Hello
everyone is welcome to connect with this event
please see as pasted below.
and forward to interested friends and colleagues
Hope to see some of you there!
best
David
Dear All associated with Performing Space.
The details of the event are confirmed and on the AHRC website.I will be sending
you a full timetabled programme for the event very soon. Any details you require
concerning organisational matters please contact [log in to unmask]
<<Performing Spaces -summary.doc>>
As you know we are aiming for a true cross disciplinary event and are very keen
to ensure that we attract the widest possible group of key experts for the
workshop, and start to define where, in other subjects, the issues of
performative and locative projects may have a purchase. Could you therefore
please circulate details of the event to your relevant networks.Whilst we have
specified geographers, architects and urban studies in the description -we by no
means see that as an exclusive group.
I have attached a description of the event.
Below is a short descriptive introduction to the event and a link to the AHRC
website.
Performing Space
Register now for this event organized by Frank Abbott, School of Art
and Design, The Nottingham Trent University (22 February 2008). The
event is funded by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and is free to attend.
This hybrid event is aimed at researchers in humanities areas like
geography, architecture and urban studies and is an opportunity to lay
the basis for future collaborations and explore new research processes.
New types of communication networks based on wireless interactive ICT
technology are transforming our understanding of contemporary public
and private space.They are increasingly being explored by live media
artist through events like the Radiator Festival (Nottingham), First
Play Berlin and Dis-locate (Tokyo). Within other humanities subject
areas new insights into the changing nature of public space are being
addressed.
The research aim of this hybrid workshop is to bring together a range
of humanities researchers and artists to examine how the common ground
between these disciplines can be developed through examining ICT
wireless network strategies borrowed from the work of artists; and
conversely how the development of research, particularly in the areas
of geography and architecture, can inform the artists` research and
development.
Please contact Frank Abbott([log in to unmask]) for more
information and see the activity webpage at
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act29.html
Performing Space
Friday 22 February 2008
Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design
Throughout the world new types of communication networks based on wireless
interactive ICT technology are transforming our understanding of contemporary
public and private space.
They are increasingly being explored by live media artist projects through
events like the Radiator Festival (Nottingham), First Play Berlin and Dis-locate
(Tokyo). Within other humanities subjects like geography, architecture and
social urban planning new insights into the changing nature of public space are
being addressed .
The research aim of this hybrid workshop is to bring together a range of
humanities researchers and artists to examine how the common ground between
these disciplines can be developed through examining ICT wireless network
strategies borrowed from the work of artists; and conversely how the development
of research, particularly in the areas of geography and architecture, can inform
the artists` research and development.
The workshop would adopt a hybrid form with a presentation session in the
morning and discussion sessions in the afternoon.
The morning session. 10-1pm Performing Space-Setting the Context would
bring together a range of speakers and attendees from humanities and art
practice to examine the context of ICT technology and contemporary space (see
deWhat is new and challenging about working with ICT networks for creative
production and research?
The afternoon session 2-5 pm Performing Space-Interrogating the Context
will be hearing from artists and theorists about specific strategies adopted
within the work of live media artists and would include an invited audience of
researchers, geographers, urban planners, architects, artists, and cultural
theorists.
Between and around these two sessions there will be the opportunity for
the attendees to see documentation from related artists projects.
The morning speakers will include
Professor Steven Benford. Steve Benford is the Professor of Collaborative
Computing at the University of Nottingham where he co-founded the MRL. He is a
co-investigator of the Equator IRC. The Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham
University has worked with artists like Active Ingredient and Blast Theory
creating innovative pervasive work using wireless and mobile networks for
interactive work within cities around the world.
Professor David Crouch David Crouch is Professor of Cultural Geography, at the
University of Derby, and has held Visiting Professorships, Geography and Tourism
at Karlstad and Kalmar in Sweden. He is editor of Leisure/tourism Geographies
[Routledge 1999] and Co-editor of Visual Culture and Tourism [Berg 2003] and is
currently writing Space, journeys and Creativity Ashgate 2009}. His work
particularly addresses our new understanding of how we perform space, from the
position of a geographer.
