Chris Joseph

PIXILERATIONS [V.5]: Fragments & (W)Holes
A festival of digital media and interactive performance
[part of the FirstWorksProv festival]

October 2 - 12, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island

CALL FOR WORKS! PIXILERATIONS [V.5] invites artists, musicians and film/video makers to submit work that investigates connections or disparities between fragments and (w)holes.

THE SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR WORK IS APRIL 1- MAY 1, 2008.

Pixilerations is a New Media festival in Providence, Rhode Island that investigates the state of New Media arts through installations, concert performance and film/video screenings. The festival is part of the larger FirstWorksProv festival (www.firstworksprov.org), Providence’s multidimensional fall performing arts festival. Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University and MIT.

Now in its fifth year, Pixilerations showcases groundbreaking work in digital music and art. Last year’s festival, Pixilerations [v.4]: story +/- ornament, presented innovative works by over seventy artists from the United States, Germany, France, South Africa and the Netherlands, and featured guest artists Myriam Thyes, Jon Orentlicher, and Skif++.

PIXILERATIONS [V.5] THEME: FRAGMENTS & (W)HOLES

Consciously and unconsciously our world view has been altered by the quantum mechanical view of the world; a world composed of discrete waves and particles. This minute level of physical investigation, developed first by Werner Heisenberg and Max Planck, is one of the means by which we have broken the world down in order to make sense of the whole from its parts. This dissection has been explored through the tools of psychoanalysis pioneered by Freud, Pavlov’s behavioral studies and the recent efforts of
cognitive science to understand human psychology and the latest conjuring of artificial intelligence. Artists have reflected this fragmented world with its mind/body split since the 1900’s with the early collages of Picasso and the psychological works of the Surrealists. The digital realm is developing its own paradigm for separating and putting the world together. How has the fragmentary view created deeper holes, how has it allowed us to see the whole with sharper eyes and minds? How do artists shape their world, with fragments of life or with (w)holistic views?

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ROAM: A Weekend of Walking

Free, Booking advised: 01509 222 960

Three days of artist led walks and events across Loughborough, including Active Ingredient, Claire Blundell Jones, Duncan Speakman, Tim Brennan, Mark Gwynne Jones, Lottie Child and Tamara Ashley and Simone Kenyon.

Sauntering, shuffling, ambling, rambling. Wandering, striding, strolling, hiking, dawdling, pacing, strutting, stalking - six artists ask audiences to investigate Loughborough afresh. ROAM, a weekend of walking, is the second season of Loughborough University’s exciting new arts programme, RADAR.

On Tim Brennan’s ‘manoeuvre’ (or tactical walk) a guided group will retrace the steps of the infamous Luddites, questioning how history is re-told by tourist trails. Catch a rare glimpse of Clare Blundell Jones as she steers her bizarrely animated US tumbleweed around the town’s streets. Walking with Duncan Speakman is like inhabiting a movie where you get to be the performer; while the set may look familiar, the real-time audio, broadcast through headsets, will transport you somewhere else. In the hands of artists and technologists navigational devices and GPS systems are adding a new dimension to walking. Active Ingredients’ Heartlands is part-game, part-exercise in which hand held mobile devices monitor players’ heart rate, while each competes to out-walk fellow players on a hike around town.

The programme will be further contextualised within the University with a one day symposium bringing together artists, researchers and academics to reflect upon the relationship between arts practice, social sciences and walking. Taking the work presented as part of ROAM as a starting point, discussions will focus upon walking as place-making and walking as ethnographic practice.

Attendance on all walks is free but many of the walks have a limited capacity. To book a place call 01509 222 960 or email radar.info@lboro.ac.uk.

Radar website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/arts/radar

Wednesday 12th March 2008, 10.30am – 3.00pm, The Campus Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester.

This is the largest creative industry event in the East Midlands!

Keynote speaker – Zandra Rhodes

30 creative stands including BBC, Arcadia, Next, Arts council, EM Media, MATV, Black Rock Studio, the Radio Academy.

Workshops:
- Autodesk – ‘Clever Trevor’ animation design for beginners
- Video editing with Avid

There will also be a CV clinic so that students can have their creative CVs checked, and presentations running throughout the day.

For a full programme and more details visit www.dmu.ac.uk/fame.