events2008

=Events 2008 (and previous)=

=Transcentric= 17. Nov - 16. Dec 08 / ends in 26 days Lethaby Gallery Monday–Friday 10 – 6, Saturday 10 – 4 Exhibition | Multi-disciplinary | London

TRANSCENTRIC is a collection of works across a range of media by artists associated with RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and the University of the Arts London. The works in the exhibition move across, beyond, between, and within city centres. As such they are concerned with phenomena that we might think of as 'urban', however this is interpreted not only in terms of spatial relationship, but also considers how the urban centre resonates with overlapping themes arising from social, environmental, geographical, political and other forces. Many of the works are concerned with the particularities of the aesthetics of writing and re-writing urban space, while others reflect on associations emanating from and within the centre such as the symbolism of architecture, the structures of belief systems, mortality in the modern world, the relationship of the centre to the periphery, the spaces in-between, and the weather.

Artists: Steven Ball (Central St Martins), Irene Barberis (RMIT), Daniel Crooks (RMIT), Catherine Elwes (Camberwell), Riccardo Iacono (London College of Communication), Tina Keane (CSM), Mark Lewis (CSM), Andre Liew (RMIT), William Raban (LCC), Philip Samartzis (RMIT), Andy Stiff (Camberwell), Wilma Tabacco (RMIT), Anne Tallentire (CSM), Jennet Thomas (Wimbledon), Chris Wainwright (Chelsea), Shaun Wilson (RMIT), John Wynne and Denise Hawrysio (LCC).

Transcentric Artists' Presentation: Thursday 20 November, 6pm

17 November - 29 December 2008 The Window Gallery Central Saint Martins of Art & Design 107–109 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0DU

Curated by Steven Ball (British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, UAL) and Irene Barberis (Metasenta Projects, RMIT University) for The Centres Project

THE CENTRES PROJECT is a practice-based research exhibition and publication project exploring the Urban Centre, bringing together two centres of Fine Art research: one in central London, UK and the other in central Melbourne, Australia. Situated within the complex flow of forces of an urban hub, each institution simultaneously responds and contributes to their cities' stimuli. TRANSCENTRIC is the first manifestation of THE CENTRES PROJECT in London. http://centresproject.blogspot.com

=F I N I S H E D=


 * LECTURE ON FRIDAY**

LORENZO TAIUTI 11.OOAM SMALL SEMINAR ROOM, WILSON ROAD ITALIAN NEW MEDIA


 * Lorenzo Tauti** was born in Milan. He studied at Accademia delle Belle Arti both in Milan and Rome. He lives and works in Rome. He has made many works on visual arts and television, as well as installations and multimedial works made in collaboration with composers of contemporary music for musical dramas. In the 80s and 90s he has made several videos based on music and dancing research. He teaches Mass Media Communication at Accademia delle Belle Arti in Turin. He writes for art magazines on video languages and new media. In 1996 he published Arte e media: avanguardie e comunicazine di massa with the Italian editor Costa e Nolan (Genova). Some of his videos have been exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. Several videos have been shown in festivals, in Italy and abroad (Los Angeles, Locarno, Nice, Marseilles, Naples, Milan, Karlsruhe)

=AUDIO FORENSICS= Private view: Thursday 27 November 6.00pm – 9.00pm Open to public: Thursday 27 – Sunday 30 November 2008 Libero Colimberti, Jan Hendrickse, Simone Izzi, Nitin Lachhani, Luc Messinezis, Maria Papadomanolaki, Vytis Puronas, Mark Shorey and Mark Wright. Comprising of ambitious works by nine artists who employ sound as the principle media of their practice, Audio Forensics demonstrates the breadth of engagement with sound in the arts, and how it can be re-evaluated in the context of an increasingly noisy world.

Sound art encompasses a wide range of forms and concerns and has its precedence across many creative fields, yet, as these artists demonstrate, the acknowledgment of sound’s significance in the arts is becoming of greater importance as technologies develop, and as the public become ever more aware of the interactions between sound, space and artistic practice.

Audio Forensics provides an extraordinarily comprehensive inquiry into how sound, and its manipulation, influences our experience and understanding of our environment.

Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university’s Department of Sound Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by Electra and IMT Venue: I M T, Unit 2/210 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9NQ Contact: +44 (0) 20 8980 5475

External symposium: Date: 30 NOVEMBER Time: 15:00-18:00 RSVP Symposium in which Ben Borthwick, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, and Steven Connor, professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, address issues of sonic practice raised by Audio Forensics. Price: Free, limited space. Venue: I M T, Unit 2/210 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9NQ Contact: 020 8980 5475 (for booking)

RESONANCE FM PRESENTS A FREE FESTIVAL OF EXTRAORDINARY NEW MUSIC
Spectrum XXI: International Festival of Spectral Music

Friday, November 21th at 7.30pm Conway Hall ,25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Hyperion Ensemble performs new works by Hodgkinson, Dumitrescu, Cazaban, Teodorescu and Avram.

Saturday, November 22th at 7.30pm, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

IO Quartet and Hyperion Ensemble perform new works by Dumitrescu and Avram. Soloists: Tim Hodgkinson (UK), Gustavo Aguilar (USA).

Romania's Hyperion Ensemble was founded in 1976 by the composer Iancu Dumitrescu. As a starting point, Hyperion explored possible connections between the most archaic Romanian music - Byzantine music, folk music collected by Bartok, etc. - and today's avant-garde music. It follows a tradition of performance, of interpreting each new score as a provocation of the spirit, and a quest for new domains of sound.

"Dumitrescu's music has a visceral, untidy force rare in classical music - the textures of Xenakis pared of the later's Beethovenian ambition, made more focused and linear. Seems like these Romanians are engaged in a similar kind of sonic research to that which resulted on the masterpieces of Giacinto Scelsi and Ennio Morricone: collective endeavor, genuine "deep listening". The results are similarly overpowering, a million miles from the tooting inconsequence or most of what passes for New Music in the classical world." Ben Watson, The Wire

www.resonancefm.com



RESONANCE FM PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH OTOMO YOSHIHIDE
Monday 24 November, 8pm

Japan's foremost avant-gardist Otomo makes a rare London appearance, playing in three groups with Benedict Drew, Tomas Korber & Louisa Martin; DJ Sniff & Xentos Fray Bentos; and Steve Beresford, John Edwards & Eddie Prevost. Noise; quiet stuff; free jazz. Record stall.

Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL. Tickets: £10, £5 concessions.

http://www.resonancefm.com



KILL YOU TIMID NOTION
Contemporary Music Network UK tour - London dates, Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 November 2008 "a step across the border between sound and vision" http://www.arika.org.uk

Kill Your Timid Notion (KYTN) is one of Europe's leading festivals of sound and image produced by Arika and annually hosted at Dundee Contemporary Arts since 2003. Contemporary Music Network presents an enticing 'best of' the past 5 years of KYTN as a touring festival of experimental music and film unlike anything most audiences will have seen or heard before.

WORK BY Kjell BjÃ¸rgeengen, Keith Rowe & Philipp Wacshmann; Hollis Frampton; Ken Jacobs; Peter Kubelka; Eric La Casa; Andrew Lampert; Jeanne Liotta; Bruce McClure; Metamkine; Greg Pope; Peter Rose; Walter Ruttman; Manuel Saiz; Paul Sharits; Michael Snow. KYTN London dates are at four venues over two whole days:

SATURDAY 29.11.08 Films (1): NFT3, BFI Southbank, 14:00 â?" 17:30 Performance (1): NFT 1, BFI Southbank, 18:30 â?" 21:45; Performance (2): BFI IMAX, Southbank, 22:15 â?" 23:15

SUNDAY 30.11.08 Talk: NFT3, BFI Southbank, 12:30 â?" 13 :30 Films (2): NFT3, BFI Southbank,14:00 â?" 17:30 Performance (3): ICA, The Mall, 19:00 â?" 23:00

CONTACT/LINKS T BFI Southbank : 020 7928 3232 T BFI IMAX: 0870 787 2525 T ICA: 020 7 930 3647 www.bfi.org.uk www.ica.org.uk

For full programme and artist information visit www.arika.org.uk/kytn/2008/tour

EXPLODING CINEMA - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
Underground film making night in the half moon pub in Herne Hill. Genetic Moo will be showing a scarified version of Animacules there. http://www.explodingcinema.org

TESLA TALK
Wednesday 5th November 2008, 18:00 - 19:00, UCL, Garwood Lecture Theatre http://tesla-ucl.blogspot.com/

