Archive for July, 2010

BCC Arts & Young People Team: Professional Development Programme

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Hybrid is working with Birmingham City Council’s Arts and Young People Team to deliver a series of events and training sessions providing pathways towards your career in the arts.

Hybrid E-flyer

a-n Knowledge Bank

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Ixia

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Arts Council Toolkits

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Figure Ground

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Architecture Sans Frontiere

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Kerry Morrison

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Kerry Morrison is as an environmental artist. She works in public places creating landscape interventions and performances in response to environments and socio-ecological issues within a given locale. Her practice is process led, socially engaging dialogic art that investigates places and the communities that inhabit them.

 

Since 2006 she has been investigating the importance of biodiversity in cities for wildlife and for people.

 

http://www.liverpoolwastelands.blogspot.com/
http://www.100cauliflowers.com/
http://www.els.salford.ac.uk/urbannature/salford/people/morrison.htm
http://scratchthesurfacedigalittledeeper.wordpress.com/category/daily-activity/page/2/
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/WildandProductive.pdf

Tom Milnes

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Tom Milnes is interested in cultures reliant on technology, cultures that only occur because of the invention/popularity of certain technologies. The specific interchange between the progress of science and our response and adaptability to this environment. Milnes’ projects start with products or mass consumerables, used as components in the work, yet negating their original function. Although Milnes’ analytical approach to technology, his work maintains a level of humour and playfulness. Numerous references to popular culture including electronic music and film are common throughout his practice.

For instance, the installation ‘Deep Relaxation’ turns the gallery into an ambient wonderland. Using Walkmans and New Age relaxation tapes, the space is draped with loops of audio tape stretching from floor to ceiling. Audio from the moving tape is played through speakers, layering the nature sounds together. The actual result is an un-ambient cacophony of various animal noises and New Age music, far from a spiritual experience, the piece may remind the viewer of technological advancements, cultural wastage and fads.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLI47-xJCys
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ9pmxaUAKc
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvL4M_zT1yI