers, Dane, Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky and Roshini Kempadoo. Doppelganger produced in association with Street Level Photoworks, supported by New Media Scotland, Scottish Arts Council, Alt-w, Edinburgh College of Art. For further information contact: -- New Media Scotland P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ Tel. +44 131 477 3774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org --
FLUXLIST: HALBEATH: Takuji Kogo Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries
New Media Scotland presents HALBEATH Takuji Kogo Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries The Arches, Glasgow 17th 18th March 2004 Catch a sneak preview of Halbeath at http://www.mediascot.org A lament for a failed globalism. Halbeath shows at the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow. The South Korean company Hyundai started construction of a microchip manufacturing plant at Halbeath near Dunfermline in 1996, at the time hailed as the biggest inward investment in Scotland. Completion was delayed by the subsequent Asian financial crisis. In 2000, US mobile phone manufacturer Motorola re-started construction. Motorola left in 2001 and the factory remains closed. Takuji Kogo created Halbeath with help from Korean artist Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Images of a mobile phone handset combine with a popular song from the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. The failed hopes of Korean industry under globalisation are traced back to their roots in post-war reconstruction. For a second 're-mix' of Halbeath, Takuji Kogo examines the impact on the locals. He overlays images of the abandoned factory with the tune from a 17th century traditional Scottish song, The False Bride. Takuji Kogo developed the work during a residency at New Media Scotland, part of the project Art In The Home, at locations across Edinburgh. The exhibition as part of the National Review of Live Art is the work's first showing in Scotland. http://www.newmoves.co.uk -- Coming up soon, more New Media Scotland projects: 27.3.04 - 30.4.04 - Mike Stubbs: City Strapline Industries, Baltic, Gateshead 30.3.04 - 8.5.04 - Beverley Hood: Doppelganger, Street Level, Glasgow 3.4.04 - Designer Bodies Symposium, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 3.4.04 - 6.6.04 - Designer Bodies Exhibition, Stills, Edinburgh plus DRIFT: Sound Art + Experimental Music, online throughout the year To find out more, visit the New Media Scotland web site at http://www.mediascot.org -- New Media Scotland P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ Tel. +44 131 477 3774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org --
FLUXLIST: Designer Bodies Symposium, Edinburgh
New Media Scotland is pleased to announce that you can now register for Designer Bodies: Towards The Posthuman Condition An International Symposium presented by New Media Scotland Stills Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Gymnasium 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh Saturday, 3rd April 2004 10:30am 6pm 15 / 10 concessions (includes refreshments and buffet lunch) Early booking essential due to limited seating. Please register using the form, available from the New Media Scotland web site: http://www.mediascot.org For further enquires please contact Stills: 0131 622 6200 The symposium aims to unravel the aesthetics, ethics and future of biosciences. Do works of art inspired by new scientific insights into genetics explore the posthuman condition? Do biomedical science and genetics have a similar creative impact on contemporary art to that of anatomy during the Renaissance? What are the implications for artists using DNA and genetically modified organisms as their media of choice? How do we view today's alliances of science and art? Speakers include: - award-winning artists Christine Borland, Gina Czarnecki, Gair Dunlop - Jens Hauser, Curator of L'Art Biotech, France - the first festival of biotechnological living art - Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble, USA an artists' collective dedicated to exploring the intersection between art, technology, politics and critical theory - Dr. Keith Skene, a scientist working in Environmental and Applied Biology, University of Dundee - Dr. Warren Neidich, USA - a neuroscientist and Lecturer in Neuroaesthetics, Goldsmiths College, London - Dr. Alan Bleakley, Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro Peninsula Medical School, Exeter - Hannah Redler, Energy Project Leader, Science Museum, London - Bronac Ferran, Director of Interdisciplinary Arts, Arts Council England. The related exhibition, Designer Bodies shows at Stills from 3rd April 6th June 2004. Artists Christine Borland, Gina Czarnecki, Jacqueline Donachie and Gair Dunlop use photography, film and digital media to explore the implications of genetics for disease treatment, human bioderversity, social perceptions and species boundaries. The resulting works spark excitement, fear and awe. Symposium organised by New Media Scotland and Stills, Edinburgh. In association with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Edinburgh International Science Festival; London Science Museum and Arts Catalyst - the Science and Art Agency. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council, Arts Council England and Edinburgh City Council. Exhibition organised by New Media Scotland and Stills, Edinburgh. Curated by Iliyana Nedkova. In association with Edinburgh International Science Festival, Clean Rooms, Arts Catalyst - the Science and Art Agency, Dundee University, Rfelmedia, Quigen, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Lisson Gallery, London; University of Abertay, Dundee; University of Glasgow; Prelinger Archive. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council, Arts Council England, Edinburgh City Council, Gulbenkian Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. -- New Media Scotland P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ Tel. +44 131 477 3774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org --
FLUXLIST: DRIFT
New Media Scotland announces DRIFT DRIFT New Media Scotland's major new initiative for sound and radio art - launched on the 27th February to coincide with the opening of Dialogues 2004, one of several live events in Scotland which reflect widespread international interest in sound art and experimental music. DRIFT is an exploration of sound art and experimental music featuring radio broadcasts, moving image, publications, and live events. DRIFT is a platform for artists from Scotland and beyond, a gateway to these emerging cultural forms. Visit the DRIFT web site to find out more: http://www.mediascot.org/drift For the launch, the DRIFT team streamed live audio through the weekend from Dialogues 2004 at Edinburgh's Bongo Club. Highlights included a night of Audio Perversion, featuring heavy hitters from Scotland's electronic music scene teamed up with SiLENCiO's Cabaret; and SKIN, featuring Mark Summers' viola da gamba with live electronics and four specially commissioned works, using state of the art computer technology to deconstruct an 18th century musical instrument. For those who couldn't attend the Dialogues festival or listen to the live stream, the DRIFT team bring you extensive highlights from the Edinburgh event. We are streaming performances by a selection of artists from the first two nights: Audio Perversion and Skin. You can listen to compositions, improvisations, re-mixes and voice works by the following artists: Hannes Raffeseder, Penelope Pornstar, SNAIL, Joe Public, DJ Daniel, SiLENCiO Babes, Han-Earl Park and Esprit, Pukey Vs. Cap'n K, Triangle Head, Two Brothers and Me, Mark Summers. The stream from Dialogues 2004 is just one of many activities taking place over the next year as part of DRIFT. New Media Scotland is pleased to announce the results of the DRIFT open submission selection. In 2003 New Media Scotland sent out an open call for artists and musicians worldwide to participate in DRIFT. 200 artists responded, sending sound works and proposals grouped in 4 separate categories, details follow. Resonant Cities a series of radio programmes curated by Robert H. King which explore the sonic identity of our surrounding space. How we listen and how aware we are of the seemingly 'ugly noise' around us is at the heart of the wealth of works selected. From Glasgow to the Dominican Republic and from Berlin to Mexico City, sonic explorers have engaged with the fragmented noise of the city soundscape: the streets, people and snatches of conversation, traffic, obtrusive music, communication intrusions: mobile phones radio traffic, city wildlife and the general clutter of everyday life. Resonant Cities features work by 44 artists including Lorenza Lucchi Basili, John Levack Drever, Alistair MacDonald, Pippa Murphy, Ed Osborn, Pete Stollery, plus others from around the globe. DRIFT Radio Art Commission Mark Vernon will produce a new radio art work for broadcast both online and on-air, via audio streaming and FM transmission. 'Evelyn's Request: Radio in Film' will examine how radio has been portrayed in another medium. A work uniquely for radio in which radio is both the medium and the content, the programme plays with distinctions between fictional and factual radio whilst exploring the portrayal of radio, Disc Jockeys, radio phone-ins, pirates and Shock Jocks in popular cinema. DRIFT Moving Image Programme a touring video programme curated by Iliyana Nedkova. Short films and videos by UK based artists, which take as their starting point sound art or experimental music. Following the success of New Media Scotland touring programmes such as Desktop Icons, the DRIFT Moving Image programme will launch in August 2004 and tour to venues in Scotland, the UK and internationally. DRIFT Radio Programmes - a platform for artists ideas - one-off events, regular shows, experimental sound projects, radio art work for broadcast both online and on-air. Programmes confirmed so far include: 'Box 30/70' by Sam Auinger Bruce Odland, urban soundscapes produced using a length of pipe and a shipping container to 'tune' the sounds of each location; and 'Velvet Honey' by Barry Burns, a helter skelter narrative of life in the city. Artworks selected from the open call are only part of the story. A number of DRIFT projects are currently in progress, to be showcased later in the year. For more information on DRIFT activities, updates and news visit the DRIFT web site at http://www.mediascot.org/drift -- New Media Scotland is a national agency enabling cultural activities shaped by new technologies. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council. DRIFT is a year long project in partnership with cultural organisations across Scotland and beyond. DRIFT is supported by the Scottish Arts Council; Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology; Liverpool School of Art Design, Liverpool John Moores University; Community Media
FLUXLIST: HOST: Beagles and Ramsay - Unrealised Dreams
New Media Scotland presents a new project for HOST: Beagles and Ramsay - Unrealised Dreams http://host.mediascot.org Beagles and Ramsay have produced books of drawings in the style of Leonardo da Vinci which outline a number of proposals for possible future artworks, public sculptures, exhibitions, foodstuffs and musicals. Originally a posterwork commissioned for Zenomap, a presentation of art from Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2003, Beagles and Ramsay have transformed Unrealised Dreams into an online hypertext archive of visionary ideas. This work for HOST forms part of the exhibition Welcome Back, at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, 4 October - 21 December 2003. John Beagles and Graham Ramsay live and work in Glasgow and have exhibited together as Beagles Ramsay since 1996. Their work encompasses installation, video and print publications, often constructed around character driven narratives where the artists cast themselves in absurdist roles or macabre situations. Recent exhibitions include: Dead of Night, at Gasworks Gallery, London Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Videodrome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Burgerheaven at YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto De Fabriek, Eindhoven. HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to projects by artists. Earlier projects also available to view on HOST feature a range of Scottish and international artists including Mike Stubbs, slateford, Katrina McPherson Simon Fildes, *candy factory, Luci Eyers, Dane, Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky and Roshini Kempadoo. Unrealised Dreams web site design by Simon Payne. Supported by Scottish Arts Council, British Council Scotland, New Media Scotland, Stills, Si-Lo Design. --- For further information contact: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org
FLUXLIST: Drift: Call For Participation
