Evolution 2004

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Theatre and Engineering: Presentation and screening by Julie Martin
The Leeds Club

11am - 1pm
£5.50/£4.50

John Cage during Variations VIII

In memory of Billy Klüver - scientist, writer and originator of the art and technology movement - who passed away earlier this year, his wife and long term collaborator Julie Martin will give a talk and slide show on 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering. Organised by Klüver and Robert Rauschenberg in 1966, this series of events saw ten New York artists work with engineers from Bell Laboratories to create performances incorporating new technology. Martin’s talk will be followed by the premiere screening of Barbro Schultz Lundestam’s new documentary film of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering: Variations VIII - a live musical composition by John Cage orchestrated using light sensors, kitchen implements, radios, Geiger counters and open phone lines. The documentary features filmed extracts from the performance and interviews with the artists and engineers.

Film: 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering: Variations III by John Cage (Barbro Schultz Ludestam, 2004, 45 mins, video, colour/b&w, sound)

Recommended events/exhibitions: Eros, Outrage and the Toothless Pixel | Antenna
Further reading: Ubu (John Cage mp3's) | 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering | Billy Klüver obituary

The Nature of Technology/Film: Presentation and screening by Chris Welsby
The Leeds Club

2 - 5.15pm
£5.50/£4.50

Seven Days, Chris Welsby, film stills

Since the early ’70s, Canadian based artist Chris Welsby has used film, video and installation to re-consider the relationships between mind, technology and nature. In Welsby’s art, the cinematic apparatus is exposed to the elements and the natural world is free to interact and participate in its own representation on celluloid. Welsby reveals the beauty and fragility of nature and ‘makes it possible to envisage a relationship between technology and nature based on principles other than exploitation and domination.’ Using philosophy, science, and extracts from his own work, Welsby will discuss the continuities and discontinuities of nature and technology in art and film. A ninety-five minute programme of the artist’s 16mm films from 1972 onwards will follow his talk, and will include the double screen Wind Vane.

Films (all Chris Welsby): Wind Vane (1972, 8 mins, 16mm, double screen, colour, sound); Anemometer (1974, 10 mins, 16mm, colour, silent); Windmill III (1974, 10 mins, 16mm, colour, silent); Tree (1974, 4 mins, 16mm, colour, silent); Seven Days (1974, 20 mins, 16mm, colour, sound); Winter and Summer (1972-73, 5 mins, 16mm, colour, silent); Stream Line (1976, 8 mins, 16mm, colour, sound); Sky Light (1988, 26 mins, 16mm, colour, sound)

Recommended events/exhibitions: At Sea | Pioneers in Art and Science
Further reading: Chris Welsby website

At Sea: Video installation by Chris Welsby
West Yorkshire Playhouse rehearsal room 3 (above Wardobe café bar)

7.30 - 9.30pm
Free

At Sea, Chris Welsby, video still

At Sea by Canadian based artist and filmmaker Chris Welsby, is a fictional seascape constructed on four screens projected side by side to create a single, continuous, moving image. Recorded on the coast of British Columbia, At Sea is a poetic study of winter light falling on the surface of water and cloud; and an evocative portrait of the Pacific North West. The work will be exhibited for one evening only:
‘The starting point for the work is the inability of the camera and the frame, as well as the inability of the viewer, to “see” the enormity of the ocean. What at first appears as documentation of a dense fog rolling over a sea vista, stretched across four projection screens is in fact a number of very separate images of the sea. These images are linked in terms of subject matter (the sea and the fog), image density, colour, scale, light, texture and line (horizon) and in the gallery, in the installation, these elements become linked in time as well as space.’ Chris Welsby

Installation: At Sea (Chris Welsby, 2003, four screen video installation, DVD, colour, sound)

Recommended events/exhibitions: The Nature of Technology/Film | Pioneers in Art and Science
Further reading: Chris Welsby website

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