Chris Joseph Electronic writer and artist

“A gesture through the flames” by Helen Varley Jamieson – 28 January 2008, 7PM GMT

Monday January 28 20h 8 PM GMT+1 (Paris local time), for the last performance in the Breaking Solitude II season.

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“a gesture through the flames”
by Helen Varley Jamieson (Australia / New Zealand)
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In this performance the artist will touch on the impossibility of having a frank conversation about loneliness with the dead.

Helen Varley Jamieson is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist. She is currently undertaking a Master of Arts (research) at Queensland, investigating her practice of cyberformance. She is a founding member of the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe, Avatar Body Collision, and has collaborated in and contributed to various other online art projects. http://www.creative-catalyst.com/

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If you want to participate, please register on the site before the performance.
http://panoplie.emakimono.org/index.php/projets/voir/16

First Transliteracy Workshop – De Montfort University, Leicester, 28 January 2008

At the Transliteracy Unconference in September 2007 the general consensus was that participants wanted a workshop day in which they could begin to make transliterate objects. The fact that no-one could actually describe what these might be like added an extra frisson to the idea. We have now set a date to try to explore this further.

The first Transliteracy Workshop will take place on Monday 28 January 2008, in the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, Leicester. We will begin at 10.30am with coffee and registration and end at 4pm. Beyond that, the structure of the day will be planned by the participants. Lunch will be included and, weather permitting, perhaps an IOCT stroll.

There are a small number of spaces available so we are making them available to readers of this blog on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are interested in attending please email Bruce (bmason01 at dmu dot ac dot uk) or Sue (Sue dot Thomas at dmu dot ac dot uk) as soon as possible to reserve a place.

The question of the materials required to make transliterate objects is obviously an engaging one. Of course we will no doubt be using the digital, but we expect to work with other materialities too, so if you wish to come along we would like to know:
(a) what materials/equipment you will bring to contribute?
(b) what materials/equipment you would like us to try to source, bearing in mind we have a limited budget.

If you can’t attend but are interested in sharing ideas please add some comments to this post and we’ll see if we can find ways to add them into the day.

Transliteracy googlegroup – http://groups.google.com/group/transliteracy?hl=en

Movement and the Single Screen: 3 day workshop, Bristol – 27-29 January 2008

Movement and the Single Screen

This 3-day practical and Inspirational workshop investigates movement and performance within the context of single-screen video practice and is led by artist filmmaker Miranda Pennell.

Participants will explore a range of formal ideas through a combination of screenings, discussions and practical research. In particular, attention will be paid to the specificity of video/film language in its relationship to movement composition and performance, and to the nature of cross-art form dialogue. The emphasis of the workshop is on experimentation and on collaboration.

27th, 28th and 29th January 2008

£80 (There are a small number of bursaries available of up to £50 to assist attendees who are coming from further afield with their travel/accommodation costs)

Picture This,
Corner of Sydney Row & Mardyke Ferry Road,
Bristol BS1 6UU
Tel: +44 (0) 117 925 7010

For further information and an application form, please contact Grace Davies – grace@picture-this.org.uk