Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:33:06 +0000
From: Chris Byrne <chris-AT-cryptic.demon.co.uk>
Subject: New Media Scotland Bulletin


New Media Scotland presents two new commissions:


Colin Andrews - Geist
18 to 25 November 2000
The Pier Art Centre, Stromness

Artist's Talk: 1pm Saturday 18 November

http://www.mediascot.org/geist

As the title suggests, 'Geist' is a work involving ghosts. 4 traditionally
'haunted locations' across Scotland are networked. These remote locations
act as nodes, gathering data such as changes in temperature and
fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation. This information is then relayed
via electronic networks to the library at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness,
Orkney where it is used to 'feed' an audio installation. The audio is
derived from traces of  'voices' recorded at each location at an earlier
time.


Another Space - Subterranean Landscape Blues
25 November  - 23 December 2000
art.tm, Inverness

Artists' Talk: 2pm Saturday 9 December

http://www.mediascot.org/slb

Working as Another Space, artists Trevor Avery and Nigel Mullan have
created a multi-media environment, Subterranean Landscape Blues. The work
investigates hidden military structures in the Highlands, mapping the
effects of the armed forces upon the landscape.


Both works are part of a series of ten New Media Scotland commissions
funded by the Scottish Arts Council's National Lottery Fund.  The artists
were awarded a budget, training and specialist assistance to help them work
with digital techniques.

Please find further details on the works below.

New Media Scotland works nationally to enable arts activity shaped by new
technologies. We aim to support research and development in new media, and
to increase the number and quality of opportunities for artists in this
area.

For further information, please contact:

New Media Scotland
PO Box 25065, Glasgow G15YP

Tel: 0141 564 3010		Fax: 0141 564 3011
info-AT-mediascot.org	http://www.mediascot.org

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Colin Andrews - Geist
18 to 25 November 2000
The Pier Art Centre, Stromness

Exhibition open to the public:
Tues - Sat 10.30am -12.30pm, 1.30pm - 5pm

Web site: http://www.mediascot.org/geist

Artist's Talk: 1pm Saturday 18 November	Free

4 traditionally 'haunted locations' across Scotland are networked. These
remote locations act as nodes, gathering data such as changes in
temperature and fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation. This information
is then relayed via electronic networks to the library at the Pier Arts
Centre, Stromness, Orkney where it is used to 'feed' an audio installation.
The work is experienced as a 4 channel audio installation, with each of the
4 channels representing one of the 4 remote 'haunted' locations. The audio
is derived from traces of  'voices' extracted from recordings made at each
location at an earlier time.

Geist is not about the existence or otherwise of ghosts but rather about
ghost or spectrality as metaphor. It attempts to explore our contemporary
condition of omnipresent absence - presence through the use of haunted
locations, recorded sound and network technology. Contemporary
communications technologies belong to unseen places - they connect us
instantaneously across vast distances yet make our words, impulses and
feelings pass through an uninhabited and invisible domain.

Geist is about being and not being here and there simultaneously. It is
about communication through the exchange of electrical energy, about
recording and playback, about returns and repetition. It is the domain of
spectres and spirits, of slippages in time and space and communications
across boundaries.

A New Media Scotland Commission in partnership with the Pier Arts Centre.

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Another Space - Subterranean Landscape Blues
25 November  - 23 December 2000
art.tm, Inverness

Exhibition open to the public:
Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm

Web site: http://www.mediascot.org/slb

Artist's Talk: 2pm Saturday 9 December	Free

Working as Another Space, artists Trevor Avery and Nigel Mullan have
created a multi-media environment, Subterranean Landscape Blues.  The work
addresses the natural landscape orthodoxy (which denies fifty percent of
the resident population deemed 'economically inactive'), and the myriad
relationships which constitute this orthodoxy through dominance and market
authentication. These are undermined by the presence of military and
industrial sites of dereliction lying on the surface and underground - not
to mention the shambolic stop-go scenery of the omnipotent world wide oil
industry.

Meanwhile, state of the art NATO military aircraft thunder across the skies
targeting the bombing range at Tain. Such violent intrusions put the
mockers on the peaceful ambitions of the heritage experience, that shocking
testament to the purveyors of 'the end of history'.

To the population of Easter Ross, the daily shadow of the flying global
police force is as natural as that of the migratory birds refuelling at the
sites of special scientific interest.

We have established a web archive of the artists' research into this
project. The research is ongoing and can be viewed at
http://www.mediascot.org/slb

A New Media Scotland commission in partnership with art.tm.

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