We are delighted to announce the next Tela talk:

Anna Dumitriu: "Talking to Bacteria, Unnecessary Research and the Sublime"

In this talk Anna Dumitriu will explain her approach to transdisciplinary art practice, what working collaboratively means to her, why she 'talks' to bacteria and why unnecessary research is so important. As Einstein said: "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

=Panel Discussion=

4 november: 6.30pm: £5/£4 concessions/£3 members: to book a place: 020 7930 3647 http://www.ica.org.uk/Close%20to%20the%20Surface%20discussion+18391.twl

This project explores the role of surface within fine art digital print from a variety of perspectives including those of practitioners, critics, publishers and curators. It will investigate how it is possible to articulate the unique surface qualities of digital print and explore ways, through engagement with the technology, of creating personalised surfaces which reflect the artist’s needs. Convenor and chair: Dr Barbara Rauch. Participants: Professor Paul Coldwell, Dan Hays, Christian Nold, Bruce Gernand, Kathy Prendergast, Jonathan Kearney, Sissu Tarka. http://www.ica.org.uk/Close%20to%20the%20Surface%20discussion+18391.twl

=Exhibition=

exhibition open: 3–9 november: 12–7pm (9pm thursday 6): Digital Studio, Concourse & bar: free:

An exhibition of work-in-progress from a two-year project, The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking. The works here explore the role of surface within an expanded concept of digital fine-art printmaking. The exhibition will include work by Paul Coldwell, Bruce Gernand, Sissu Tarka, Dan Hays, Tim Head, Christian Nold, Kathy Prendergast, Barbara Rauch. Curated by Barbara Rauch and Jonathan Kearney. http://www.ica.org.uk/Close%20to%20the%20Surface%3A%20Digital%20Presence+18390.twl

http://www.faderesearch.com/digitalsurface/

supported by AHRC

=Igloo talk at Tesla= FREE ADMISSION Tuesday 7 October 2008, 18:00 – 19:00 University College London Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing

We are delighted to announce the start of the Tesla autumn season with the presentation by Ruth Gibson and Bruno Marteli, well known as the artistic duo **Igloo**

Don’t miss the opportunity to hear about their work that challenges boundaries of arts, sciences, interactive and other technologies through imaginative and often playful projects.

The talk coincides with their current exhibitions: 2008 SwanQuake:House - V22 Basement Project, 10-16 Ashwin Street, London UK 21/09/08 – 03/11/08 Open Thursday & Sundays 12- 6pm and by appointment (+44 (0)20 76134996 2008 Don’t Open this Door if you Can’t Close it - Wenlock Building, 50-60 Wharf Rd, London UK 04/10/08 -19/10/08 Open:Wednesdays – Sundays 12-7pm

Tesla is an informal art and science discussion forum dealing with visionary ideas beyond the existing remits of art and science. Tesla welcomes artists, scientists, theorists and curators and others active or interested in the field of art and science. It is based at UCL.
 * About Tesla**

Bruno Martelli graduated from Central Saint Martins with a first class degree in graphic art before setting up a multimedia platform for interactive design. He has since worked with artist John Latham, muf architects and co-curated Wired Worlds a computer games exhibition at the National Media Museum, Bradford. He is a recipient of a Wingate Scholarship through which he continues his research into technologies to abstract the human body, it’s movement, and it’s senses.
 * About Igloo**

Ruth Gibson graduated from University of Kent Canterbury with a BA (Hons) in Performing Arts. She studied with the Marcel Marceau Group whilst on a scholarship at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti USA. She continued her education at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Nominated for a Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Art in 2000, she has worked with many artists including Sandra Fisher, Gary Rowe, Leonard McComb and Gaby Agis.

Based in London, the artists work together and often as igloo with international artists, including John McCormick and Adam Nash. Their practice is multifaceted ranging through installation, intervention, virtualisation, film and performance drawing on the multiple layers of reality and unreality. Much of their work is in recreating environments and systems where coding joins hands with choreographies of the body. Their core concept is the intersection between technology and the human spirit, where our ambivalence to technology is explored with originality, humour and intellect.

Awards NESTA Invention and Innovation award 2004, Royal Opera House Commission 2004, Computer Space Prize XV nomination 2003, BAFTA nomination 2002, Travel Award Arizona State University IDAT 1999, Travel Award Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Rotterdam, NL 1998 & Lisa Ullmann Scholarship 1998.

Artists in Residence londonprintstudio, Paddington, London, UK 2008, RMIT Associate Artists, Melbourne, Australia 2004 & 2006, Centre for Astrophysics & Super Computing, Swinburne University Melbourne, Australia 2004, Jerwood Space, London, UK 1998, Riverside Studios, London, UK 1997, Sadlers Wells, Software for Dancers, London, UK 2001, V2 Lab, Future Moves, Rotterdam, NL 1998

Visiting Tutor/Lectures Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths College, Bartlett School of Architecture, Huddersfield University, Brunel University School of Arts, CLEAR, The Centre for Landscape & Environmental Arts Research, Cumbria University, Pixel Raiders, Sheffield Hallam University, Women in Games, University of Wales Newport, Transistor 2 CIANT, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Gametime, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia.

Research Areas The use of animation tools and digital methods to explore and realise unique approaches in developing real-time screen based works. The creative expansion of interface development into new territories evolving science and new display technologies. Specific attention paid to the modification that nature undergoes as technology develops. Through re-purposing media tools and combining them with re-modeled objects, the work simulates and reconfigures representations of our environment. Ongoing development of sensory and interactive virtual environments for children with disabilities in special schools and hospitals.

More about Igloo

Getting to UCL:

The nearest Tube stations are Euston Square and Warren Street. For full details, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/public-transport

How to find the Garwood Lecture Theatre:

Once you enter the main gate of UCL in Gower Street, you will face the Portico in the UCL quadrangle courtyard. Please take the right hand side diagonal and walk to the right corner of the building. You will see the brass tablet indicating South Wing. Enter the second entrance door at the South Wing, and you will find the Garwood Lecture Theatre on the first floor. There will be signs from the entrance that will help you to find the exact location easily.

You may also consult the UCL maps at:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/maps

=Moving Image Research Forum= All M.Phil, PhD students and their supervisors engaged in research around the theory and practice of the moving image are warmly invited to participate in this university-wide forum. The first meeting will be an opportunity for students to talk informally about their research interests and screen short extracts from their own work, or works they are studying. Future MIRF meetings will be held at other colleges within UAL and there will be an opportunity to participate in an exciting project within the BFI Southbank hub, involved in planning and staging events at BFI Southbank during the 2008-‘09 academic year. (see BFI invitation below) Inaugural MIRF meeting will take place on Wednesday 15th October, 2008 from 2-6pm, Large Lecture Hall (1st Floor), Camberwell College of Arts, Wilson Road, SE5 8LU. Buses: 36, 12, 171, 35 etc. Refreshments provided. Professor Catherine Elwes, Camberwell College of Art Steven Ball and David Curtis, British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection, CSM Susan Trangmar, CSM For more information, contact: Steven Ball: s.ball@csm.arts.ac.uk; Tel: 0207 514 8159 or Catherine Elwes: c.elwes@camberwell.arts.ac.uk

Lansdown Lecture: Dianne Harris, Art Director, Kinetica Museum
Date: 8 October 2008 Location: Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, School of Arts and Education, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT (get picadilly tube to cockfosters) When: 4:45pm Further info:Stephen Boyd Davis s.boyd-davis@mdx.ac.uk


 * The Age of Electronic Art**

Kinetica Museum aims to actively encourage the convergence of art and technology, providing an alternative platform to static traditional forms of art such as painting and sculpture. The museum champions artistic innovation and showcases work which utilises and warps technology to explore, nurture and comment on our evolutionary processes.

Kinetica focuses on work which has extended and enriched the dialogue between human and machine through the use of groundbreaking technological advancements. This re-presentation of pioneering works from the past and new 'wave' of works in reference to the metaphor of our 'great' machine 'the Universe', has inspired artists to explore scientific discoveries and challenge technological life. Kinetica has found a growing audience with a fascination for art that has a life of its own, one that is kinetic.

Dianne will present an overview of the history and future of Kinetica Museum.

About the Speaker

Dianne Harris has worked within the applied and electronic arts for the past 17 years and has exhibited extensively in America, North Africa, Europe and England. She was founder, curator and director of the Luminaries kinetic and interactive gallery in London from 2003-4. From this she went on to co-found Kinetica Museum. Dianne currently curates the revolving and touring exhibitions for Kinetica.

