Programme at a Glance
Friday 16th July 13.00 – 16.30 - Open Afternoon with Public Domain Artists, Russell Cotes Gallery 18.00 – 19.45 - Artist Screenings - (see screenings left) 19.45 - Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts and Players improvise to screenings by Buster Keaton, Stephen Bell 21.15 – 23.00 - Geek Chic Soundsystem with Comix
Saturday 17th July 10.00 – 23.00 - Intermittently showing on the screen during the day WINDscale, Rob Smith 10.00 – 16.00 - Blind Ditch, Global Player at various points in the town and on the screen 10.00 – 12.00 - Flow: The Musical Boat Race 12.15 – 14.00 - Artist Screenings 14.00 – 16.00 - Flow: The Musical Boat Race 14.00 – 16.30 - Animation Workshops 17.00 - Screening of Animations from Workshops 17.30 - Wall-E 19.30 - Artist Screenings 21.15 - Routes, Alex Reuben 22.30 - After event at 60million postcards, Exeter Road
Sunday 18th July
10.00 – 23.00 - Intermittently showing on the screen during the day WINDscale, Rob Smith 10.00 – 17.00 - A Guide to Getting Lost, Audio Guide available from kiosk in Lower Gardens 10.00 – 14.00 - Flow: The Musical Boat Race 14.00 – 17.00 - Workshops Joe Stevens Boredomresearch 17.00 - Little Lupin 17.30 - Where the Wild Things Are 19.10 - West Howe Music Festival Feature 19.15 - Artist Screenings 21.00 - Forbidden Planet
Music
Friday 16 19.45 - Keith Tippett (Piano), Julie Tippetts (Vocals) with BSO musicians Andy Baker (Bass) and Liz (Cello) will perform their celebrated and unique approach to experimental jazz through improvisation to Buster Keaton’s film The Electric House, Abstract Cinema and real-time and generative animations from Stephen Bell. Bell’s animations have been created especially for this performance from computer programmes generating abstract shapes based on animal movement and migration.
21.15 – 23.00 - DJ Set Geek Chic Soundsystem with VJs Comix With Ian Geek and Lee Geek behind the decks, they transform into a dual-headed party starting monster. Showing a healthy disregard for genre, a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of dance music in the broadest sense and record collections spanning several decades they ensure an eclectic mix of forgotten gems, some unexpected twists, and upfront tunes. Comix are a visual / motion graphics duo who focus on bringing cutting edge visuals to live shows and gigs.
Saturday 17 21.15 - Screening of Alex Reuben’s film Routes, a road movie tracking the dance and music of the American Deep South. From North Carolina to the holy grail of his childhood hero, Fats Domino, and the Jazz of New Orleans, Reuben captured on the road Appalachian Bluegrass, Clogging, Mississippi Fife and Drum Blues, Krumping, Memphis Hip-Hop, Indian Smoke Dance, Louisiana Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop, all in a vivid stream of sound and vision. 'Sexy, funny, sociopolitically spot-on, and thrillingly alert and alive …one of the top films of the decade' Geoff Andrew, BFI
22.30 – 02.00 - sixty-million postcards
  Images: Kieth & Julie Tippett, Music Artists | Screenings
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (see programme for timings)
Works by staff and students of Bournemouth University and Arts University College Bournemouth - A programme of works showing the from the internationally renowned animations courses of our two local universities with work from them. Curated by Bournemouth Screen and Media Academy and SCAN. Running Time 1 hour (approx)
Coastcards - Three short films commissioned by Animate Projects as part of the Sea Change initiative. Susan Collins, has sent a coastcard from Bridlington, East Yorkshire; Andrew Kötting, has sent a coastcard from Hastings, East Sussex; and Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore have sent a coastcard from Teignmouth, Devon. Each celebrates the heritage of England's seaside resorts and explores the unexpectedness of the seaside by presenting a film that responds to a coastal town that the artists live in or nearby. Running Time: 10 minutes approx
Motion Frames - intimate mini sketches of seaside promenaders, by Louise Pack People promenading on Bournemouth seafront, on a hot summer’s day, were invited to present themselves to camera, with no direction or supervision, in a style reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s film portraits. Sitting behind the frame, participants are isolated from the everyday and free to express their thoughts alone, without mediation. This piece reflects the artist’s interest in how the placement of a camera effects certain situations. Running Time 3 mins approx