++ Drift: Sound Art + Experimental Music Call For Participation ++ New Media Scotland calls for participation for Drift - an exploration of sound art and experimental music which comprises live events, radio broadcasts, moving image and publications. The accessibility of the Internet together with new tools and methods for digital recording, manipulation, reproduction and distribution have changed forever the way that we think about and interact with sound, giving us new ways to communicate our ideas. An increasing number of artists, producers, DJ's and sonic creators, from a broad spectrum of disciplines and varying modes of practice, are exploring streaming media as a viable format. We want to open up this channel further. We are offering four opportunities to take part in Drift, details follow. Further information, guidelines and application forms available from the Drift web site: http://www.mediascot.org/drift Drift Radio Art Commission 2003 New Media Scotland invites proposals for radio art projects for Drift. We aim to commission a new radio art work for broadcast both online and on-air, via audio streaming and FM transmission. Fee - £1,000 Support - We will provide practical assistance, access to streaming media tools, and can offer some limited technical support on a negotiated basis. New Media Scotland will facilitate the broadcast of the commissioned work. Eligibility - Only artists based in Scotland can apply We will not accept proposals for: - audio documentation of projects that exist in another form - projects which have already been produced Guidelines and application form available from http://www.mediascot.org/drift Drift Radio Programme Proposals New Media Scotland invites proposals for radio art programmes. We want to provide a platform for your ideas - one-off events, regular shows, experimental sound projects, radio art work for broadcast both online and on-air, via audio streaming and FM transmission. We cannot pay a fee for this opportunity, but we will support you to realise your programme ideas. Support - We will provide practical assistance, access to streaming media tools, and can offer some limited technical support on a negotiated basis. New Media Scotland will facilitate the broadcast of your programmes. Eligibility - Open to artists, musicians, producers based in Scotland and the UK Guidelines and Programme Summary form available from http://www.mediascot.org/drift ++ Resonant Cities: Call for Sound Works ++ New Media Scotland seeks sound works for 'Resonant Cities': Internet radio streaming that explore the sonic identity of our surrounding space and that engage with the fragmented 'noise' of the city soundscape: people, traffic, communication intrusions, mobile phones, radio traffic, city wildlife, buildings... We are particularly interested in audio works which involve one or several of the following ideas or processes: - Acoustic Ecology - Acousmatics - Phonography - Sonic research - Radio art, Internet radio - Microsound - Lowercase sound - Internet communication media and audio streaming - Electronic communities - Artists' software for sound and music - Sound work developed using open source processes and principles - Generative sound - Sound archives - Spoken word / oral history - Field recordings - The re-purposing / representing of existing analogue sound recordings, such as amateur recordings, scientific recordings, and accidental, lost or abandoned recordings - The works selected by the Drift team will then be curated into themed streams that will be available via this web site. Our intention is to expand the audience for the work, encourage appreciation of sound art, and broaden access to a genre which is too often labelled as esoteric and inaccessible. We cannot pay a fee for this opportunity, but we will facilitate the broadcast of your work. Eligibility - Open to artists, musicians, producers in the UK and across the globe. Guidelines and submission form available from http://www.mediascot.org/drift +++ Drift Touring Video Programme: Call for Moving Image Works +++ New Media Scotland seeks sound-based moving image works for Drift. We plan to curate and tour a feature-length programme of short moving image works. We are looking for films and videos which take as their starting point sound art or experimental music. This can include experimental moving image works by artists and films made by musicians, as well as pieces which combine performance aesthetics with sound. The Drift moving image programme will tour to venues in Scotland, the UK and internationally. A specially
Re: FLUXLIST: rhizome
At 7:54 am -0500 26/3/03, Owen Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone on rhizome let me know when they started restricting access to members only and charging a membership fee. I'd not looked at their sight for a long time and wanted to check the artbase and don't understand why it's no longer freely publicly available. Sol - Yes it is a real pain - they started this about a month or a month and a half ago. It seems to be motivated less from restricting access (although that is what they have done) then form a concern that they were going to potentially fold for lack of funding. Owen There was a lot of controversy when this happened in January. Many thought they should have cut costs, rather than charge people for access. I can sympathise with the problems of trying to keep an organisation afloat, but I don't think this was the right approach. Check out the discussion during January on thingist - an archive is at http://bbs.thing.net (which is still free, despite becoming a victim of corporate censorship) Chris -- Chris Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org
FLUXLIST: New Media Scotland NRLA
-- Pernille Spence - Kinaree -- an interactive performance co-commissioned by New Media Scotland and New Moves International for the National Review of Live Art 2003 19 20 February 2003, National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow http://www.newmoves.co.uk/newterritories/intropage.htm A body - female - covered in honey goose fat, isolated in a glass hut. Surrounded by feathers lying at her feet. Wind machines triggered by the approaching steps of curious onlookers. Feathers lifting from the ground begin to coat the body. Is this a punishment being inflicted, comparable to the age-old ritual of tarring and feathering? Or is this a metamorphosis taking place; from human to bird like creature, finally gifted with the freedom of flight? --- Frame by Frame --- A New Media Scotland touring video programme curated by Branko Franceschi 21 22 February 2003, National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow http://www.newmoves.co.uk/newterritories/intropage.htm Frame by Frame demonstrates the vitality of video art in Croatia. The quality and quantity of video production in Croatia, from its beginnings in the late 60s till the present, makes it one of the most vibrant countries for video art in the region of South Eastern Europe. 'Old School' presents videos from pioneers of video art working in the 1970's and 80's including famous names such as Ante Bozanich and Breda Beban/Hrvoje Horvatic, and younger artists who started in video but are now pursuing a film directors career. 'New School' presents a younger generation of artist who graduated in the 1990's from Croatia's Academy of Fine Arts and though trained in traditional disciplines such as painting or sculpture, immediately switched exclusively to video and multimedia art. Branko Franceschi will visit Glasgow, and deliver a talk during the National Review of Live Art: details to be announced. Pernille Spence Pernille Spence creates installations and single screen video works using a combination of performance, digital media and sculpture. Her work analyses human movement, expression and psychological/physical (re-)action to specific situations and environments, both naturally existent and deliberately staged. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in the Root Festival at Hull Time Based Arts, Cinemedia, Australia and the Edith-Russ-Haus fur Medienkunst, Germany. Based in Scotland, she is currently a Researcher in the School of Television Imaging, University of Dundee. Kinaree co-commissioned by New Moves International Ltd and New Media Scotland, supported by the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund, and a Dundee Visual Artist Award. Thanks to Nigel Johnson and the School of Television Imaging, University of Dundee. -- Branko Franceschi -- Branko runs the Miroslav-Kraljevic Gallery in Zagreb. Trained as an Art Historian at the University of Zagreb, since 1987 he has initiated hundreds of exhibitions of contemporary art for the gallery and other spaces in Croatia and beyond, including online works. He established a residency for Croatian artists at PS1, New York and has produced programmes for Croatian television on the contemporay art scenes in London and New York. In 2001 Branko worked with New Media Scotland on Blind Date, an exchange project for 6 artists from Croatia and Scotland. Frame by Frame supported by Scottish Arts Council, Arts Council of England, Croatian Film Clubs Association. -- For further details on Kinaree or Frame by Frame contact: The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8DL Box Office Tel: 0901 022 0300 http://arches.simbiotic.info New Moves International, PO Box 25262, Glasgow G1 1YW Tel: 0141 564 5552 http://www.newmoves.co.uk/newterritories/ntindex.htm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org
FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V4 #74
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:22:55 - From: Sol Nte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: priceless. Fabrice wrote: Just come back from Manchester yesterday . Pretty cool show. Bidded for lots of stuff, + really enjoyed Zoe's piece but, unfortunately, not a single fluxlister in sight... Boo-hoo. Any of you guys going to be around for the auction. next Wednesday? Hope to be there for that. Perhaps get some bids in meanwhile. I was going to go to Priceless for the auction and then they changed it to the middle of the week, presumably forgetting that some of us have to engage with wage slavery during the week. So needless to say I'm not going now. Going to Hyde Park instead??? I'll be there. On the Whalley Range Green coach. We have a whole rainbow of coaches from our area. 60 or more from the county. And now they've chartered a train too ... Anyway on Saturday I was at the Tate in Liverpool and heartily recommend the current Shopping show there which includes new Fluxus work by Ben Vautier (The Bizarre Bazaar), plus Bob Watts postage stamps and the recreation of De Ridder's European Mail Order Fluxshop from the Silverman's collection, and a Beuys piece (I forget the title). Also new photos by Gursky (very cool) and other stuff from Warhol, Duchamp etrc. etc..all in all an excellent day out which I recommend to anyone who will be near Liverpool. It's on till 23rd March. Thanks Sol for tip, will try to catch this. Best w Chris P
FLUXLIST: [Fwd: priceless on 15.02.03]
Please note - change of sale date for Priceless : ---BeginMessage--- dear chris we have already changed the end give away date as we are all going to the demo ! The end date is now 12 th feb and those would have contacted us already have been told could you inform anyone that you have mailed to thanks this is the final call out PRICELESS A call for submissions You are invited to donate artwork for this exhibition. You can submit ANYTHING (a piece of your work whatever it may be a performance, a sound piece, a photograph etc, something of value, something of no value) to PRICELESS. Is the art world becoming increasingly commercialised to a degree where the art and the artist are left behind in a whirl of agents, style gurus and corporate whores? We invite you to cock a snook at this by taking part in an exhibition where the only money changing hands will be between the organisers and the off-licence. This exhibition examines our attitudes to current trends in the contemporary art world, to the status of the object, alongside monetary and personal value. Is value granted to art works because of the prominence of its creator? Are prices arbitrarily placed on it by agent/ gallery to make a profit? Or can a works value exist independently of these factors? All work of art in PRICELESS are to be auctioned off at the end of the exhibition to the highest bidder. The catch is that no money will change hands. The currency here is the personal value you feel the bidder places on your work. Throughout the running of the exhibition viewers will be asked to make a bid by writing down WHY they feel they should receive the work. Any reason can be given, the only judge will be the creator of that work, YOU . You will be asked at the end of the exhibition to choose whom you feel most deserves the piece from those who have bid. You can be as arbitrary or as deliberate as you like in your decision. You will go away at least knowing that your piece will be in the hands of someone who values it. Ovalproductions will charge 0% commission each work disposed of in this manner. If you want to be involved in the event please contact Ovalproductions on the telephone number below. We are accepting works until 1st February. Works can be posted to: Studio Undercover 44 Edge St Manchester or delivered by hand to the exhibition space on Saturday 1st between 11am and 4pm The location of the exhibition is as follows: 23 Withy Grove, Manchester (above Wicked). Entrance is via the shop. The exhibition opens on the 6th February and will run until 12th February, with works given away on Wed 12th February The gallery will be open 11am - 4pm each day For more details please contact by telephone on 07733 227335 Or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ovalproductions are Adele Myers, Eleanor Bullen and Janet Griffiths, practitioners of art, dedicated to questioning the systems in which we and the art world operate. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ---End Message---
FLUXLIST: priceless on 15.02.03
Zoe, Sol and anyone else contributing or going to Priceless This date clashes with what could be the biggest ever anti war demo in London (Hyde Park) I'm going to be in London ... it would be good if the organisers either included coverage of the demos in London (and sister events round the world) or changed their schedule by one day ... ... even though they are a parallel event to manchester art show at Urbed. Best w Chris P
FLUXLIST: [Fwd: Shopping Scrabble]
---BeginMessage--- JANUARY WHIRLS: a month of not-shopping sprees on both sides of the Atlantic As a part of the series of actions taking place in the US and the UK called 'January Whirls', a group of not-shoppers will be taking their consumption awareness performance to the glittering, blinking heart of consumerism, Times Square, New York. On Sunday, January 26 at 2:00 PM they will begin by whirling with empty trolleys Later using special interactive surveillance-attracting headgear and participatory spelling tactics the group will be playing shopping 'SCRABBLE' at TOYS R US in Times Square NYC. During a Whirl-Mart event, a group of people gather and perform a not-shopping intervention in a cathedral of consumption, such as Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, or Asda. The group creates a whirling train of empty trolleys as they meander through the aisles of the store. The locations for January Whirls were... January 5 - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania USA January 12 - Nottingham UK | Brighton UK | Germany January 19 - Glasgow UK January 26 - New York City, USA More events planned for February/ March. If you would like to participate in a whirl or create a non-shopping event in your area contact: me@mydads stripclub.com Images from the Nottingham event Praise the Product http://www.mydadsstripclub.com/asdaprayers.htm more info on whirling: http://www.breathingplanet.net/whirl - We believe that convenience is not convenient Reverend Billy Church of Stop Shopping ---End Message---
FLUXLIST: virtual show - works on paper
Open Exhibition We are putting together an Open Exhibition called Works On Paper. The subject can be anything just so long as the work is on paper - any paper, any size, any subject. All works will be displayed there will be no judges, but be prepared for viewers comments. In short, if you send us your work, we will display it in one of ImageSpeak's virtual galleries. For more details click this link http://www.iqinternet.co.uk/members/chrisneal/AP.nsf/ImageSpeakArticlesBy= ID/E8282F287DF74884C1256CAC0079C4DE?OpenDocument Regards ImageSpeak PS - Sol. The Priceless Show is at a venue close to Manchester's URBIS Museum; will advise when this is finalised. -- Chris Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.idea.org.uk Slam Ariel Sharon for war crimes. http://www.petitiononline.com/warcrime They seek 1,000,000 signatures and now have about 915,000. Also women for peace http://www.PetitionOnline.com/waw2002/petition.html And stop the war http://www.PetitionOnline.com/cndstwc/petition.html.