As an artist, Dianne has recurrently taken a technological approach to exploring the unseen realms of existence that surround us. By merging seemingly divergent fields of perception, such as science, philosophy, mythology and psychology, her work aims to heighten the awareness of human potentiality and question the self-imposed limitations that serve to confine the very nature of our ideas, thoughts and being. Using multi-dimensional media, sculpture and installation, Harris combines reality with non-reality, placing the human form into surreal environments that often mimic or suggest future developments and re-emerging ideas from ancient worlds. Her alternate view of existence is designed solely to inspire those who engage with it.

http://www.kinetica-museum.org/

Switch Supposing
A drawing experience by

Marta Angelozzi, Elena Cecchinato and Maia Sambonet

Area 10 Project Space Entrance behind Library Peckham Square London SE15 5JT http://www.area10.info



Sunday 12th October to Saturday 18th October Doors open everyday from 13pm to 19pm Preview: Sat 11th October 6pm Admission Free

Switch Supposing outlines an itinerary within the experience of the elsewhere happening here and now through the practice of Drawing.

In a maze of lines and mindscapes, the spectator participates to the chasing game of black and white. As light and darkness reverse one into the other, the viewer is free to swing between mindfulness and abandonment.

This series of pieces explore the possibility of generating new vocabularies for the intangible and mutual relation to the elsewhere.

Marta Angelozzi's drawings are abstract landscapes that reflect a state of being experienced in the moment they are drawn. As a way to explore the unknown, they could represent a journey to and from an unexplored land. They are 'codes' open to interpretation, long scrolls, strictly black and white, under the watchful eye of a video camera.

Elena Cecchinato's tile-carpets explore the immanent reordering that exists between inner experience and outer occurrence. Contained is a floor tiles installation composed of prayer rugs embedded into the pavement. Their cosmographical designs are made up of finely psycho-poetical invocations meandering and converging in a sketch-like fashion of prayer for the everyday little traumas.

Maia Sambonet's installations range from miniatures to environments, which catch drawing in motion. Set free, a story evades the sheet's perimeter to navigate in space. Light cluster is an ensemble of light boxes that progressively reveal a drawing-microcosm. Incorporated in the drawing texture, calligraphy undescores a transition from illegibility to clarity, from dark to light.


 * NEW THURSDAY CLUB SEASON AT GOLDSMITHS**

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

this is the programme of our new Autumn 08 Thursday Club season of events at Goldsmiths. Please put the dates in your diaries and we do hope to see you there for stimulating presentations, discussions and exchanges, plus a glass or two of wine.

The 1st event will take place this coming Thursday 25th September. For more info re our future events please check the Thursday Club website

http://www.thethursdayclub.net

With best wishes for a productive winter, Maria X

Thursday Club Autumn Term 2008

Programmed and Organised by Goldsmiths Digital Studios. Supported by Goldsmiths Graduate School & Department of Computing.

Programme of Events

1. Murray McKeich: Computational Creativity

Date: 25 September 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Murray McKeich is a New Zealander currently resident in Melbourne Australia who has established himself as a leading practitioner of digital media in Australasian contemporary art. Working with digital photo-media, his exhibition projects include printed imagery and animation. Described as both macabre and darkly seductive, Mckeich?s art weaves visions of surreal fantasy and magic from the tiny pieces of every-day debris found in urban and domestic environments. His recent practice uses generative software to autonomously breed art-works.

McKeich believes that computational tools are about to become more intimately integrated with human creativity. Artists and designers will take on the role of creative directors while their personalised software will work for them in the capacity of highly trained, trusted and autonomous studio assistants, capable of producing finished artworks without direct supervision. McKeich demonstrates that this form of practice is possible with current off-the-shelf software and minimal programming skill. More difficult is the psychological challenge of breaking with culturally ingrained biological models of creative process and forming new ones that are natural and native to computational agency.

MURRAY MCKEICH is a visiting fellow in the digital studios throughout September. He is a practicing artist and course co-ordinator in media arts at RMIT University, School of Creative Media, Melbourne, Australia. He is currently completing a PhD in Art/Digital Media at Monash University, Australia.

2. John Levack Drever & Lawrence Upton: Acoustic Performance

Date: 9 October 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00

3. Harold Cohen: AARON, the world?s first pure A.I. Artist

Date: 16 October 2008 Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre Time: 17:00 - 19:00

4. Tim Hopkins: Les Noces Project

Date: 23 October 2008 Location: George Wood Theatre, Dept. of Drama Time: 19:00 - 21:00

5. David Littler: Sampler ? Culture Clash

Date: 6 November 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00

6. Alexandra Antonopoulou: Once Upon a Time to Ever After AND Dawn Scarfe: Audible Auras

Date: 20 November 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00

7. John Lechte: A Digital Aesthetics: Is it Possible? Date: 4 December 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00

8. Janis Jefferies in conversation with Liliane Lijn Date: 11 December 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/ Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art & Computational Technologies Goldsmiths Digital Studios

=Quantifying Play - Digital Art group show - Jago Gallery= Quantifying Play is the new exhibition by http://www.submit2gravity.co.uk, which will take place in the heart of the East End at The Jago Gallery and will run from the 20th September - 5th October 2008. The Jago, 77 Redchurch Street, London E2 7DJ. Genetic Moo are showing Animacules here. Sharon Ferris is showing her breath piece in a new version here. Private View went well, the shows on for 2 weeks - i'll be doing a technical demo of the piece on wednesday afternoon OCTOBER 1st. This gallery is 10 minute walk from the Truman Brewery so you could come along and then go to the Fresher Fayre too.
 * LATE OPENING on THURSDAY 25th SEPT - 12pm - there's a BAR**
 * LATE OPENING on THURSDAY 2nd OCTOBER - 12pm - there's a BAR**

Wednesday 1 October 2008 - Freshers' Focus Wednesday 8 October - Postgrads and Returning Students 1pm for a 1:30pm start As the term kicks off, the BFI Southbank opens its doors for students to find out how the BFI can help you to learn more about film and television.
 * BFI SOUTHBANK INVITATION:**

• Get to know this exciting venue with a free event in NFT1 featuring pioneering digital shorts from onedotzero

• Free tours and workshops in the Gallery and Mediatheque • Take advantage of our 3 for 2 offer on Annual BFI Membership, Annual BFI Library Pass and a 6 month Sight & Sound subscription only available to students • Learn how to access the BFI National Library and the BFI National Archive • Get a 10% discount at the BFI Filmstore • Enter competitions to win tickets to exclusive BFI Southbank & BFI IMAX screenings

Collision 08 - Area10 Peckham Sept 11/12/13
Another Collision is about to happen!

Collision is a festival of art, music, moving image and performance.

Come and join us for three nights of experimental art that includes, not only a vast array of light and sound installations, but also an exciting line-up of live art and music. Keith Harrison's live ceramic firing of a 38 metre scale model of the M25 London Orbital, the Trans Siberian Marching Band and local trouble makers Ratty Rat Rat only scratch the surface of what's in store.

Thurs 11, Fri 12, Sat 13 September. Area 10 Project Space, Peckham Square, SE15 5JT.

"**Exploding Cinema**, London's all weather, semi-inflatable, ideally detached underground short film show unleashes contemporary and accumulated madness at the Collision Festival. Gurn on, toon in and rock out at our next high-volume, lo-fi extreme projection grog fest. Close your eyes and put the pedal to the metal, the Collision's coming." Thursday 11 September (£5)

http://www.collision.org.uk/ This is a huge warehouse space about 10 minutes walk from Camberwell - there are several open submission shows each year. Last year over 140 camberwell artists showed here. There's also a plan to hold some workshops here with medialab on open source software, arduino etc...

Collision is a yearly event - at this one two digital art students are showing multimedia work: Tim Pickup - "Sea Squirts" & Sharon Ferris showing "Breath".

"...the convergence of many different artistic disciplines: sculpture, painting, film, kinetic art, music, writing, conceptual art - We believe this inclination of the disciplines towards one another is closing in and the future of art is right in the meeting point. We therefore intend to support this tendency by creating a network of events that help the different artists and disciplines to get together and start new projects, and that eventually lead us to the epicentre of the multimedia art scene." || Also there's going to be a Church of Philip K. Dick for those that are interested. ||
 * Also showing are **Rotoreliefs** http://www.rotoreliefs.com/About_Us.html, a london organisation interested in...

