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Every Anvil, Kevin and Jennifer McCoy
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 10.15 am
Kevin McCoy will discuss the importance of popular culture, science fiction and television narrative in his collaborative work with Jennifer McCoy. Based in Brooklyn, the McCoy’s produce new media artworks that often defy categorisation. They make objects, installations, net art, radio, electronics, films and software which examine how human thinking is structured through genre and repetition often drawing upon pop culture for their material. Kevin will present an overview of works produced over the last five years including Horror Chase (2002), a meticulous reconstruction of Evil Dead 2, Every Anvil (2001) a categorised and indexed database of shots from over 1000 episodes of Looney Toons and Soft Rains (2003) combining miniature movie sets, surveillance cameras, and switching systems enabling viewers to observe a film and its production in its entirety.
Links:
www.mccoyspace.com (Artists website)
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 11.45 am
Radioqualia will webcast an audio presentation live from Cape Town, South Africa. Radioqualia is an online art collaboration from New Zealand which aims to ‘open an electronic portal into the eccentricities of antipodean radio space’. It was founded in 1998 by Adam Hyde and Honor Harger to experiment with the concept of broadcasting, using the internet, radio and television, performance and publishing.
Links:
www.radioqualia.net (Artists website)
Zygmunt Bauman, Photo Peter Hamilton
Produced in collaboration the AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, University of Leeds. Chaired by Griselda Pollock (Director, CentreCATH)
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
Time: 2 pm
Not only one of the leading sociological analysts of contemporary culture, but one of the towering intellects of the twentieth-century, Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw is one of the few guides we have to the nature and significance of the rapid changes we term globalisation, information society, and new technology. Since his retirement and through a stream of profoundly important books, Zygmunt Bauman has opened up new social and cultural analyses of post modernity around the figure of the stranger/tourist, ambivalence and now, the frailty, mobility and what he names the liquidity of our social, cultural, economic, topographical and personal relations. Zygmunt’s recent books Liquid Modernity and Liquid Love will form the basis of a new presentation entitled Art in Liquid Modernity or Eternity in Trouble. Antony Bryant, a sociologist by training and currently Professor of Informatics at Leeds Metropolitan University, will be the discussant. The day will conclude with a presentation from the major twentieth-century artist Gustav Metzger, a refugee from Europe’s modern genocide, who has since the 1960s, with the infamous Destruction in Art symposium, challenged the catastrophic twentieth-century to confront its violence and destructiveness. Gustav will deliver a presentation of his working practice entitled The Third Culture (working title).
Matching Bauman’s cultural analytics with Metzger’s artistic activism, linking informatics, sociology and aesthetics, this seminar aims to consider major ethical and social questions about what we are becoming in an age of advanced communication and technological progress. If we can no longer ask or answer the question: Who am I; where am I; to whom will we look for at least a map of the transformations that we daily enact and embody? Our speakers from spheres of social and aesthetic thought may offer some insights.
Links:
www.leeds.ac.uk/cath (CentreCATH)
Skeksi, Vector
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 6
Time: 8pm
For the last 5 years, Leeds based collective Vector have provided the city with a much needed and truly alternative home for new experimental music and sound. Organised by a group of dedicated musicians and artists Vector hold regular events showcasing live performances by international acts from Team Doyobi to Takagi Masakatsu. Their 5th anniversary party, held in collaboration with Evolution, will feature resident DJs Ed1, Skeksi, Plank, Strictly Paul, Christina Joyful and Todd with special guests to be confirmed.
Links:
www.v3ctor.com