The Pleasure of Gliding, by Jane Mason and Becky Edmunds A charming recollection of stories and emotions about the power of dancing. Choreographer Jane Mason and film-maker Becky Edmunds created The Pleasure of Gliding through a series of interviews and workshops, which explored people’s memories and love of dancing in Bournemouth Pavilion. The Pleasure of Gliding was commissioned by Dance South West to mark the transformation and regeneration of a disused part of Bournemouth Pavilion into the new dance centre Pavilion Dance. Running Time: 10 minutes
ZeitEYE, Bob Cotton ZeitEYE is a film about innovation in the arts and media since 1900. In an 11 minute montage it relates the back-story of our current high-band multi-media environment. The last eleven decades have seen the invention of a wide range of techniques and technologies, and a number of key ideas, that have together modulated the development of media and created our contemporary globally networked, digital media-space. These include: animation, special effects, Cinema, Cubism, radio broadcasting, Futurism, mass-colour-photography, colour half-tone printing, DADA, Surrealism, television, computing, global telephone networks, Asimov’s I Robot, satellite communications, The MIT Media Lab, multi-spectral scanning, Cybernetics, holography, laser, cellular networks,WWW, server-push, Web 2.0, messaging, HD, Age of Intelligent Machines, digital film-making, Simulacra and Simulation, and a whole lot more. ZeitEYE provides a chronological overview of these developments from the perspective of 2010. Running Time: 11 Minutes
Sunday (please see programme for times) West Howe Music Festival, Sunday Best Music Fest Running since 2007, this is a free family music and arts event in the heart of West Howe - the film shows the best of previous events and provides a taster for the next festival to be held on 25th July 2010 open from 11 am - 7 pm.
Little Lupin, Luci Gorrell Barnes The Tragic and Disturbing Tale of Little Lupin. With its roots in the rich, dark soil of fairy tales, it tells the story of a girl who is not like others and of how life in the woods can take unexpected turns. Little Lupin is a hand drawn animation made by Luci Gorell Barnes accompanied by an original score written and performed by Richard Hughes. The film is narrated by Ali Hughes. Running Time: 20 minutes
General Release Films WALL-E (U) One of Pixar’s best animations from 2008, set in a distant, but not so unrealistic future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. One day he meets Eve, a sleek (and dangerous) reconnaissance robot who is sent to find proof that life is once again sustainable and the film follows their adventures. Running Time: 1h 37m
Where the Wild Things Are (PG) Based on the classic story by Maurice Sendak, this film charmingly retells the story in film. Max has an active imagination, and he will throw fits if others don't go along with what he wants. Following a series of incidents at home, Max runs away wearing his wolf costume toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including one named Carol who is much like Max himself in temperament. Instead of eating Max like they normally would with creatures of his type, the wild things befriend Max after he proclaims himself a king who can magically solve all their problems.
Forbidden Planet (U) A major cult science fiction film from the 1950s with sumptuous sets and groundbreaking special effects the storyline is based loosely on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. An Earth mission arrives on Altair IV, a planet that Dr. Edward Morbius and his beautiful daughter Altaira are the only survivors from the original expedition that had arrived some 20 years before. Morbius discourages them from landing their spaceship and tries to get them to leave but Commander Abrams and his men soon face an invisible force leading them to believe that Morbius and the girl are in danger.
Public Domain is organised by:
| Talks, Installations, Workshops and Performances
Friday 16 July 1pm – 4.30pm - Open Session, Morning Room, Russell Cotes Gallery, Russell Cotes Road, Bournemouth Meet some of the artists and curators involved in Public Domain and find out more about their work and the project. This is an opportunity to discuss the work informally, see demonstrations and find out more about collaborative digital arts and interaction.
Refreshments provided. Everyone Welcome.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (please see programme for times) WINDscale, Rob Smith A durational video work controlled by the speed of the wind. An anemometer constantly measures the speed of the wind while a video camera records it spinning on the roof of The Waterfront building in Bournemouth. The data is linked to a computer that changes the pixilation and frame rate of the video in accordance to wind speed. The resulting output is sent to the big screen and displayed live throughout the day creating a visual record of the wind.
