Chris Joseph

“Buddy Rivers Live at the Leroy (the automatic comedian)” by Dave Miller
Venue: 55 Leroy St, Bermondsey, London SE1
Date: 26 April 3-6pm

The Leroy Club was a legendary venue in the 1950’s comedy circuit, where many famous comedians started out. One of these was Buddy Rivers, who’s returned to do this benefit performance to help save the venue. He hasn’t done standup for years and fears he’s lost his edge, so now uses computer programs and Internet searches to generate his jokes. How will the audience react? Join in the show from 3-6pm at the Leroy or online at:

http://davemiller.org/experiments/buddy_rivers_leroy

‘Buddy Rivers Live’ is a live performance experiment in networked and collaborative narratives. Dave Miller (http://davemiller.org) tells stories through images and text-based works, mixing topical social and
political real-life issues, news and events, with his own experiences, views and observations. His practice spans several art forms, from net art exploring collaboration, networks and generative forms, to live mapping events and printed booklets and prints.

Travel:

Underground: Elephant & Castle, London Bridge, Tower Hill, Tower Gateway

National Rail: Elephant & Castle, London Bridge

Bus: 1, 42, 188

55 Leroy St: Further Investigations is a project by The Space In-Between. The Space In-Between is an umbrella for a series of
experimental research and development projects. It aims to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations that extend artistic practice and provide opportunities for artists and creative individuals to share new work with interested audiences.

For further information contact Linda Duffy on 07905 408 121 / lm_duffy [at] yahoo.com

Matt Watkins of Active Ingredient at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK on 1st February 2007. Supported by the Arts Council England.

Love City was a mobile phone game by Active Ingredient launched on Valentine’s Day 2007, played between the 3 cities of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester, where players sent messages of love to one another. At this Salon Matt talks about the project and Active Ingredient.

Social Media Workshop
Call for Applications

Program dates: May 1 - 4, 2008
Application deadline: April 11, 2008 and ongoing as space permits

Digital Media Connects Us: How Social Media is Enabling Business, Relationships, Entertainment and Play

Set amid the Rocky Mountains at The Banff Centre, this two-day workshop in partnership with Digital Alberta looks at trends in social media tools and technologies – from blogging and podcasting to photo sharing - and how social media can improve business models and enhance projects.

The workshop’s key speakers are from leading companies that are harnessing social networks to change the way we do business, buy products, develop software, consume music / video, and play games.

Speakers include:

Cambrian House - Jasmine Antonick
Flickr - George Oates
CBC Radio 3 - Steve Pratt
Hotrocket - Ken Bautista

More information

Wednesday 16th April 2008, 6-7.30pm, PACE Studio 1

Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead will talk about their practice, discussing their performances for camera, which have grown from their concept of ‘microperformance’.

Their SHOPS project uncovers and documents the communities formed by cities’ local shops. The artists have recently returned from Brazil, the first of a programme of international residencies involving performance, public artworks and collaboration, which will also visit cities in China, Turkey, Romania, Slovenia and the UK, culminating in an exhibition and publication at Site Gallery (Sheffield) in early 2009.

“… the strikingly beautiful photographic results … explore relations between cultural uniformity and individual identity.” Dominic Johnson, Frieze issue 97

“For once, it is art that actually achieves the popular ideal of raising your awareness of everyday life.” Mark Wilsher, Art Monthly

Biography

Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead create live work that specifically explores ideas of human identity, physicality, interaction, social ritual and the everyday public and private realms in which they are played out. They have created and developed an approach called microperformance to invite people to engage complicitly in creative acts. Through the use of objects, instructions, maps, photographs and actions, they gently subvert sites and the way contemporary art is produced and received.