Jonathan Hale. Jonathan Hale is an architect and associate professor at the
University of Nottingham. He is author and editor of several books and articles
in the area of architecture, the body and technology. He is currently developing
a collaborative project with the Vienna based
artist/choreographer Cie. Willi Dorner and the Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham
University's School of Computer Sciences, having worked with
the same team in 2006 on a commission for the nottdance06 festival.
Angharad Wynne-Jones, Director of LIFT (London International Festival of
Theatre) will talk about ˜the Lift` The Lift, is a new concept in performance
space where artists from around the world and the people of can gather together
to share stories, exchange knowledge and imagine and rehearse new futures. The
processes of working and developing its` design with architects AOC and 200 east
and south-east London residents who are representative of the people who will
use the Lift http://www.liftfest.org.uk/
The afternoon session addresses the initiatives which have been taken by artists
will include a series of short artist presentations and discussions responded to
by presenters from the previous symposium and researchers and curators engaged
in the current projects.
The particular artists and projects we will be engaging with as examples are the
following.
Professor John Newling. John Newling lives in Nottingham where he is currently
Professor of Installation Sculpture at The Nottingham Trent University. Newling
has an international reputation and has installed works across Europe and the
USA. He has pioneered working with information in site specific contexts and the
use of online camera monitoring networks. e.g. Chatham Vines
www.john-newling.com/
Heath Bunting.
An artist looking critically at identity and the city in the context of digital
networks. He recently exhibited the next stage of The Status Project in
Nottingham. Heath is preparing works examining borders and identity to be shown
at both the Institute of Contemporary Arts and
Tate Modern in 2008.
http://irational.org/cgi-bin/cv2/temp.pl
Mirjam Struppek
Based in Berlin and works internationally as urbanist, researcher and
consultant. She is President of the newly formed International Urban Screens
Association (IUSA) and a member of Public Art Lab, Berlin. With a background in
Urban- and Environmental Planning she has internationally lectured and published
essays with a special focusits transformation and acquisition through new media.
http://www.urbanscreens08.net/
Anette Schaefer
Curator and Director Radiator Festival of New Technology Art
Radiator and the Trampoline organisation have been active over the last 10
years curating and supporting work which has explored a re-conceptualizing of
public space within the city.
The Radiator festival scheduled for late 2008 will be commissioning new artists
work which uses this new configurations of the city public spaces and the
networked environment.
http://www.trampoline.org.uk/TrampolineUK/
http://www.trampoline-berlin.de/
The WiMAX Forest
Nottingham Trent University has been working with a range of partners including
cultural and educational institutions, small companies and INTEL to establish
an innovative WiMAX community network in a vibrant multi-cultural area of the
city connected to a school and new African-Caribbean and South Asian Arts
Centre. In 2008 the project will be activated as a demonstrator for new content
and interaction.
http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/communications/digital-communities-0905.htm#section1
Active Ingredient
The developers of “Heartlands”, an Award winning locative media project with the
Mixed Reality Laboratory designed to re-energise urban space and encourage
exercise (Dept of Health funded).
http://www.i-am-ai.net/home.html
Open City Andrew Brown The use of dance and wireless technology to map
activities in the city presented across Nottingham at NottDance 07.
http://www.thinkingfeet.blogspot.com
Tour Of Tokyo
Using international online interaction to develop an understanding of Urban
Space by schoolchildren in Nottingham and Tokyo. It is presented in association
with Trampoline and the Dis-Locate exhibition and seminar series which takes
place annually in Tokyo.
http://www.inter-play.org/2007/message2.html
Outcomes :
Arising from the hybrid event will be an account of where related disciplines of
geography, architecture and potentially others can collaborate with live media
artists and community cultural agencies in ICT led projects. The event will
investigate how the outcomes of artist practice can pioneer new areas of
engagement. This will specifically be in relation to understanding the
technological changes affecting the nature of space in the contemporary
environment and the value of engaging in such ICT led research activities.
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