FLUXLIST: paint can debate
http://home.sprynet.com/~mindweb/can.htm can within a can within a can
FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST Box #2
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:56:52 -0800 From: Alex Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST Box #2 then there's always ziploc freezer bags. you can get 50 for about $5, Holds a gallon of art with no spills and you can affix a sticker lable to the outside. in fact it seems rather fluxus to make our second box a plastic bag. Alex NP: Cat Power - Moon Pix Could get either the sort of plastic bag which all the air is sucked out of once the contents are in; or the sort which is inflated with the contents in an inner compartment; or indeed both nested? A bit most costlyu. IDEA could source and fund these if logistics allow that.
FLUXLIST: meanwhile, the Thatcher decapitator is in court in London
Art Student Admits Planting Boxes In Subway Station http://www.ny1.com/ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1subtopicintid=1contentintid=26573 An art student has confessed to planting dozens of suspicious boxes that led to the evacuation of the Union Square subway station last week,. Clinton Boisvert, 25, a student at the School of Visual Arts, turned himself in to the Manhattan district attorney's office Monday. He admitted he placed the 38 black boxes, labeled with the word fear, around the busy station last Wednesday. Boisvert said the stunt was part of a assignemnt to study reactions to art in public places. His lawyer said it was an innocent art project gone awry. Police evacuated the subway station and trains skipped the stop for about five hours as the bomb squad investigated the boxes, which were attached to walls, benches and floors. The boxes, some painted black and others wrapped in electrical tape, were determined to be empty and the station was reopened. Boisvert was charged with aggravated harassment and reckless endangerment.
FLUXLIST: HOST: 2 new projects by slateford and McPherson Fildes
New Media Scotland presents 2 new projects for HOST: slateford : greylines 00-06 Katrina McPherson Simon Fildes - Hyperchoreography http://host.mediascot.org - slateford : greylines 00-06 - we are making old-time code - we live in a grey world - we hope for the future but enjoy today - sometimes we do not know why we do what we do - it works for us - we hope it works for you - - slateford Greylines was produced through a series of code doodles which slateford exchanged via email. The series is partly inspired by their joint admiration for the early twentieth-century experimental animators Hans Richter and Oskar Fischinger. - Katrina McPherson Simon Fildes - Hyperchoreography Hyperchoreography is a non-linear dance performance 'space' existing in an interactive and networked medium. The artists' collaborative work in video-dance has made them aware that the 'final edit' provides just one from a range of infinite possibilities. The material that is discarded is often just as interesting as the final work. Hyperchoreography was born from a desire to expose more of that process to an audience. The dance can be sequentially altered by user interaction, navigating through looped moving images. - Slateford are Simon Yuill (Scotland) and Tryggve Askildsen (Norway). Slateford is a collaborative project through which they are exploring the dual aesthetics of outdated computer systems and the brittle sensuality of Northern European (Atlantic + Baltic) cultures. Slateford are supported by the lipparosa code repository http://www.lipparosa.org. http://www.slateford.org - Katrina McPherson has built a strong reputation for working with video and contemporary dance. She recently received a Creative Scotland Award to develop new work. Katrina has produced several award-winning works, and completed numerous broadcast commissions, including a recent Arts Council of England 'Capture' award. Simon Fildes is an artist working with new media. In 2001 he completed a 'Year of the Artist' residency at Concrete Butterfly, a designer furniture shop in Edinburgh. An earlier interactive project, 'Weaving Traffic' a collaboration with Stephen Hunter, was exhibited in Kyoto, Japan. Katrina and Simon recently collaborated with New Media Scotland on REMOTE, new media artists' residencies and an exhibition in the Scottish Highlands. Hyperchoreography is supported by Alt-W and New Media Scotland - HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to online projects by artists. Previous projects have featured a range of Scottish and international artists including Luci Eyers, Dane, *candy factory, Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky and Roshini Kempadoo. For further information on HOST or New Media Scotland, contact: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.
FLUXLIST: Treacle, in Manchester, UK
Distributed on behalf of the artist John Hyatt.
FLUXLIST: [Fwd: Whirl-Mart Consumption]
---BeginMessage--- On Saturday, Nov. 30th at 1pm, there will be a Whirl-Mart Consumption Awareness Ritual in recognition of Buy Nothing Day. Groups will gather to push empty carts through the aisles of supermarkets for an hour of contemplative resistance to the post-thanksgiving consumer binge. for more information on Whirl-Mart and documentation of past events visit: http://www.breathingplanet.net/whirl The event will be taking place in the U.S. and abroad, such as, Austin TX, Scranton PA, Kansas City, San Francisco, and also in the UK and Canada. if you are interested in organizing a Whirl-Mart event in the UK email this address direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] links http://www.buynothingday.co.uk Whirl Mart http://www.breathingplanet.net/whirl Fanclub shopping actions: http://www.fanclubbers.org Reverend Billy: http://www.revbilly.com ---End Message---
FLUXLIST: BUSH STOP!
Bristol anti war activists take to the streets. Campaigners in Bristol have taken to the streets armed with a pot of yellow paint and a large brush. They are adding a large H at the end of the word Bus, to all the BUS STOP signs painted on the road. Bristol now has a number of BUSH STOP painted on their streets. ...Just a suggestion --
FLUXLIST: New Media Scotland's Digital Summer
++ New Media Scotland presents a Digital Summer of events including: ++ Cary Peppermint: Conductor Number Zero Version 6.4 (Techno Lectures of Memory, Distance Forgetting) Performance Talk: 4.00pm, 7 July, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Tickets £3/£2 - CCA box office: 0141 352 4900 The only UK venue and for one night only. A rare opportunity to see a live performance by New York based artist Cary Peppermint, part of an ongoing series of performances (in update) that began in 1997. Each performance incorporates surveillance technology, so the audience observes simultaneously the performance event and its real-time approximation through video. Cary Peppermint's work involves a broad conceptualist approach to net.art that permeates a multitude of social networks within and beyond the Internet. His works comprise some of the first real-time performance art conducted over the Internet including the legendary Mashed Potato Supper between New York and Edinburgh in 1996. Cary Peppermint: Conductor Number Zero Version 6.4 is brought to you by New Media Scotland in collaboration with CCA, Glasgow. The performance was recently presented at Postmasters gallery, New York. Supported by the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art. More information at http://www.mediascot.org Desktop Icons 1.0 a programme of short digital films curated by Iliyana Nedkova Screenings: 6.15pm, 9 10 July, Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh Tickets £4.50/£3.00 - Filmhouse box office: 0131 228 2688 Desktop Icons 1.0 features short digital films and videos by Scottish and international artists, exploring the cross over of popular culture, media and new creative technologies. Desktop Icons 1.0 examines the computer desktop culture of today and the new moving image authored on (and sometimes for) desktops. The quiet digital film revolution has opened up a brave new world where screen icons are promised 15 Megabytes of fame. It has also created exciting possibilities for more experimental and edgy work, stretching the boundaries of what was once known as cinematic reality. Artists include Chris Cunningham, Kristin Lucas, Michael Maziere, Matt Hulse, Phil Collins, Richard Fenwick, Mike Stubbs, Simon Ellis, COMCOM, Christian Meyer, Florian Misha Boeder and Tycoon Graphics. The screening of Desktop Icons 1.0 on 9 July will be introduced by Chris Byrne, Iliyana Nedkova and Edinburgh-based filmmaker Matt Hulse. Desktop Icons 2.0 will screen at Filmhouse in September. Desktop Icons is a New Media Scotland touring programme, supported by the Scottish Arts Council and the Arts Council of England National Touring Programme. Desktop Icons continues its tour in the Summer with screenings in July at Folly Gallery, Lancaster and Watershed Media Centre, Bristol. Other venues confirmed for later in the year include Stirling's newly refurbished MacRobert Arts Centre, Hull Time Based Arts and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. A beautiful Desktop Icons booklet has been produced, designed by Andy McGregor. Print copies are available, or download a copy in PDF format from http://www.mediascot.org where you can also find all details of the Desktop Icons touring schedule. REMOTE exploring the geography of new media culture REMOTE is a series of mini-residencies during the Summer of 2002 for artists working with new technologies in the Highlands of Scotland, responding to either the physical or social environments which they discover. The artists will produce Internet projects for HOST, http://host.mediascot.org In late October, we plan a series of educational events and a small-scale exhibition of the works in the Iona Gallery, a converted schoolhouse in Kingussie, just South of Aviemore in the Cairngorms. The artists involved are Thomson + Craighead, r a d i o q u a l i a, Simon Fildes + Katrina McPherson and Cavan Convery. For further information on the artists and projects, visit http://www.mediascot.org REMOTE is a collaboration between New Media Scotland and Highland Research, supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Highland Council. New Media Scotland is an agency enabling cultural activity shaped by new technologies. We support research and development in new media, create opportunities for artists and provide information to the media art community in Scotland. New Media Scotland produces, exhibits and tours digital artworks across Scotland, the UK and internationally. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council. For further New Media Scotland news and opportunities please consult our web site at http://www.mediascot.org or contact us at the address below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44
FLUXLIST: HOST: 2 new projects by Luci Eyers and Dane
New Media Scotland and Burning Bush present 2 new projects for HOST: Luci Eyers - cyberskiving Dane - PassingTime http://host.mediascot.org Luci Eyers - cyberskiving cyberskiving is a collection of favourite non-work related sites visited by employees during work hours. cyberskiving becomes more difficult as server software becomes increasingly effective at curbing slack-time surfing. cyberskiving is searchable either by topic or occupation. The project is an open, generative system which will develop as cyberskivers submit information on this covert activity. Dane - PassingTime There's never been a better time to have a Panic Attack! Just one of six ways to pass the time until you get to Point B. You can Fidget, generate things to do from our wish list database, try keeping your head off the ground, play a solitaire version of I Spy or see how long you can balance on one foot. Luci Eyers works with both old and new media, participating in art projects focused on independent mediation and distribution systems. She is a member of the low-fi collective, an artist/curatorial practice working with net art. low-fi is currently a part of the DARE residency at ICA, London. low-fi locator was shown in FILE '01 in San Paolo, Brazil. Eyers also co-edited everything magazine from 1995 to 2002 and showed as a part of the everything editorial collective in Paris, Lisbon, at the ICA and at the Tate show Century Cities. Dane is a multi-media artist based in Somerset. He is a professional collaborator based at PVA, an artist-led organisation in Bridport, Dorset. He was born in Australia, and grew up in England, studying animation at Liverpool. Recent works include an interactive installation for the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, and 'help' - an interactive web-based poem. cyberskiving and PassingTime are New Media Scotland co-commissions as part of Burning Bush 2: Doing Time. Dundee's festival of time based and experimental art takes place May 10 - 12 2002. Supported by the University of Dundee and the Scottish Arts Council. http://www.burningbush.info HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to online projects by artists. Previous projects have featured a range of Scottish and international artists including *candy factory, Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky and Roshini Kempadoo. For further information on HOST or New Media Scotland, contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.
