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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B3 and Mediamatic present the Moving Image Lab.

A unique hands-on approach to enable you to develop new media projects across a range of media platforms including podcasting, streaming media and participatory web 2.0 to mobile phones.

This programme is aimed at media artists such as directors, producers,filmmakers, designers and musicians. We aim to create a cross-pollination of creativity and ideas; where the emphasis will be on the art of storytelling through multimedia technology.

B3 has a limited number of FREE places are available for the Moving Image Lab.

Please email your application (download from www.b3media.net/lab) and biog/CV to caroline[at]b3media.net

The deadline for applications is 15th October 2007

Dates: The workshop will be held in the B3 Studios, Brixton, London.
Sunday 28th October to Friday 2nd November 2007.

Cost: The cost of the workshop is 294pounds (420euros)The workshop
includes lunch, equipment and technical assistance.

For more information and selection criteria go to www.b3media.net/lab

The World is My Imagination

Runs: 07.09.2007 to 03.11.2007
Curator: Andrea Zapp

The World is My Imagination.

Media-Model-Miniature

International Media Art Exhibition at CUBE(Manchester)

Nine artists and collectives are exploring the miniscule as an artistic interface in video, networked and interactive installations, digital sound sculptures and photography, found objects and custom built environments.

Striking and picturesque model worlds replicate real and imaginary spaces while reflecting existences and habitats, personal memories and longing – the shift in scale ultimately commenting on our surroundings within social and cultural and technological changes.

Participating Artists:

Nick Hardy, UK

h.o Media Group, Japan

Hilary Jack, UK

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, USA

Marcus Kison, Germany

Amanda Oliphant, UK

Mark Pilkington, UK

Joel Porter, UK

Andrea Zapp, Germany/UK

7th September – 3rd November 2007

Opening Times: 12.00pm – 5.30pm Monday – Saturday

Preview: Thursday 6th September 6.00pm-9.00pm

New Statesman New Media Awards

Call for entries!
The New Statesman is once again looking for entries for its New Media Awards. Running annually since 1998, the awards celebrate the positive impact that digital media can have on society, democracy, politics and culture.
Last year’s winners included: PledgeBank.com, openDemocracy.net, BBC Backstage, Love Lewisham and WriteToThem.com.
With so many exciting things happening in the digital technology space in the UK at the moment, the New Media Awards set out to recognise and reward the best ideas, best projects and best people making a difference and using new media for good. This year a new category has entered the ring, The Young Innovator. It is open to everyone under the age of 22, and the winner will receive a cash prize of £500. Do you know someone who deserves such recognition?
The list of categories in this year’s awards is as follows: Contribution to civic society Modernising government Elected representative Education Information and openness Advocacy Young Innovator Entering the awards is a matter of simply filling in the online form here: The last day to enter is 31 May 2007. Winners will be announced in July. For further details go to http://www.newstatesman.com/newmedia or contact Charlotte Eisenhart: charlotte@newstatesman.co.uk

Tank TV: I Am Future Melancholic

This show presents moving images by artists whose practice reflects a vision of tomorrow. The structures and systems of reality are examined to reveal glimpses into what we call 'the future'. This ineffable and intangible concept, that constantly haunts the present, here provokes a wealth of musings and imaginings.

tank.tv announce in addition to its online exhibition a screening at the Tate Modern, 20 January. The Artist Mathieu Delvaux, Matthieu Laurette and Susanne Bürner with musician Steve Trafford (ex member of the Fall / member of Tycoons Follies), will also be present to introduce their work.

In 'Bruxelles 4023', Mathieu Delvaux & Xavier van Huffel perform street interviews to ask the public what they think Brussels might be like in 4023. The answers, as varied as the people themselves, reveal the concept of the future as a screen for hopes, fears and fantasy. Astarting point into an exploration of tomorrow...