Early Computer Art: Catherine Mason and Nick Lambert


lunch 1 pm talks 2 – 4.30 pm

Catherine Mason will talk about her new book, 'A Computer in the Art Room: The origins of British Computer Arts 1950 - 1980'. This uncovers the little-known history of early British computer art. Described for the first time is the crucial role played by art schools in fostering important cross-disciplinary digital collaborations. This was a unique period in which art students could learn to program computers and construct their own hardware, before the onset of PCs and 'user-friendly' systems.

Dr Nick Lambert from the Computer Arts and Technocultures Project (CAT), a joint venture between Birkbeck and the V&A, will discuss ‘Parallel Evolution: the development of computer arts in the 1980s to 90s’. The art show at the SIGGRAPH graphics conference was a major American and international venue for computer art. From the late 1970s onwards, the Los Angeles-based art historian Patric Prince collected a significant amount of early computer art that was closely linked with SIGGRAPH, and this was later donated to the V&A, becoming the research material for CAT.

If you'd like to attend please contact Tobias Rupp - t.rupp@camberwell.arts.ac.uk SCIRIA Research Administrator Phone 020-7514-2173

=Harold Cohen at Dorkbot=

Thursday 10th July, at Limehouse Town Hall from 7pm

 * [[image:AaronsCode.JPG]] || **Harold Cohen** is one of the godfathers of computer generated art. he programmed his machine AARON to draw and paint, at first abstractly and then figuratively. He has been updating the program for over 30 years. Cohen is visiting this country to oversee an exhibition at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery (running from 9th July - 15th August)..


 * Dorkbot** is a monthly meeting or artists+technicians who are interested in doing STRANGE THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY. http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotlondon/wiki/index.php/Main_Page On the 10th as well as Cohen they have talks about a robotic theremist and an interactive dance floor. ||

M I N D T H E S T E P
Recent works by MA Drawing students at Camberwell College of Art

Private view: Thursday 5 June 2008 From 6 to 9pm

Decima gallery Unit B16, The Old Peanut Factory 22, Smeed Road Fashionable Hackney Wick London E3 2NR

Free Admission-Free drinks

How to get there: http://DECIMAGALLERY.COM 07956465737

=Lots Of GPS projects/talks= > CHECKING REALITY >> Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 1077 WT Amsterdam > 18 MAY – 10 AUGUST > Opening 18 May > Introducing GPS Data Cloud, an outdoor sculpture of where technology thinks it is in relation to where we are now. It is a glimpse at the inaccuracy of current satellite positioning technology and refers to the many systems we rely on to locate ourselves. > > > SLIT SCANS >> Tenderpixel Gallery 10 Cecil Court, London, WC2N 4HE > 23 MAY – 25 JUNE > Opening 22 MAY 6-9 pm > Fascinating views of reality by Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood that explore the unusual transformations of familiar objects as they are mapped along the fleeting dimension of time. > > > LONDON GPS MAP >> Tim Bryars Ltd 8 Cecil Court, London, WC2 4HE > 22 MAY – 25 JUNE > An opportunity to see six years of movements around the city mapped with satellite navigation technology by Jeremy Wood. > > > SPACE@PLACE >> Z33 Zuivelmarkt 33, B-3500, Hasselt, Belgium > 16 MARCH – 25 MAY > In Place@Space - (re)shaping everyday life, artists, scientists, architects, engineers and designers show how we can use new technologies to reclaim our spatial environment and to make it our own again. The show includes Pentagram Flights, a GPS drawing of a star shape in the skies above Europe. > > > CREATIVE MAPPING >> Iniva Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA > Mapping Identity 19–26 MAY > Journey Maps 4–7 JUNE > Locating Language 2–12 JULY > A series of workshop projects with Iniva and local east London schools that explore mapping and ideas about identity, place and power. > > > That's all folks, > Check http://www.gpsdrawing.com for more details

=Goldsmiths Multimedia Lectures= > > Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL > STUDIOS > > 6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, > right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW > > FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required. > > > > *17 APRIL with RACHEL BETH EGENHOEFER > : > Knitting Intangibles* > > > Rachel Beth considers her Commodore 64 Computer and Fischer Price Loom to > be defining objects of her childhood. She creates tactile representations > of cyclical data structures in candy and knitting and is currently > exploring the intersection of textiles, technology, and the body in > contemporary art practice. Rachel Beth is currently working as an Artist > in Residence at the University of Brighton, Lighthouse Brighton, and > Furtherfield London as part of the Arts Council England Initiative, > commissioned by Distributed South and curated by SCAN and Space Media. > > Rachel Beth will be presenting work in progress from her residency that > explores the motion of knitting and the motion of code. Some of the work > includes a knit zoetrope, interactive virtual knitting, knitting with the > Nintendo Wii and others. She describes the interactive virtual knitting > as demonstrating “the motion from the knitting actions are tracked and > translated into a visualization of “knit code” displayed on screen (and > eventually on the web). The action of engaging or knitting with the piece > naturally produces a physical cloth, while it also shows that code is > constructed from the same types of patterns to create a type of virtual > cloth (or software). Visually the piece will reflect our bodily > interaction with machines, tracing the circular motion of the needles to > our body’s give and take of working at a machine. Cloth is often seen as > an element of comfort and protection. Machines are perceived to assist us > with advancing technology and communication while they are also harming > our bodies with carpel tunnel syndrome, back pain, sore eyes, and other > strain as we interact with them. This piece explores that delicate space > in-between.” > > > RACHEL BETH EGENHOEFER received her BFA from the Fiber department with a > concentration in Digital Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art, > and was an MFA fellow at the University of California, San Diego where she > also was a graduate researcher at UCSD's Center for Research and Computing > in the Arts (CRCA). Her work has been exhibited internationally in the > Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) London, > the Banff Centre for the Arts, ISEA 2004 and others. She formerly worked > on the editorial staff of Artbyte Magazine in New York City, and continues > freelance writing on art, modern society, and media culture. > www.rachelbeth.net > --- > > > *24 APRIL with KATE PULLINGER & CHRIS JOSEPH > : > Flight Paths: a networked book* > > “Flight Paths” seeks to explore what happens when lives collide –an > airplane stowaway and a fictional suburban London housewife. This project > will tell their stories; it will be a work of digital fiction, a networked > book, created on and through the internet. The project will include a web > iteration that opens up the research process to the outside world, > inviting discussion of the large array of issues the project touches on. > Questions raised by this project include: what are the possibilities for > new narrative forms? How do we “write to be seen” or “write to be heard” > when creating multimedia narratives, and can we imagine writing to be > smelled, tasted, felt? What are the effects of collective authorship > across multiple forms? > > KATE PULLINGER works both in print and new media. Her most recent novels > include A Little Stranger (2006) and Weird Sister (1999). Her current > digital fiction projects include 'Inanimate Alice'. Pullinger is Reader in > Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University. > > CHRIS JOSEPH is a digital writer and artist who has created solo and > collaborative work as babel. His past projects include 'Inanimate Alice', > 'The Breathing Wall' and 'Animalamina'. He is currently Digital Writer in > Residence at De Montfort University, Leicester. > --- > > > *8 MAY with CAMILLE BAKER & MARILENE OLIVER > : > MINDTouch > & > Making DICOM Dance – The Digitised Body as a site for performing > subjectivity* > > > MINDTouch explores ideas of non-verbal transference, telepathic > collaboration, and the participant as performer, using biofeedback and > mobile phone technology under meta-goals of studying "liveness" within > mobile networked environments. MINDTouch involves creating a mobile > networked performance that utilizes a database of streamed and/or archived > video-clips created by video-enabled mobile phones, to then be retrieved, > streamed and remixed during (a) live visuals performance(s). The > participants invited to contribute to the video blogs are asked to explore > their own consciousness, non-verbal emotional /affective senses and dream > states, embodiment and communication. > www.smartlab.uk.com/2projects/mindtouch.htm > > CAMILLE BAKER is a Ph.D. Candidate at SMARTlan, University of East London, > conducting research on Networked Performance Media, funded by BBC R+D. > www.swampgirl67.net > > & > > Making DICOM Dance: Marilene Oliver’s practice-based research looks at > medical and laser imaging technologies that scan bodies and break them > down to bytes. Oliver examines from an artist’s perspective, the processes > needed to convert flesh to pixel (digital photography), flesh to voxel > (MRI, CT and PET) and flesh to xyz co-ordinates (3D laser scanning). > Oliver will present a selection of artworks made using MRI data (where the > subject of the scans is bespoke) and CT data (where the subject of the > scans are either infamous or anonymous). The presentation will be both > technical and theoretical, concentrating on the performative puppeteering > activity that emerges when working with MRI and CT data. > > MARILENE OLIVER is currently a research student in the Fine Art Print > department at the Royal College of Art. Oliver has exhibited widely in the > UK and Europe including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Academy, > Royal Institution, Science Museum (UK). Oliver was awarded the Royal > Academy print prize in 2006 and the Printmaking Today prize in 2001. > --- > > > *15 MAY with COLM LALLY & VERINA GFADER > : > Condensation revisited: strategic walking / access to knowledge > > economics of things / conversation pieces * > > > In June 2007 Colm and Verina were invited to take part in the residency > programme: Reference Check, a co-production lab taking place at the Banff > New Media Institute in Banff, Alberta, Canada. > During the residency they expanded the notion of “interface” associated > with various forms of online communication and exchange, to other, perhaps > more radical, forms of spaces between different entities. At the core Colm > & Verina's actions emerges the search for where a site of potential > resides beside of technologies’ restrictive mode of ex/inter-change and > so-called collaborative or networked practices. > Colm & Verina will present the “document” of the process that their > project Condensation took during the residency at Banff. This includes > questions of: the necessity of temporary frameworks; the character of > dialogical communication processes; the failure as a site of potential. In > an informal setting the “document” will take the format of a line, or > “walking” – of virtually making a tour through various landscapes... > > COLM LALLY is founder and director of E:vent. Since 2003 Colm has taken a > hands-on role developing the E:vent programme, focusing on media art; > video; performance; and electronic music. Colm was a co-organiser of > Node.London 06 and is co-director of Arts in Action artists community. > > VERINA GFADER completed a practice-based Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Central > Saint Martins College, London in 2006, and recently joined CRUMB (web > resource for new media art curators) as post-doc research assistant. > --- > > > *29 MAY with RICHARD COLSON > : > Linking the Senses * > > Richard Colson considers the role of gesture as part of any process of > making art and reflects on its use in his painting and in his work using > digital technologies. The talk will try to unravel aspects of experience > that have a direct bearing on the interdependence of vision, auditory > phenomena, gesture and spatial changes in both the creation of art and its > reception by the viewer. Richard will use visual art works and examples of > creative writing and will try to show how an awareness of spatial position > can have a critical influence on the nature of what is perceived. > > RICHARD COLSON is the author of The Fundamentals of Digital Art (AVA > Publishing Uk Ltd) and co-curated Sense Detectives at Watermans Arts > Centre. He is a Director of the annual Takeaway Festival of DIY Media at > the Dana Centre, Science Museum. His paintings are in collections at the > House of Lords, the House of Commons, Royal Dutch Shell and Pearson PLC. > www.kwomodo.com > --- > > > *5 JUNE with ALEX MCLEAN & DAVE GRIFFITHS > : > Live Coding* > > Live coders program in conversation with their machine, dynamically adding > instructions and functions to running programs. Here there is no > distinction between creating and running a piece of software - its > execution is controlled through edits to its source code. Live coding has > recently become popular in performance, where software is written before > an audience in order to generate music and video for them to enjoy. McLean > and Griffiths have played around Europe together with Adrian Ward as the > live coding band "slub". They will talk about the history and practice of > live coding, and give some demos of their own live coding environments. > > ALEX MCLEAN has been triggering distorted kick drum samples with Perl > scripts for far too long. He is a PhD student at Goldsmiths Digital > Studios. > > DAVE GRIFFITHS writes programs to make noises, pictures and animations. He > makes film effectis software and computer games. > > Dave & Alex are both members of the Openlan free software artists > collective and the TOPLAP organisation for live algorithm promotion. > slub.org ; toplap.org ; pawfal.org/openlab ; pawfal.org/dave ; yaxu.org > --- > > > THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested > in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, > technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and > tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s). > > For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or > email Maria X at drp01mc@gold.ac.uk > > To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/ > > -- > Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational > Technologies Goldsmiths Digital Studios skype: mariax_gr > www.cybertheater.org > >
 * NEW THURSDAY CLUB SEASON**