FLUXLIST: [Fwd: do it (home version)]
---BeginMessage--- thought some people might be interested in this. tim -- From: e-flux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 08:30:23 -0700 Subject: do it (home version) May 2, 2002 Dear Friends, We are very pleased to present the first installment of Do It (home version), an online project curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at our site http://www.e-flux.com Do It is the third participatory online project presented by e-flux. We hope you enjoy it. Do It is an exhibition of artist's instructions to be executed by you. Should you decide to take part in it, segments of the show can materialize in your home, office or any other place you may find appropriate. Once you have realized an instruction by an artist of your choice, please send us a picture and your name, we will include it on the site. This practical utopian exhibition, then, becomes a collaboration between the artists and you. Do It at e-flux is also an online compendium of artists writings; a 'webzine' containing fascinating essays on the peculiar subject of artworks in the form of instructions and experimental exhibitions, as well as an informal community for people interested in such subjects. Starting with this first installment of works by over 50 artists, many new instructions, essays and interviews, as well as your participation and feedback will be added to the site, so please visit us often! Throughout its duration at e-flux, the contents of do it will grow exponentially. The initial list of participants includes: Marina Abramovic, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Dara Birnbaum, John Bock, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Brossa, Lygia Clark, Amy A. Cohen Francisco J. Varela, Jimmie Durham, Diller + Scofidio, Maria Eichhorn, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ayse Erkmen, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Yona Friedman, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Gilbert George, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Joseph Grigely, Tomislav Gotovac, Ulrike Grossarth, Mona Hatoum, Fabrice Hybert, Carsten Holler, Shere Hite, Ronald Hoffmann, Joan Jonas, Gulsun Karamustafa, Mike Kelley, Ben Kinmont, Alison Knowles, Jeong-A Koo, Surasi Kusolwong, Bertrand Lavier, Lee Lozano, Paul McCarthy, Christian Marclay, Annette Messager, Jonas Mekas, Eileen Myles, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Pepón Osorio, Damian Ortega, Nam June Paik, Steven Pippin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Cesare Pietrousti, Marjetica Potrc, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Andreas Slominski, Michael Smith, Nancy Spero, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rosemarie Trockel, Uri Tzaig, Lawrence Weiner, Erwin Wurm, and many more artists to come soon. Site architecture and design by FDTdesign, New York. To enter do it please click here: http://www.e-flux.com do it began in 1993, with a discussion amongst Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Hans Ulrich Obrist, concerning works of art that contain written instructions. The first do it took place in 1994, at the Ritter Kunsthalle in Klagenfurt, Austria. The exhibition has since been realized in more than 40 venues worldwide, including 25 institutions in the United States and Canada from 1997 through 2002 in a tour organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. The initial do it project was financed by AFAA, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France. contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information go to: http://www.e-flux.com ---End Message---
FLUXLIST: Beverley Hood - trans-locale at ICA
New Media Scotland and the Institute of Contemporary Arts present: Beverley Hood - trans-locale Live and online performance: 19:30 hrs BST, Friday, 3 May 2002 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London To experience the live performance go to: http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4322 To experience the online performance go to: http://www.bhood.co.uk/translocale trans-locale explores the transitory nature of interaction and examines the potential of movement as a physical and virtual activity. The work is an intervention within the environment of online video conferencing, a vast network of users connecting to conferences with varied themes, levels of experience and membership criteria. Within this still relatively new technology, there are already certain standards which have evolved, particularly in how users present themselves, generally staring blankly at the computer screen. In stark contrast to this trans-locale throws into this virtual environment perhaps one of the most inherently physical activities, dance, and within that one of the most stereotypically passionate and intimate of dances, the Tango. The work broadcasts two dancers from a live performance space onto the online video conferencing reflectors. Here they weave another level of 'dance'. A computer will automate the dancers movement around the Internet, connecting to a conference for a set period before disconnecting and connecting to the next. In this way the dancers will leap from server to server, country to country, temporarily visible to those connected to each of the selected conference reflectors. Within the live space the viewer will observe the dancers, within the same physical space and also witness their broadcast image, the dancers bridging the gap for the viewer between the live space and online environment. trans-locale is a New Media Scotland commission in partnership with Stills and New Moves International. The London performance is part of a tour organised by New Media Scotland which has so far taken place in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Tallinn, Estonia. For further information on touring trans-locale please contact New Media Scotland at the address below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.
FLUXLIST: PHEW
Dear all Personally I'd have called this journal Perspectives on Human Evil and Wickedness (PHEW). An opportunity missed in my opinion. Anyhow, this seems a timely opportunity to reason about Terrorism which is the theme for volume 2. The first volume evidences an open book. Best wishes Chris P CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness (PEHW) ISSN: 1471-5597 Volume 2. : July 2002 (themed issue: Terrorism) http://www.wickedness.net/ej.htm (main ejournal page) For further details and information regarding the upcoming issue, please contact Rob Fisher at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or Salwa Ghaly at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FLUXLIST: artstream: sounds from near and far
artstream: sounds from near and far Curated by Chris Byrne and Colin Fallows Internet audio artstreams connecting Sofia, Edinburgh and Liverpool. Sound works from artists from the UK, Bulgaria and across the globe on the theme of the translocal: travel, crossing borders, migration, sounds of different cultures and environments. http://www.mediascot.org/artstream sounds from near and far is presented via two channels: open source - curated by Chris Byrne Chris has assembled a selection of sound works from an open submission to New Media Scotland, Edinburgh. Sound works from 16 artists including Diskono, Chantal Dumas, Alistair Macdonald, Public Works, Sue Mark, Janek Schaefer, Calum Stirling, Mark Vernon, Zoe Irvine. feedback - curated by Colin Fallows Colin has assembled a selection of sound works by artists associated with Liverpool School of Art and Design, John Moores University. Artists include: John Campbell, Vanessa Cuthbert, Max Eastley, Colin Fallows, Martin e Greil, Phil Mouldycliff, Russell Mills Ian Walton, Robin Rimbaud, Will Sergeant, Vergil Sharkya', Paul Simpson and John Young. For more details on the works and to listen artists' audio projects individually visit the artstream web site http://www.mediascot.org/artstream Internet audio streaming will take place throughout Digital Weekend Sofia, 12 - 14 April 2002. Broadcasts will be presented at venues including the National Academy of Arts, British Council and extracts will be broadcast on Radio France International Sofia, 103.6FM. artstream is an experimental project exploring the potentials of artists' use of streaming media. artstream comprises occasional projects with live and prerecorded material. Sounds from Near and Far is a New Media Scotland project, presented as part of Digital Weekend, a festival of digital culture organised by Iliyana Nedkova in collaboration with the Red House Centre for Culture Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria and Interspace Media Art Center. Sounds from Near and Far is supported by New Media Scotland, Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Backnet, Soros Centre for the Arts Sofia, British Council, National Academy of Arts Sofia, Radio France International Sofia. Together with New Media Scotland, Edinburgh The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia presents Digital Weekend - a Micro-Festival of Digital Culture Sofia 2002 curated by Iliyana Nedkova. 12-14 April 2002 on site at The National Academy of Arts, Sofia; on air at Radio France International Sofia 103.6FM or on line at the artstream space http://www.mediascot.org/artstream Digital Weekend features new digital art projects by Bulgarian and international artists including desktop films, Internet audio events, lectures, talks and much more... For further information, visit The Red House web site: http://www.redhouse-sofia.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.
FLUXLIST: HOST: *candy factory
New Media Scotland presents a new project for HOST: *candy factory @ EDINBURGH http://host.mediascot.org *candy factory often take as their starting point the cultural forms of globalised capital, whether manifested physically or through electronic media. Their works build a sense of the hyperreal from the lanscape of contemporary culture. There is a spirit of enquiry, focussing on the unnoticed or abandoned spaces which surround us. *candy factory's Takuji Kogo has documented a number of phenomena in Edinburgh and Yamaguchi, Japan. The results, plus a collaboration with artist Ola Pehrson have been brought together in five works for HOST. Broadcasting non broad casting time of a television studio in Yamaguchi Japan titled DO. A department store in Edinburgh now on CLEARANCE SALE. A re-working of a non broad casting view of EBC program WHY from Seoul, Korea. Computer icon becomes sculpture becomes digital still, becomes web art with the re-purposed WIN.EXE with Ola Pehrson. Also remixed daytime television boredom in the UK: MY DAD SEDUCED MY FIANCEE. *candy factory undertook a residency at New Media Scotland as part of Art in the Home, artists working in domestic spaces in Yamaguchi and Edinburgh. Organised by City Art Centre, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, with Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Art, Akiyoshida International Art Village, Prefecture. Funded by Japan 2001, Scottish Arts Council and Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to online projects by artists. Previous projects have featured a range of Scottish and international artists including Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky and Roshini Kempadoo. For further information on HOST or New Media Scotland, contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.
