News & Events January 2010

Christopher Morris wins Gold Award

Documentry filmmaker and member of International Film School, Wales, Christopher Morris, has won the Gold Award ‘Best Current Affairs Radio Documentary' at the 2009 Global Media Excellence Awards.

Run by the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB), the awards recognise creativity and innovation in global broadcasting across TV, radio, cross-media, marketing and technology. The winning documentary, entitled ‘Children of God' tells the story of the youngest ordained minister in the world - American child evangelist prodigy Terry Durham. Visit the AMD website for more information on the award and Morris's documentary.

COBRA 2010 Conference: EBERE Biodiversity and the Built Environment stream

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) COBRA 2010 research conference will feature a special session on Biodiversity and the Built Environment organised by the Ecological Built Environment Research and Enterprise group (EBERE).

The Biodiversity and the Built Environment stream aims to stimulate ideas arising from research by exploring the range of perspectives from which the construction industry is able to contribute towards an improved biodiverse built environment and by facilitating the dissemination of the existing knowledgebase.

The COBRA 2010 conference will be held at Dauphine Université Paris, France, on 2-3 September 2010. For more information on the stream and how to submit a paper visit EBERE.

Silent Village

15th January - 27th February
Ffotogallery, Penarth

On June 10th 1942, the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice was destroyed by the Nazis. Within weeks of the tragedy artist, poet and filmmaker Humphrey Jennings, set out to make a short film, The Silent Village (1943) that recreated the fate of Lidice, shot in South Wales.

The exhibition curated by Russell Roberts, invites contemporary artists and writers to reflect on the circumstances that brought it into being and some of the issues it raises. The artists Paolo Ventura and Peter Finnemore, the writer Rachel Trezise and the film historian David Berry, offer their response to a film that is both a reconstruction of the Lidice atrocity and a film about Welsh life in the early 1940s.

Philippa Lawrence ‘Celebrating Paper'

17th January to 21st February 2010
Royal West of England Academy

Work by DIGIT member, Philippa Lawrence, has been include in the recent ‘Celebrating Paper' exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy.

The show includes sculpture, screens and wall-hung work created from handmade paper, card or recycled paper. Lawrence's weeping atlas of the world makes a concise symbol for current ecological anxieties.

Chris Short: The Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky, 1909-1928 The Quest for Synthesis

Dr Chris Short's new book, The Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky, 1909-1928 The Quest for Synthesis (ISBN 978-3-03911-399-6) draws on the diverse literature that has been written on Kandinsky's art and theory to demonstrate that while many different perspectives on his work have been identified, none hold the ‘key' to that work. Short shows Kandinsky's method in his writings to be highly eclectic, resulting in an exciting and challenging variety of content. Kandinsky, however, transcended this diversity and consistently sought evidence of the unity of all things: something that would be realised through his understanding of the term 'synthesis'. The book follows Kandinsky's fascinating attempts to establish synthesis (not only in art but also in other disciplines including science, mathematics, law and politics) in his key theoretical publications: On the Spiritual in Art (1911) and Point and Line to Plane (1926). The result is a new and innovative understanding of both Kandinsky's art theory and his art.

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