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Watch out for news of Transformer, Daniel Gosling's voyage to the Arctic Circle.
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What is Shooting Live Artists?
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Shooting Live Artists 2002 consisted of six artworks commissioned by the BBC and the Arts Council of England. The project was co-funded by Studio of the North and managed by b.tv.
Each of the works created centre around the use of new digital media alongside live art.
Shooting Live Artists events 2002/3
b.playful Nov 2002 - The next unique event which will preview new commissions for SLA 2003, will take place on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th November 2002 at the National Centre of Popular Music in Sheffield.
Visit Shooting Live Artists 2003 for information on exciting new commissions.
More about b.playful www.convergence-arts.com
BAFTA Interactive Arts nomination, Oct 2002 - Blast Theory's Can You See Me Now was nominated for an award at this years Interactive BAFTA's in London.
Saatchi & Saatchi showcase, May 2002 - Shooting Live Artists were asked to showcase their work at the London offices of Saatchi & Saatchi. Forced Entertainment performed Institute of Failure and was streamed live on the SLA Website. Watch the webcast!
b.tv 2001 - The Shooting Live commissioned artists were invited to speak and show their work at the festival, alongside an impressive collection of major industrialists including representatives from BBC, Saatchi & Saatchi, Endemol, Radio 1, Flextech, Channel 4 and the Swedish Interactive Institute. The forum allowed important yet rare communication between
artist, theorist and the media industries.
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Arts Council of England
Studio of the North
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What is b.tv and Studio of the North?
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The Studio of the North is an exciting project aimed at combining the production support activities of Yorkshire Media Production Agency and Yorkshire Screen Commission under 'one virtual roof', providing integrated structure of advice, development, investment, locations support, facilities, resources marketing and distribution.
b.tv's mission is to research, nurture and promote new creative uses of converging media and draws together such practice at an annual festival held in Sheffield.
We are in the midst of an entertainment revolution. Tomorrow, television, internet and mobile phone and performance will converge in a way that allows for multi-tasking we cannot even begin to describe today.
Without innovative and exciting content, all these clever new ways of consuming mean nothing.
Shooting Live Artists allows pioneering artists the space to explore new technological breakthroughs, without the pressures of commercial constraints.
The b.tv forums of creative convergence helps keep track of these changes whilst showing the creative innovation that will change our future.
b.tv is directed by Katz Kiely and Andy Stamp and is a project of The
Culture Company.
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>> www.convergence-arts.com
>> www.ympa.org.uk/
>> www.theculturecompany.co.uk
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What is Convergence Media?
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Convergence media is a term given to the merging of digital technologies.
But what does that mean?
"You have to open your eyes, and your vision has to really encompass the
whole picture. You really have to feel it; movies, television, DVD, internet. It's all the same thing, just different configurations. You are seeing this amazing combination of art and science growing and facilitating each other constantly. Nothing transcends content, but a lot of things couldn't happen if it hadn't been for the technological advances. It's an incredible landscape."
Quincy Jones
Over the last 10 years it is pretty safe to say that the internet has had a massive impact on the distribution of all forms of media; music, film, radio, news etc.
The World Wide Web - the most common path for this distribution - is only one aspect of convergence media as more applications, devices and platforms become available to receive all forms of media.
We've been promised a lot, probably too much too soon, but the era of mass broadcast through one or two platforms is over.
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What is Live Art?
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Unlike with opera, people often ask, "What is Live Art?" The answer is people have been experiencing it for the last hundred years, from the earliest events at the Cabaret Voltaire where DADA was born to the happenings of the Sixties which influenced Andy Warhol, and in the 21st century this tradition continues to mutate.
Today Live Art is witnessed at perfomances by Vanessa Beecroft or The Battle of Orgreave by Jeremy Dellar and sell out performances by Franco B of O Lover Boy. Live Art is an interrogation of the aesthetics of presence. Live Art is about being there.
Live Art mixes genres and diverse cultural experiences to express the complex organisation of contemporary life. It often involves work which questions commonly held assumptions such as, what is art?
Live art is the trash-can of culture recycling and celebrating the debris of the modern world.
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>> The Arts Council of England
>> Live Art Archives
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