Timecode: A seminar series in media and technology – Bradford, 30 January 2008, 6pm
Timecode: A seminar series in media and technology
30th January 2008, 6pm, FREE ADMISSION
Psychogeography: fifty years on
The year 2007 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of radical artistic/philosophical movement the Situationist International a major influence on revolutionary actions (most notably Paris ’68), critical thinking and subcultural movements. One of the central and long-lasting concepts emerging from this group was that of ‘Psychogeography’- “the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment (whether consciously organized or not) on the emotions and behaviour of individuals”. This concept has been applied widely across many disciplines and this seminar will introduce aspects of the psychogeographical pertinent to contemporary media and society.
Dr Andrew Evans (University Of Leeds) will discuss how landscape and geography (including the perceived and/or virtual) how been affected by the psychogeographic, while Dr Mark Banks (Open University) will address how the poetics of the original concept have become increasingly commodified just as the radical aspects of the term have almost disappeared. This seminar will be of interest to artists, political theorists, poets, geographers, media producers, social scientists and anyone with an interest in the urban milieu.
Presented in conjunction with the Psychogeographical Research Group, a collaboration between the University of Bradford and De Montfort University
On Location, National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ. Tel: 0870 70 10 200
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/
Rhizome 2009 Commissions – deadline 31 March 2008
Rhizome’s 2009 Commissions cycle is now open. This year they will commission seven new art works with awards ranging from $3000-$5000. The deadline for proposals is midnight on Monday, March 31, 2008.
This year, Rhizome has expanded their scope to encompass the broad range of practices that fall under new media art. This includes projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies, as well as works that reflect on the impact of these tools and media in a variety of forms. With this expanded format, commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices.
Commissions program: http://rhizome.org/commissions/
Submission and Voting Procedures: http://rhizome.org/commissions/2009/procedures.php
Digital Broadway Rock/Paper/Scissors – Nottingham, 16-17 January 2008
R.P.S. (Reaux Sham Beaux)
As part of the Digital Broadway Programme 2008, Graham Elstone has been commissioned to produce a piece of video art for the Glass Screens on the front of Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham. The proposal he has made is to re-create an ongoing game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, played by two large hands that confront each other and ‘do battle’ on the two projection surfaces, see the above illustration as an example.
We would like to invite all interested parties to become involved in the project by coming to the Studio at Broadway next Wednesday or Thursday (16th and 17th January), between 10.30 and 4.30, to take part in the filming process by playing the game and being filmed, hands and bit of arm only, the footage will then be edited and become part of the projected work, which opens on the 1st February.
The filming shouldn’t take too long, 15 – 20 minutes, so hopefully you can become part of this artwork!
R.P.S. is now an internationally competed event with a World Championship, sponsored by Bud, each year in Canada. We hope to create a week of activity to run alongside the theme of R.P.S. including a showing of a documentary film about the World Championships, and perhaps Nottingham’s first mini tournament.
We look forward to seeing you for the filming and at future events.
Graham Elstone
graham [at] lowbrowtrash.co.uk
www.lowbrowtrash.co.uk
www.youtube.com/lowbrowtrash
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