The effect of the wind on the video takes the form of an interference pattern based on the Beaufort Wind Scale. The Beaufort Scale is a visual way of estimating wind speed according to the appearance of the sea. There are thirteen speeds each with an official description ranging from; “Force 0 – Calm – Sea like a mirror” to “Force 12- Hurricane- The air is filled with foam and spray. Visibility very seriously affected.”
Saturday, Sunday (please see programme for times) Flow: The Musical Boat Race, Tom Davis, Curtis McKinney and Alain Renaud Flow is a highly participative piece of interactive art based around Bourne Stream running through the Lower Gardens. You are invited to compose your own piece of music by dropping floats into the stream and watching them move downstream. As the floats are carried away by the current they will move past sensors and trigger sounds. By timing the release of several floats you will be able to alter the density and frequency of the sounds being triggered and thus compose your own musical piece. You can also track your boat's progress via a camera and a visual representation on the park's big screen. Why not race a friends boat down the stream whilst creating your own individual musical accompaniment? The artists in this collaboration are known individually for their work of international significance in sound and networked technology. This is a new commission made specifically for Bournemouth Lower Gardens.
Saturday 10.00 – 16.00 Global Player - an interactive street performance with live web streaming, Blind Ditch “People want their town and city centres to be more than arenas for carbon copy chain stores, CCTV and corporate marketeers. The Global Player idea suggests a different kind of trade in the form of play, sport, debate and good conversation.” Dr Simon Persighetti (Wrights & Sites) Inspired by the theatricality of large-scale sports events and a utopian vision of community owned public space, Global Player was developed in response to the increasing corporate ownership of city centre space in Britain and the changing sense of what is permissible and acceptable behaviour in a range of public environments. The Global Players will be touring around Bournemouth with their specially designed table made from recycled bicycle parts and challenging willing members of the public. Games will be streamed live throughout the day onto the big screen in the Lower Gardens with scores and statistics of each match uploaded to the project website www.blindditch.org/globalplayer
14.00 – 17.00 - Animation Workshops for families with Lecturers from National Centre for Computer Animation, The Media School, Bournemouth University – Steve Harper, Susan Sloan and Adam Vanner The tutors on this workshop all have years of experience on an industry and international level in a range of contexts such as arts, 3D, motion capture, broadcast and computer animation. Their work has been shown in festivals all over the world and in a range of broadcast and exhibition contexts. These three parallel sessions will look at a whole range of styles of animation and will allow participants to have hands on experience of the genre. Animations produced in the workshops will be shown on the screen in the Lower Gardens. All welcome – if you wish to stay for the full 3 hours please book by contacting SCAN.
Sunday 0.00 – 17.00 - The Guide to Getting Lost, Jennie Savage 1 The Guide to Getting Lost is an MP3 audio walk that invites you to explore Bournemouth through the sonic & geographic landscape of another place. Choose where you listen to; East London, a Moroccan Souk, Indian festival, Copenhagen high street, Drake Circus shopping centre, Plymouth….In turn you will become lost in Bournemouth, giving yourself up to walking the routes and pathways that Jennie Savage has taken in another place, stepping into a sound world which narrates another landscape. To experience the walk you can borrow an MP3 player from the Guide to Getting Lost Stall in the Lower Gardens. (A small returnable deposit will be required) Length of walks are approx. 30min
2pm – 5pm - Seaside Sonic Survey, Workshop Session, Joe Stevens Our trips to the seaside are usually described in visual terms, “oh what a lovely view”. But it is often our sense of hearing that defines our experience of being beside the sea. From the quiet sounds of the waves lapping on the beach, to the sound of families laughing together, artist, Joe Stevens, wants your help to survey the sonic landmarks of the seaside. What sounds are important? And what are your earliest sonic memories of the seaside? This event is part of World Listening Day, a series of events that aim to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us. All welcome.
2pm – 5pm - Processing and collective creativity with boredomresearch (Vicky Isley and Paul Smith) boredomresearch will be running a workshop introducing the basics of coding in Processing - an open source programming language enabling you to create visuals, animations, games and interactive work. Drop in to learn how to create your own drawing tools and how to make these interactive with mouse functions. Collaborating as boredomresearch, Southampton based Vicky Isley and Paul Smith create engaging digital artworks, developing themes and crossing boundaries between science, art and technology. They have produced a number of interactive sound applications, public artworks, online projects and generative systems. All welcome. |
|
