Remote Forum
dal 17/11/2002 al 18/11/2002
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17/11/2002
Remote Forum
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Exploring the geography of new media culture. Can new technologies and art render the idea of remoteness obsolete? A one-day international forum that examines the impact of digital culture on rural and urban environments using the Scottish Highlands as a model will be held at The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Monday 18 November 2002, 11am-4pm
Exploring the geography of new media culture
Can new technologies and art render the idea of remoteness obsolete?
A one-day international forum that examines the impact of digital culture on rural and urban environments using the Scottish Highlands as a model will be held at The Fruitmarket Gallery on Monday 18 November 2002.
Organised by New Media Scotland, an agency promoting arts activity shaped by new technologies, and The Fruitmarket Gallery, REMOTE Forum is a cross-disciplinary event, gathering together leading media academics from USA and New Zealand as well as new media practitioners and artists based in Scotland and England who have recently explored the Cairngorm area.
Curated by New Media Scotland Curator in Residence Iliyana Nedkova, REMOTE Forum sets the context to question popular notions of urban monopoly on new technologies, and the construct of 'rural' as being 'remote.' A REMOTE Forum publication, published by The Fruitmarket Gallery, will be available in Spring 2003, featuring full transcripts of the presentations and discussions.
During the forum, internationally-recognised writers on issues around creative technologies, Sean Cubitt, Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and author of books including Digital Aesthetics (Sage, 1998) and Lev Manovich, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, University of California, USA, also author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001) will deliver keynote addresses followed by an artists' panel discussion.
The panel discussion will focus on the experience of seven artists who were commissioned to respond to the physical and social environments in the Cairngorms during a series of summer 2002 residencies in the area. The artists' commissions, in the form of Internet-based and physical installations, can be experienced as part of REMOTE Exhibition 4-16 November 2002, The Iona Gallery, Kingussie, Inverness-shire and after that as part of HOST, New Media Scotland's online project space at www.mediascot.org
The participating artists are:
Thomson & Craighead, exhibiting new web-based works including The Price of Freedom as a modified book form appropriating lines from John Barbour's epic poem, The Bruce, as domain names offered for sale; and Making a case for the twinning of Newtonmore and Las Vegas as an open public letter accessible on-line.
r a d i o q u a l i a, whose listening-stations project, resulting from a residency at makrolab, a temporary art and science laboratory near Blair Atholl is part of ongoing research to make audible via an online radio station, astronomy signals intercepted from space, including those from the planet Jupiter and the Sun.
Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson, both based in Newtonmore, creating a number of projects including an interactive sound sculpture, web-journeys and found objects inspired by the A889 road from Dalwhinnie to Laggan in the Scottish Highlands, dubbed as the most dangerous road in Britain.
Cavan Convery, presenting Ground Truth as an on-line Geographical Information System of data, collected by a remote roving platform that records images and sound, and overlaid on an extraordinary 3-D contour map of the Cairngorms offering sentimental personal discoveries.
TICKETS £10 / £5.
Lunch and refreshments provided.
Pre-booking essential.
Booked tickets are available for collection on the day of event.
PAYMENT: CHEQUE
Payable to The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Return with details of your name, address and day phone number to:
The Fruitmarket Gallery Remote Tickets, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF
PAYMENT: CREDIT CARD
(Switch / Visa and Mastercard)
By phone or in person at The Fruitmarket Bookshop 0131 225 2383
REMOTE Forum is supported by the Scottish Arts Council, Univerisity of Waikato, New Zealand, Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey Enterprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London and Dalwhinnie Distillery.
REMOTE Exhibition is a collaboration between New Media Scotland and Highland Research, Newtonmore. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council; Highland Council; Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey Enterprise; Highlands & Islands Enterprise Broadband 4 Business; Scottish Natural Heritage; makrolab; Dalwhinnie Distillery.
For media or delegate packs, images and REMOTE Forum information, please contact:
Annie Woodman,
Media and Marketing Manage
The Fruitmarket Gallery
Tel: 0131 226 8182
For REMOTE Exhibition information, please contact:
Iliyana Nedkova, Curator in Residence and
Chris Byrne, Director
New Media Scotland
Tel: 0131 477 3774
e-mail: info@mediascot.org
The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street
Edinburgh EH1 1DF
0131 226 8182