Past-Potential-Futures - Early Experiments in Computer Animation
Tate Modern Sunday 25 May 2008, 21.00 Part of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2008 http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/thelongweekend2008/ This free Sunday evening screening in the Turbine Hall will celebrate the inspiring technical and aesthetic advances of early computer animation, including work by key pioneers such as Charles Csuri, Ed Emshwiller, Pierre Hébert, Denys Irving, Kenneth Knowlton, Malcolm Le Grice, Lillian Schwartz, John Stehura, Stan VanDerBeek, and more.

Decades before our contemporary CGI-saturated media landscape, artists during the 1960s and 70s -- working at Bell Laboratories, IBM, and in their own studios -- created radical experiments at the vibrant intersection of art and technology. Tate Modern's iconic architecture will be transformed by the pulsating, kinetic and colourful ryhthms of these visionary glimpses into the future of cinema.

FADE Bristol Fine Print Talks May 16th 12.30 - 7.30 with Buffet
Friday afternoon to join the FADE research group and hear presentations from 5 researchers from University of West England in Bristol. The researchers are all part of the Centre for Fine Art Print Research and are all involved in a range of practices from utilising very old printing technologies to the very latest 3D printing techniques. 12.30 Card room, Chelsea college of art and design. Buffet Lunch and drinks. 1.30-5.30 Presentations by CFPR members. 5.30-7.30 Drinks and nibbles. Further details of the event will be put up on the fade website: http://www.faderesearch.com/?cat=12

Places are very limited and includes a buffet lunch. If you are interested reply quickly to Keir Williams at keirwilliams@gmail.com



140 artists from Camberwell exhibiting in Area10 Peckham for a week
There were a few digital pieces - not sure who organised this. Guess they are undergraduates as i didn't recognise many of them. Looks like an alternative end of year show.



FUTURE FILM
I believe Moshe,Katrin & Yan LI have got films showing here: Come along and see films from different London Art Colleges at the Camden Arts Centre.
 * 23 April 07:00 - 08:00 pm, Camden Arts Centre Cafe**


 * 10 minutes by tube from Kings Cross and St Pancras (Eurostar)
 * 20 minutes by tube from Liverpool Street
 * 30 minutes by bus from central London

Camden Arts Centre Arkwright Road London NW3 6DG

There are all kinds of multi-media/digital events in london this season. http://www.nodel.org/index.php "Welcome to NODE.London's media art network.

In Spring 2008, NODE.London is calling a seasonal gathering of media art, showing how London is budding with fresh exhibitions, discussions, musical events and participatory projects.

This website will soon be filling with an ongoing programme from Spring 2008. Until then, you can browse the archive of the first NODE.London season of media arts in March 2006.

NODE.London is open to any person or group who wants to help spread media art and related activity around London and beyond! If you would like to get involved, please check the NODE.London wiki and come to one of our regular meetings and introduce yourself."

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11th+12th april
one Node event is ** RE | BOOT** which is on at Area10 in Peckham this weekend -. i also see that on saturday night (£5) **Ed Kelly** is doing a music performance. there is lots of free interesting stuff going on in the daytime, art, performance, music, talks, here: http://www.crealab.info/digitalab/doku.php?id=reboot There were rumours that Alain (head of college) was looking to stage a future Camberwell Show at this amazing warehouse venue - i know medialab intend to stage more shows there and the organizers (Jenny & Julian) are young local, and enthusiastic for multi-media art.
 * Genetic Moo** is showing the starfish 40 foot across.

=AREA 10 Project Space, Peckham=

Presents: RE | BOOT; 

The launch event of Area10's new media media platform:

Live Event and Opening: 12th April 7pm - Late £5

Come to Area10 for an evening program of film screenings, live performances, interactions, vjing, sound art, experimental and electronic noise music. Join us between 11am - 5pm Friday 11th & Saturday 12th April

Activities include workshops, lectures presentations being held alongside an exhibition of digital and interactive arts over two days.

Participating Artist, Musicians and Hackers: Project Serendipity (UK) Rob Davis (UK) Andy Wheddon & Fraser Geesin (UK) Genetic Moo Project (Peckham) Radek Rudnicki (UK) Erik Groen & Piebe de Vries (Holland) CathSign (France) Peckham Space (UK) Deptford.TV (UK) Chiara Passa (Italy) Phill Niblock (USA) Thibaud De Souza (UK) Sinsynplus (Germany) Günther Albrecht (Germany) Sunshine Frere (UK) Jenny Pickett (UK) Anila Ladwa (UK) Apo33 (France) Martin John Callanan (UK) Jean-Phillippe Roux (France) Lawrence Upton (UK) Mattin (Basque Country) ManamiN N(Japan) Nanofamas (Corsica) Goto10 & OpenLab (UK) Constant (Belgium) Yvan Etienne & Brice Jeannin (France) Medialab Madrid (Spain), Sonic (France) Tim Goldie (UK)...and many more!!

