From sarah.turner at manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk Thu Oct 4 13:29:06 2007 From: sarah.turner at manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk (Sarah Turner) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:29:06 +0200 Subject: [multipliCity] Urban Screens Manchester Newsletter 6 Message-ID: <01bf01c80679$c6925f30$0ab2a8c0@sarahj6y7loy0> Urban Screens Manchester Art + Events Programme 11 - 14 October Take a new look at your city! A dynamic, groundbreaking four-day programme of free outdoor screen and art events; a showcase for the creative future of our cities, featuring the work of over 90 international artists. Three giant LED screens in city centre Manchester will show a wide range of individual programmes 24-hours a day. The screens will be sited at All Saints' Gardens on Oxford Road, Exchange Square, and Cathedral Gardens outside Urbis. We're looking forward to exclusive live events, interactive works, streaming media, film shorts and animation, late-night video events and live internet broadcasts. A detailed schedule for the three screens can be found on www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk. Special event at Manchester Town Hall, Great Hall, Albert Square The Light Surgeons present True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore European premiere / One performance only The Light Surgeons, a UK-based collective of designers, film makers and musicians, set out to explore the stories and myths surrounding Uncle Sam Wilson, bearded idol and personification of the United States of America. A sizzling multi-screen fusion of documentary filmmaking, genre hopping soundtracks, animation/motion graphics and digital video performance fuses with the stunning, neo-gothic splendour of the Great Hall. The Light Surgeons are best known for their pioneering design of visual displays at clubs, commercial events, music tours & exhibitions. They have been at the cutting edge of multimedia sound and light installations, working across a range of media such as video, 16mm film, photography, print based design, music & spoken narrative. Thursday 11, 9pm Limited tickets available at ?5 (?4 concession) from Cornerhouse Box Office on 0161 200 1500 A Wall is a Screen UK Premiere / Promenade event / One night only Part guided tour, part roaming film night, A Wall is a Screen leads its audience through the streets of the city, stopping at previously unnoticed locations where films of different genres are projected. After each film, the equipment is loaded up onto a handcart and the group moves on to the next wall. Working with the North West Film archive at Manchester Metropolitan University, this event includes localised footage that peels back the layers of inner-city history. Members of A Wall is a Screen will also be presenting their work on Day 1 of the conference, during the poster session on creating screen art for an urban & architectural context. Friday 12, 9-10.30pm FREE. Start location: Outside Kro Picadilly, Picadilly Gardens Please feed back your comments on the artworks to info at manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk. We will publish them on the Urban Screens weblog at www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk. Curated by Susanne Jaschko -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listcultures.org/pipermail/multiplicity_listcultures.org/attachments/20071004/fa06cf74/attachment.html From sarah.turner at manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk Tue Oct 9 00:26:29 2007 From: sarah.turner at manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk (Sarah Turner) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:26:29 +0200 Subject: [multipliCity] Urban Screens Manchester Newsletter 7 Message-ID: <01d001c809fa$46387c00$0ab2a8c0@sarahj6y7loy0> It's about content! Conference 11-12 Oct Art & Events 11-14 Oct Focus Session 3 on day 1 of the conference will examine the profitability of urban screens and the production of non-commercial content and asks: What is the real ratio of production costs of artistic content and payment? Which economy models sustain a non-commercial use of the screens? Focus Session 3: Towards a New Economy of Urban Screens, Cornerhouse The session will be moderated by Glenn Harding (AUS), managing director of Circus, an urban media consultancy and production company managing the multimedia, online and broadcast systems and developing and commissioning original screen content for Melbourne's Federation Square which houses numerous non-commercial LED screens. Melbourne will be hosting the next Urban Screens conference in October 2008. www.fedsquare.com Jason DaPonte (UK) is Executive Producer for bbc.co.uk and is leading a change programme across the BBC's online producers called "Ensuring Excellence," focussing on how editorial standards and guidelines need to be adapted to the rapidly changing environment that is digital media. Mark Bennett (USA) is senior manager for In-Store Digital Marketing and Media at Target's Corporate Media Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mark leads strategy and creative execution for Target's production teams. Target's work has been at the forefront of ways to explore unique commercial branding opportunities. www.target.com Kristin Gray (USA) is the Director of Victory Media Network? at Victory Park in Dallas, Texas. Kristin seeks out a mix of relevant and engaging content underwritten by exclusive corporate partners who have the opportunity to advertise and market in a unique and captivating manner. A track system engineered specifically for the project allows screens to move horizontally along the entire length of a major public plaza creating complex and sophisticated spatial interactions and providing an immersive public art environment. www.victorymedianetwork.com Mike Gibbons (UK) has spent the last five years building the Big Screens in the UK for the BBC as part of the partnerships with towns & cities. He recently became Head of Live Sites and UK Coordination for London 2012 and will lead the development of the Live Sites network to make the London Olympics part of everyone's life. He asks what are the social messages about the use of public spaces for major events and what can we learn from public reaction? www.london2012.com As part of the Urban Screens Art & Events Programme, Jenny Holzer's Televised Texts will randomly intersperse the programmes on all three screens in Manchester city centre. Holzer adopts the form and language of commercial messages to disrupt communication, presenting kamikaze texts that are designed to stimulate thought and inspire a critical attitude in an often passive audience. Televised Texts are designed to appear anonymously and spontaneously. Register your interest at www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk Urban Screens Manchester has been curated by Dr Susanne Jaschko. Urban Screens Manchester has been supported by Cornerhouse and BBC. It has been funded by Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, Marketing Manchester. With support from MDDA and Manchester Knowledge Capital. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listcultures.org/pipermail/multiplicity_listcultures.org/attachments/20071009/33984de5/attachment.html