Recently, FrenchMottershead showed their interactive performative event Club Class at Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, and their site-based photographic work Shops at EASTinternational 2007, Liverpool Biennial and Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance. They were also Artists in Residence at the 2006 National Review of Live Art. Recent commissioners include Peckham Pier, Arnolfini, Arts Council England, Colchester Arts Centre and Finland’s ANTI Festival. They are current ‘Thinkers in Residence’ at the Live Art Development Agency.

www.frenchmottershead.com

http://shopsproject.blogspot.com

Invitees have been chosen for their potential interest across art-forms, and each will talk about their work/ research followed by a Q&A session. The next talk will be in Autumn 2008.

The talks are open to all and are free. However, we have limited seating which will be offered on a first come first served basis. It is advised that you arrive by 5.30pm to try to avoid disappointment. Once the venue is full we will have to turn you away.

Directions to the PACE building and more information about CEPA in general are available on the DMU website. Please follow these links:

PACE building, Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts, De Montfort University, Richmond Street, Leicester
www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/campuses/maps/leic_campus.jsp

Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cepa

If you have any access needs, or would like further information, please do contact Helena Goldwater on hgoldwater [at] dmu.ac.uk or 0116 250 6487.

http://www.just-b.com/btween/pages/exploding-narrative-information

EXPLODING NARRATIVE
Exploding Narrative is a project developed by Just-b. and HP Labs, with the support of the Arts Council of England

WHAT ARE MSCAPES?
mscapes are mobile, interactive experiences: stories, interactive drama, games and guides triggered by location and experienced via GPS-enabled PDAs

They are based on user-friendly software developed by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (find out more: www.mscapers.com)

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Ideas that engage with location-based collaborative gaming, learning or stories

Applicants are advised to think about the content (games/stories/ideas) first and decide how to achieve those aims using the technology

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR IDEA
Simply UPLOAD YOUR ENTRY a 150 word description and supporting image of your inspirational work

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
5pm, Friday April 25th

THE PROCESS
Members of b.TWEEN PEOPLE will view, comment and vote for submissions

A small selection committee will cherry pick from the top-rated works

The creators of the best five ideas will be given £1,000 to develop their idea into a pitch

Winners will spend a day at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol to find out more about the software: what works, what is possible, what has been done before

HP will lend you PDAs to work through your idea

PITCHING
Developed ideas will be pitched to an industry expert panel in front of an audience at the ICA on the 10th June

The panel and the audience will help to improve the idea and presentational style

b.TWEEN 08 ( http://www.just-b.com/btween/ )
The finished pitches will take place in front of an audience of delegates and industry experts at the opening event of b.TWEEN 08 on 18th June

Presentations will be archived and screened at the ICA, FACT and on screens across Manchester over the 19th and 20th June

Delegates and the public will be asked to vote for their favourite idea. The person with the winning idea will be given a £10,000 development grant to take it into production

The finished work will feature in the Interactive Gallery at b.TWEEN 09

Kate Pullinger at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) Salon [ www.ioctsalon.com ], De Montfort University, Leicester, UK on 23rd November 2006. Supported by the Arts Council England.

Kate Pullinger’s books include the novels ‘Weird Sister’ and ‘The Last Time I Saw Jane’ as well as the novel of the film ‘The Piano’. Kate’s latest book, ‘A Little Stranger’, received excellent reviews on its publication in January of this year. Her first play for radio, ‘The Egyptian Collection’ was critically acclaimed, following the recent national broadcast. Kate teaches on the Masters degree in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester. She lives in London.

At this Salon Kate presented the English premiere of Inanimate Alice, Episode 3: Russia , as well as discussing her other work.

The Digital Arts Forum invites you to a Social Networking Event at the Assembly Rooms (www.assemblyrooms-derby.co.uk), Reception Suit, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AH on Wednesday 23th April at 6.30pm.

This event offers an informal meeting and networking place for all artists and arts workers in the East Midlands region with the focus on promoting opportunities for artists to show and produce work.

The Digital Arts Forum website (www.digitalartsforum.org.uk) will be officially relaunched and the aims and functions of the regional arts networking platform are discussed by its manager Anna Petry, Digital Arts Officer at Broadway (www.broadway.org.uk).