For more information on RE | BOOT and see attached press release or visit http://www.area10medialab.co.uk We look forward to seeing you on the 11th and 12th April

regards Jenny, Julien and Anila Area 10 Project Space Peckham Eagle Wharf Peckham Square London SE15 5JT

http://www.area10 has been introduced to facilitate the development of research and art practices using open source new technologies in the media arts. The medialab will focus on engaging cross-disciplinary collaborations between various arts and science based practices, encouraging open and critical discussion in addition to sharing knowledge and skills transfer.

RE | BOOT; is part of the Node London Spring '08 season - www.nodel.org and is supported by APO33 - www.apo33.org

Electric Blue at the Bargehouse.
Thanks everyone who came, here's an image from the show:



(Tim - looking forward to getting back to college work - by the way do we have any computers left?)

Hey Tim! CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN ON THE GREAT SHOW!!! The work was really strong and hope to go to more of these if you hear about them, so just let us know:). And thanks also for showing us how you set up the work. Really helped:).

And guys, you should also check out the space at Bargehouse. Really good if we want to have an external site for our final work. It's at Oxo Tower, Southbank and there are many rooms that can be used for projections.

Hope everyone had a good break and see you all soon! Katrin

=**Experiments in Digital Surface Generation**=
 * Thursday 14 Feb 17.30 @ The Red Room, Chelsea College of Art & Design**

this is well worth going to and you can meet people from the FADE research group which will be of particular interest to those of you thinking about PhDs. (Sorry we can't webcast this talk but it will be recorded and available to the online students within a few days)



=Ubox - New Local Gallery= Ubox is an exciting new gallery in the Vauxhall area and we are very keen to introduce ourselves to the local artistic community. We hope you can join us for a **glass of wine at our open evening between 5 and 8 pm on Wednesday 30th January.** Come and see a selection of our artists work as well as getting to know us and our unique space.

lynne brown gallery director Ubox gallery 330 kennington lane 07733268176 lynne@uboxgallery.com lbbricolage@yahoo.co.uk

=Abstraction=



Darren Almond
From: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art  Date: 18 January 2008 18:24:51 GMT To: Andrew Stiff  Subject: January Newsletter from Parasol unit, foundation for contemporary art

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art

London

Parasol unit is delighted to present the January 2008 edition of the quarterly newsletter. Content 1. Fire Under Snow: Darren Almond, 18 January – 30 March 2008

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is pleased to present Fire Under Snow, a one-person exhibition devoted to recent works by the British artist, Darren Almond. This will be Almond’s most extensive exhibition to date in a UK institution and will comprise two films, a group of large black and white photographs, and a wall sculpture.

Almond’s work takes as its subject matter the recurring themes of time, memory, human labour and exploitation in various parts of the world. His films, photographs and installations deal with both the private and collective human experience, with global and intimate concerns, in modes that are both analytical and emotional.

3. Events

Symposium: Geographies of Passage in Darren Almond’s work 2 February, 2–6pm The Geographies of Passage symposium will examine the recurring themes in Darren Almond’s work. Speakers will include Dr T.J. Demos, Dr Andrew Fisher, Lucy Reynolds and Dr Tadeusz Skorupski. The symposium is organised in collaboration with Maxa Zoller, independent film curator and critic, and adjunct education programmer, Parasol unit. It will take place in the first floor gallery and be open only to symposium participants. Booking is essential due to limited seating: Tickets £8/£6

http://www.parasol-unit.org / info@parasol-unit.org

=Film at the South London Gallery: Overload= Tuesday 29 and Thursday 31 January, 7pm, doors 6.30pm, £3, SLG. Film and video by Kendell Geers, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alexander Kluge, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelly, Seth Price and Pipilotti Rist. Overload brings together seven international artists whose work engages with political and social issues in contemporary society. Working with video, performance, installation or object displays they interpret political ideas within an aesthetic of ‘excess’. Using references from popular culture or engaging with strategies of appropriation, together they propose a critical discourse suffused with a certain irony on representation and history. To book tickets ring 020 7703 6120. www.southlondongallery.org

=The Not Quite Yet - On the Margins of Technology= Artists Workshop at SPACE - throughout February 2008

For artists working with media/technology who are interested in the social implications of technology and working in the public domain.

Hosted by specialists in their field, sessions will raise questions and facilitate approaching relevant and personal answers.

Attendees will enhance key communication and negotiation skills whilst contributing to the wider debate of realising the impacts of technology for opening up participation in art. Outcomes will feed into "On the Margins of Technology" symposium day on the 29th February.

Session 1: Developing projects with communities Thursday 7th February 2008, 11am - 4pm Why develop projects with communities? What do communities get from working with artists? Hosted by Loraine Leeson (Art for Change, cSPACE) and Mukul Patel (AmbientTV.net)

Session 2: Media and Methods Friday 8th February 2008, 11am - 4pm How can methods such as humour or invitations to participate be used to open up the potentials of working with communities and media technology? Hosted by James Stevens (Backspace, SPC, Boundless) and Chris Dawley-Brown (Artist, Interact placement BBC)

Session 3: Ownership and Ethics Friday 15th February 2008, 11am - 4pm Do artists have obligations when working with communities? Who owns the work? Should the ethics affect the aesthetics? Hosted by Evelyn Wilson (London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise) and Emmy Minton (Artist/producer running long term project with sex workers)

Session 4: Conflict Transformation Wednesday 20th February 2008, 11am - 4pm How can artists handle conflict? Being able to approach group, dual and personal conflict can be a major skill in all arts practise. Hosted by Newham Conflict and Change

Session 5: Accessible Promotion Friday 22nd February 2008, 11am - 4pm How can you write friendly and informative promotional material to explain complex concepts and events that haven't happened yet? Hosted by Dave Jones (Freelance PR, formerly Lateral)

There are only 12 places per session so booking is essential. £10 per session £25 for 3 £40 for all the sessions Prices include refreshments and lunch.

To book please email mail@spacestudios.org.uk with 'The Not Quite Yet Workshops' in the subject line and your preference of workshops and contact details.

For more information go to: http://www.thenotquiteyet.net

All workshops will be held at: SPACE, 129 - 131 Mare St, Hackney, London E8 3RH

Jim Prevett - Emergent Technologies Producer jim@spacestudios.org.uk www.spacemedia.org.uk www.spacestudios.org.uk

=Lansdown Lecture - Christian Nold on Recapturing the Sensory Commons - 23 January 2008 - London=

This public lecture is free. All welcome.

Recapturing the Sensory Commons Everyday we walk through areas that are frequently called public spaces. Yet, how truly public are these spaces? Who is the public anyway? This lecture suggests artistic and practical methods for re-examining ideas of public space. How might we construct a body-centred politics that advocates the right for people to modulate their own sensory microcosm?

About the speaker Christian Nold is an artist, designer and educator working to develop new participatory models for communal representation. He is most famous for his series of Bio Mapping projects which combine galvanic skin response (GSR) with GPS location to map the levels of individuals’ arousal as they move through the world. By aggregating this data he has constructed maps that visualise where the community feels stressed or excited.

In 2001 he wrote the well received book ‘Mobile Vulgus’, which examined the history of the political crowd and which set the tone for his research into participatory mapping.

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, Christian has led a number of large scale participatory projects and worked with a team on diverse academic research projects. His ‘Bio Mapping’ project has had significant international publicity and been staged in 16 different countries: over 1500 people have taken part in workshops and exhibitions.

He is currently based at the Bartlett, University College London.

Christian Nold site: http://www.softhook.com/

Venue Room 137 Middlesex University Cat Hill Barnet Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=en4+8ht&ie=UTF8&ll=51.644269,-0.147951&spn=0.007523,0.016308&t=h&z=16&om=1

Date and time Wednesday 23 January at 4:50pm Enquiries Stephen Boyd Davis: s.boyd-davis@mdx.ac.uk

Flash On the Beach: Brighton, Uk
__//4th-7th November 2007//__ http://www.flashonthebeach.com/

CINEMA FOR THE EYES AND EARS
ROXY BAR - BOROUGH Tuesday 30th October 2007, 8pm http://www.roxybarandscreen.com/listings.php?event=384

The potential for combining image and sound has been explored since the invention of cinema. This primer of classic works of the international avant-garde demonstrates some of the possibilities specific to the film medium, from the flickering frames of Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits and John Latham to the intricate optics of Daina Krumins, Malcolm Le Grice, and others. Featuring soundtracks by Brian Eno, Rhys Chatham, John Cale and Terry Riley. All films will be shown on 16mm.

