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Annual
Programme of National Public Art Conferences
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MOVING IMAGE IN THE PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT |
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| New
and emergent media - interactive art - responsive architecture
- outdoor screens and external cinema |
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| Thursday
6th July 2006, Lewis Media Centre, Westminster, London SW1 |
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of conference proceedings sent to all conference delegates |
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| Previewed
in Art & Architecture Journal issue 65, available June 2006 |
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| SESSION
1: BACKGROUND - CURRENT THINKING + DEVELOPMENTS - Chair: Jeremy Hunt, Editor A&AJ - Mike Gibbons, Chief Project Manager
for BBC Live Events - Gary Thomas, Senior Moving Image Officer,
Arts Council England - Shane Walter, Director, onedotzero -
Mirijam Struppek, Amsterdam-based curator of Urban Screens 05. |
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2: OPPORTUNITIES - PRACTICES + PRACTICALITIES - David Gryn,
Director, Artprojx - Steve Manthorp, Coordinator of Digital
North & Board Director of Film and Video Umbrella -
Gini Simpson, Head of Media Arts, SPACE. |
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3: CASE STUDIES - PROJECTS + ART - Michael
Pinsky, Artist - Gill Cooper, Head of Arts and Culture, City
of York Council - Dan Dubowitz, Artist, Director of Civic Works
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4: NEW CONCEPTS - MOVING FORWARD - POSSIBILITIES + REVIEW
- Chair: Jeremy Hunt, Editor A&AJ - Lucy Bullivant, Architectural
critic, Author, Curator - Darryl Georgiou, Specialist Designer
in interactive media at Coventry School of Art & Design.
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| STATEMENT
- CONFERENCE AIMS & OBJECTIVES |
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Moving image in the Public Environment looked at themes of - New Media,
Urban Space, Public Sphere, Social Value and Civic Culture in the Urban
Environment - and the evolution of new concepts for art in the public realm
that demand the use of diverse forms of emergent media. It focused on the
development of digital art, external screens, video projections, media and
light festivals in urban settings and considered the potential for cultural
programmes, expansion of audience, different use for city spaces, public
art programmes and turning cinemas 'inside-out'. |
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| Speakers:
Mike Gibbons, Chief Project Manager for BBC Live Events presented Public
Space Screening: The National Picture. Dan Dubowitz, Artist and Director
of Civic Works talked on 'New media for city wide projects: 'The Peeps'
for Ancoats, Manchester and 'Hobo' for Sunderland'. This was the first time
he spoke publicly about 'the peeps', a large scale permanent artwork for
the public realm developing between 2003-2007 and comprising 15 discreet
sites imured (walled in to) in the rebuilt fabric of the city and viewed
through peepholes. 'hobo' for Sunderland is an itinerant public art work-akin
to a festival programme. Shane Walter, Director of leading agency
onedotzero talked on 'The Urban Scene: Digital Art in the City'; Amsterdam
based Mirijam Struppek, urbanist researcher, consultant and
curator of Urban Screens 05 talked on: 'The Potential of Outdoor Screens
in Urban Society'. Other speakers included: Steve Manthorp coordinator
of Digital North, the umbrella body for digital arts organisations across
the Northern Way: 'The Tao of Selling Out: building culture into a big screen
project'. David Gryn, Director, Artprojx:' Potential of Contemporary
Visual Art in the Context of the Cinema'. Gini Simpson, Head of Media Arts,
SPACE: 'Communities Engaged: Emergent Technology, Local Communities & the
Artist'. Gill Cooper, Head of Arts and Culture, City of York Council:
'Using Digital Media and Light-Based Artists for Public Art Installations
in Historic Settings. Lucy Bullivant, Architectural curator, author
and critic. Her latest book Responsive Environments: architecture,art and
design is published by the V&A: 'Electronic Surfaces and Interactivity in
Architecture'. Michael Pinsky, artist:' Interactive Installations
in Public Spaces'. Darryl Georgiou, Specialist Designer in interactive
media at Coventry School of Art & Design looked at Design & Developments
in the City. |
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interest to: Public Art Officers, Artists, Urban Designers, Environment
Officers, Architects, Town Centre Managers, Cinema Managers, New Media Professionals,
Regeneration Managers, Consultants, Planners, Cultural Services Managers |
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conference details
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