Notes on Artists Presentations

Adie Saunders - Nottingham Trent University.

Works with soundscapes including object based work and sculpture. The sound elements are deliberately moving away from stereo style effects and are more fragmented and dispersed in their nature. The workhas been prented in clubs and VIP spaces for launches. As well as sound and visuals the work has involved textural intervention with projections of text and printed material. The interactive nature of the sound is often pressure pad orientated. The sound itself comes from sampled sounds on 4 track and use of loops. It includes extracts from dialogue, traffic noise, and broken glass. Sometimes these are recognisable as found sounds - ato other times they are slowed or speeded, or treated for abstracion. It is not music in any popular sense and is not intended to be aesthetically pleasing.
Two other projects include prosthetic interfaces for juggling patterns in collaboration with a performer, and a series of video processed works which also allow people to interact with a camera in real time.

Eva Clark-Darby - Ruskin School of Art, Oxford

Wanted to make pieces of work which operated as a series. Placed pieces in psychology department. Eventually the students deduced that she was an artist. Took work into primary school to evoke memory of early school. Students wrote essays about the thoughts being written by the artist.
First piece made for Corpus Christi. All colleges have stories. Strict rules within colleges about what can be said. Stories become exaggerated. Rules about how rooms are negotiated - things can be documented quite accurately.

Pembroke College - Habits and rituals. the Salt Room. Visiting student made work about being a guest and an artist. Worked for 3 days. Came for different reasons. To visit as a friend. visit an art exhibition, or for a free cup of tea. Everyone had to sign the visitors book. People had to make drawings. Everything in the room that was not necessary to making an exhibition were wedged in the sofa. Always tea available. Everything put away that was erroneous. however, the process was transferable. Book of reading translations mattresses and pillows scored out.

About stories - letting the stories run with themselves whilst maintaining some control.

Simon Lewandowski Independent Artist

The Stumbling Machine - International Symposium of Shadows, 1996
Eight legs - electric motor, chain gears.
Bump into something, stop and go into reverse. People not allowed into space. Big door with crash barrier and it would bump into it and reverse. Sometimes broke down.

Anthropomorphised by audience. Òit particularly didn't like me. But it was fine with the stewardsÓ Susan ÒPeople coaxing it out of the corner but it was crankyÓ
Does not come out of robotics. Comes out of Walking as therapeutic having deep and atavistic meaning. IT acts as prayer wheel in Buddhist society. Machine as surrogate which acts out redemption on our behalf. Comes out of visuals - limited by technology. Looks like a cross between a B &Decker workmate and moped.

Extension for r Rootless Super 8 film animation from which Hull piece arrives> Piece on top record deck. Random syllables and phonemes on vinyl. Monkeys typing principle of sounds. Migrating machine keeps us from time of futility and will serve time to keep us from the crime of poetry.

Misreadings of science v. interesting. Vinyl - redundant technologies. Anthropomorphism comes from us not from the machine itself - it is a piece of sculpture.

Richard Brown - RCA

Computing and Cybernetics. Part of ie with Richard Land. Worked on Mirror, 1989.
Industrial work and installation work combination. Got fed up with transience. Abandoned electronic media and started to use high voltage electricity. Life Force. Electricity and earth, Exploration of energy, time and space. Technology and nature. Kinetic work - Wiggle, 13 Moons (mould pieces for each full moon, took on a year).
Duchamp and Fourth Dimension as part of MA DeLux 1994.
Cube - video feedback mirrored cube above camera
Infinite Resonance - Dimmers and sound. Resonance of sound field.

Did installations using physical media and got interested in virtual reality. Alembic: Interactive virtual reality installation
Against versions of reality - wanted to abstract. Sensing using MIT fish device. Each represents an earth element. Particle physics, chemistry going on. Things can be shaped. Various responses - up to an hour in each piece.

Marion Kalmus Independent Artist and Writer

writer and visual artists. Series of questions which are important. Interested in old fashioned things but also a part-time Ôgeek'. Started out in being interested in communication and passion. Take risks and take them now. Started out as fresco restorer. Chatsworth. Restoring missing bits of frescoes. Artists make only one or two pieces in their whole career which are made and remade. Does not want to work in anything other than public galleries after getting to know the art world and Ômaking forgeries'. Stopped being wealthy and went to art school. Big life change. Made early work - erotic in printmaking. Made series of prints often 500 - more like films. MADE films laid out frame by frame. What is the tendency of form with working with a computer? Inside out - work informed by health problems.
Well - part of Quick at stairwell at Royal Festival Hall. Slide stills and mirrors. Started relationship with performance reluctantly - had to be the model because noone. Artwork happens in the viewers mind - important in terms of performance.
Deserter for Video Positive - Tour better in a much smaller venue. Had to become a material scientist. Brockwell Park - the fundamental flaw at the heart of sexual desire. To happen at Kettles Yard.

Trust me and Rehearsal (maggot eating emerging as flies - working with magician)
Programming as form? Very difficult relationship until programming? Phenomenology for work with computing? Also epistemology?

Work for Cap Gemini. Interest in logic eg fuzzy logic. Scanning with searchlight image in very. Interested in language. Never tal k to strangers using lingo. Object orientated system working on neural net. Programme a structure which responds to a neural net - can create new work based on how people interact. Text descrambler being worked on. This will be data projected into space as part of Kettles Yard residency.

