IOCT Salon - Low Brow Trash, 5th April 2007,
6 - 7.30pm, De Montfort University, Leicester.
http://www.ioctsalon.com
Thursday 5th April 2007, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (doors open at 5.30pm for drinks)
This event is free of charge and open to the public.
Low Brow Trash
http://www.lowbrowtrash.co.uk
Low Brow Trash (Graham Elstone and Thomas Hall) create contemporary
artworks for all arts locations and festivals. The company is dedicated
to the use of new media technologies in the creation of the artworks in
expressing the ideas and themes of the work. Low Brow Trash is
continually exploring new ways to utilise new technology as a creative
tool and is expanding the way art is experienced by the viewer or
audience by creating work that has an interactive element. Low Brow
Trash work with film, computer technology, computer games, insallation
and performance/theatre in the creation of their work.
Low Brow Trash's 'Model Citizen'
Model Citizen is a site-specific work that is ideally suited to a
shopping centre or street. The work consists of a large projected image
placed in a shop front/window and the images react to the movements of
passers by, by using motion-tracking technology.
The work examines the concept of Model Citizen: are we born to be Model
Citizens or are we manipulated into being so? And for some of us where
and why does this go wrong? The work uses various reference points in
life and transforms these into image statements that are then layered on
top of each other to give contrasting views and opinions on the subject.
Model Citizen works with layered imagery; a camera registers the
movement of the passer by, they are transformed into a projected
silhouette, this silhouette in turn becomes a 'window' to the second
layer of imagery, creating a multi-layered visual language.
A public artwork that has the 'public' as the focal point.
Links:
Low Brow Trash - http://www.lowbrowtrash.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/lowbrowtrash - a collection of documentation of
installations and short films created by Low Brow Trash and its members
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The IOCT Salon ( http://www.ioctsalon.com ) is managed by Chris Joseph (
http://www.chrisjoseph.org ), Digital Writer in Residence at the
Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University. This
residency is funded by Arts Council England: East Midlands.
For further information about the IOCT Salon please email Chris: info
/at/ ioctsalon.com . To be notified of future events please join the
mailing list on the Salon website.
The IOCT Salon is held at and staged by De Montfort University and the
Insitute of Creative Technologies, and is supported by Arts Council
England and the Literature Development Network.
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