I’ll be speaking tomorrow as part of the Arts Council seminar New Media, New Audience on the New Technologies, Old Traditions panel with choreographer Fearghus O’Conchuir, Trevor Curran of Campbell Ryan Productions and Peter Fitzpatrick of Microsoft.
Keynote speakers will be Andrew Keen (The Cult of the Amateur) and Charles Leadbeater, a combination which promises an interesting debate.
There are two interesting NCAD / GRADCAM seminars coming up soon which might be of interest to some.
Alas, are we still bad players?
A roundtable on play and agency in contemporary culture
Wednesday 3rd December 2008, 5.30pm to 8.30pm
National College of Art & Design, Dublin.
Panellists: Louise Hojer, art theorist and curator; Aphra Kerr, sociologist of digital culture; Jonathan Mosley, architect and artist; Neil Mulholland, art critic and curator.
Chair: Tim Stott, Research Scholar at the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Dublin
Admission free but booking is essential, more information here.
NIVAL Seminar 2008: Noise/Silence, in collaboration with GradCAM
December 5th 2008, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, 1-6pm
Confirmed participants include:
Phil Collins (artist) Susan Philipsz (artist) Danny McCarthy (artist); Sarah Pierce (artist); David Toop (writer and performer); Lars Iyer (Philosopher) Will Large (Philosopher); Anthony McCann (ethnomusicologist).
Admission free but booking is essential. Please contact Declan Long (longd[AT]ncad.ie) or Dr. Francis Halsall (halsallf[AT]ncad.ie).
Admission is free but places are limited, more information here.
I’ll be exhibiting at the Saint-Etienne Biennale in France 15-30 November in the exhibition Mission Creep curated by Benjamin Gaulon in association with the Biennale and Lyon based Galerie Roger Tator . I’ll be showing 5 walks, 5 cities an installation documenting 5 Joyce Walks I’ve performed in Berlin, Boston, Paris, Sao Paulo and Tokyo which consists of a four video screens and a 7m x 4m wall print. I’ll post the pix as soon as I have them. Also in the show will be Joan Healy, Ivan Twohig, Bear Koss and Ben Gaulon. Participation in the exhibition was made possible by support from Culture Ireland.
DATA 32 : Push Move Click from Stunned on Vimeo.
Push Move Click perform for DATA 32 at IMOCA
The Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) will be launching the new season of events with DATA 32 at the official launch of IMOCA.
The line up for DATA 32 is:
Eamonn Crudden; documentary filmmaker, researcher and lecturer (Route Irish, Berlesconi’s Mousetrap) will discuss and screen excerpts from a series of short found footage films he made in 2006.
Ralph Borland & Tim Redfern; artists & researchers will present SmSage, a security camera housing containing a speaker system, mini-computer and cellphone which uses a text-to-speech converter to speak out text messages sent to it.
Saoirse Higgins; artist, lecturer & member of the ISEA 2009 Belfast organising committee.
Push Move Click
Performance by 4 piece dublin based live electro-acoustic group
Date: Friday November 7th
Time: 7pm
Venue: IMOCA Jamestown Road Inchicore
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