Current Projects and Events:

Artist Film, Video and Animation by Staff and Students of Bournemouth University and Arts Institute Bournemouth (now The Arts University College at Bournemouth)

Large outdoor screen, Bournemouth Lower Gardens, Near The Balloon

Thursday 2nd July – 11am to midday
Friday 3rd July – 11am to midday
Saturday 4th July – midday to 1.15pm (Picnic, bring your own lunch and meet the artists)
Sunday 5th July – midday to 1pm

All welcome. Free

SCAN media arts agency has curated a screening of artist film, video and animation from staff and students of Bournemouth University and Arts Institute Bournemouth (now The Arts University College at Bournemouth). This exciting and diverse mix of pieces demonstrates the rich talent present at the two universities in Bournemouth and Poole. Both institutions have a world class reputation with a list of awards for the work they do and a track record for placing their students in prestigious areas of the film and broadcast industry.

All are welcome and there is a special event to meet some artist and staff from the two universities and the curator from SCAN media arts agency from 11.30am to 1.15pm on Saturday 4th July.

For further details contact Helen Sloan, Director SCAN: 01202 961451 info@scansite.org

The screening has been supported by Bournemouth Borough Council, BU, AUCB, Big Bear, White Lantern Films and Bournemouth Screen & Media Academy

Occupational Territories

Discussion with Jeannie Driver, Mike Blackman, Steve Symons and John Bell
A Distributed South Seminar

KUBE Bournemouth & Poole College Campus North Road Parkstone Poole Dorset BH14 OLS
http://www.kubepoole.org.uk

9th July, 7pm, All welcome, Free

An informal discussion and presentation of work by artists that record and inspire negotiation of spaces and buildings. Jeannie Driver and Mike Blackman will present WHIM, a belt that tracks routes and habits of people within buildings and the workplace; Steve Symons will present Aura, another wearable system that enables audiences to augment their experience of a walk through sound while creating a visual map of their route; and John Bell’s Bandwidth that tracks peoples responses to moving image billboards. These presentations will be followed by an open discussion and networking session.

Chameleon
Tina Gonsalves
Chameleon is made up of a series of interactive art pieces and events examining emotional contagion, group behaviour and consensus through emotional response. It is a two year long research and exhibition project inspired by Gonsalves’ previous work looking at emotional effect of the moving image. The works focus on group interaction both through simulated and real groups of people and in relation to the work of the Chameleon team comprising leading practitioners: Tina Gonsalves, artist; Chris Frith, Psychiatrist, Wellcome Institute, UCL; Hugo Critchley, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; Rosalind Picard and Rana El Kaliouby, MIT Media Labs; Helen Sloan, SCAN
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Chameleon Events
14 – 28 March, Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ
Talks: 14 and 28 March, Lighthouse, 3pm
Tina will be resident at Lighthouse in Brighton developing the seventh piece in the Chameleon series. She will work with collaborators and with feedback from visitors to the exhibition to develop the face reading technology that she is using for her piece. The public will become active participants in the development of the Chameleon project and will have the opportunity to gain a greater insight into the technology behind the project.
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk

Heart of Darkness, Courtney and Lion
5 March – April 17 2009
New GreenhamArts, New Greenham Park, Newbury
This work takes the title from Joseph Conradï¿½s existentialist masterpiece, a journey to the ï¿½centre of oneï¿½s soulï¿½. Conrad suffered from long bouts of depression. Heart of Darkness is a sixty-minute single screen video projection edited from four hours of footage shot at dawn and dusk on the very same day. It is the view from an apartment in Lisbon of another ubiquitous apartment building. The film starts at dusk and ends in the cold light of dawn. The film illustrates a strange dislocation between the speed of time & the speed of moving objects, which in this case are birds and aeroplanes. Time appears to be moving very fast but at the same time, objects appear to move very slowly and some appear split into two. The sound is a recording of the River Tejo in Lisbon using a microphone that was constructed using a traducer and a small canvas and stretcher.
http://www.cornexchangenew.com/pages/exhibitions/exhibitions.htm

Distributed South

Distributed South is an Arts Council England initiative to encourage partnership and collaboration across the South of England
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Simon Hollington and Kyros Kyprianou – Documentary Workshops at FAST Museum
25 – 26 March 2009
Following on from their successful residency and exhibition Goodbye Vile Earth! last year, the artists will work with staff from FAST (Farnborough Air Sciences Trust) Museum and students from Upper Shirley High School and Brookfield School to look at the history of documentary making through the subject of aeronautical engineering and research. The students at the school will make films based on discussions with staff at the museum and also its collection that will be given to the museum’s archive and shown at the schools.

Funded by Hampshire County Council

Jonathan Jones Morris
27 March 2009, 1 – 2.30pm
Pervasive Media Lab, Watershed Bristol
Curation and the Semantic Web: Presentation of the first stage prototype of a software tool for
organising content rich websites

SCAN and Watershed have partnered to commission a stand alone web tool that helps to organise material held on content rich websites. The tool will employ a range of organisational and tagging devices based on sound, icons,language, visuals, and concepts to enable curation of websites on a rolling basis without having to completely rebuild the site. Curators/Administrators will have the luxury of being able to focus on particular themes and content through an online changing programme. The Dshed website is being used as the pilot for the software which will ultimately be available as a piece of open source software. Jonathan Jones-Morris will incorporate adaptive and intelligent systems into the tool drawn from his practice as an artist on projects such as for (i =, Tumble, Objetrouve and Neurotic).These systems will enable the tool to adapt to usage patterns and autonomously find new semantic links between content.

This presentation invites interested parties and potential users to come and respond to the tool and make comments and suggestions for adaptation and improvement as it is developed into the next phase.

Bandwidth, John Bell
During the Spring 2009, John Bell will be developing software for use with moving image billboards that tracks and records the style of engagement audiences make with the screens in public places. From the findings of this research, John will present a piece of work on the screen in Dover. We are also researching, through a grant from the Technology Strategy Board, the possibility of prototyping and marketing the software.

Jeannie Driver
Jeannie is developing with Mike Blackman a device that records the way that people traverse and use indoor spaces. She will use this work to look at the patterns of movement that people form in their workplace. This work will add to her Office Investigations series. Her exhibition WorkPlay opens on 13th March and runs until 7th April at SPACE Gallery, Eldon Building, Portsmouth University.
http://www.jeanniedriver.com