From tom holley Tue Jun 14 09:47:25 2005 X-RocketMail: 00000001;R---------------;0729 X-RocketUID: 0000000240 X-RocketMIF: 1118768642;11689;6cd5cafcc22ea05c4d0c58e33db9e099 X-RocketYMUMID: AL/HjkQAAM+5Qq8OAgvjQxOIwHA X-Apparently-To: agonisticsalanguagegame@yahoo.com via 68.142.199.191; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:04:02 -0700 X-RocketRCL: 9854;1;339620015;10133 X-Rocket-Track: 1: 100 ; IPCR=n-w0,n100,g0 ; IP=66.240.185.252 ; SERVER=66.218.86.219 # cat=UK; info=ip:NN;sv:UK;sg:UK X-Rocket-Server: 66.218.86.219 X-Originating-IP: [66.240.185.252] Return-Path: Authentication-Results: mta289.mail.scd.yahoo.com from=the-media-centre.co.uk; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received: from 66.240.185.252 (EHLO idx164.idx.net) (66.240.185.252) by mta289.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:04:01 -0700 Received: from idx164.idx.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idx164.idx.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5EGlSaF006710; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:47:28 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by idx164.idx.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j5EGlSQY006705; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:47:28 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: idx164.idx.net: majordomo set sender to owner-list@rhizome.org using -f Received: from idx164.idx.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idx164.idx.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5EGlPaF006671 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:47:25 -0700 Received: (from rhizome@localhost) by idx164.idx.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j5EGlPJb006669; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:47:25 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:47:25 -0700 Message-Id: <200506141647.j5EGlPJb006669@idx164.idx.net> X-Rhizome-Referral: X-Rhizome-Type: announcement X-Rhizome-Calendar: To: list@rhizome.org From: tom holley Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Digital Research Unit Announcements Sender: owner-list@rhizome.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: tom holley Content-Length: 4480 ================================================= DRU {44} / 14.06.05 / ================================================= Digital Research Unit Announcements ================================================= 1. Evolution is Not Over Yet - Seminar 2. spring_alpha: spring_city - Medialounge 3. Artist in Residence - Amy Alexander 4. Artist in Residence Remote - James Tindall ================================================= 1. Evolution is Not Over Yet - Seminar ================================================= 24 June 2005 | 2.00 - 4.00pm | Free Gallery 5 Huddersfield Art Gallery Princess Alexandra Walk Huddersfield HD1 2SU United Kingdom Speakers: Chad McCail, Simon Yuill, Dennis Kaspori, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Derek Hales, Francis McKee An afternoon of presentations and discussions to open the exhibition 'Evolution Is Not Over Yet' by Chad McCail. Chad McCail's drawing 'Spring' and the series of paintings 'Evolution Is Not Over Yet' narrate the attempts of a small, urban community to create a 'utopian' society. Inspired by these works, Simon Yuill is developing the ambitious spring_alpha project, an online game-world which acts as a vehicle for social enquiry. This event provides a platform for discussion of issues arising from both Chad's work and the collaboration between these two artists. Chad McCail is a Scottish artist whose work depicts alternative forms of society, often emphasising the links between personal relationships and social freedom. He has exhibited as part of the British Art Show and Beck's Futures. Simon Yuill is the current Artist in Residence at the Digital Research Unit. His project spring_alpha adapts Chad McCail's drawings into a computer game-world through which users can experiment with the game’s utopian community. http://www.spring-alpha.org Dennis Kaspori is an architect and a founding member of The Maze Corporation, an office for research and design relating to the urban condition. He collaborated with Jeanne van Heeswijk on the 'Face Your World' project in Amsterdam, which used a computer game to enable young people to become urban designers for their neighbourhood. http://www.themaze.org Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist whose work addresses art production and discourse in a broad range of ways. Her work is based on the idea that art must cross the boundaries it has historically developed in its relation to society. Collaboration is an essential part of her practice. http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.6156.html Derek Hales is Research Leader for the Department of Creative Technologies at the University of Huddersfield School of Art & Design, where he also leads the Multimedia subject area. Derek is a chartered Architect and a regional councillor of the Royal Institute of British Architects, chairing their Digital Futures Group. Francis McKee is Head of Digital Art and New Media at CCA in Glasgow and is a research lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art where he teaches on the MFA course. He is currently researching the relationship of 'open source' and 'open knowledge' culture to socially engaged art practice. + Please book in advance! Contact details are listed below. ================================================= 2. Medialounge Exhibition ================================================= spring_alpha: spring_city by Simon Yuill Medialounge The Media Centre Huddersfield 14 July - 14 October 05 spring_alpha is a computer game-world based on drawings by Chad McCail which narrate a community's attempt to create a utopian society. Set in a fictitious industrial town, typical of many in Britain, elements of a dark science fiction emerge, reminiscent of John Wyndham, Alasdair Gray and