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Upgrade! EIFF 2011

Upgrade!

Thursday 23rd June 2011, 6-7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

At this Upgrade!, Alex Hetherington will premiere a new text/video performance in response to the work of Comme des Garçons.

Kristina Johansen will present her ‘You Be The Voyeur’ improvised dance piece that utilises wearable technology and audience participation.

Andy McDonald will demonstrate his Alt-w funded research into the use of multi-touch technology in a retail context that enables mass customisation of interactive print designs.

FULLY BOOKED

Cloud People

Joanna Kane | Cloud People

09|10 Alt-w Production Award - Joanna Kane
www.joannakane.co.uk

4th & 5th December 2010, 12 noon to 6pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Cloud People is a project that looks at identity and networks in the age of cloud computing. Joanna's work often draws on both visually based historical research and related investigations in new media.

She has captured information and images relating to personal persona, generating a portrait combining abstract mapping of data streams with composite photographic imagery.

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Doing the Gooey 2.0

Doing the Gooey 2.0

09|10 Alt-w Production Award - gooeyTEAM
www.gooey.de

Thursday 7th October 2010, 8pm. £5
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

An ongoing experimental performance project that takes the daily use of all kinds of GUIs (graphical user interface) as its point of departure. gooeyTEAM transfers all these flattened movements, communicative techniques and screen-based commands into a physical reality using simple materials and theatrical elements.

Following a series of workshops, a group of live networkers and programmers will create a massive human GOOEY for Cryptic Nights. The performers will answer the following: How do you act the role of a cursor? How should we move like a Gooey tells us, only in real life? ...or in other words - how can we all DO the Gooey?

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Eworical | David McAllister

The Eworical Call Centre

4th August to 4th September 2011, Wed-Sun, 12-8pm
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Picture a cross between an Ewok and and oracle and you get a teddy-bear-like hunter-gatherer who can find the answer to any question, that's an Eworical. Behind it's jewel like eyes lies a computer powered belly that envisions how sculpture may communicate in the future.

The three Eworicals together will use Skype and RSS feeds to power their search engine and call centre installation distributing their own particular blend of Star Wars and new age philosophy whilst they question the very fabric of the internet as a gateway to knowledge.

www.eworical.com

Alt-w | Spinning Bits

Spinning Bits

Cycle 07 Alt-w Production Award -
Andy Law & Mil Stricevic
www.milish.studio

19th August to 30th September 2019, daily. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Focusing on the archiving of 'rude' data, each frame in this series of animations is generated by taking a single strip of pixels from an image in the cache of a computer's web browser, and rotating it about a fixed axis.

The process is repeated on each subsequent strip to produce an animation that substitutes an explicit image for something seemingly innocent. The computer oblivious to the perceived corrupting influence of what it's processing.

life.turns.

Cycle 07 Alt-w Production Award - Blipfoto
www.blipfoto.com/lifeturns

29th July to 26th August 2010, Wed-Sun, 12 noon-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The Secret Sounds of Spores

The Secret Sounds of Spores

09|10 Alt-w Production Award - Hickey & Seznec
www.nipht.com | www.theamazingrolo.net

20th-22nd January 2011, Daily 4-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Hidden under every mushroom, invisible to the naked eye, thousands of spores fall and are blown away by the tiniest current of wind.

Using lasers and computer technology Patrick Hickey & Yann Seznec have made these spores visible and audible, creating an installation that reveals the depth and beauty present in fungi.

Friday 21st January 2011, 7.30 for 8pm.
The Secret Sounds of Spores Spectacular!

FULLY BOOKED

Upgrade! Sarah Kettley & Emma Tolmie

Aeolia Stretch Bodies

Thursday 20th August 2009, 6pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

A hands-on demonstration of the research of two Alt-w awarded artists. Both have explored and developed new forms of wearable technology and combined them with dynamic audio and visual content.

Sarah Kettley and her team have sketch prototyped stretch sensors in sculptural textile forms. The resulting series of woven pieces for the body enable the creation of unique soundscapes augmented by the movement of the wearer.

Emma Tolmie has mixed low-tech gadgetry and high-tech imagery to develop a heads-up display that re-imagines the concept of stereoscopic imaging as a retro-futuristic subversion of 3D film.

The distribution of Alt-w awards is managed by New Media Scotland and funded by Scottish Screen and Scottish Arts Council.

~ in the fields

floc: skein

07|08 Alt-w Production Award - floc: skein
www.in-the-fields.org

5th August to 5th September 2009, Wed-Sun, 10am-6pm.
Inspace, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

To describe a system means basically to construct a new one. Visualisations of flocking birds inhabit the sphere, surrounding the centre point. An imaginary winding thread is left in the bird's wake.

The observer, intrigued, approaches and triggers thoughts and poems. But these poems about flight will hide the birds, the very flight – and its own particular poetry. The observer can't change the system – the birds will always come back...

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factory

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The work 'factory' by cellist and composer Peter Gregson was commissioned to mark the 10th birthday of New Media Scotland. The work was premiered at the CCA Glasgow as part of the Alt-win.ning event on Thursday July 2nd 2009.

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