ARNULF RAINER, Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1958, 8 minutes YYAA, Wojciech Bruszewski, Poland, 1973, 5 minutes SPEAK, John Latham, UK, 1968-69, 11 minutes BERLIN HORSE, Malcolm Le Grice, UK, 1970, 8 minutes THE DIVINE MIRACLE, Daina Krumins, USA, 1973, 5 minutes AXIOMATIC GRANULARITY, Paul Sharits, USA, 1972-73, 20 minutes DRESDEN DYNAMO, Lis Rhodes, UK, 1974, 5 minutes STRAIGHT AND NARROW, Tony & Beverly Conrad, USA, 1971, 11 minutes

London Games Festival
[|London Games Festival] - throughout October many events. video gaming/machanima/virtual worlds/console hacking/ ... there are talks on these and others.

Legend Of King Arthur
In an age of reproduction, most people are familiar with the idea of ‘the completed story’. People buy stories. They buy books or watch a film. They all have fixed beginnings, middles and endings. But before the age of print, stories were very fluid. They largely existed in an environment of oral folklore where the story changed as often as the story was told and retold. With this piece, I will be exploring the openness of a legend and how it can be applied to stories within our new technologies.

__//Between the 26th October and the 30th October 2007//__, I will be facilitating the production of a new film about the Legend of King Arthur by the general public. This is part of an exhibition of Contemporary Art in Open Media being held at The Poly, Church Street, Falmouth, Cornwall - 10am to 4:30pm (not Sunday). If you feel you could contribute to this project, please do so either at the exhibition itself, or at http://www.swarmtv.org

//__I will also be holding two video workshops at the Poly on Monday 29th October__//, one at 11am and one at 3pm (everybody welcome) where the public will be given the challenge of making a film in an hour. This film will then become part of the exhibition itself (please bring a camera, if possible).

Thanks, take care. Jem Mackay

Court Room, Artsadmin
28 Commercial Street, London E1 6AB

__//Tuesday 23 October, 7 to 8:30 pm (doors open at 6.30pm)//__ MARIE-FRANCE & PATRICIA MARTIN with Cyril Lepetit as interpreter Booking essential: danielle@daniellearnaud.com



The artists will discuss their video, Du noir dans le vert, currently shown at the gallery, in the Court Room of Artsadmin. Merging analytical discourse and improvisation with an interpreter, the flow of conversation will divert from stories to stories, flirt with reality and fiction and engage the audience in an obsessional process.

__//Continuing in the gallery until 21 October://__ Ruth Claxton Marie-France & Patricia Martin Paulette Phillips painted steel, mirror, glass, vinyl, found ceramic objects, beads, sequins and fimo. Gallery open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 2 - 6 pm (or by appointment)

__//2 November - 16 December 2007//__ Oona Grimes Conversations with Angels Aqua Art Miami 6 – 9 December 2007

Danielle Arnaud contemporary art 123 Kennington Road London SE11 6SF UK t/f +44(0) 207 735 8292 www.daniellearnaud.com

Eva Rothschild 'in conversation'
__//Thursday 1 November 2007, 7- 8.30pm//__ Lecture Hall, Wilson Road, Camberwell College of Arts

Free MAC Workshops

This is 10 minutes from the college this saturday behind peckham library:



=MADA Dubstep Party -- FWD 7th Birthday!!! Friday 23rd November=



This friday marks the 7th year of FWD, a club night dedicated to pushing the one of most refreshing and vibrant underground music scenes around: Dubstep. So what exactly is dubstep?

I put this mix together for you as a taster! [|click here for download]

1. Burial "Distant lights" 2. Mala "Bury Da Bwoy" 3. Loefah "Mud" 4. Distance "Traffic" 5. Digital Mystiks "Earth A Run Red" 6. Skream "Lightening" 7. Skream "Losing Control" 8. Ramadanman "Good Feeling" 9. Mala "Changes" 10. Shackleton "You Bring Me Down" 11. Digital Mystiks "Stuck" 12. Martyn "Shadowcasting" 13. Mala "Forgive" 14. Vex'd "Fire" 15. Mark One "Rise Of The Machine" 16. Mark Ashken "Size 3 (Skream Remix)" 17. Kode 9, Benny Ill & The Culprit "Fat Larry's Skank (Kode 9 Remix)" 18. Burial "Night Train" 19. Boxcutter "November"
 * fuz3_MADA_dubstep mix**

also check out: [|dubstep on youtube]

If you're feeling those vibes, come down it's gonna be BIG!! Maybe we could all meet before hand for drinks? Cheers, Zai

Thursday 15th is the Camberwell Bar launch party. they'll have a band, possibly a DJ, maybe a bar quiz, and it's a late night opening!!! Friday 16th camberwell Bar opening party continued!

OpenLab4
http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/index.php?page=OpenLab4

Melange Social Club, 281 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AS

25th Nov 2007 - 2pm till late

Openlab 4 will be a whole day event around Free Software as creative means in music, digital arts and performance. The event will provide the general public an opportunity to learn about the potentials and culture of Free Software as well as enabling Openlab activists to showcase their work. The event will start with presentations in the early afternoon and finish with a series of live demonstrations and perfomances in the evening.

Presentations include

Ed Kelly - Meta Studio The Meta Studio is a polyrhythmic sequencing and synthesis application for Pure Data. It uses graph-on-parent objects to implement a modular system of sequencing and synthesis with a flexible patching system. Ed Kelly is a composer, performer, engineer, developer of Pure Data software and also a teacher. He play keyboard instruments, guitar, bass, computer and anything I can lay my hands on. He wrote his PhD thesis about the experience of time passing, and how this can be influenced by compositional devices.

LCC MA Graphics students get busy
Please join us for the Private View on Thursday 29 November 6-9pm

=http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/intimacy/ at Goldsmiths College 7-9 December, 2007=

INTIMACY is a three-day digital and live art programme made to elicit connectivity, induce interaction and provoke debate between cutting edge artists, performers, leading scholars, respected researchers, creative thinkers and local community. A culturally urgent series of events, INTIMACY is designed to address a diverse set of responses to the notion of 'being intimate' in contemporary performance and as such, in life. Framed as a forum for artists, scholars, community workers, performers, cultural practitioners, researchers and creative thinkers, INTIMACY will feature workshops, seminars, performances, and a 1-day symposium at Goldsmiths, Laban, and The Albany, Home and online during 7-9 December, 2007.

=ANALOGUE & DIGITAL= curated by Chris Meigh-Andrews



Artists have been experimenting with the electronic moving image since the early 1970’s and recent developments in digital technology have further expanded and enhanced the creative potential of the medium. Moving image work is now widely accepted on a par with older, more established media such as painting, sculpture and photography, but this has not always been the case and there are several generations of UK artists whose work is less widely known but who have made an important contribution to the development of the medium.

Analogue & Digital, curated by video artist and writer Chris Meigh-Andrews, presents a selection of new digital moving image works- projections, installations and screen-based video in dialogue with a wide-ranging selection of pioneering British single-screen videotapes from the 70s and 80s from the international touring exhibition “Analogue”, featured last year at Tate Britain which was curated by Meigh-Andrews and Catherine Elwes, Reader in Moving Image Culture, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts.

=Analogue=

The works in the historical section of the exhibition were selected to represent the diversity of themes and aesthetic concerns of artists working in the UK during the 1970s and 80’s. This selection charts the development of video as a medium for artistic expression that developed alongside the rapid technological changes that took place during this period. Many of the issues and concerns that artists still pursue with the moving image were born during this early formative period when an engagement with the specific nature of the medium was at the centre of a revolution in art practices. The historical selection of the exhibition comprises of two one-hour programmes of short works or representative extracts from longer works made by artists who have made a significant contribution to the development of the medium during the first two formative decades of the history of the medium.

The years covered in this exhibition represent a period in which the nascent form moved swiftly through its Greenbergian phase of discovering the medium’s qualities, towards using them as raw material for a set of projects and performances that had, at the time as well as in retrospect, some kind of coherence, more perhaps of shared cooperative resources than of manifestos. Groundwork buries for almost forty years, they emerge once more blinking into the light to inspire another generation with the thought that it has not all been done before, that there is everything to play for.

