The inaugural show of creative digital media work from Culture Lab, showcasing a diverse range of interactive digital media art and live electronic performance by the Culture Lab research community
Culture Lab: Render includes work by students from the Digital Media Master of Research programme, Culture Lab residents and regional practitioners working with Culture Lab.
Culture Lab: Render serves as a platform for the presentation of research towards a concept for a regional "space" dedicated to the exhibition of creative digital media work.
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OPENING RECEPTION: | Friday, 25th September 2009 - 7-9pm |
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EXHIBITION DATES: | Saturday, 26th September to Tuesday, 29th September 2009 12pm - 8pm |
| 12-14 Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Produced by Thom Gray, with support from Tom Schofield and Jamie Allen.
Special thanks to Brendan Ratliff, Sarah Greenhalgh, Atau Tanaka, Culture Lab and
School of Arts and Cultures staff and students. Support through Newcastle University's
Development Directorate Enterprise Activity Fund is gratefully acknowledged.
Culture Lab: Render presents work by:
M.Res Digital Media students:
Ko le Chen
Andrea Pozzi
SOMETHING WENT WRONG
An interative video installation that questions the rapport between human and artificial intelligence: a virus generates the evolution of an intelligent system towards something very close to a primitive consciousness and conscience, the artificial intelligence is going to trespass the threshold and has to choose whether to become sentient or remain an automata.
The core of the interaction sees the user engaged in a choice: I think so I am or I sense so I live?
M.A. Fine Art student:
Tom Schofield
Newsglobe
newsGlobe is a live art project realised in the opensource development
environment processing. newsGlobe looks inside newspaper rss feeds and
searches the content for country and capital city names. It counts
instances of these words and plots them on a map with a circle whose
size depends on the number of instances. newsGlobe compares Western
and East Asian newspapers and aims to examine the bias inherent in our
news, the provincialism of national newspapers and the legacy of
colonial past. The map is projected on to one half of a large sphere
and participants can choose which newspapers to compare and can update
the map at anytime with current feed data.
newsGlobe is an ongoing project.
Culture Lab residents:
Guy Schofield
Stevie Ronnie
The Unit of Attention
The Unit of Attention is an animation that presents one possible re-imagination of the poem through the use of digital technology. One of the defining characteristics of poetry is its use of the line as a unit of communication; the process of poetic composition is intimately linked with the line and the effect it has when poems are either read on the page or performed. By using technology and the exhibition space to control and experiment with the format through which a poem is experienced, The Unit of Attention will reconnect the acts of reading and hearing a poem.
Stevie Ronnie is a writer who has a background in computing technologies. His first book of poetry, The Thing To Do When You Are Not In Love, was published last year by Sand/Red Squirrel Press. He is currently Digital Writing Fellow at the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts.
Regional Practitioners working with Culture Lab:
Benjamin Freeth and Nick Able
Black Sea of Trees
"The intense atmosphere of ancient forests, ghostly guitar drone, haunted
weather and butoh inspired movement - A unique 5.1 installation."
Improvised Dance performance by Surface Area Dance Theatre on opening night.
Original Concept by Benjamin Freeth
Produced by Nick Able and Benjamin Freeth
CREDITS / PERSONNEL
Nick Able - sitar, production, engineering, 5.1 mix (Ravi & Anoushka Shankar)
Phil Begg - guitar, effects, laptop, field recordings (Hapsburg Crow,
Hapsburg Braganza, Chalfont, Domovoi)
Benjamin Freeth - laptop, synth, shahi bajaa, singing bowls, field
recordings (++YELM++, Bong, Surface Area)
Molly Hodkinson - dance (Surface Area Dance Theatre)
Mike Smith - percussion, pedals (Lobster Priest, Bong)
Nicole Vivien Watson - choreography, dance (Surface Area Dance Theatre)
Supported by Institute of Digital Innovation and Culture Lab.
Corinne Lewis
Untitled
The series of works produced by the artist Corinne Lewis are a document of
the residency that she is currently carrying out within the School of
Biology at Newcastle University. During this time she is examining the links
between internal plant structure and mathematical formulae through the lens
based media of Microscopy.
As a creative practitioner Corinne looks to utilise technology to the full,
and in this case has explored the digital reproduction techniques of large
format transparencies and a 2D laser cutting technology.
Sarah Tulloch
Overlay Series
Overlay Series investigates the cultural representation of landscape and its relationship to the material fabric of the photographic image. Tulloch works to blur the boundaries between fiction and fact and plays with the speed and composition of images to disrupt any expectations of a straightforward viewpoint. The contingent nature of the source material and the use of redundant technology allows Tulloch to re-use and re-invent; creating both beautiful and unsettling results. The layering of images draws a new and seductive complexity from the familiar scenes.