FLUXLIST: [Fwd: 52 Events by Ken Friedman [Digital edition]]
Hi there I know this publication has been mentioned here before; but now there's more info, a URL to download, and a review Best www Chris P ---BeginMessage--- Dear Colleagues, Those who are interested in Fluxus and intermedia may be interested a new digital edition of my event scores from Heart Fine Art. A published last month in Scotland on Sunday appears below. The publisher has also produced a free digital edition. The digital edition contains the complete contents of the paper edition. In true Fluxus spirit, Paul Robertson of Heart Fine Art has made the digital edition freely available for artistic or educational use. With best regards, Ken Friedman 52 Events Ken Friedman REVIEW BY sb kelly Show and Tell Editions, £25 Scotland on Sunday January 27, 2002 l THIS book was initially due to appear in Spring 1967, designed by George Maciunas, founder of the Fluxus art movement. Maciunas's untimely death meant the project was effectively mothballed, although it toured as a series of exhibitions during the 1970s. It is therefore a pleasure to possess, 35 years after its conception, Ken Friedman's 52 Events. The book at last exists, and in three formats: as a desk diary, beautifully designed by Paul Robertson; as a free internet version (http://www.heartfineart.com/Images/Friedman.html); and as a £195 deluxe edition in a hand-crafted box, painted by the artist and containing various artefacts required to stage the Events. Fluxus, whose membership famously included Yoko Ono, can be seen in retrospect as one of the key postwar art movements; a continuation of Surrealism and Dadaism, and the launching pad for Conceptual, Installation and Anarcho-dandyist Art. Indeed, Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed's work is barely conceivable outside of the Fluxus perspective; and Tate Modern are currently showing an exhibition of Friedman's work. The pieces of the Fluxus Group were minimal, provocative and witty - famously described as Zen Vaudeville - and were preserved as 'scores' that could be re-enacted by others. Most importantly, Fluxus spanned Europe, America and Asia; drawing on traditions as diverse as Norse Sagas and Japanese Noh-plays. That very internationalism goes some way towards explaining the endurance of this genre of avant-garde art. Perhaps the best way to illustrate Fluxus is in their own words, with two of Friedman's Events. Flow System: Anyone may send an object or a work of any kind to the exhibition. Everything received is displayed. Any visitor to the exhibition may take away an object or work. Deck: Collect playing cards found in the street until a complete deck of found cards is assembled. Fluxus was, as these examples show, a two-pronged attack; a debunking of the spaces where art is displayed, and a celebration of the possibilities of normal locations. If you could put urinals into galleries, conversely you could find art in the street. Whereas the Situationists, almost exact contemporaries, were railing against everyday life, Fluxus wanted to turn the everyday into an ongoing art-work. Of course, one might level the accusation that it's all rather self-indulgent. Nonetheless, I tried one of the events (sending a postcard a day to a friend, with just one letter on it, until it spelt a phrase; then receiving a reply in like fashion) and the effect was weirdly charming. There is a certain innocence in the sense of participation. Actually following the suggestions each week may be impractical, but I would strongly advise any reader to try one or two. Although with some of the other Fluxus artists, such as Ay-O or Ben Vautier, the mischief teeters over into cruelty - audiences locked in theatres - the overwhelming feel of Friedman's 52 Events is a gentle melancholy. The notes offer not only some valuable insights into the history of the movement, but a delightful sketch of his genuine bewilderment about the separation of 'art' and 'life', musings on publishing, and personal explication of the meaning of the works. Robertson's typography for the diary is beguiling; a non-linear ebb and flow of days, rather than the strict and regimentalised schedule. My only regret about the book is that it doesn't include one of my favourite Events from the previous 30 Events exhibition: Explain Fluxus in five minutes or less, using a few simple props. Shoes, ice-cubes and telephones would be my choice. I look forward to the diary for 2003. -- Heart Fine Art Web site http://www.heartfineart.com/ -- Scotland on Sunday Web site http://news.scotsman.com/ ---End Message---
FLUXLIST: artstream: Sounds from Near and Far - Call for submissions
artstream: Sounds from Near and Far - Call for submissions In April 2002, New Media Scotland will present Sounds from Near and Far, Internet audio artstreams connecting Sofia, Edinburgh and Liverpool. Presented as part of the Microfestival of Digital Culture, a collaborative project with the Red House for Culture Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria. Call for sound works from artists from the UK, Bulgaria and across the globe on the theme of the translocal: travel, crossing borders, migration, sounds of different cultures and environments. Submissions may be one or more works of any duration. Formats preferred: audio CD, MiniDisc, and mp3 on CD. Internet streaming will take place throughout the Microfestival. Broadcasts will be presented live at the National Fine Arts Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria. Deadline: 22 March, 2002 Send audio submissions to: Sounds from Near and Far New Media Scotland P.O. Box 23434 Edinburgh EH7 5SZ Chris Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org
FLUXLIST: bush's new rules, fw from cybermind, fw from washington post
Here's an amusing letter, sent by one F. F. Martin to the editor of the Washington Post: / / skip ---forwarded message follows If President Bush decides to try any terrorist suspects by military commission, he should reconsider in light of the fact that he himself would be subject to criminal prosecution under the U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996 for committing a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Grave breaches include willfully depriving a person of war of the right to a fair and regular trial, which means the right to an impartial and independent tribunal. Section 2(a)(1) of President Bush's military order in conjunction with Section 4(c)(8) violates the right to an independent and impartial tribunal by making him both prosecutor and final judge -- a grave breach of the Geneva Convention (article 147) and a clear violation of the War Crimes Act. And, by the way, a violation of the War Crimes Act may be punishable by death. FRANCISCO FORREST MARTIN Saskatoon, Canada http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14449-2001Nov25.html
FLUXLIST: Let's drop the big one now .. but make it butter, rice and information
Greetings fluxlisters Randy Newman once wrote : No one likes us We don't know why Let's drop the big one now (or words to that effect, please excuse memory lapses) Let's make the big one butter, rice and information as suggested below. (I don't really like the 'civilization' line however). And let's work up the answer to Randy's riddle. Having seen Colin Powell interviewed on BBC TV by Jeremy Paxman I believe that Powell understands why there should be no almighty CNN war, why there are grievances with US/West actions down the years, why no fuel should be added to that, and why as much as possible taken away from the coal holes/wood piles etc. Even perhaps why continued and continuous humanitarian support is vital. I think he said something along the lines that US had provided the most aid to Afghanistan and would in future. Implying a hiatus. That would be a mistake IMO. I hope what Powell understands (if I'm right) and keeps other forces in America and the West under control. Meanwhile, in the real world, the UN World Food programme is commanded by US to cease shipping food to the Afghan/ Pakistan borders. I hope this is overturned in time for winter. It would be a big mistake to starve millions of wholly innocent people to catch a handful. Best wishes Chris P -Original Message- From: Andrew Hund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [AEDF] Bomb Them With Butter Something to consider -- by Kent Madin A military response, particularly an attack on Afghanistan, is exactly what the terrorists want. It will strengthen and swell their small but fanatical ranks. Instead, bomb Afghanistan with butter, with rice, bread, clothing and medicine. It will cost less than conventional arms, poses no threat of US casualties and just might get the populace thinking that maybe the Taliban don't have the answers. After three years of drought and with starvation looming, let's offer the Afghani people the vision of a new future. One that includes full stomachs. Bomb them with information. Video players and cassettes of world leaders, particularly Islamic leaders, condemning terrorism. Carpet the country with magazines and newspapers showing the horror of terrorism committed by their guest. Blitz them with laptop computers and DVD players filled with a perspective that is denied them by their government. Saturation bombing with hope will mean that some of it gets through. Send so much that the Taliban can't collect and hide it all. The Taliban are telling their people to prepare for Jihad. Instead, let's give the Afghani people their first good meal in years. Seeing your family fully fed and the prospect of stability in terms of food and a future is a powerful deterrent to martyrdom. All we ask in return is that they, as a people, agree to enter the civilized world. That includes handing over terrorists in their midst. In responding to terrorism we need to do something different. Something unexpected. Something that addresses the root of the problem. We need to take away the well of despair, ignorance and brutality from which the Osama bin Laden's of the world water their gardens of terror. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zacha.org/mailman/listinfo/cyberculture http://www.cyberculture.zacha.org/ -- Chris Paul - IDEA @ @ Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts \ / Grosvenor Building, Manchester, M15 6BR @ - @ - @ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ 0161 273 4414 fax 0161 273 4432 @ @ http://www.idea.org.uk/go A Catalyst For Art and Ideas http://www.idea.org.uk/archive http://www.idea.org.uk/cinemaconcret
FLUXLIST: ahwannapeeshapeetsha.....
