Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:57:01 +0100 From: Chris Byrne <chris-AT-cryptic.demon.co.uk> Subject: New Media Scotland -AT- the Edinburgh Festival New Media Scotland presents two projects during the Edinburgh Festival: --------------------------------- Mike Stubbs - Strapline Generator --------------------------------- Rebrand your local area through HOST http://host.mediascot.org 8 August 2003, Stills, Edinburgh - Launch event in association with product. magazine. Further details at http://www.mediascot.org Strapline Generator is a playful yet poignant social observation on the current phenomenon of city branding as a strategy of marketing and regeneration. Strapline Generator asks viewers to respond to a series of questions on their local area and then creates slogans or 'straplines'. Strapline Generator is part of HOST, a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to projects by artists. A Strapline Generator project page features in the fiction issue of product. magazine http://www.product.org.uk ------------------ Crossing Over Time ------------------ Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003: Official Selection as part of "The New Europe". UK Premiere of Crossing Over Time, a New Media Scotland touring video programme selected by Chris Byrne. 14 August 2003, Filmhouse, Edinburgh http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk For further details and to download the Crossing Over Time trailer visit http://www.mediascot.org What happened to the post-Cold War dream of transition to democracy in a new Europe? 23 inspirational short films which display by turns humour, dazzling visual inventiveness and bold attitude. Diverse storylines include a vertigo-defying journey down the outside of a Zagreb tower block; Call centre workers scripted into a music video drama; Comradeship between Siberian and Appalachian coal miners; and Andres Serrano's infamous 'Piss Christ' recreated through performance art. ----------------------------- Strapline Generator - Context ----------------------------- Strapline Generator is a complement to research into branding statements used by cities around the UK, and the practices and expectations of city marketing. The work forms part of Stubbs' City Strapline Industries project commissioned by Forma for an exhibition at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in 2004. HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to projects by artists. Earlier projects also available to view on HOST feature a range of Scottish and international artists including slateford, Katrina McPherson & Simon Fildes, *candy factory, Luci Eyers, Dane, Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky and Roshini Kempadoo. Strapline Generator made in collaboration with Dan Norton. Research assisted by Rachel Priestman. Supported by Forma, Arts Council England, Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, School of Television & Imaging at University of Dundee, & New Media Scotland. The Strapline Generator launch event is part of a double launch event with the fiction issue of product. Launch event supported by New Media Scotland, Stills, product. magazine, Newhaven, Tennents. ---------------------------- Crossing Over Time - Context ---------------------------- Crossing Over Time features works by international artists, commissioned between 1996 and 2001 for the Crossing Over residency projects, co-curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Nina Czegledy. Since its inception in 1996, the Crossing Over project has produced 47 new moving image works. The post-Cold War dream of transformation and the cross-cultural metaphor of the journey are recurring themes in the Crossing Over shorts. Crossing Over crossed the globe from Sofia, Novi Sad, Ljubliana, Columbus, and Liverpool. The programme features works by Lala Rasic (Croatia), Herb E. Smith (USA), Krassimir Terziev (Bulgaria), Phil Collins (UK), Alexander Battista Ilic (Croatia), Dimitrina Sevova (Bulgaria), Antal Bodozcky (Hungary), Paul Rooney (UK), Baza (Yugoslavia), Boryana Dragoeva (Bulgaria), Gaspar Csongor (Romania), Susan B. Halpern (USA), Tsvetelina Gancheva (Bulgaria), Barbara Konopka (Poland), Maria Natasha Stukoff (Switzerland/UK), Ivan Mudov (Bulgaria), Mare Tralla (Estonia), Chris Speed (UK), Mary-Avril Gillan (Ireland), Levente Sipos (Hungary), Mike Kash (USA) Crossing Over Time is a New Media Scotland touring programme, funded by the National Touring Programme of Arts Council England. Crossing Over Time is available to tour to venues in the UK and internationally. Please contact us at the address below for hire details. ---------- For further information on Straplines or Crossing Over Time contact: -- -------------------------------------------------------- info-AT-mediascot.org -------------------------------------------------------- New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774 P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775 Scotland, UK http://www.mediascot.org -------------------------------------------------------- --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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