New Media Scotland Bulletin
New Media Scotland
Colin Andrews - Geist
18 to 25 November 2000
The Pier Art Centre, Stromness
Artist's Talk: 1pm Saturday 18 November
http://www.mediascot.org/geist
As the title suggests, 'Geist' is a work involving ghosts. 4
traditionally 'haunted locations' across Scotland are networked. These
remote locations act as nodes, gathering data such as changes in
temperature and fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation. This
information is then relayed via electronic networks to the library at
the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney where it is used to 'feed' an
audio installation. The audio is derived from traces of 'voices'
recorded at each location at an earlier time.
Another Space - Subterranean Landscape Blues 25 November - 23 December
2000
art.tm, Inverness
Artists' Talk: 2pm Saturday 9 December
Working as Another Space, artists Trevor Avery and Nigel Mullan have
created a multi-media environment, Subterranean Landscape Blues. The
work investigates hidden military structures in the Highlands, mapping
the effects of the armed forces upon the landscape.
Both works are part of a series of ten New Media Scotland commissions
funded by the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund. The artists
were awarded a budget, training and specialist assistance to help them
work with digital techniques.
Please find further details on the works below.
New Media Scotland works nationally to enable arts activity shaped by
new technologies. We aim to support research and development in new
media, and to increase the number and quality of opportunities for
artists in this area.
For further information, please contact:
New Media Scotland
PO Box 25065, Glasgow G15YP
Tel: 0141 564 3010 Fax: 0141 564 3011
in...@mediascot.org http://www.mediascot.org
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Colin Andrews - Geist
18 to 25 November 2000
The Pier Art Centre, Stromness
Exhibition open to the public:
Tues - Sat 10.30am -12.30pm, 1.30pm - 5pm
Web site: http://www.mediascot.org/geist
Artist's Talk: 1pm Saturday 18 November Free
4 traditionally 'haunted locations' across Scotland are networked. These
remote locations act as nodes, gathering data such as changes in
temperature and fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation. This
information is then relayed via electronic networks to the library at
the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney where it is used to 'feed' an
audio installation. The work is experienced as a 4 channel audio
installation, with each of the 4 channels representing one of the 4
remote 'haunted' locations. The audio is derived from traces of 'voices'
extracted from recordings made at each location at an earlier time.
Geist is not about the existence or otherwise of ghosts but rather about
ghost or spectrality as metaphor. It attempts to explore our
contemporary condition of omnipresent absence - presence through the use
of haunted locations, recorded sound and network technology.
Contemporary communications technologies belong to unseen places - they
connect us instantaneously across vast distances yet make our words,
impulses and feelings pass through an uninhabited and invisible domain.
Geist is about being and not being here and there simultaneously. It is
about communication through the exchange of electrical energy, about
recording and playback, about returns and repetition. It is the domain
of spectres and spirits, of slippages in time and space and
communications across boundaries.
A New Media Scotland Commission in partnership with the Pier Arts
Centre.
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Another Space - Subterranean Landscape Blues 25 November - 23 December
2000
art.tm, Inverness
Exhibition open to the public:
Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm
Web site: http://www.mediascot.org/slb
Artist's Talk: 2pm Saturday 9 December Free
Working as Another Space, artists Trevor Avery and Nigel Mullan have
created a multi-media environment, Subterranean Landscape Blues. The
work addresses the natural landscape orthodoxy (which denies fifty
percent of the resident population deemed 'economically inactive'), and
the myriad relationships which constitute this orthodoxy through
dominance and market authentication. These are undermined by the
presence of military and industrial sites of dereliction lying on the
surface and underground - not to mention the shambolic stop-go scenery
of the omnipotent world wide oil industry.
Meanwhile, state of the art NATO military aircraft thunder across the
skies targeting the bombing range at Tain. Such violent intrusions put
the mockers on the peaceful ambitions of the heritage experience, that
shocking testament to the purveyors of 'the end of history'.
To the population of Easter Ross, the daily shadow of the flying global
police force is as natural as that of the migratory birds refuelling at
the sites of special scientific interest.
We have established a web archive of the artists' research into this
project. The research is ongoing and can be viewed at
http://www.mediascot.org/slb
A New Media Scotland commission in partnership with art.tm.
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