J.G. Ballard. This exhibition presents spring_alpha: spring_city which looks at the creation of the urban environment, the graphic rendering style and 'livecoding' interface. The exhibition includes project documentation, animation, physical models of characters, a demo version of the game, a table-top map of the city from the original drawings, and extracts from Mark Vernon's audio environment for the game. The exhibition will run concurrently with 'Evolution Is Not Over Yet' at Huddersfield Art Gallery, which offers a chance to see Chad McCail's project of the same name, together with the results of workshops inspired by his work. The spring_alpha team comprises: Simon Yuill [Project Director] Chad McCail [Project Advisor/original drawings], Ricardo Creemers and Stefan Gartner [Developers], Eleonora Oreggia [Video], Mark Vernon [Sound], Richard Dawson [Models]. Supported by Digital Research Unit, Alt-W Digital Media Fund [Scotland], the Netherlands Media Art Institute [Holland], Piet Zwart Institute [Holland], University of Huddersfield, and Huddersfield Art Gallery. www.spring-alpha.org ================================================= 3. DRU / AiR / Amy Alexander ================================================= AI to the People July - October 2005 Amy Alexander will be developing a project in which surveillance technology is subverted in playful ways: the pattern recognition technology used to analyse crowds for criminal or activist behaviour, such as face recognition and motion tracking, will be used to determine similarities between people appearing on surveillance cameras and typical shots of people appearing in music videos. The video will be processed in amusing ways to look like computer-processed music video shots. The project uses humour to examine contemporary concerns with surveillance from the 'watcher' perspective rather than the 'watched'. Amy is a software and performance artist and 'software-yapper' [occasional speaker, writer, curator, etc.] who has worked in film, video, performance, music and UNIX systems administration as well as in digital media art. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Since 1996 she has been working primarily in net art and software art, Much of her recent work has been in public performance and software art [often at the same time], playing with the juxtaposition of geek culture, business culture and leisure life. Amy is one of the founder/developer/administrators of the runme.org software art repository [2003-present]. She is also a member of the TOPLAP live coding audio-visual performance group [2004-present]. Her latest solo project [May 05] is 'Scream' - a software application to facilitate screaming. http://plagiarist.org http://www.runme.org http://deprogramming.us ================================================= 4. DRU / AiR Remote / James Tindall ================================================= May 2005 - May 2006 AiR Remote was launched in May 2005 and targets outstanding creative practitioners living in the UK. The programme offers support for a 12 month period, enabling them to explore new areas of work, and benefit from regular contact with the Digital Research Unit community. Participants will visit Huddersfield regularly in order to attend and participate in our existing events programme; to present their ideas and work to peer groups and the public. Each AiR Remote will write a Blog about the development of their work. [http://atomless.blogspot.com/] James Tindall is an art director, web developer, designer, and artist based in Brighton. Over the past seven years he has produced complex, digital solutions [websites, kiosk software and playful interfaces] for clients ranging from Sony and Nike to the London Science Museum and the art collective Greyworld. His personal work focuses on the creation of responsive, dynamic, audio-visual artworks that have been exhibited in the US, Australia, Hong Kong, and across Europe. James will explore, within the context of digital, interactive, multimedia, the possibilities of the theme of figurative portraiture. He has been considering how much of the code-based art produced in the last ten years has been abstract in nature, perhaps due to the ease with which abstract patterns can be generated using the algorithmic nature of code, and the difficulty of creating representations of real-world objects beyond simple flora and fauna. James will be investigating the creation of figurative portraiture within the context of real-time interactive code-based artwork, in which the system will respond to and represent the human form using the subtleties of the drawing process, whilst also offering the benefits of the dynamism of code-based art. He proposes to create a system that 'digitises' painting or drawing, then presents it in such a way as to allow the user to respond to and manipulate the appearance of the figure. He is also developing an alternative word processing programme that allows users to create, save, open and edit simple text files; in contrast to other word processing programs, it will allow users to introduce degrees of messiness to the appearance of their documents, reclaiming some of the idiosyncrasies of handwritten typography. http://www.atomless.co.uk http://atomless.blogspot.com/ ================================================= For information about any of these projects please contact us: info@druh.co.uk 0870 990 5003 ================================================= http://www.mcnetwork.co.uk/creative.html ================================================= subscribe/unsubscribe: http://emaillists.druh.co.uk/dru/email_signup.asp ================================================= + -> post: list@rhizome.org -> questions: info@rhizome.org -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz -> give: http://rhizome.org/support -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members + Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php __end_of_message_marker__