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Super Mario Clouds, Cory Arcangel
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 10 am
Cory Arcangel will discuss his recent works as part of the Beige programming ensemble including Super Mario Clouds, I Shot Andy Warhol, Boo-Yaa Technology, NES hacking, the SUMMEr oF HTML, raves, acid house, and Commodore64 video graffiti. Cory Arcangel is a computer artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is a founding member of Beige (aka the Beige programming crew/Beige Records), a loose-knit collective of like-minded computer programmers, and enthusiasts.
Links:
www.beigerecords.com (Beige Records)
www.post-data.org/beige (Beige Programming Ensemble)
1984, the Surveillance Camera Players
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 11.15 am
Bill Brown will discuss the history and activities of the Surveillance Camera Players in relation to themes of privacy, data protection, the war on terrorism, national security, militarisation of the police, performance art and situationist pranks. The talk will feature video documentation including a past performance of George Orwell’s 1984. Bill is a founder member of the Surveillance Camera Players, a New York-based collective formed in 1996 to protest against the use of surveillance cameras in public places. Their opposition is manifested through the performance of specially adapted plays directly in front of public cameras.
Links:
www.notbored.org/the-scp.html (Surveillance Camera Players website)
Bill Brown, public performance/walk
Venue: (Leaving from) Ster Century Cinema
Time: 12.15 pm
Bill Brown will conduct a walking tour of surveillance cameras installed in public places around Leeds city centre, contrasting England with the United States, describing how the cameras work, the conditions under which the cameras do not work and highlighting the significance and usefulness of making maps of their locations. During the course of the tour Bill will also stage a solo performance written specially for these circumstances. Open to contribution from tour participants, the performance will highlight non-violent forms of resistance to the video surveillance of public places.
Links:
www.notbored.org/the-scp.html (Surveillance Camera Players website)
AIUEONN Six Features, Takahiko Iimura
Multimedia works: Takahiko Iimura
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 1.45pm
Takahiko Iimura will discuss and demonstrate his exploratory multimedia
works and the transposition of his early experiments with video into interactive
new media artefacts. His video and multimedia work is concerned with the
nature of language and the science of signs, demonstrated and described
through video ‘statements’ or ‘sentences’. For over
forty years Japanese avant-garde film and video maker Takahiko Iimura
has rigorously explored structural, material and theoretical properties
of film, video, and more recently, new media. His presentation will feature
demonstrations of A I U E O NN Six Features (1993, CD-ROM) and
Observer/Observed (1976–99, CD-ROM).
Links:
www2.gol.com/users/iimura/home2.html
(Artists website)
Apparition : Je Passe à la Télé (I'm on TV), Matthieu Laurette
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 3.30pm
Matthieu Laurette will discuss and screen video extracts of his infiltrations and interventions into the broadcast space. By turning the laws of marketing and the mass media to his advantage, the French artist incorporates his work within a strategy of infiltration and redistribution. In 1993, he established his artistic birth certificate by taking part in a TV game show called Tournez Manège. When the female presenter asked him who he was, he replied: ‘a multimedia artist’. Since then he has been using TV as both a workplace and a work-tool, harnessing the medium’s power and authority as a place for his art. His presentation will feature video extracts from Apparitions (1993–5), Apparitions: Produits Remboursés (1996–7), The Spectacle is Not Over (1998), On Television (1999) and recent works in progress Slapstick #1 (Money) and Slapstick #2 (The Louisiana Repo purchase) (both 2003).
Links:
www.laurette.net (Artists website)
Ma: Space/Time In the Garden of Roan-Ji, Takahiko Iimura
Curated by Gregory Kurcewicz (independent curator of artists’ film and video) and introduced by Takahiko Iimura
Venue: West Yorkshire Playhouse Rehearsal Room 3 (above Wardrobe Café Bar)
Time: 7.30pm
Since the early 1960s, Japanese experimental film and video maker Takahiko Iimura has been producing work that has stretched the boundaries of film, video, and more recently, new media. Curated for Evolution by Gregory Kurcewicz, this retrospective screening of Takahiko’s films features exemplary work from the array of different themes and thought processes explored throughout his prolific career. Films (all 16mm) include: Ai (Love) (1962, 10 mins), White Calligraphy (1967, 11 mins), Film Strips 2 (1966–70, 12 mins), 24 Frames Per Second (1975–8, 12 mins), Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing) (1981, 15 mins) and Ma: Space/Time In the Garden of Roan-Ji (1989, 16 mins). The programme will conclude with a rare opportunity to see Takahiko enact his film performance Circle and Square originally conceived in 1982.
Links:
www2.gol.com/users/iimura/home2.html (Artists website)