Challenging, doubt-inducing and transformative aspects of 'the future' can be perceived in Vito Acconci's repetitive acts, recorded in a super8 film 'Break-Through' or in Philippe Meste's detonative video 'LHRB'. Rachel Reupke's 'Infrastructure' is born of a fascination with movie special effects and narrative devices. And Carsten Höller's 'One minute of doubt' and 'Punktefilm' induct a representation of our 'timeless everyday', and magically echo the playful nature of his present turbine hall insta llation. Laurent Montaron shows us a fictive exploration of time and travel through his `Readings', while Matthieu Laurette's impressive cocktail of celebrity lookalikes brings us into confusion at a blured vision of the limits between performance and observation. Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi's star, in 'When I wish Upon a Star' gives us time we need to wish upon.
Artists include: Erwin Wurm, Haris Epaminonda, Xavier Veilhan, Carsten Höller, Philippe Meste, Susanne Bürner, Laurent Montaron, Chris Cornish, Mathieu Delvaux & Xavier Van Huffel, Bernard Gigounon, Matthieu Laurette, Rachel Reupke, John Latham, Vito Acconci and Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi.

"I am Future Melancholic" is at Tate Modern at 7pm on Saturday 20 January 2007 and online on www.tank.tv from 15 January to 28 February 2007.
Curated by Anne-Sophie Dinant and Laure Prouvost

Aftershock -余震@广东美术馆

什么是“余震”?

　　“余震”是由英国驻华使(领)馆文化教育处和广东美术馆和首都博物馆联合举办的英国当代艺术展，并将于2006年12月15日开始在广州和北京巡回展览。展出的作品极少在英国本土以外展出。然而在2006和2007年，英国驻华使/领馆文化教育处将在中国举办余震艺术展，首次将这一代艺术家们的作品带到中国大陆。无疑这将是一项国内最大型的艺术盛事，同时这也是一次难能可贵的机会，将带给年轻的中国观众特别的感觉。

　　广东美术馆展期：2006年12月15日至2007年2月4日

　　首都博物馆展期：2007年3月8日至5月6日

　　什么是YBA?

　　1988年，一群年轻的英国艺术家在伦敦东部的一个仓库里面展示了他们的作品。在接下来9年的时间里面，他们精彩的、富有创造力的作品在全世界范围内引起了一股热潮。1997年，他们在伦敦最负盛名的皇家艺术学院举办了一场名为“感觉”的展览，吸引了30万名观众。Damien Hirst(达明安赫斯特)、Tracey Emin (翠西 艾敏)和Chris Ofili(克里斯•奥菲利)等已成为在英国乃至世界都家喻户晓的艺术家名字。他们的作品也被世界最出名的收藏家们所钟爱和收藏，其中就有广告业的亿万富翁和画廊拥有者Charles Saatchi(查尔斯•萨其)。

　　“年轻的英国艺术家”［YBA，Young British Artists］几乎在世界范围内同时成为前卫艺术和时尚的代名词。通过年轻艺术家的崛起，当代艺术也不再是只存在于艺术家工作室、画廊和博物馆中的高雅文化，而是成为大众传媒和公众广泛谈论的话题。

　　YBA有哪些艺术家?

　　Young British Artists，或者叫Brit artists，Britart，是一群曾经在英国伦敦Goldsmith college进修的概念艺术家，画家，雕塑家，装置艺术家。他们的名字包括：Chris Ofili (克里斯•奥菲利 )，Cornelia Parker (科妮莉亚•帕克)， Mona Hatoum (莫娜•哈透姆)， Damien Hirst (达明安•赫斯特)，Douglas Gordon (道格拉斯•高登)，Glenn Brown(葛兰•布朗)，Sarah Lucas(莎拉 卢卡斯)，Gillian Wearing(吉莉安•韦英)等等。

　　YBA对当代艺术产生什么影响？

　　•参观现代艺术展览的观众与日俱增；

　　•现代艺术馆，如伦敦的泰特现代美术馆(Tate Modern)，成为很受欢迎的英国旅游目的地之一；

　　•自毕加索之后，艺术家首次成为媒体所关心的“超级明星”；

　　•艺术市场真正繁荣起来；伦敦则成为纽约之后的另一个世界级艺术中心。

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