-- Sean Cubitt, Catalogue essay, Analogue, Pioneering Video from the UK, Canada and Poland (1968-88), EDAU, Preston 2006.

Analogue & Digital premieres a number of significant and innovative new works by British artists and brings these together with videotapes by accomplished international artists such as Robert Cahen (France), Gary Hill (USA), Steina and Woody Vasulka (USA/Czech Republic/Iceland),

The new and recent works in the Digital selection demonstrate and highlight the continuing development of electronic moving image work, celebrating its diversity and scope. The selection premieres a number of new works by established artists Peter Donebauer, Marty St James, Katherine Meynell and Stephen Partridge who are featured in the historical selection, as well as videotapes and projections by new and emerging artists such as Dallas Seitz, Cinzia Cremona, Vince Briffa, Andrew Demirjian, Denise Hawrysio and John Wynne.

Artists:

George Barber, Ian Bourn, Vince Briffa, Robert Cahen, Cinzia Cremona, David Critchley, Andrew Demirjian, Peter Donebauer, Catherine Elwes, Terry Flaxton, Sera Furneaux, Judith Goddard, Akiko Hada, David Hall, Mick Hartney, Mona Hatoum, Steve Hawley, Denise Hawrysio & John Wynne, Pictorial Heroes, Gary Hill, John Hopkins, David Johnson, Tina Keane, Tamara Krikorian, Steve Littman, Stuart Marshall, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Katharine Meynell, Marceline Mori, Pratibha Parmar, Stephen Partridge & Elaine Shemilt, John Scarlett-Davis, Dallas Seitz, Tony Sinden, Terry Smith, Marty St. James & Ann Wilson, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Mike Stubbs, Gorilla Tapes, Steina & Woody Vasulka, Jeremy Welsh, Cerith Wyn-Evans, Graham Young

Private view: Friday, 23 November 2007: 6 - 9 pm

The exhibition continues: 24 November - 16 December 2007

The gallery is open during exhibitions Friday - Sunday, 1 - 6 p.m.

FIELDGATE GALLERY

14 Fieldgate Street

London E1 1ES

http://www.fieldgategallery.com

=Climate of Change - Free art exhibition/happening in SE1- open until christmas.= This venue will accept all art submissions, the theme is loosely political - global warming etc.. there is also some multimedia work. just take along your work and hang it up. Contact: Mark Hammond (friend of Tim Pickup's) They have the space (a squatted bank) until Christmas.

Climate of Change 235-245 Union Street, Southwark, London SE1 Tube: 2 minutes from Southwark Buses: 45, 63, 100, 381, RV1, N381**
 * Open 11am - 5pm daily and also later for events


 * Mieko - this might be a great space for you to do your fish performance!**

Drum and bass roller disco there on Wednesday 15th evening
Maybe a group of us could go along. Get the 45 bus from camberwell. There's a possibilty of showing our films here for free at a later film event so it'd be good to check it out. Bring your skates!

Exploding Cinema at CLIMATE OF CHANGE!
This is an underground film group who show anything they are sent. been playing in south london for years. they meet about once a month.

Special benefit gig for MINDSWEEPER, Deptford's only fire-damaged overwater underground gig venue. All profits go to the restoration of this venerable misuse of ex-naval property. Come along and drink generously.

Also featuring Tymon Dogg and the Quikening plus Glassglue, cabaret from the Greatest Ever Dada Show (GesD), Saddam and the Lookalikes and many many more!

Friday 16 November Climate of Change Doors 8 pm £5 minimum donation

http://www.explodingcinema.org http://www.myspace.com/theexplodingcinema http://blog.minesweeper.tv/fundraising-spectacular/

Christmas gig dates from Digital Art's very own Sharon (shazza) Ferris - she's the one on the right. http://www.myspace.com/prettyroute

Goldsmith Thursday Club Lectures
Free evening lectures on a range of multimedia topics 6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required.

__//1 NOVEMBER with VERONIQUE CHANCE & RACHEL STEWART//__ Live Run(ner) & Thinking Blue Sky *

Veronique Chance's research project (PhD Candidate Goldsmiths) considers the dynamic relation between the physical presence of the body and its presence as a screen image, through which she examines the impact of visual media technologies on our conceptions and perceptions of the body as a physical presence.

Thursday Club Chance will present Live’ Run(ner), an artwork in progress that will record and transmit live the Great North Run through her own live experience of running the event. The idea is to recreate a live transmission of her eye-view in real-time, as she run the course, (literally ‘moving image’). Viewers would experience the event through her eye-view as she runs, through being able to pick up’ a signal on their home computers and at wireless hotspots in

VERONIQUE CHANCE is an artist practitioner and educator working across a range of media. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Fine Art by Practice at Goldsmiths. She also works as a Mentor for Artists in Residence Project, Morley College, London; Associate Lecturer, Foundation Course, Wimbledon School of Art; and Visiting Tutor, Fine Art/ArtHistory, Goldsmiths.

__//22 NOVEMBER with JOSEPH TABBI//__ Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Three Case Histories
 * Supported by Goldsmiths Department of English and Comparative Literature*

In this talk, Joseph Tabbi introduces a new literary and arts collective, Electronic Text + Textiles, whose members are exploring the convergence of written and material practices. While some associates create actual electronic textiles, Tabbi has explored the text/textile connection as it manifests itself in writing produced within electronic environments. His online laboratory consists of two literary web sites, EBR (www.electronicbookreview.com), a literary journal in continuous production since 1995, and the Electronic Literature Directory (www.eliterature.org), a project that seeks not just to list works but to define an emerging field. Rather

JOSEPH TABBI is the author of two books of literary criticism, Cognitive Fictions (Minnesota, 2002) and Postmodern Sublime (Cornell, 1995). He edits ebr (www.electronicbookreveiw.com) and hosted the 2005 Chicago meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. He is Professor of Literature at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

__//13 DECEMBER with ALEX GILLESPIE, BRIAN O'NEILL & ROBB MITCHELL//__ Cyranoids...* How can “speaking the thoughts of others” enhance and subvert social interaction both face-to-face and remotely ? What is a cyranoid ? Cyranoids are people whose speech is being controlled by another person. The term comes from the character Cyrano de Bergerac in Edmond Rostand’s 19th Century play.

ALEX GILLESPIE holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Cambridge. His research concerns the Self and self-reflection and explores the social interactional and cultural basis of the self. He is a Lecturer at Stirling University and, currently, Co-chair of the Organising Committee for the Fifth International Conference on the Dialogical Self.

BRIAN O'NEILL is a clinical psychologist at Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. He is interested in cognitive impairments, the disability they cause and how assistive technology for cognition might provide useful treatments. He also is founding member of Thunder Bug sound system.

ROBB MITCHELL is an artist, curator and events organiser who has exhibited and lectured widely in the UK and abroad, among other venues in: Market Gallery (Glasgow), Edinburgh College of Art, Intermedia Gallery (Glasgow), Galerie Bortiers (Brussels), Artspace (Sydney), FACT (Liverpool), Mediabath (Helsinki), ICA (London), CCA (Glasgow), National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh), Ars Electronica (Linz) and Eyebeam (NYC).

Talking Graphics Open Lecture
Please reserve a place by emailing graphics@lcc.arts.ac.uk Tickets are £5 (£3 for UAL students and staff with valid ID cards) cash only on the door – tickets include a beer after the lecture.

__//Thursday 25 October 2007//__ Geoff White The Arrival of Modernist Architecture and Design in Britain 6.30-8.30pm Main Lecture Theatre London College of Communication

__//Thursday 1 November 2007//__ David Dabner and Alex Cooper The Changing Face of Letterpress 6.30-8.30pm Main Lecture Theatre

__//Thursday 15 November 2007//__ Sir John Hegarty (title tbc) 6.30-8.30pm Main Lecture Theatre

__//Thursday 29 November 2007//__ Ray Carpenter (title tbc) 6.30-8.30pm Main Lecture Theatre

Open For Business
Workshops on Open Source Software http://nm-x.com

__//1 & 7 November 18:30-21:30//__ Workshops for Drupal for Web 2.0 toolkit for building 2.0 websites. Bring your own laptop and reservations are essential. rsvp at http://nm-x.com by 26th of Oct.

__//15 November 18:30-20:30//__ Open Source Publishing @ Central Saint Martins, Southhampton Row, WC1B 4AP register at http://nm-x.com by the 8th of November Workshops for Drupal 2.0

__//22nd & 29th November 18:30-21:30//__ @the Young Foundation register at http://nm-x.com by the 16th of November