Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:40:37 +0200
Subject: New Media Scotland's Digital Summer


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New Media Scotland
presents a Digital Summer of events including:
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> Cary Peppermint: Conductor Number Zero Version 6.4
> (Techno Lectures of Memory, Distance & Forgetting)
> Performance & Talk: 4.00pm, 7 July, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
> Tickets £3/£2 - CCA box office: 0141 352 4900

The only UK venue and for one night only.

A rare opportunity to see a live performance by New York based artist Cary
Peppermint, part of an ongoing series of performances (in update) that
began in 1997. Each performance incorporates surveillance technology, so
the audience observes simultaneously the performance event and its
real-time approximation through video.

Cary Peppermint's work involves a broad conceptualist approach to net.art
that permeates a multitude of social networks within and beyond the
Internet. His works comprise some of the first real-time performance art
conducted over the Internet including the legendary Mashed Potato Supper
between New York and Edinburgh in 1996.

Cary Peppermint: Conductor Number Zero Version 6.4 is brought to you by New
Media Scotland in collaboration with CCA, Glasgow. The performance was
recently presented at Postmasters gallery, New York. Supported by the
Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art.

More information at http://www.mediascot.org

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> Desktop Icons 1.0
> a programme of short digital films curated by Iliyana Nedkova
> Screenings: 6.15pm, 9 & 10 July, Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh
> Tickets £4.50/£3.00 - Filmhouse box office: 0131 228 2688

Desktop Icons 1.0 features short digital films and videos by Scottish and
international artists, exploring the cross over of popular culture, media
and new creative technologies. Desktop Icons 1.0 examines the computer
desktop culture of today and the new moving image authored on (and
sometimes for) desktops. The quiet digital film revolution has opened up a
brave new world where screen icons are promised 15 Megabytes of fame. It
has also created exciting possibilities for more experimental and edgy
work, stretching the boundaries of what was once known as cinematic
reality. Artists include Chris Cunningham, Kristin Lucas, Michael Maziere,
Matt Hulse, Phil Collins, Richard  Fenwick, Mike Stubbs, Simon Ellis,
COM&COM, Christian Meyer, Florian Misha Boeder and Tycoon Graphics.

The screening of Desktop Icons 1.0 on 9 July will be introduced by Chris
Byrne, Iliyana Nedkova and Edinburgh-based filmmaker Matt Hulse. Desktop
Icons 2.0 will screen at Filmhouse in September.

Desktop Icons is a New Media Scotland touring programme, supported by the
Scottish Arts Council and the Arts Council of England National Touring
Programme. Desktop Icons continues its tour in the Summer with screenings
in July at Folly Gallery, Lancaster and Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.
Other venues confirmed for later in the year include Stirling's newly
refurbished MacRobert Arts Centre, Hull Time Based Arts and BALTIC Centre
for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. A beautiful Desktop Icons booklet has been
produced, designed by Andy McGregor. Print copies are available, or
download a copy in PDF format from http://www.mediascot.org where you can
also find all details of the Desktop Icons touring schedule.

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> REMOTE
> exploring the geography of new media culture

REMOTE is a series of mini-residencies during the Summer of 2002 for
artists working with new technologies in the Highlands of Scotland,
responding to either the physical or social environments which they
discover. The artists will produce Internet projects for HOST,
http://host.mediascot.org

In late October, we plan a series of educational events and a small-scale
exhibition of the works in the Iona Gallery, a converted schoolhouse in
Kingussie, just South of Aviemore in the Cairngorms. The artists involved
are Thomson + Craighead, r a d i o q u a l i a, Simon Fildes + Katrina
McPherson and Cavan Convery. For further information on the artists and
projects, visit http://www.mediascot.org

REMOTE is a collaboration between New Media Scotland and Highland Research,
supported by the Scottish Arts Council and Highland Council.

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New Media Scotland is an agency enabling cultural activity shaped by new
technologies. We support research and development in new media, create
opportunities for artists and provide information to the media art
community in Scotland. New Media Scotland produces, exhibits and tours
digital artworks across Scotland, the UK and internationally. Supported by
the Scottish Arts Council.

For further New Media Scotland news and opportunities please consult our
web site at http://www.mediascot.org or contact us at the address below.



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Scotland, UK                    http://www.mediascot.org
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