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INFRACTIONS
Qube
Gallery Infractions is a collection of works that reflect our recent and present practice. The exhibition consists of eight small installation pieces made up of video and sonic works, a number of 2D wall artworks and a projection into a darkened space. For this collection we are looking at infringements of expectation around the use of technology, particularly through the appropriation of obsolete technology for new purposes, a sort of new media circuit-bending, and the reinterpretation of data input / output. Featured work includes: Reflect
/ Discover A version of our digital mirror series, in which the viewers reflected image forces one to confront global self-truths about what it is to be human, regardless of whether it is a pretty / handsome thing looking back. Reflect / Discover plays back a series of composite still photographs that include the viewer in the images. See also 20:20, our video version (not included in this exhibition). Performed Non-Performance People interacting with the black-top plinth are unwittingly placing themselves at the centre of a video performance work which can only be seen inside the plinth itself. Discordant
Waves Create a personal audio performance live in the gallery by mixing the various signals from the mp3 modules that are mounted on the wall.
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Intermittent Signal
A loop video created with our own software, using still images and text from a NASA document on an intermittent signal from a distant supernova. Using a mathematic formula as a set of instructions on how to display the collection of words and images, the computer has generated a 45 minute film without repetition, playing on an 8-hour loop. Heartthrob Transcriber A standard 1970s portable typewriter is rewired to become a midi-keyboard Fragments
of an Urban Narrative
The city of Portsmouth is the subject for this exploration of micro-stories told by the citizens themselves. Found notes, notices and apparently incoherent scrawlings are re-presented through the designed image. |
Seminar & Workshop We are offering two events at Qube for creatives interested in new media practice. New
Media Using Open Source & Free Software - Seminar A brief guide to creative open source and free software available for Mac & PC. The seminar will summarise some of the extraordinary resources available online for a range of creative new media practice, assess some of the best free software, make recommendations on safe downloading, and provide a resource pack of useful links to recommended download sites, tutorials and other resources. Book at Qube, £5 per person Collective
Infraction A day of making, using creative technology, new media and obsolete technology. Participants will be encouraged to bring old technology along, or use ours, for some destructive recycling or creative circuit-bending. The workshop may include video or sonic art production as part of the process. Participants will work collaboratively on a collective infraction, attempting by experimentation to create a physical new media installation / object, inspired by the exhibition. Book at Qube, £10 per person
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