apeeshapeetshapleesh...(repeat) that's your puzzle for the day. you have 60 seconds. Hiya och I've been thinking about you alot since we met (nooo! not THEN!! I mean the last time) and hope you're well and happy (the Mets notwithstanding.) Thank you for that day. I'm really very very happy for you. I was just sorry and more than a bit weirded out by having to run off like that. I love you, and I'm glad you're where you wanna be. On a certain level at least, it seemed the first time we've been able to just be totally unencumbered by the past...in a certain way... I run into Mona Koppelman (whatever her last name is now) periodically. Her husband plays in SEM sometimes and they live somewhere nearby around here. I just saw her the other night and had a lovely little conversation with her. She'd just come back from LA. She was having something produced there and seeing Mike and Tracy so it was nice to get a bit of news about them. (somebody just called in to the radio with the greatest off-season trade for the Mets. Once the whole season is finally over, they make a deal with Leiter, Piazza and Payton.for Turk Wendell and Dennis Cooke!!!) Elbo is good. Just more ear stuff. But she's taken quite a liking (ready for this?) to swimming (!?!) Between the river in North Carolina and going out to Southold once or twice.still won't pea in the rain, mind you. And she doesn't seem make the connection between swimming and the bath tub, unfortunately. But there ya are... Things here are fine. I'm going to Europe for a few weeks in August. Another of Petr's schemes. Sort of a 3 week long institute for composers. We'll do a bunch of concerts and readings and stuff. Pretty much just work for 3 weeks together more than any sort of teaching thing. I've taken to calling it Kamp Kotik. I leave the 11th so I'm spending most of my time getting my shit together for that. Speaking of getting my shit together, I've started therapy again :) I actually called Betty (that last one) who didn't have any time for me in her schedule. I found someone who's out here in Brooklyn Heights. It's nice to be in it again. This time it's a man that I'm seeing (now THERE's a sentence I could've engineered a bit differently) and it's sort of nice (same) I was actually a bit apprehensive-that's too strong a word, but you know what I mean-about that part, but it's alot more comfortable than I'd figured it'd be. Time to work now. I'm stripping a cabinet in the kitchen that Vail seems to have developed rather a vendetta against (I know, I knowa rental, all thatbut it'll look good and it's nice to get a bit dusty.) My love to Jimmy and especially your parents. squeezy luigi for me. go here sometime: http://www.foundmagazine.com/
FLUXLIST: co6 Micro-Festival of Digital Film Culture
Foundation for Art Creative Technology (FACT) presents C r o s s i n g O v e r 6 (co6) Micro-Festival of Digital Film Culture 15th - 30th July 2001, Liverpool http://www.crossingover.org Since 1996, Crossing Over Micro-Festival of Digital Film Culture has been presented in mainland Europe and the USA. In 2001, Liverpool becomes the first UK city to host the event. Join us for an eye-opening midsummer festival of cutting-edge digital films from around the world. For special co6 audio highlights stay tuned at www.crossingover.org. Here's a taste of things to come... *** Sunday, July 15th, 19.00 Screen 8, Odeon Cinema, London Road, Liverpool L3 5NF * T i m e C o d e (Dir Mike Figgis, USA, 2000, cert 15) Extraordinary piece of digital cinema followed by a special post-screening talk ** Monday, July 16th, 20.00 Unity 2, Unity Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool L2 9BG * co6 V e r n i s s a g e Digital shorts from last year's Crossing Over Micro-Festival + catalogue launch ** Tuesday, July 17th, 20.00 Unity 2, Unity Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool L2 9BG * H i g h l i g h t s Award-winning digital films from this year's media festivals in Rotterdam and Berlin ** Wednesday, July 18th, 20.00 Unity 2, Unity Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool L2 9BG * W o w + F l u t t e r Experimental animations and digital films from onedotzero5, 2001, London ** Thursday, July 19th, 20.00 Unity 2, Unity Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool L2 9BG * W a v e l e n g t h A visual and aural adventure. Selected music promos from onedotzero5, 2001, London ** Friday, July 20th, 20.00 Unity 2, Unity Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool L2 9BG * J - S t a r The freshest contemporary Japanese motion graphics from onedotzero5, 2001, London ** Saturday, July 21st, 20.00 Unity 2, Unity Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool L2 9BG *L e n s F l a r e Cutting-age computer game animations from onedotzero5, 2001, London ** Monday, July 30th, 14.00 www.superchannel.org * T e n a n t s p i n Interactive web broadcast featuring two new co6 digital films introduced by the co6 artists Free ** Monday, July 30th, 20.00 Unity 2, Unity Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool L2 9BG *co6 F i n i s s a g e Premiere of the innovative digital shorts produced for C r o s s i n g O v e r 6 introduced by the co6 artists and curators *** TICKETS INFORMATION: Tickets at Odeon Cinema: GBP5.00 (GBP3.50 concessions) Tickets at Unity Theatre: GBP3.00 (GBP2.00) Limited Special Ticket Offers: GBP5.00 for any two events or GBP10.00 for all seven events at Unity Theatre Box Office T: +44 (0)151 709 4988 Advance bookings can be made using these credit cards: Delta, Electron, Mastercard, Switch and Visa For a full co6 programme details and a preview of the co6 new digital films visit: www.crossingover.org For co6 brochure request contact: Iliyana Nedkova at FACT, Bluecoat Chambers, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX, T: +44 (0) 151 709 2663, F: +44 (0) 151 707 2150, E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] co6 is co-curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Nina Czegledy in association with the Foundation for Art Creative Technology (FACT) co6 is funded by Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, North West Arts Board and Liverpool School of Art and Design, John Moores University co6 has been co-produced by the Foundation for Art Creative Technology (FACT), in partnership with Mersey Film and Video, First Take, Media Station, International Centre for Digital Content, MITES, Liverpool Housing Action Trust, Tenantspin, Unity Theatre and Odeon Cinema
FLUXLIST: nonSymposium update
*** non* - nonSymposium Friday 15th of June 2001 Dundee Contemporary Arts *** PRESS UPDATE Networking is a major feature of 21st century life. It exists in many forms: business get-togethers, the internet, stock market trading, text-messaging, international revolutionary movements. Networks bring things together. They have changed the way we travel by air, what we think about when we go for a latte and how people make use of London's Oxford Circus. The increasing expansion of networks and of connections between networks - networks of networks - leads to a condition of convergence. Established disciplines, ways of doing things and social systems that were previously independent and unaware of one another are now interacting and producing new hybrid forms. Charles Schwab employs a consultant on rave culture. A messaging utility designed for telecommunications engineers becomes a major medium of teenage communication. Charities and corporates become arbitors of economic development. Governments, like royality before them, move into the tourist industry. The established boundaries defining these different, previously often exclusive systems, no longer hold. People consciously and unconsciously select different elements from across disparate disciplines to create new, hybrid and sometimes deliberately contradictory modes of practice - nonPractices. Practices which are in some sense outside of the established disciplines to which they relate, and yet which nevertheless operate through and because of them. non* - nonSymposium is a day of discussion around such practices and related issues. Participating in the discussion are Susanne Clausen, a member of Szuper Gallery, an artists group who work with the institutions of art and commerce as mediums in their own right, Terhi Rantanen, a specialist on global media who focuses on international news agencies and their relation to local and global culture, Nicholas Rengger, an expert on international political relations and the point of intersection between politics and culture in the postmodern era, Pedro Sepulveda-Sandoval, an architect working on reciprocating physical urban space and mobile technologies, and Paul Taylor who deals with the sociology of hacking culture and the symbiotic relationship between hackers and computing corporates like Microsoft. Together they will be exploring the various overlaps and points of interference between their areas where politics, art and communication combine. The discussion itself adopts the structure of a TV talk show, in which the conventions of the academic lecture hall have been given over to what is, for most people, a far more familiar form of public debate. No one standing on a podium or hiding behind a lectern but rather full-on audience involvement. The day is combined with the opening of the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Degree Shows and ends with a live DJ-VJ set from Germany and Scotland (Torsten Lauschman and Norman Shaw). Friday 15th of June 2001 10am - 6pm Visual Research Centre (Univ.of Dundee) at Dundee Contemporary Arts 152 the Nethergate Dundee DD1 4DY Scotland - UK tickets - including lunch and symposium publication: 30.00 pounds sterling - full price 10.00 pounds sterling - for full-time students and concessions booking: 00 44 (0) 1382 606 220 further information: web-site: www.livingzeroes.org email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 00 44 (0) 1382 348 060 fax: 00 44(0) 1382 348 105 ++ END ++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.
FLUXLIST: DK City
DK City http://www.dk-city.net DK City is an online urban community created by artist Lindsay Perth. The work was created during the artist's residency in Glasgow, a collaboration between New Media Scotland and Street Level. The design, events and people that inhabit DK City developed from collaborative discussion and workshops between the artist and 4 young people from a truancy unit based within the Douglas Inch Centre, Glasgow. Online virtual reality and 3D environments have come to be associated with their potential for escape, the hiding of identities and utopian ideals. The constructs which have evolved around this form of media reflect these aims: avatars, fantasy roleplay and idealised futurist landscapes. The young people who worked on this project have quite a different agenda in mind. They have chosen to depict scenes from their own existence, or at least semi-fictional versions of the same. The portrayal of scenes of alienation and urban dereliction (the decay city of the title) reveal much about the young people's attitude to the utopian planning concepts which shaped Glasgow's architecture during the late 20th Century. By choosing to make this explicit through vrml technologies, they deliver a critique of the way we view and use such techniques, implying a failure of the dream of a 'perfect' networked society. At the same time there is much humour to be found, and an intelligent grasp of influences from other genres of 3D computer graphics, from games to cinema and television. The end result is a multi-layered portrait of a city as they see it, with the quirks and foibles of everyday life intact, rather than antialiased out of the picture. Lindsay Perth has been working as a digital artist with arts organisations in Scotland for three years in the form of residencies, tutor and workshop co-ordination. Commissioners have included New Media Scotland, Street Level, Stills, and Project Ability. She is one of the founder members of artists' group Elevator and continues to explore the creative uses of new technologies. Douglas Inch Centre School was founded by a doctor of psychology who was researching the different causes of perpetual truancy. The School is located within the Out-Patients Department of Forensic Psychiatry. It is a truancy unit for 14-16 year old adolescents who have been referred to the school via the Social Work Department. DK City has received funding from Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund as part of Scotland's Year of the Artist. For further information, please contact: New Media Scotland P.O. Box 25065 Glasgow G1 5YP Tel: 0141 564 3010 Fax: 0141 564 3011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.
FLUXLIST: nonSymposium
non* nonSymposium nonCorporate nonCulture nonComputing nonArchitecture nonSpace nonCity nonTheory nonEconomy nonDesign nonArt non* Friday 15th June 2001, 10 am - 6pm Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts http://www.livingzeroes.org cross-disciplinary debate about complexity in contemporary living - investigating new areas of practice which have arisen through the convergence and hybridisation of established disciplines. addressing the ungraspable spaces in-between disciplines and concept boundaries the non* is what emerges as the consequence of convergent and expanded networks - networks of transactions, communications, accidental meetings, business lunches, data packets, radiowaves, flirtations - beyond the economy of information lies the economy of connectivity - networks of networks - in the excess of connectivity, where links are constructed between previously discrete practices, nonPractices establish the possibilities of what could be - nonPractices expose a critical and hypothetical working, doing, acting and thinking through of established practices - developing a confidence about the unknown - a knowing undoing and conscious rebuilding. non* - nonSymposium connects popular and institutional discourses, the tv talk show and the intellectual debate. Panelists from backgrounds in the corporate world, new media and urban theory, hacking and product design, will explore the possible nonPractices which emerge from the connectivity between and beyond their disciplines. The symposium addresses professionals in economy, law, art, computing, politics, architecture, sociology and related disciplines, as well as those who are interested in the current situation and future of contemporary society. Curated by Simon Yuill and Gerald Straub Panel: Paul Taylor (U.K.), Hackerism, Sociology, University of Salford Terhi Rantanen (Finland), Global Media, London School of Economics Pedro Sepulveda - Sandoval (Mexico), Computer related Design, Royal College of Art Susanne Clausen (Germany), Contemporary Art, Szupergallery Nick Rengger (U.K.), International Relations, University of St. Andrews nonSymposium venue: Visual Research Centre Dundee Contemporary Arts 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY Scotland - UK for more information: http://www.livingzeroes.org email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 00 44 (0) 1382 348 060 fax: 00 44(0) 1382 348 105 tickets: £30 full price £10 for full-time students and concessions non* is part of Living Zeroes, an initiative of the School of TV and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, a faculty of the University of Dundee. It is supported by the Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen, Scottish Enterprise Tayside, Dundee Contemporary Arts, New Media Scotland and the University of Dundee's Visual Research Centre. [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the message body.
