Dear List,
Posted on behalf of Mike Stubbs:
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Mike Stubbs <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 19 April 2007 22:31:01 BST
> To: Beryl Graham <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Laboral opening
>
> Dear Beryl
>
> It does look fantastic. Receiving this posting makes interesting
> timing for
> me personally. I have had a few months ruminating on regenerating FACT
> itself, since accepting the post of Director. I'm currently in mid
> throes of
> re-packing a large archive for return to Britain (move to Europe)
> whilst
> finishing off at ACMI here in Melbourne - soon to arrive and testing
> out
> some propositions on the ground in Liverpool, mid may onwards.
>
> Its a real shame you never got to visit ACMI (where Helen Stuckey has
> established and curated the GamesLab) - because there appear to be many
> aspects of what has excited you in Laboral very present:
>
> Scale
> Interaction/re-action
> Architectural design
> Audience
> Range
> Budget
> Spectacle
>
> However its the differences which are most enlightening, and I am very
> keen
> to receive your further interpretation on how Laboral might function
> long
> term within the context of post-heavy-industrial economy.
>
> With a history of working in Hull on the east coast at HTBA with a
> strong
> and early agenda similar to Eddie on the west, I am keen to hear how
> you
> think the new centre meets a regeneration agenda 20 years later.
>
> I am moving to a different Liverpool which has revitalised
> significantly,
> through efforts such as FACTs and supported by years of European/UK
> regeneration re-investment (never fully making up for the battering
> Thatcher
> gave it) - and like umpteen cities across the world still faces serious
> social economic need.
>
> How are new agendas different regarding society, audience and producer
> in a
> large venue ?
> What does the high level program of those exhibitions themes (Feedback-
> Gameworld-Extensions-Anchors) mean ?
>
> And of course very keen to hear feedback on the discrete exhibitions
> which
> appear to contain some excellent art I am unfamiliar with.
>
> I am second guessing Laboral has a stronger integrated organisational
> emphasis on philosophy and process than ACMI particularly within the
> context
> of a technical art separate from contemporary art) having just read the
> fascinating transcript of the 'Media Art Undone' conference
> panel at transmediale.07, put online by andreas at:
> www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=MAU
>
> Its worth noting that ACMI cut of Eyes Lies and Illusions investigated
> the
> ocular/perceptive aspects of linking new media to a pre-cinematic
> history
> and culture
> http://www.acmi.net.au/eyes_lies_illusions.jsp
> (ignore the marketing speak on the acmi website !)
> and that 'Swarm' by michael yuen and craig walsh also played on being
> an
> subverted animated wall label.
>
> Thanks for the pics - yours are just as good !
>
> Please post to list on my behalf
>
> best regards,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On 20/4/07 1:43 AM, "Beryl Graham" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I was lucky enough to attend the opening of the truly amazing Laboral
>> centre recently, a really high-budget exhibition (and production)
>> space
>> connected to a University. www.laboralcentrodearte.org
>>
>
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