Presentations from Derby’s and Leicester’s digital media institutions will lead into a discussion to create stronger links and exchanges in the regional arts scene.

Louise Clements, Senior Curator at QUAD (www.derbyquad.co.uk) will give an update on the centre and current developments leading to the opening this summer.

Louise Angell, BBC Manager, Derby Big Screen (www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens/) will inform about the ways to get involved in the screen’s artistic programme.

Chris Tyrer, Phoenix Arts’ Digital Content Co-ordinator (www.phoenix.org.uk) will present the latest developments and opportunities of the Phoenix Digital programme.

The event is free and open to everyone.

Please RSVP until April 15 to

anna [at] broadway.org.uk

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The Digital Arts Forum is organised by Anna Petry, and funded by Arts Council England: East Midlands.

Sound, Sight, Space and Play: Symposium for Creativity in the Sonic Arts - 8th and 9th April 2008

http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/events-conferences/sssp2008/index.html

The 2008 Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) symposium for creativity in the sonic arts, organised by students of the Music Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC) in association with Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts (CEPA), hosts an eclectic mix of presentations by postgraduate students from all across the UK and Europe. The ideals of this event are to stimulate co-operation and inspiration between postgraduate students, across institutional boundaries, leading to new perspectives on current works and research.

The event takes place over two days at the beginning of April (8th and 9th) within the Performing Arts Centre for Excellence (PACE) building at DeMontfort University, Leicester. With talks during the day and concerts at 7pm each evening this event is open to everyone.

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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

Area 10 Project Space Peckham
Eagle Wharf
Peckham Square
London SE15 5JT

(White building behind Peckham Library)

Bus: 12, 36, 37, 63, 78, 436, 345, 177, 312, 343

Train: Peckham Rye or Queens Road Station

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

Exploring “A Million Penguins” - Order and Chaos in a wiki novel
Institute Of Creative Technologies Research Seminar by Bruce Mason
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
IOCT Lab, Wednesday April 23, 2008 4:30-5:30pm
This seminar is free and open to the public.

In February 2007, DMU and Penguin Publishing collaborated to host the world’s first wiki novel - “A Million Penguins” - using the same software that runs Wikipedia. Over a five week period nearly 1,500 people signed up to edit the novel, over 11,000 edits were made and it was viewed over 500,000 times leading the CEO over Penguin Publishing to muse that it was maybe the “most written novel in history.”

In this seminar, Bruce Mason will outline the results of a research project held at the Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT) which investigated the social behaviour that unfolded during the writing of “A Million Penguins.” What kinds of collaboration, conflict and compromise occurred and what did it tell us about future online writing possibilities? Did a sense of community arise or did we see nothing but chaos and vandalism?

The seminar will not require any particular knowledge of wikis or online writing.

About the presenter

Bruce Mason is an IOCT Post-Doctoral Research Fellow specialising in social research and web2.0 activities. He previously worked at DMU with Professor Sue Thomas on an Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded Project (http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/tnn/) that investigated the potential for folksonomy in academic research.

About A Million Penguins

A Million Penguins is a collaborative online novel, a wiki which was open to anyone in the world to write and edit. The project ran from 1st Feb to 7th March 2007, was organised by Kate Pullinger (http://www.katepullinger.com) of De Montfort University and Jeremy Ettinghausen of Penguin, with Sue Thomas, Professor of New Media at De Montfort and an editorial team of students enrolled on De Montfort’s Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media.

Further Information

To find out more about the seminar, please see the IOCT Blog at http://tinyurl.com/3yktnj or the IOCT events page (http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/events.html). Alternately, please contact Bruce Mason directly by email (bmason01 [at] dmu.ac.uk) or phone (07981 090566).

The IOCT lab is situated at 1 The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH. Directions to the IOCT can be found online at http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/contact.html