SCAN is an agency developing media arts in the South of England. It works in partnership with a broad range of individuals, groups and institutions nationally and internationally to commission innovative projects that cross and merge disciplines drawn from arts, media, humanities, science and technology. SCAN explores ideas, sites and tools showing the creative potential that media arts offer in our changing society.
SCAN welcomes approaches from organisations or individuals who wish to develop their ideas or would like to be involved in SCAN’s initiatives.
Please contact us on 01590 682824 info@scansite.org for further details.
SUMMER COURSES
AN INTRODUCTION TO FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
(Introductory Level)
11th August 2008
10am – 4pm
£40
@ The Carnival Centre, Westridge, Brading Road Ryde, Isle of Wight PO33 1QS
Tutor – Tom Keene
Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) is a collective name for software which can be copied and redistributed without restriction.
The free software movement was conceived in the early 1980’s which led to the launch of the Open Source Initiative in the late 1990’s
picking up a large following along the way.
It is now an international network of people sharing and collaborating in software development across the internet. This one day course
will teach you background information to FLOSS and will show how you can download a totally free operating system with software for your computer.
WEBSITE DESIGN AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
(Some experience in Web design necessary)
12th -13th August 2008
10am – 4pm
£75
@ The Carnival Centre, Westridge, Brading Road Ryde, Isle of Wight PO33 1QS
Tutor – Tom Keene
This two day course will demonstrate the availability of high quality, multi-functional software such as
Drupal and Wordpress, which allow you to easily create and manage websites. The course will introduce you to installing this software allowing you to create: Content Management Systems, Blogs, Collaborative authoring environments, Forums, Newsletters, Podcasting, Picture galleries, File uploads/downloads and much more.
These courses are organised collaboratively by Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight and SCAN.
Booking
Please note that numbers on each course are limited, therefore early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment. Quay Arts have a limited number of subsidised places available for most courses. Contact the Box Office for more information.
To reserve a place on any course, please email damf@quayarts.org stating your name, contact number and course name. You will then then receive confirmation that your place has been reserved provisionally at this point. We will contact you soon afterwards to discuss the course and arrange booking and payment. Alternatively, you can contact the Box Office on 01983 822490.
Course fees include:
Daily tuition, 10am – 4pm, with one hour break for lunch. Tea, coffee and cold drinks and all computers, software and associated equipment are supplied unless otherwise stated in course information.
Course fees do not include:
Accommodation, travel (except between venues), meals, though these are available at Quay Arts and other local venues. Quay Arts has its own Café Bar, serving a mixture of healthy home-cooked food including vegetarian and gluten-free options as well as sandwiches and homemade cakes.
Cancellation
Quay Arts regrets there can be no refund of course fee unless the place is filled by another student.
Course fees will be refunded in full if Quay Arts has to cancel a course.
Accommodation and Travel
Further details relating to arrangements for this course are available on the Quay Arts site: http://www.quayarts.org
Or contact:
IOW Tourist Board.
01983 813813 www.islandbreaks.co.uk
Red Funnel
(ferries from Southampton – Cowes / East Cowes)
0870 444 8898 www.redfunnel.co.uk
Wightlink
(ferries from Portsmouth – Fishbourne / Ryde and from Lymington – Yarmouth)
0870 582 0202 www.wightlink.co.uk
See also:
www.islecreate.co.uk and www.greenislandtourism.org
July/August is a very busy time on the Island and you are strongly advised to arrange accommodation and ferry crossing before you arrive.
Multichannel Update
Multichannel is a screening programme, organised and curated by ArtSway and SCAN, which will take place in ArtSway’s galleries(click here for more details ). This year’s programme features film and video works by national and international artists and looks to expand upon the highly successful 2007 Multichannel screening programme. The continuing intention of the curators is to present single screen video works by artists and practitioners who reflect current trends in contemporary lens-based work, as well as screening films by cutting edge practitioners from the previous two decades. Works in the exhibition will be grouped into four categories: Film/Video and Music; Narrative and Journey; Film/Video as Material; Psychological Narrative.
Artists Exhibiting in ArtSway’s Gallery 2:
Film/Video and Music: Andrew Brand; Anahita Hekmat; Pete
Gomes; Jen-Kuang Chang; Alison Ballard; Paul B Davis; Rachel
Cattle and Steve Richards; Flow Motion; Ranulph Glanville.
Narrative and Journey: Steve Hines; Michael Fortune; Jeannie
Driver; David Kendall; David Bickerstaff; Thomson & Craighead;
Gair Dunlop; Kevin Logan; Nina Sverdvik; Amanda Loomes;
Manuel Saiz; John Davis.
