areas of dramatic interest
Posted on Wed 20 May 2009
The main issues facing mediascapes used for dramatic purposes seem to me to be those of CONTENT and QUALITY, or, what is being shown/told and what are its production values?
Call For Walls
Posted on Mon 18 May 2009
Streetartdealer Needs Your Walls! A call for walls from the people of Bristol... Bristol more than anywhere in the country has a history of art on its streets and a corresponding community ownership of them. Streetartdealer will use new technologies to connect those that view these…
AntiVJ and Murcof
Posted on Sun 17 May 2009
As expected, the AntiVJ and Murcof performance was stunning. The newly commissioned site-specific audiovisual installation mixed live music, projected imagery, and a huge layered, semi-transparent installation. The content created by AntiVJ's Simon Gelifus, was a spellbinding, multifaceted cosmos of…
Ducking between various talks
Posted on Sun 17 May 2009
I spent most of my time ducking between various talks at the conference, but did make time to visit the exhibition at CUBE, as well as catching AntiVJ and Murcof at RNCM. There were a mixed quality of presentations during the conference. Highlights for me included Stowe Boyd on 'Social Tools…
Strange Case
Posted on Wed 6 May 2009
You are invited to attend a work in progress performance of Strange Case, a new piece directed by Sally Cookson and devised by the company at Bristol Old Vic."When Henry Jekyll dresses each morning, buttons are done up, dress-coat is brushed down, cravat is neatly tied and…
Robot Relays
Posted on Fri 1 May 2009
Robot Relays is a potential Cultural Olympiad RELAYS project that, through a series of workshops in schools would lead to an event combining robots, children and challenges - both technological a
My World is Empty Without You at Mayfest
Posted on Thu 30 Apr 2009
Studio Resident Duncan Speakman's piece will be showing as part of Mayfest, Bristol's Festival of contemporary Theatre, on Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 May:What happens when everyone in the city is listening to the same song? Wearing headphones, the audience travels across the city, an immersive…
Jackie Calderwood's mediascape e-merge back at the ICA
Posted on Wed 29 Apr 2009
Jackie Calderwood's filmmaking mediascape e-merge (AN Review: click here) was invited back to the ICA for an evening with game enthusiasts at sandpit #10 on the 22nd April '09, themed 'the end of the world'.
Jackie Calderwood's mediascape e-merge back at the ICA
Posted on Wed 29 Apr 2009
Jackie Calderwood's filmmaking mediascape e-merge (AN Review: click here) was invited back to the ICA for an evening with game enthusiasts at sandpit #10 on the 22nd April '09, themed 'the end of the world'.
Faces are the future...
Posted on Mon 27 Apr 2009
Without spilling too many beans before the launch, we're on the home straight with Happy Packages version 3.0. Thus far the project has taken numerous twists and turns as the good ship Happy sails through the south seas, buffeted by the winds of changing opninion, words of advice and expanding…