Frieze art fair invite you to make film

Frieze Film 2008 announces Road Movie, an experiment in film making, authorship and dispersal made in response to the way in which digital platforms such as YouTube have made film a medium freely available to all.

Road Movie will be a film made by artists and filmmakers in response to an open invitation issued by Frieze Film. Road Movie will be produced and distributed on the Frieze Film 2008 group on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/group/friezefilm2008 , and on the Frieze Film website http://www.frieze.com/film . The final result will be a film made in an entirely new way: the first multi-authored fractal film assembled from the sum of its submitted parts.

Inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel ‘The Road’, Frieze Film will not have a conventional narrative: in addition to submitting original material visitors to YouTube will be able to download and refashion existent clips, spurring a chain-reaction of multiple narratives and occurrences: Road Movie will be wholly individual and collective.

Frieze Film will be shown in Channel 4’s admired ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 13 October to Thursday 16 October at 7.55pm.

For further information visit http://www.frieze.com/film

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b.tween 08 and Peter Greenaway

b.TWEEN 08: worldwide 18-20 June

http://just-b.com/btween/pages/webcast


CONTENTS

1. Watch Live, Interact

2. b.TWEEN Awards

3. Who, When & Where

4. Network Now

1. Watch Live, Interact & Vote

http://just-b.com/btween/pages/webcast

b.TWEEN 08 will be webcast to a web-wide audience so you can participate in the conversation where ever you are


2. b.TWEEN Awards

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/btween-08-awards-ceremony


Tune in live, play your part and vote for your favorite

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3. Who, When & Where

http://just-b.com/btween/programme/19june

http://just-b.com/btween/programme/20june

Below are a selection of highlights from the b.TWEEN programme:


Thurs 19 June
Protect or Share

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/protect-or-share

Digitised content is easy to share and copy. That is exactly what people do with it: often illegally and often free. There is no turning back.

Some see this radical change as the tragic demise of traditional business. Others seize disruption as opportunity


User Centric Design

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/channel-4-cross-platform-innovation

Businesses and products have to be people-shaped or they will not survive this changing media scape


Fri 20 June
When Worlds Collide

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/when-worlds-collide

It is often said that the impact of new communications technologies never comes as fast as its early adopters believe, but always has a more profound impact than anyone expected


Aggregators & Integrators

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/aggregators-integrators

In theory, the internet means that businesses can reach their end-users directly. The value chain has been blown wide open and the assumption until recently was that middle men would soon be a distant memory

4. Network Now

http://just-b.com/btween/pages/btween

b.TWEEN people are able to take advantage of an exclusive offer with MOO

Claim your 10% discount off 1 pack of MiniCards at MOO

The code to claim the discount is moobtween

NB: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Peter Greenaway can no longer make it b.TWEEN 08 and Cory Doctorow is taking his place


b.TWEEN 08 is supported by:

Channel 4, BBC, New Media Age, HP Labs, NWDA, Technology Strategy Board, Museum of Science and Industry, Littlewoods, 4Talent, Nesta, Aegis Media, Carat, Ambient Worlds, Northwest Vision & Media, Skillset, Aime, Kinura, Magnetic North, Metronet, Business Link North West, BIMA, ICA, FACT, Someth:ng Labs, MOO, Barrels & Bottles, Unltd, Raw Nerve, Creative Partnerships and the Arts Council of England

Check this out for new creatures

http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-50002507.html

If you have not make a wish in HK Mobile Art Show ....

via enews.
Internationally celebrated artist Yoko Ono will present a major installation of her participatory work, Wish Trees, in the large central courtyard at One Colorado from August 2 through November 9, 2008. The installation will consist of a number of living trees selected by the artist, and which are identified with the environment or history of Southern California. Visitors are invited to write their wishes on pieces of paper and hang them on the tree branches. Public access to Ono's art installation and the One Colorado Courtyard is free.

Wishes from Pasadena will be joined with wishes from all over the world and placed in specially constructed capsules to be buried in the area surrounding Yoko Ono's public art project in memory of John Lennon, the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, off the coast of Reykjavik, Iceland. The tower, a column of light emanating from a base with a radius of about 10 meters (approx 33 ft.), is lit for two months each year starting on October 9, John Lennon's birthday, and ending on December 9, the anniversary of his death.

Yoko Ono's influence for this piece is connected to her early childhood experiences in Japan: "As a child, I used to go to a temple and buy a printed paper wish sold at the temple and tie it around the branch of a bush. Bushes in temple courtyards were always filled with people's wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar," she said.

The Wish Trees have been a part of several prominent exhibitions worldwide by Yoko Ono since the 1990s. Instructions are simple:


WISH PIECE -- y.o. '96

Make a wish.
Write it down on a piece of paper.
Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree.
Ask your friends to do the same.
Keep wishing
Until the branches are covered with wishes.

The act of wishing is described by Ono as a "collective prayer." Some wishes are deeply personal, some represent wishes for all humankind.