Artists Exhibiting in ArtSway’s Gallery 3:
Film/Video as Material: Nicola Naismith; Cynthia Beth Rubin; Karen Reed; Joe Duffy; Simon Woolham.
Psychological Narrative: Hannu Karjailainen; Anna Siebert; Lucy
Cash; Tina Gonsalves; Sarah Pucill; Joel Papps; Kevin Pocock;
Jordan Baseman; Benjamin Cooper.
Artist in Residence and Education Programme:
Alongside the screening programme there will be a number of talks and events. Paul B. Davis, an artist and musician with an international reputation for his work reconfiguring video and computer games, will also be in residence for one week during Multichannel as part of the Distributed South media arts initiative curated by Space Media and SCAN. Paul will spend part of his residency teaching local school children from St Luke’s Primary, Sway, the basics of computer programming and electronics.
Late Night Special Screening and Panel Discussion – Opening Event:
Friday 20 June 2008, 6pm – 9pm
To celebrate the opening of Multichannel join curators Helen Sloan
(SCAN) and Peter Bonnell (ArtSway) for a late night screening from
6pm to 8pm. At 8pm there will be an informal panel discussion,
led by Helen and Peter – featuring contributions from many artists
exhibiting work in Multichannel.
Free, All Welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Gallery Talk: Wednesday 2 June 2008, 7pm
Brian McClave: Stereoscopic Video
FREE: Booking Essential
Multichannel Filmmaking Clinic with Steve Lewis:
Saturday 28 June & Saturday 5 July, 2008, 10am – 5pm
COST: £10 per half-hour slot. Booking Essential
ArtSway
Station Road, Sway, Hampshire, SO41 6BA
For more information contact Jack Lewis
on 01590 682260×16 or email jack@artsway.org.uk
Dark Places
See video of Corporate Personae, Dark Places Launch and work by Lucy Panesar, 30th May 2007, Space Media
Further initiatives are being developed with Simon Hollington and Kypros Kyprianou; Chris Oakley; Susan Collins; Victoria Halford and Steve Beard; Neal White and Centre for Land Use and Interpretation (CLUI)
Distributed South
Distributed South is a Media Arts initiative working to develop audiences and dialogue within the sector. Through residencies and partnership working across the South of England, Distributed South aims to move and inform policy within Media Arts and to drive forward new models of practice and approach to the field. Distributed South is financially supported by Arts Council England and the network of partners. It is co-managed by SCAN and Space Media
Current activities:
Event: Configurations: Technology and Textiles Networking Afternoon
25 April, 3.30 – 6pm, Http Gallery (Booking essential)
You are invited to share ideas, discuss and develop future working around art work that investigates the relationship between new technology, traditional making techniques and transformative political actions. Anna Dumitriu, Ele Carpenter, Nicola Naismith and Rachel Beth Egenhoefer will present their work using diverse approaches to the making of work using new technology alongside textiles, followed by a “Long Table Discussion”.
This event is free however advanced booking is necessary. To book places please contact Aaron, visibility@furtherfield.org.
6pm – 9pm (all welcome): Party to celebrate the close of Rachel Beth Egenhoefer’s residency at Furtherfield/HTTP Gallery and providing an opportunity to discuss her work and experiences during the residency.
Stanza – Visitors to the Gallery, exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre Until April 6 2008.
This exhibition is the result of a month long residency where artist Stanza produced two new works.
More details
Partners: Plymouth Arts Centre
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer – New Work
Residency at University of Brighton and University of Wales Newport Jan – March 2008
Exhibition: Lighthouse, Brighton 20 March – 5 April
Opening: 20 March 6.30 – 9.30pm
Talk: Lighthouse 27 March, 7.30pm, Helen Sloan will introduce Distributed South followed by a tour or the exhibition with the artist
Rachel Beth’s residency continues at Furtherfield in London until 25th April with a series of events taking place through the period: Student Workshop April 16, 1 – 4pm; Networking Event, April 25, 3.30 – 6pm; Closing Party, April 25, 6 – 9pm.
Rob Smith – Windscale. Online project with physical base at Jaywick Martello Tower, Clacton and Shanghai with further nodes at Southampton Water and Hackney Wick.
http://www.windscale.net
Forthcoming: Paul B Davis, Jeannie Driver, John Bell
Chameleon, Tina Gonsalves
Supported artists
Jeannie Driver new work. Following on from SCAN’s support of this artist’s work she has produced several new pieces that can be viewed at http://www.spikeit.org.uk
Julie Freeman Nanotechnology
