http://www.ioctsalon.com
Thursday 5th April 2007, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (doors open at 5.30pm for drinks)
This event is free of charge and open to the public.
Low Brow Trash
http://www.lowbrowtrash.co.uk
Low Brow Trash (Graham Elstone and Thomas Hall) create contemporary artworks
for all arts locations and festivals. The company is dedicated to the use of
new media technologies in the creation of the artworks in expressing the
ideas and themes of the work. Low Brow Trash is continually exploring new
ways to utilise new technology as a creative tool and is expanding the way
art is experienced by the viewer or audience by creating work that has an
interactive element. Low Brow Trash work with film, computer technology,
computer games, insallation and performance/theatre in the creation of their
work.
Low Brow Trash's 'Model Citizen'
Model Citizen is a site-specific work that is ideally suited to a shopping
centre or street. The work consists of a large projected image placed in a
shop front/window and the images react to the movements of passers by, by
using motion-tracking technology.
The work examines the concept of Model Citizen: are we born to be Model
Citizens or are we manipulated into being so? And for some of us where and
why does this go wrong? The work uses various reference points in life and
transforms these into image statements that are then layered on top of each
other to give contrasting views and opinions on the subject. Model Citizen
works with layered imagery; a camera registers the movement of the passer
by, they are transformed into a projected silhouette, this silhouette in
turn becomes a 'window' to the second layer of imagery, creating a
multi-layered visual language.
A public artwork that has the 'public' as the focal point.
Links:
Low Brow Trash - http://www.lowbrowtrash.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/lowbrowtrash - a collection of documentation of
installations and short films created by Low Brow Trash and its members
-----------
The IOCT Salon ( http://www.ioctsalon.com ) is managed by Chris Joseph (
http://www.chrisjoseph.org ), Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute
of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University. This residency is funded
by Arts Council England: East Midlands.
For further information about the IOCT Salon please email Chris: info /at/
ioctsalon.com . To be notified of future events please join the mailing list
on the Salon website.
The IOCT Salon is held at and staged by De Montfort University and the
Insitute of Creative Technologies, and is supported by Arts Council England
and the Literature Development Network.
**********
* Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/blogs/wdl/
* To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html
* To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE
|