Dear Netbehaviour I thought you might like to know about SCAN's festival next weekend. It would be great to see you if you can make it. Do get in touch if you would like more details.
Best Helen ------------------ Apologies for cross posting. Please forward to your networks. public//domain A Festival of Digital Art, Music, Interaction and Screenings Outdoor Screen, Bournemouth Lower Gardens 16 18 July, 2010 Special Extra Event: 15 July, 19.30, The Cabinet of Living Cinema, Bournemouth Lower Gardens. The Cabinet create live scored music to selected short films. In association with Future Shorts, and sponsored by Becks Vier Music Inspires Art¹ UK tour. Public Domain is a three-day festival focused around the big outdoor screen in Bournemouth Lower Gardens (Dorset UK) and looking at its relationship with public spaces across the whole town. The festival includes film screenings, family workshops, installations, performances and participatory events from leading artists with international profiles encouraging participants to explore what it means to share parks, gardens and other public spaces.The festival invites everyone to take part through collaboration and creativity in the workshops and some of the artworks, or simply by bringing a picnic and experiencing one of the many screenings and concerts that are on offer over the weekend. On Friday, the event will launch with a headline rare event for UK with Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts, celebrated experimental jazz musicians playing with bassist and cellist along to films by Buster Keaton, digital pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka and live generative animation from Stephen Bell; followed by DJ Set Geek Chic Soundsytem with VJ Comix. In the afternoon there will be artist talks at Russell-Cotes Gallery on the seafront. Saturday takes an animation theme with animation workshops for families followed by a screening of the acclaimed Pixar film Wall-E. In the evening, Alex Reuben¹s film Routes claimed as one of the top films of the decade will focus on American dance and music from the Deep South leading to hip hop; events then move to an Americana night at local bar sixty million postcards. On Sunday the theme is narrative and storytelling with workshops for World Listening Day from Joe Stevens, computer graphics and animation language processing with Boredomreseach followed by a screening of contemporary stories Where the Wild Things Are and Forbidden Planet. Throughout the weekend there will be screenings from artists: Steina and Woody Vasulka (Friday), Animate Projects, Students from the top courses in animation at Bournemouth University and Arts University College Bournemouth, Lou Pack, Jane Mason and Becky Edmunds, and Bob Cotton. Installations will come from Rob Smith, Jennie Savage and a new commission from Tom Davis, Curtis McKinney and Alain Renaud Flow: The Musical Boat Race. All events are free. Everyone welcome. Bring a Picnic For full programme: http://www.scansite.org/publicdomain More details: i...@scansite.org or 01202 961451 The event is organised by SCAN in partnership with Bournemouth Borough Council. Supported by: BSO Resonate, BU, AUCB, Skillset Bournemouth Screen and Media Academy, sixty million postcards, Animate Projects, Arts Council England, Big Bear Events, Dance South West, Pavilion Dance, Steinway & Sons If you wish to be removed from this list, please contact i...@scansite.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour