Lizzie Hughes at Broadway

Throughout August Digital Broadway is pleased to present three video works by artist Lizzie Hughes.

4,007 Horisons (pictured) is an animation made up of 4,007 photographs sourced from photo sharing websites. The images were cropped to exclude any geographical, architectural or other reference points and the resulting images re-scaled (so that the horizon ran directly through the centre of the frame) before being ordered on a time-line according to colour. With the images being sourced from uunknown locations across the globe, the work aims to document an imaginary line, which ultimately describes the curvature of the earth.

This casual presentation of complimentary works will be presented in the public spaces at Broadway from dusk, 1st-31st August.

Join the artist, Lizzie Hughes and Digital Broadway programme co-ordinator Matt Davenportin the Mezz Lounge for an informal presentation and discussion about Lizzie’s practice, where we will unravel some of the paradoxes at play in her work, THU 5 AUG, 7.30PM, Mezz Lounge

onedotzero: Craftwork

MON 19th JULY | 7.45PM

After the success of  onedotzero’s Adventures in Motion Festival at BFI Southbank, film and digital arts curators onedotzero return to Broadway presenting a series of handcrafted new works offering surprising collisions of a new post-digital look. It includes promos, broadcast and independent shorts that mix digital with traditional handcraft.

Fresh from co-curating Decode: Digital Design Sensations, an exhibition at the V&A in London, onedotzero was founded in 1996 with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts, digital and interactive arts. It has since become a global phenomenon with its network of events annually reaching over 60 cities worldwide and thousands of people. The organisation’s annual BFI Southbank digital film festival adventures in motion is the largest of its kind in the world and film industry magazine Screen International recently named onedotzero one of the top ten visionaries of UK film.

At Broadway on July 19th audiences will be treated Many films refer explicitly to their ‘handmadeness’ and often present an intense, almost obsessive, dedication to the intricacies of stop-frame animation. The programme is made up of 22 shorts by directors from Japan, Australia, Israel and Germany as well as many from the UK. With all this to choose from, it’s pretty difficult to not be impressed. Look out for Corin Hardy’s latest promo for The Prodigy, Multitouch Barcelona’s computer run by a human and George Wu’s subtle experiments with a Stanley knife and a single piece of plain paper.

To find out more about onedotzero check out a recent interview with festival director Shane Walter’s here

The screening will be introduced via skype with Claire Cook, senior producer & curator for onedotzero.

Watch Corin Hardy’s video for The Prodigy’s Warrior’s Dance

Tickets for onedotzero: Craftwork cost £4.5o and can be bought at Broadway box office on 0115 952 6611.

Check out the Broadway website for more details and booking too.

>>It’s up to You (Tube)<<

The Guggenheim Museum is teaming up with YouTube in partnership with HP to discover the art of YouTube videos. Tasked with uncovering the “most creative video in the world,” the companies have launched an international search by way of YouTube Play, a specially branded YouTube channel that will feature the entries in this new competition. 

Anyone is invited to submit a video to YouTube Play, even video creators themselves, and the submission deadline is July 31.

The videos may consist of animation, motion graphics, narrative, non-narrative, or documentary work, music videos and even “entirely new art forms” that challenge the perception of what’s possible to do with video, explains the YouTube blog post about this unique collaboration project.

Two hundred of the leading videos will be selected for further attention by an international jury of experts from the worlds of art, design, film and video. Twenty of those initial 200 videos will then be presented at the Guggenheim. Yes, that’s right – at the Guggenheim itself. The YouTube videos will appear in the Guggenheim network of museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice and Berlin on October 21 and will be made available for the world to see on the youtube.com/play channel.

This is a true reflection on the debate surrounding social media and opening up arts institutions to the public for them to curate. Sure we all have a desire to share and produce now that social media have come along, but do we lose a certain subjectivity if the experience is crowd controlled?

Another interesting online exhibition I came across recently is 3 hours in 1 second a you tube grid show online, where artists are using existing films to create a new artwork.