FLUXLIST: Blue Skies
Blue Skies -- Colin Andrews, Catriona Grant, Beverley Hood and e@t 23 March - 28 April, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Blue Skies is an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Scotland-based artists using digital technologies. The work in the exhibition explores how technologies are mediating our sense of time and space and how this process impacts on the way we perceive our place in the world and our relationships with other people. 'I may be some time', a single-channel video work by Colin Andrews, uses appropriated and bleached archive film of a polar mapping expedition made in the 1930s. The work is rich with allusions - Antarctica becomes a landscape of the imagination, the geographical unconscious, a Terra Incognita. 'Genuine Offer of Friendship' by Catriona Grant is a screen based interactive work about the mechanisms of friendship, in which different people can be paired by the user. They present themselves, offering information about what they expect from and what they can bring to a friendship. All the people live or work in the Greater Pilton area of Edinburgh. These people from a real community have been brought together in a virtual community; some knew each other, some had never met. The user can try to make appropriate pairings or whimsical choices, mirroring the chance meetings and arbitrary decisions our own relationships are based on. Beverley Hood's work 'trans-locale' is represented here by video documentation of the recent performance at Stills. The work is an intervention within the environment of online video conferencing. 'trans-locale' broadcasts two dancers performing the Tango from a live space into the online video conferences. Here they weave another level of 'dance' - leaping from server to server, country to country, temporarily visible to those connected to each of the selected conferences. For further information on the performance see http://www.bhood.co.uk/translocale e@t - a group of five artists working in Scotland: Jim Hamlyn, Jim Buckley, Sarah McKenzie Smith, Andy Kennedy and Jon Pengelly - have been meeting, collaborating and producing work together since January 2000. In this exhibition the group share a meal in real time with a group of artists in the States, and talk via a satellite link up about collaborative practice - passing the salt across time zones and continents. For further information on e@t visit http://www.eatprojects.org This exhibition is accompanied by a new publication containing an essay by Francis McKee. Copies will be available from Stills in return for a suggested donation of £2.50 (plus £2 postage for mail order). 'I may be some time' by Colin Andrews was commissioned by Film and Video Access Centre, Picture This Moving Image and Watershed Media Centre; Supported by Stills, the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund. 'Genuine Offer of Friendship' by Catriona Grant was commissioned by New Media Scotland, supported by Edinburgh College of Art, Greater Pilton Design Resource, Polaroid (UK), the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund. 'trans-locale' by Beverley Hood was commissioned by New Media Scotland in partnership with Stills and New Moves International with funding from the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund. e@t have received support from Gray's School of Art and the Scottish Arts Council For further information about any of the artists in 'Blue Skies' please contact: Stills New Media Scotland 23 Cockburn Street P.O. Box 25065 Edinburgh EH1 1BP Glasgow G1 5YP [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body.
FLUXLIST: Timelines
New Media Scotland presents: Timelines New Digital Video Shorts by Artists Our Eye by Chris Bowman sees the artist re-visit sites around Scotland where his father, a keen amateur photographer and film maker, made home movies during the artist's childhood. Torsten Lauschmann travelled to Tokyo to shoot Let's kiosk. Using the aesthetics of the pop promo, Lauschmann takes us on a journey through the streets of modern Tokyo, balancing modernity with tradition, the hallmark of contemporay Japan. Mandy McIntosh was inspired by a shoe box of fabric samples, collected while working at fashion house Kenzo in Paris to create Electronic Fabric Film. A constructed animation of native Aberdeen girls modelling digitally produced fashion garments. Details follow of Timelines screenings: 26 January, Dundee Contemporary Arts 2pm - Torsten Lauschmann - Artist's Talk 6pm - Torsten Lauschmann - Let's kiosk 8 February, The Belmont, Aberdeen 6pm - Mandy McIntosh - Artist's Talk 6pm - Mandy McIntosh - Electronic Fabric Film Torsten Lauschmann - Let's kiosk Chris Bowman - Our Eye 24 February, Glasgow Film Theatre 3pm - Artists' Discussion Forum 3pm - Chris Bowman - Our Eye Torsten Lauschmann - Let's kiosk Mandy McIntosh - Electronic Fabric Film New Media Scotland produced Timelines in partnership with Digital Arts Project Glasgow; Peacock Digital, Aberdeen; and the Visual Research Centre at the University of Dundee. All three works were funded by the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund. For further information contact: New Media Scotland PO Box 25065 Glasgow G1 5YP Tel: 0141 564 3010 Fax: 0141 564 3011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body.
FLUXLIST: New Media Scotland at Dundee Contemporary Arts
New Media Scotland and the University of Dundee present: Jorn Ebner - Life Measure Constructions Torsten Lauschmann - Let's Kiosk Friday 26 January at Dundee Contemporary Arts Artists' Talks: 2pm, DCA Cinema Public Launch of Life Measure Constructions: 5.30pm Centrespace, Visual Research Centre Screening of Let's kiosk: 6 pm, DCA Cinema Free entry to all events New Media Scotland presents two new commissions: Life Measure Constructions, a new internet work by Jorn Ebner. The artist invites the viewer to create their own worlds on the web. An interactive electronic drawing, Life Measure Constructions allows us to free our imaginations and make decisions as to how the online environment will develop. Life Measure Constructions will be accessible at http://www.lifemeasure.org from 26 January 2001. Let's kiosk, a new digital video short by Torsten Lauschmann. Using the aesthetics of the pop promo, Lauschmann takes us on a journey through the streets of Tokyo, balancing modernity with tradition, the hallmark of contemporary Japan. Life Measure Constructions is a New Media Scotland commission. The work was made as a result of the artist's residency at The Visual Research Centre, part of the faculty of Art Design of The University of Dundee. Let's kiosk is a New Media Scotland production in partnership with the Visual Research Centre. Let's kiosk is one of three digital video shorts produced as part of New Media Scotland's Timelines. Both works are funded by the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund. For further information contact: New Media Scotland PO Box 25065 Glasgow G1 5YP Tel: 0141 564 3010 Fax: 0141 564 3011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body.
FLUXLIST: Euan Sutherland - modern PLAGUES
New Media Scotland presents: Euan Sutherland - modern PLAGUES and the decommissioned past 15 December 2000 - 31 January 2001 http://www.modernplagues.net 'We live entangled in webs of endless deceit, often self-deceit, but with a little honest effort, it is possible to extricate ourselves from them. If we do, we will see a world that is rather different from the one presented to us by a remarkably effective ideological system, a world that is much uglier, often horrifying. We will also learn that our actions, or passive acquiescence, contribute quite substantially to misery and oppression, and perhaps eventual global destruction.' - Noam Chomsky, Turning the Tide, 1985. In 'modern PLAGUES and the decommissioned past' artist Euan Sutherland raises issues dealing with the 'decline' into the 21st Century through an abandonment of humanitarian and ecological necessities, the dereliction of the world through greed, domination politics and misguided social policies. This new collage of work takes the form of a web site and an accompanying publication. The interactive piece bombards the viewer with still and moving imagery, sounds and voice-overs, quotations and statistics; while at the same time denying any clear historical perspective with a maze like set of links and constantly changing order of events that demand a different personal interpretation each time the work is viewed. The work encapsulates a range of subjects from the last 25 years of the 20th Century ... ... from Mesothelioma to the Miners strike ... ... from Ozone depletion to the Oklahoma City bombing ... ... from Diplock Courts to Death row political prisoners ... ... from Ethnic cleansing to the East Timor invasion ... ... from Rail privatisation to the Restart scheme ... ... from Nuclear disasters to the New Cross Massacre ... ... from Poll tax riots to the Persian Gulf war ... ... from Liverpool Dockers to the Lawrence enquiry ... ... from Apartheid to the Asylum Bill ... ... from Genetic experimentation to Greenham Common ... ... from UN 'peace keeping' to the US invasion of Grenada ... ... from Education cuts to the El Salvador death squads ... ... from Sellafield to the Special Patrol Group ... For further information, or to obtain a free copy of the specially produced publication by Euan Sutherland please contact: New Media Scotland PO Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Tel: 0141 564 3010 Fax: 0141 564 3011 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mediascot.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body.
FLUXLIST: New Media Scotland Bulletin
New Media Scotland presents two new commissions: Colin Andrews - Geist 18 to 25 November 2000 The Pier Art Centre, Stromness Artist's Talk: 1pm Saturday 18 November http://www.mediascot.org/geist As the title suggests, 'Geist' is a work involving ghosts. 4 traditionally 'haunted locations' across Scotland are networked. These remote locations act as nodes, gathering data such as changes in temperature and fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation. This information is then relayed via electronic networks to the library at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney where it is used to 'feed' an audio installation. The audio is derived from traces of 'voices' recorded at each location at an earlier time. Another Space - Subterranean Landscape Blues 25 November - 23 December 2000 art.tm, Inverness Artists' Talk: 2pm Saturday 9 December http://www.mediascot.org/slb Working as Another Space, artists Trevor Avery and Nigel Mullan have created a multi-media environment, Subterranean Landscape Blues. The work investigates hidden military structures in the Highlands, mapping the effects of the armed forces upon the landscape. Both works are part of a series of ten New Media Scotland commissions funded by the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund. The artists were awarded a budget, training and specialist assistance to help them work with digital techniques. Please find further details on the works below. New Media Scotland works nationally to enable arts activity shaped by new technologies. We aim to support research and development in new media, and to increase the number and quality of opportunities for artists in this area. For further information, please contact: New Media Scotland PO Box 25065, Glasgow G15YP Tel: 0141 564 3010 Fax: 0141 564 3011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org ++ Colin Andrews - Geist 18 to 25 November 2000 The Pier Art Centre, Stromness Exhibition open to the public: Tues - Sat 10.30am -12.30pm, 1.30pm - 5pm Web site: http://www.mediascot.org/geist Artist's Talk: 1pm Saturday 18 November Free 4 traditionally 'haunted locations' across Scotland are networked. These remote locations act as nodes, gathering data such as changes in temperature and fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation. This information is then relayed via electronic networks to the library at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney where it is used to 'feed' an audio installation. The work is experienced as a 4 channel audio installation, with each of the 4 channels representing one of the 4 remote 'haunted' locations. The audio is derived from traces of 'voices' extracted from recordings made at each location at an earlier time. Geist is not about the existence or otherwise of ghosts but rather about ghost or spectrality as metaphor. It attempts to explore our contemporary condition of omnipresent absence - presence through the use of haunted locations, recorded sound and network technology. Contemporary communications technologies belong to unseen places - they connect us instantaneously across vast distances yet make our words, impulses and feelings pass through an uninhabited and invisible domain. Geist is about being and not being here and there simultaneously. It is about communication through the exchange of electrical energy, about recording and playback, about returns and repetition. It is the domain of spectres and spirits, of slippages in time and space and communications across boundaries. A New Media Scotland Commission in partnership with the Pier Arts Centre. ++ Another Space - Subterranean Landscape Blues 25 November - 23 December 2000 art.tm, Inverness Exhibition open to the public: Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm Web site: http://www.mediascot.org/slb Artist's Talk: 2pm Saturday 9 December Free Working as Another Space, artists Trevor Avery and Nigel Mullan have created a multi-media environment, Subterranean Landscape Blues. The work addresses the natural landscape orthodoxy (which denies fifty percent of the resident population deemed 'economically inactive'), and the myriad relationships which constitute this orthodoxy through dominance and market authentication. These are undermined by the presence of military and industrial sites of dereliction lying on the surface and underground - not to mention the shambolic stop-go scenery of the omnipotent world wide oil industry. Meanwhile, state of the art NATO military aircraft thunder across the skies targeting the bombing range at Tain. Such violent intrusions put the mockers on the peaceful ambitions of the heritage experience, that shocking testament to the purveyors of 'the end of history'. To the population of Easter Ross, the daily shadow of the flying global police force is as natural as that of the migratory birds refuelling at the sites of special scientific interest. We have established a
FLUXLIST: NonAmbient
New Media Scotland and The Changing Room present: NonAmbient - a new audio work by Alistair Gentry 30 September to 18 November 2000, The Changing Room, Stirling "Artists like Alistair Gentry are producing the only true insights into and reflections of our messed-up, noise-fuelled life" - Time Out NonAmbient is an infinite, self-generating sound work about motorised, mechanical, electrical and electronic voices we build and create for ourselves. Alistair Gentry has been artist in residence in Stirling over the last few months. Through digital processing, many hours of recordings made in and around Stirling have been extracted, magnified and looped electronically. There are nearly one million permutations of the sounds that have been discovered through this process and generative software navigates its way through all of them. The constantly changing stream of sound in the gallery may at times suggest stories or questions. Why is there jazz in the radiators? How many faxes, phone calls and text messages are passing through you right now? The gallery also has an area where visistors can sit, listen to the work, or tune out for as long as they wish. They may also browse Alistair Gentry's websites and read his books. For the enjoyment of other visitors to the gallery, the artist requests that all mobile phones are switched ON and that you talk about something interesting. A New Media Scotland Commission in partnership with Stirling Council. For further details contact: New Media Scotland The Changing Room P.O. Box 25065 35 The Arcade Glasgow G1 5YP Stirling FK8 1AX Tel: +44 141 564 3010 Tel/Fax: +44 1786 479361 Fax: +44 141 564 3011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mediascot.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body.
