2 & 3 may 1996
Britannia Mill
Head First
School of Art & Design
University of Derby
An exciting two-day free event exploring how new computer-driven technologies are re-defining creative practice and challenging ideas of the self, culture and society for artists, writers and cultural workers. Presentations by
Kath Moonan
Chris Unsworth: The Knowledge Exchange: developing network support for IT in the Arts
Sean Clark: Future Perfect?
Geoff Broadway: Digital Montage
Esther Sayers: Increasing the posibilities for change and transformation.
Brendan Jackson: Community Connections
Sarah Pink: Visual Culture, Internet and Spanish Migrants
Shaun Varney: Virtual Reality as an Artistic Medium
Noel Douglas: Mediated Presentation
David Toop: An Ocean of Sound
Nina Pope & karen Guthrie: A Hypertext Journel
Steve Webb & Graeme McBeath: Virtual Culture, New Technologies and Globalisation:Towards a Phenomenological Perspective
Andrew Wilson: Computer Mediated Technologies, Subjectivity and Memory
Joan Dixon: Deleuze, New Physics and Cyberspace
Running throughout Head First, the Cyberjoint will feature internet access, live link-ups, multimedia demonstartions and interactive artworks in a friendly and informal atmosphere.
Its
About Time:
Organised
as part of Head First this open exhibition consists of a wide range
of artworks which explore notions of temporal shift & cultural change.
Screenings:
Toy
Story and Baraka will be showing at the Metro Cinema while a collection
of provacative and stimulating videos will be running throughout the
two-day event.
Ambient
Meltdown:
Level out for an evenings journey of auratic delights.
For more information contact:
g.broadway@derby.ac.uk
Head First is a School of Art & Design event held in conjunction with the Design Research Centre, Resonance, Centre for Advanced Practice in Photography, Film and Video and the Metro Cinema