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Subject: Incandescent Symposium
The following announcement may be of interest to list subscribers.
*Incandescent October 2006*
*The Spectacle Of Illumination Its Creation And Destruction*
Incandescent is a month of events that explores the spectacle of
illumination. Artists from the UK and Europe will be exhibiting and
performing specially commissioned work taking place at various sites in
Hull City centre including a film programme Before the Eyes that spans
over 100 years of cinema (at 7.30 following the symposium).
Symposium
(In association with the University of Hull, Philosophy, Department of
Humanities and Hull Screen)
3pm Saturday 14th October
Hull Screen
(University of Lincoln) George Street Hull HU1 3BW.
Incandescent was inspired by the philospher Paul Virilio's books Polar
Inertia & Lost Dimensions. The symposium will also draw together the
various strands and issues that Incandescent seeks to raise.
The symposium will include:
The Assassination of Time by Professor Johnny Golding - a tour de force
of media arts philosophy and the violence of time/light/speed in the
(so-called) digital age. This will be performed completely in the dark.
James Swinson will present Bright Lights Big City which explores the
relationship between the Enlightenment and the City of Light - a
trajectory of modernity calibrated by speed, light and the assemblage of
the vision machine.
The artist Matthew Tickle will discuss his installation Punctum and
Nebula.
Additionally, Rob Gawthrop of Hull Art Lab will talk about Incandescent
with particular reference to its curation, aesthetics and art & science.
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Professor Johnny Golding
Professor Johnny Golding holds the Chair in Philosophy of Visual Arts
and Communication Technologies at the University of Greenwich, where she
is the Programme Director of their MA-PHD Programme Media Arts
Philosophy & Practice (MAPP). She is the author of several books, the
latest, Dirty Theory (Routledge) and video works including: 'Forbidden
Bodies (God is a Lobster)'; Once Upon a Wormhole' and 'I spy with my
little eye'...
James Swinson
Born in London. Studied at Univ. of London, Camberwell and Central St.
Martins. His recent work has focused on audio-visual installation
alongside the production of video documentaries. Current writing and
artwork centres on the city: streets, architecture, space, place and
identity. Research also includes the application of digital technologies
to teaching, learning and art and design practice. Teaches at Central
Saint Martins College of Art & Design and is a researcher at the
SMARTlab Digital Media Institute Graduate School, University of East
London
Bright Lights Big City - abstract
The relationship between the Enlightenment and the City of Light
established a trajectory of modernity calibrated by speed, light and the
assemblage of the vision machine. Artistic avant-garde formations in the
emergent industrial metropolis responded to the fresh challenges of
urban existence. Machine age aesthetics first inspired by the spatial
mechanics of engineering and architecture, were consolidated by the
invisible power of electricity distributed in circuits instantly
transformed by resistance into heat and light, and by electro-magnetism
into movement. The generation of power was no longer immediately tied
temporally and spatially to the site of combustion. Photography and
cinematography combining optics and photochemistry emerged as creative
technologies capable of articulating the intimate relationship between
light and time through the instantaneous event, the moving image and
montage. The dark and shade of the illuminated street stitched the
citizen into increasingly temporal regimes, space dissolved by
electromagnetic energy flowing, instant, transformable and adaptable.
Matthew Tickle
Lives and works in London Studied Slade School of Fine Art, West Surrey
College of Art and Design and Hull School of Art. Matthew has exhibited
widely and has received many awards. He teaches Art & Architecture at
the University of East London and is ia visiting tutor in Sculpture at
the Slade School of Fine Art.
Matthew Tickle's new installation for Hull Art Lab explores how
small-scale discrete objects and events (punctum) combine to form
large-scale structures (nebula) . Interpretation hinges upon the scale
at which objects are viewed. Punctum and Nebula runs from Saturday
14th October to Sunday 12th November 1pm - 5pm (closed Mondays &
Tuesdays) Preview 5pm - 7pm Friday 13th October.
Rob Gawthrop
Co-founder and director of Hull Art Lab (with Bob Levene & Espen
Jensen) is an artist, writer and musician and former head of art at the
Hull School of Art. Noise Film & Aesthetics was published in
Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology Edited by Jackie Hatfield
(August 2006).
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