Broadway Heritage Project- Matthew Higgins

25th- 30th JUNE

For his final project as part of an MA in Multimedia at Nottingham Trent University, Matt Higgins has been investigating Broadway’s rich history and heritage. From it’s early manifestation as a chapel to Tarrantino’s visit for Shots in the Dark Festival, Matt’s experimental pieceof motion graphic design takes a look at the architecture of Broadway through the ages 1794-2010.

Check out the film in Broadway’s cafe/bar over the next few days or here on vimeo

Forthcoming Digital Cultures and Art Festivals

ARS Electronica– Linz, Austria | 2-11 SEP 2010

There’s no time left for warnings. We’re in it up to our necks right now—in the climate crisis, Surveillance Society, the bankruptcy of the financial sector … We’ve passed the points of no return. The dramatic consequences are looming on the horizon today. And there’s no excuse for our lethargy since we already possess ideas, tools and techniques to initiate a change of course. We just have to take action! Roll up our sleeves and get to work on a job that can no longer be avoided. We have to mend our ways and get things moving in the right direction.

PIKSEL– Burgen, Norway| 18-21 NOV 2010

Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art.

Farewell Moot

Celebrating 5 years of Moot Gallery

This week see’s the final episode in 5 years of Moot gallery in Nottingham which has been in the coalface of the National and International contemporary visual arts. Moot was the first independent gallery reigning from Nottingham representing artists at Zoo art fair and recently Artissima and has been a crucial linchpin in Nottingham’s burgeoning arts community.

Congratulations and farewell fellow Mooter’s we salute you!

The Sandpit_Sam O’Hare_From 12th June

Digital Broadway is pleased to be presenting The Sandpit by Sam O’Hare. Painstakingly shot with over 35,000 stills in Manhatten and Brooklyn,  The Sandpit has been created using the “Tilt Shift” photography style to depict a day in the life of New York City in miniature.

We will also be presenting a range of other Tilt Shift style films on the small plasma screens around the building, including “Fire” by Erik West, A music video for “Fire” Jimmy Edgar Remix by Codebreaker Feat. Kathy Diamond.

Call For Entries: UK Young Artists Biennale

The call for submissions for UKYA 2010 is now live.

UK Young Artists is proud to announce that the first national event is to be hosted in the East Midlands in October 2010. Over four days Derby will welcome the best creative talent from artists under 30 to showcase their work across a full spectrum of art forms. As well as the main exhibition, the event will support emerging creative networks and professional development, alongside workshops, performances, seminars and a host of public events.

From this national showcase approximately 10 participants will be selected to represent the UK at the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Morocco in 2011.

To apply online please go to www.ukyoungartists.co.uk where you will find the online application form and the full terms and conditions.

Deadline 14th June 2010.

Annexinema_Mobile Cinema_Romana Schmalisch | 12th June

Annexinema and Trampoline present:
Romana Schmalisch: Mobile Cinema
@ Lace Market Theatre Bar, Saturday 12th June 2010  How to get there…

This will be the closing event to the month long “Tracing Mobility” programme, organised by Trampoline throughout May.

The inspiration for The Mobile Cinema came from The New Moscow, a 1938 urban planning comedy made by Aleksandr Medvedkin. It tells the tale of an idealistic young designer who treks into the capital from Siberia to present his utopian model for a new city, a table-top diorama with intricate moving parts which have a tendency to malfunction at the wrong moment. Earlier Medvedkin had been involved in the kino-train movement, when revolutionary ideals were transported across the USSR using trains converted into cinemas and film production units, and all of this history and plenty more besides has been stirred into the mix of Schmalisch’s performance.

Further information on this event can be found at annexinema.org

Further information on the wider Tracing Mobility programme can be found at trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/

Sosolimited_Prime Numerics

As a trailblazer for the Future Everything Festival in Manchester, on April 29th US design group Sosolimited  presented a live AV remix of the final Election Debate between Cameron, Clegg and Brown.

Using custom software allowing them to sample and analyse the video, audio, and closed captioned text of the television signal, Sosolimited reconstituted the material, revealing its linguistic patterns, exposing its content and structures, and fundamentally altering the way in which the debates were watched.

This was streamed live to Broadway from the People’s History Museum in Manchester.

Click to the videos on the right to check it out ->

Also available in 10 parts on Sosolimited’s VIMEO