Jonathan Rabagliati

Early work trying to record peripheral vision. Immersion in real and virtual space. Made at the Slade. LEDs from ceiling in pitch black space. Had to acclimatise to the space. Program used exponential distribution and random inputs. Infinite dots in centre as installation disappears to infinity. No barriers with the walls. Looking at gravitational force. Stronger at centre and more dissipated.

wimbledon common, focal point. Level of perception outwards. String between pairs of trees at eye level. Covered 100m. Cluster in middle where all pairs of trees dealt with via string and then less and less defined.
Drawings generated according to a program making orbits at points. Affect on lines going around point and less further away.

Anneke Pettican

Publicly sited work. Interaction by invitation into space or carrying artwork unknowingly. Response tot the bomb and effects on people.
Collaboration with Kerri Moogan - 3 pieces
Annual Programme - 12 artists in apartments exhibitions curated and then invited to show in another space. Mick Robertson - spaces screened off because at 90 degrees to each other so fear of being watched. Work with architecture. Interview about fear of the gaze. Peep holes into the structure or enter the space and contemplate why it had been built. Stories about people undressing, using computer. Changes of quality of light. Castlefield show - organising looking into people's homes. Videoed streets in Manchester - put through Premier and took stills looking into viewfinders and people's homes at night. Comes from Mick Robertson's fear of voyeurism.

Prior to bomb in Manchester - film about shopping in Manchester. Candid camera - in plastic bag. Partly because of permissions, partly because of audience response to camera. Moment bomb explodes in record shop from surveillance. Decided to make limited edition carrier bags relating to bomb. Image of lorry cordoned off in city centre. Combination of found footage and relation to original project which was to go into a shop blown up during explosion.

Press unwilling to use the images of ideas of the project.

Cleo Broda

Signs made throughout tramway. Looking at different ways of tracing the space. Part of a project from the slade. Interested in memory and architecture of spaces. Series of plans of the space based on what people remember of the space. Interested in signs and visualisation. Representation of the blacked out space using light sensitive plan.
Folders of Contour maps - map making program. to represent ping-pong ball. Systems base. Michael Archer's ideas for contemporary art space Barcelona.

Examples of memory exercise
Description of places from memory from different people
(Really interesting way of defining site).
Based on psychology experiments which use spheres and cones spatially arranged.

Cleo's own drawings of places people described to Cleo. How can these descriptions be used and is it engaging for people? Invitation from people who e-mail description. Feel strange taking from people who describe places through questionnaire, wants to give back. Two done from e-mails, some from tape recordings.

Reference to MUDS and MOOs. Telnet works in description. Newer groups make up virtual environments.

Stuart Taylor
easynet.co.uk/lea/training meta folder 2050a html access Rudimentary site for ongoing project. Hopefully this will allude to work. Background in graphics, performance, researcher, and lecturer. Worked collaboratively and in a multi disciplinary context. Sound, light, sculpture, ice and fire. Site specific - interest in media technologies and how they impact on society in general. Researched interactive artist led projects and interculturalism or cultural identity. Disenchanted in making work outside of an already established art framework. Worked collaboratively on development of website through LEA. Architectural structure. Metabolism is the site. 2050 - Used communications technology media used as a tool. Often low end media to plot how constructs of community identity come about. Generative space for discursive enquiry and a space for new work. Over two years will be joint curators or producers of work. some events will be live in social context or workshop. Set up to allow freedom of possibility. Notion of interactivity not about an immersive environment. More about being engaged in ongoing process through the net. Less object based.

Other ongoing project St Ives International. Critique of a project in St Ives. Range of international artists asked to produce work in relation to the Tate and changing light in ST Ives. Communities not consulted. Setting up online a reflexive space for people to communicate their responses. The work would be edited to produce billboards and radio as traditional interventionist way of disseminating ideas.

Carey Young

Air Mosaic website http://stingray.ivision.co.uk:8080/am3/carey
Photographer interested in ideas about space, virtual space and urban space. compressing space into a single plane.

Investment of hopes in New Technologies. Utopian hopes surrounding the internet and similarities between how new towns in the sixties were planned. Plans for these sites can look like electronic circuit boards.

Extremely literal interpretation of the website and the new town. Interested in the handmade as a combination of the inept combined with the virtual. 1st pages, artists as heroic virtual constructor Maps of software as well webpages outlining maps in real space. Matching different pieces of hardware to different newtowns. Images of original plans which look ugly/inhuman of Milton Keynes

Simon Yuill
Duncan of Jordanstone

3 areas. Generating soundscapes and performance. Structures of sound in real time. Simple logic sequences and imply AI systems. Spector -System of different particles which get pulled across space and also influence sound.
Investigations of new material in relation to performance. Looking at cities and the juxtapositions of behaviour.
Routines used by autistic people for engaging with the work and how computers almost are a vehicle for autism

Elevator- web-based art group Scotland. Dundee Edinburgh and Glasgow interface. Low budget immediacy. eg Remote is a performance on the net. Different layers of spectatorship online on the web but also real live audiences in Glasgow. Interactivity of web extended beyond the computer monitor

September 97 - Strut
Looking a different levels of spectatorship on the web.

PhD at Dundee in collab Computer Dept. Interface design. Non-computer based immersive art works for use on the net.
Interested in Renaissance. Looking at history of VR. Epiphanies -
www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk/people/syuill/texts