News & Events March 2010

TSB Plastic Electronics Workshop

RIBA, London, 1st - 3rd March 2010

Gareth Loudon (PAiPR) was selected to attend the Plastic Electronics Workshop run by the Technology Strategy Board. The aim of the workshop was to get Designers and Technology Specialists in plastic electronics together to dream up ideas for new products, services and experiences that could be created using the unique properties of plastic electronics. The TSB will be investing £3m in the project ideas that come out of the workshop, to help particpants get their ideas realised as working prototypes.

Andre Stitt: Substance

29th January - 6th March 2010, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

André Stitt's (CFAR) performance work focuses on difficult and traumatic themes including alienation, oppression, coercion and conflict and often refers back to his experiences of Belfast in the 70s and 80s.

Like a hybrid catalogue/retrospective, Substance provides valuable insights into Stitt's performances or ‘akshuns' and includes a significant number of pieces that have never been displayed before. The project was conceived by the Spacex Gallery in Exeter and has been expanded and further developed for this exhibition in the Golden Thread Gallery.

"We feel that the time is right to revisit this work afresh. As well as a cooling of the political climate, there is now an adequate distance between the events that incited his ‘akshuns'and the documentation or residue of his performances to look at the work from a more objective viewpoint."

A short film documentary by Lee Stitt, Finbar Maginn & Séan Kaluarachchi in conversation with André Stitt will also be shown for the duration of the exhibition.

Reviews of the exhibition can also be seen on UTV (from 26 minutes) and in Culture, Northern Ireland

NIGHT TIME ROOM a film by Ronnie Close

10 March 2010, Picture This, Bristol

Night Time Room is composed from transcripts of interviews with 1981 Irish Republican ex-Hunger Strikers from Northern Ireland. The film's character is shaped by his political past versus the complexity of contemporary life. The film work transforms the domesticity of his everyday personal space to reveal more estranged meanings. These elements are interwoven to offer a personal insight and portrait of a political figure confined by his own past.

To open the exhibition of Night time Room, there will be a preview screening of the film, which will be contextualized with footage of the original interviews and photography. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Gary Thomas of Animate Projects. Panel members will include Chris Coppock, Director, Spike Island, Rod Dickinson, artist, and Ronnie Close.

Night Time Room was produced by Picture This as a joint Scripted Notion commission with South West Screen, funded by UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Cath Davies Mortality

Two pieces of writing by Cath Davies will be published in the next issue of Mortality (Volume 15, Issue 2). The first is a journal paper entitled "Technological Taxidermy: Recognisable faces in Celebrity Death" will be published in the May issue of Mortality. The second is a review of the "Sacred Made Real : Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700" exhibition at the National Gallery, which ran from 24th October 2009 - 24th January 2010.

Sonic Artists in Wales Symposium

25 - 26 March 2010, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos and Jon Piggott will be presenting papers at the Sonic Artists in Wales Electroacoustic Symposium. Kontogeorgakopoulos' paper entitled "Control of Digital Audio Effects in Sonic Art: Command or Interaction?" examines and focuses on the problem of controlling and performing digital audio effects in sonic art and electroacoustic music. Pigott will present on "The Wave and the Wire: Possible Models for Understanding the Electro Mechanical Condition in the Sonic Arts"

The symposium, organised by The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in partnership Sonic Artists in Wales, will feature paper sessions, installations, workshops, listening sessions, listening posts and evening concert performances of Electroacoustic music and sonic art.

CSAD Interior Architecture lecturer Craig Thomas will also be performing in "Reality Version 1.5" on Friday 26 March, 4 - 5pm.

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