FLUXLIST: HOST: Meet the artist
HOST: Meet the artist - Gair Dunlop http://host.mediascot.org Host is an online space dedicated to temporary projects by artists. The first project is 'Utopia' by Scottish artist Gair Dunlop. You can see it on Host from 1 August 2000 to 31 October 2000. Tonight - Meet the artist: internet chat reception 21 September 2000, 19:00 hrs GMT Please visit our website for further details. 'Utopia' is designed to set up a dialogue about the idea of space and perfectibility. How many of our ideas about who we are and our place in the world are bound up with various hierarchies of space and property? The world and the heavens. Property and the natural order. Eutopia from the same root as Euphoria. Utopia from nonplace... [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org This message has been sent to you by New Media Scotland. If you do not wish to receive information from us, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body.
FLUXLIST: stop drugged driving now with fluxus scripts, and feel good
from the BBC (in London) "Drivers will have to perform roadside tests if police suspect them of taking drugs. The tests include making drivers stand on one leg and touching their noses with their eyes closed. " standing on one leg and touching nose _at one time_? this really is a brutal police state we live in. once it's established that you're "a bit wobbly" it seems that the police then intend to carry out a further battery of top-notch scientific tests to determine (beyond a shadow of doubt, bang to rights, it's a fair cop, hello hello sunshine etc) which substances have been ingested by the accused. the police have made it clear that the possible effect of alcohol will have been eliminated by the well-established "walking the 10 yard line" test. the fluxus section of the metropolitan police have recently put out a request for a series of diagnostic scripts for different substances; no mention was made of commission fees however so I suspect that any responses used will be considered to have been in the line of public duty. if scripts are posted to the list I will make sure they reach the correct officers ... -- Chris Paul - IDEA @ @ Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts \ / Grosvenor Building, Manchester, M15 6BR @ - @ - @ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ 0161 273 4414 fax 0161 273 4432 @ @ http://www.idea.org.uk/go A Catalyst For Art and Ideas http://www.idea.org.uk/archive http://www.idea.org.uk/cinemaconcret
FLUXLIST: [Fwd: SERVICE 2000]
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FLUXLIST: Roshini Kempadoo - Virtual Exiles
New Media Scotland and Street Level Photoworks present: Roshini Kempadoo - Virtual Exiles 20 June to 22 July 2000, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow http://www.mediascot.org/exiles 'Virtual Exiles becomes a collective way of telling stories, of digitally contributing our own version of what it means to step between two spaces at once. Two cultures, two senses of belonging, two countries we are familiar with. To visually describe this difference becomes an important inscription to everyday encounters and our writing of the past ..' David Dabydeen: Author, poet, and lecturer in Caribbean Studies. Roshini Kempadoo's digital images and web site explore the experiences of individuals who have left their country of origin and who are now at 'home' in another. The reason and experience of having left a homeland always varies, but what doesn't is the relation to the host country - those who have migrated are nearly always considered to be 'outsiders' or 'foreigners'. The work was created by Kempadoo while investigating her own status as refugee/exile/expatriate/emigre in relation to her own country of birth England and her country of origin and upbringing, Guyana. The interactive website is an ongoing curated internet show where individuals and groups are encouraged to contribute their own artwork, whether sound, video, images or text. Visitors are invited to relate their own experiences of being 'settled' and 'rooted' within one culture and yet having a deep sense of belonging with another. The exhibition prints are digitally manipulated images produced using a combination of Kempadoo's contemporary material, and specific historical collections from the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; Royal Anthropological Institute, London; Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam; material drawn from private and official archives in Guyana. Virtual Exiles is a partnership between New Media Scotland, Street Level Photoworks, ARTEC, Watermans Arts Centre, Impressions Gallery, Napier University and Lighthouse Media Centre. Additional funding from the Arts Council of England's New Media Projects Fund and the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund. Workshops with young people As part of the exhibition at Street Level a group of young people from across Glasgow will be working with digital artist Lindsay Perth in a series of workshops with a multi-cultural focus. Drawing upon and describing the participants own experiences and family histories, they will create interactive web pages related to the theme of the exhibition. The results will remain on both the 'Virtual Exiles' web site: http://www.mediascot.org/exiles For further information, please contact: New Media Scotland Street Level Photoworks P.O. Box 25065 26 King Street Glasgow G1 5YP Glasgow G1 5QP Tel: 0141 564 3010 Tel: 0141 552 2151 Fax: 0141 564 3011 Fax: 0141 552 2323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FLUXLIST: [Fwd: autoparts launch]
See below. IDEA's "before" show in our new building - due to open as art-media-IT incubator workspace, Spring 2000. There is also a performance - Autoconversion : "A family car transformed into a series of audio CDs by power tools. A durational performance. Spencer HW Marsden with Municipal Constructions." That's 29 May 00, 12 noon to 7 pm. There is webstuff at http://www.idea.org.uk/autoparts Original Message Subject: autoparts launch Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:22:27 +0100 From: "Jen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INVITATION TO PRIVATE VIEW OF * AUTOPARTS * TEN NEW WORKS FOR AN OLD BUILDING on Saturday 20th May - Beer and Jam from 6pm - 9pm May 20th - July 7th 2000 Thursday - Saturday 12 - 6pm 10 Irwell Street (At Chapel Street and Trinity Way), Salford Jenna Collins Chara Lewis Greg Lock David MacKintosh Jim Medway Spencer HW Marsden with Municipal Constructions Kristin Mojsiewicz Graham Parker Gary Peploe Anneke Pettican Marc Provins Andrew Robinson Ten temporary interfaces to a building and an area which has a history of build and re-build, use, disuse and re-use, of shifting populations and changing fortunes. Idea has recently bought the old Brown Bothers Building in Salford which will be renovated in the early months of the year 2000. IDEA is adapting the building for more flexible use in training and by new businesses and artists whose working practice and physical needs are changing radically due to the use of new creative technologies. The building was originally built in 1878 as a brewery by Watson Woodhead brewers. In 1927 the building became Mackie Sons Fruit Preservers until 1955. In 1957 Brown Brothers auto parts moved in and stayed until 1986. Idea has commissioned 12 artists to make 10 new works for the old Brown Brothers Building with a particular focus on site-specific work which reflects an interest in transitional spaces and technologies.
FLUXLIST: Re: [Fwd: autoparts launch]
Sorry, should have been Spring 2001. Life's a blur. Chris Paul wrote: See below. IDEA's "before" show in our new building - due to open as art-media-IT incubator workspace, Spring 2000. -- Chris Paul - IDEA @ @ Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts \ / Grosvenor Building, Manchester, M15 6BR @ - @ - @ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ 0161 273 4414 fax 0161 273 4432 @ @ http://www.idea.org.uk/go A Catalyst For Art and Ideas http://www.idea.org.uk/archive http://www.idea.org.uk/cinemaconcret
FLUXLIST: Live webcast tonight - Radiotuesday
Radiotuesday present 'e.g. Sometime Instant' an exhibition at Transmission gallery, Glasgow - 25th March - 8th April. Tonight: - Ian Balch presents a performance Gift, a choral piece performed by St. Marys Cathedral Choir in the gallery at 20:00 hrs BST (19:00 hrs GMT) Coming soon: - James McLardy, presents a new sound work in collaboration with David Young from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra 9th April 20:00 hrs BST (19:00 hrs GMT) For further information, and Realaudio clips of soundworks, visit: http://www.mediascot.org http://www.transmissiongallery.com/radiotuesday/ Radiotuesday is an artist-run radio station Radiotuesday first broadcast across Glasgow in 1999. They recently exhibited at KIASMA, Helsinki using a sound studio to generate new work for broadcast across Helsinki. A cassette compilation of sound works from Radiotuesday was launched during the Drift sound art event in Glasgow in November 1999. [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Media Scotland Tel. +44 141 564 3010 P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP Fax. +44 141 564 3011 Scotland, UKhttp://www.mediascot.org
FLUXLIST: OT but perhaps of interest....
Extended Duration Performances by The S.E.M. Ensemble at the Paula Cooper Gallery (534 W. 21st St., New York) Sunday April 2 3:00 till about 7:30 Morton Feldman's "For Philip Guston" Tuesday, April 4 6:30 till midnight "Many Many Women" by Petr Kotik text by Gertrude Stein tickets $15.00 for one concert, $22 for both, s/s $10/$15
FLUXLIST: Live, on vinyl
Came across this today : LIVE, Pavel Buchler 'Live' is composed from almost 400 live recordings from Pavel Buchler's record collection, spanning a variety of music styles over 40 years and bringing together the sounds of audiences from all over the world. Each record was digitised, then the sound of the music deleted leaving only bursts of applause, separated by periods of silence. Following its inauguration as a sound installation at the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, 'Live' has been released on limited edition vinyl LP. Produced by FACT with financial assistance from Manchester Metropolitan University Price #19.99 (plus #1.00 pp Europe, #2.00 pp outside EU) Pavel is Research Professor at MMU Fine Arts ... http://www.fact.co.uk/pubs/pubs1.htm
