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LESS REMOTE
For the first time, the arts and humanities have been invited into the professional space explorers global meeting place -The International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow. Artists, thinkers and writers will contribute to debates about going back to the moon and on to Mars, living in space, art in zero gravity, the future of the International Space station and the search for life and human origins in scientific missions.
Less Remote features presentations by Tomas Saraceno, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Marko Peljhan, Zbigniew Oksuita, Rachel Armstrong, Andy Miah, Sarah Jane Pell, Nina Czegledy, Lowry Burgess and many other key contemporary figures who have worked either with space agencies or in the space context recently...website |
30 Sept - 01 Oct 08
2 days - £20-£35
1 day - £10 - £20
SECC, Glasgow, Scotland
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Merce Cunningham Dance Company
With John Cage’s Aria and Fontana Mix performed live, and décor by Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham’s latest work XOVER engages 13 dancers. At its heart it is a beautiful duet.
Programme 1: XOVER is presented alongside an early collaboration with Rauschenberg for five dancers, and BIPED (bite00), that explores new possibilities for technology and dance in the form of ‘virtual choreography’. Perfromance takes place on 30 Sept - 02 Oct
Programme 2: Offers another chance to see XOVER, this time alongside
CRWDSPCR (1993), featuring John King’s blues ‘99, and Split Sides (bite04), with music by Radiohead and Sigur Rós.
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30 Sept - 04 Oct 08
£10-£40
19:45
Barbican Theatre, Barbican, Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS |
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Remixing the Masters
Four interviews by artist-filmmaker, Lynn Hershmann Leeson, partially shot in the virtual world of Second Life, Hershman Leeson and Tilda Swinton, pose questions to a selection of guests, including a politician, journalist, scientist and lawyer.
Subverting the distinction between real and simulated, the interviews explore interwoven themes of revolution, empowerment, technology and the remix. Each interview examines how new and mass media mechanisms have generated change and how cultural and technological infrastructures have shaped the ability of individuals to have social and political impact.
Gilberto Gil discusses his exile from Brazil and his involvement in The Tropicália movement, how after living and playing music in London, he returned to Brazil, eventually taking up the position of Minister for Culture, where he continues to promote free culture.
Elena Poniatowska, a renowned journalist and author dedicated to the promotion of equality and human rights, discusses how the mass media in South America remained silent at the time of the student massacres in Mexico in 1968 and how, through her use of publishing and distribution mechanisms, she inadvertently shifted state and cultural consciousness with an account of those events.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who is credited with having identified “the aging gene” or Telomeres in our DNA discusses how this information shifts our understanding of who we are as humans, how in fact we are ourselves a genetic remix; and how advances in macro photographic processes have aided that revelation.
Lawrence Lessig, the mastermind behind Creative Commons, discusses open content licensing and how it will function globally in allowing people to use copy left to shift the boundaries of ownership and shared knowledge...website |
Oct 08
4 interviews released over the month.
See intermedia for broadcast details. |
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Be in a better place
We probably underestimate the impact of the spaces we occupy at home and work. Psychologists argue that our emotions and behaviour are profoundly affected by our surroundings. Within the next decade, more than a million new homes and 100 new hospitals will be built, and many schools will be refurbished. So can architects really incorporate people’s feelings into their designs, or are they under too much pressure to deliver rapid solutions? Do they have the freedom to make their own mark on the landscape with stunning structures?
Striking a balance between economics and social issues is not easy and there is plenty of research to reveal what different environments do to our attitudes and behaviour. A brand-new, gleaming and clutter-free office may look attractive, but people can be more productive if they are allowed to personalise their work space with their own stuff. A hospital’s layout can affect patients’ health. And a sympathetic approach to urban design and green spaces can help cut crime.
Environmental psychologists are increasingly in demand, contributing to the planning, design and management of different environments. Our panel members - an architect, an environmental psychologist and a neuroscientist - will discuss these issues, and are keen to hear your views...website |
09 Oct 08
1900-2030
The Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London
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Seeing…Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture
This year's CHArt conference takes seeing as its theme and the associated questions of vision, perception, visibility and invisibility, blindness and insight - all in the context of our contemporary digital culture in which our eyes are assaulted by ever greater amounts of visual stimulus, while we are also increasingly being surveyed, on a continual basis.
What does it mean to see and be seen nowadays? How have advances in neuroscience or developments in technology altered our understanding of vision and perception? What kind of visual spaces do we now inhabit? What new kinds of visual experiences are now available? And what are now lost or no longer possible? How does the increasing digitalisation of media affect the experience of seeing? What and who might be rendered invisible by the processes of digital culture? What are our current digital culture's blindspots? What are its politics of seeing? The 2008 conference investigates such questions...website
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06 - 07 Nov 08
2 days: £45-£160
1 day: £45-£110
The Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX
Places are limited, early booking is recommended
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