Pop-Up Landscape: Residency Mação, Portugal
2009-05-06
From 14-26 April the Pop-Up Landscapes team will be resident in Mação, Portugal. Pop-Up Landscapes is a locative and interactive media installation and research project exploring the construction of landscape in relation to transformation, interdependency and survival. Pop-Up Landscapes has three elements: + Public art installation + Workshops and seminars + Community templates The overall aim is to create a series of interconnected installations and experiences, which are tuned to the conditions of each place but through which the landscape of another can be remotely experienced. Pop-Up Landscapes is initiated by artist-researcher-producer Teresa Dillon (IRE/UK) and developed in collaboration with lok Arquitectura (PT/ES) and artist / designer Tuomo Tammenpää (FI).
http://www.pop-up-landscapes.net/
Pop-Up Landscapes and Wiki Urban Planning Workshop, Hangar, Barcelona
2009-02-01
Workshop focus: Exploring New Visualisation Tools for Community Participation in the Transformations of the Built Environment
Thursday 26 & Friday 27 February 17h-21h
Saturday 28 10h-14h 16h-20h
Presentation : Saturday 28 20h30
Participation : 50 euros
Workshop Leaders: Pop-Up Landscapes team, with invited guest: Peter Tattersall, Architect (FI)
Taking the Pop-Up Landscapes art installation as its starting point, this workshop explores how to develop community tools for engagement in the design and preservation of the built environment.
The first prototype of Pop-Up Landscapes has been technically realized at Hangar, which is situated in the neighborhood of Poble Nou, Barcelona. Currently this neighborhood is experiencing one of Europe’s major urban redevelopment programmes the 22@ urban plan. As a result over the last ten years the neighborhood and its communities have experienced radical changes both to the built environment and to its sociocultural life.
Considering these issues prior to the workshop and in consultation with members of the neighborhood case studies will be selected. These case studies will focus on areas within which the communities are concerned about the preservation of the built environment and sociocultural lifestyles.
For this workshop we have also invited Finnish architect Peter Tattersall to join us. Peter has been developing a method called Wiki Planning.
Wiki Planning is part of a wider attempt to consider what the implications of web 2.0 might be on architecture and planning, and whether or not social media (and phenomena arising from it) might be used to make planning more democratic. The intention is to develop a new method of public participation for use in the planning process of municipal authorities. The process uses miniature wooden models to support participant thinking of the design of the urban space. Their models are photographed and transformed into architectural sketches and maps. The method is currently been deployed in Helsinki city.
Combining the visualization techniques employed in Pop-Up Landscapes, along with the Wiki Planning method the workshop outcomes will be a series of visual maps and architectural sketches, which will be displayed at Hangar at the end of the workshop and presented to the Poble Nou community for their consideration and feedback.
http://www.pop-up-landscapes.net/
Pop-Up Landscapes Residency, Hangar, Barcelona
2009-01-01
During Jan-March 2009, Teresa will be artist-in-resident at Hangar's, MediaLab in Barcelona. Hangar is a media production house, artists studio and residency space. As part of her residency Teresa will be working on the Pop-Up Landscapes project with lok Arquitectura and Tuomo Tammenpaa.
During the residency the first phase of the technical aspects of Pop-Up Landscapes will be realised and the first elements of the content and concept tested. We will also be running a public workshop during which we will test the Pop-Up Landscapes installation and also work with architect Peter Tattersall using his process of Wiki Planning to investigate how visualisations tools for community engagement in the build environment can be developed.
Further details can be found via the links (at the side).
http://www.pop-up-landscapes.net/
Pop-Up-Landscapes FRAME, Helsinki, Residency
2008-10-19
During Oct-Nov 2008, Teresa will be artist-in-resident at Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (FRAME), Helsinki. As part of her residency Teresa will be working on the Pop-Up Landscapes project team (lok Arquitectura and Tuomo Tammenpaa) to conceptual develop the project and its realisation in Portugal and Finland.
Further details can be found via the links (at the side).
http://www.pop-up-landscapes.net/
OFFLOAD Programme continues in 2008 with Pop-Up Landscapes
2008-10-01
The OFFLOAD Programme continues in 2008-2009 with the development of the Pop-Up Landscapes project a collaboration between Teresa Dillon, Polar Produce (IRE/UK), lok Arquitectura (ES/PT) and interactive media artist and designer Tuomo Tammenpää. Conceptual development of the Pop-Up Landscapes project will begin as part of Teresa's FRAME residency in Helsinki, which is been supported by the Finnish Institute London.
http://www.offloadfestival.org
http://www.pop-up-landscapes.net/
http://www.misusage.org/wordpress/
N.I.P. Residency, O Espaco do Tempo, Portugal
2008-06-19
UM, International Festival for Experimental and Mixed Media
2008-06-19
UM is one of Portugal’s first experimental and mixed media arts festivals. UM brings together international and national artists and practitioners interested in creating media works, which mix disciplinary techniques and different forms of technologies, to create interactive, playful and participatory media works. The 2008 programme focus is on gesture and movement.
Teresa Dillon Keynote at Virtual Platform, Amsterdam, 29 May 2008
2008-05-13
Teresa will be giving the keynote presentation at Virtual Platform, Art Mediated By Technology: Experimenting with Locative Media and Urban Screens, which will be held on the 28 May 2008 in Amsterdam. The talk is titled: '...it's all about the position baby' - will focus the types of locative media practices that have emerged in the last few years and designing of emergence and extension.
http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/search/11723/en
N.I.P. at Venn Festival, 5-8 June 2008
2008-05-11
N.I.P. artists presenting at Plan 9 Gallery and at the Arnolfini, Bristol as part of the Venn Music Festival, 5-8 June, 2008.
Torsten Lauschmann's solo show at the Arnolfini, will also run during the Venn Festival time. Torsten is also a member of the N.I.P. project.
Torsten Lauschmann
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol
Show open: Sat 12 Apr � Sun 15 Jun
10.00am to 6.00pm
Admin (free). Closed Mondays.
About Venn
The Venn Festival was born in 2003, out of a dual impetus: an overbearing urge to enliven the straightjacket music presentation format, and a desire to give Bristol, UK a landmark music festival that was one of the most exciting of its kind in the world.
Check out the mighty fine Venn Festival 2008 line up - artists including Matmos, Why?, Fuck Buttons, Winterset, Disco Club, Moritz von Oswald, Anni Rossi and many many more....
Check out below link to Venn for ticket sales and further programme infomation.
N.I.P at Pixelache, Helsinki, 13-16 March 08
2008-03-01
N.I.P. artists at Pixelache 2008 Helsinki are:
Teresa Dillon (UK), Kathy Hinde (UK), Torsten Lauschmann (UK), Ivan Franco (PT), Rudolfo Quintas (PT), Andr� Gon�alves (PT) and Tom Verbruggen (NL).
17:30-18:00 Kiasma Seminar room N.I.P - New Interfaces for Performance presentation by Teresa Dillon
18:00-18:45 Kiasma Theatre Resonant Objects by Andr� Gon�alves Burning the Sound by Andr� Gon�alves & Rudolfo Quintas Air Stick by Ivan Franco
19:00-20:00 Kiasma Theatre BOP by Teresa Dillon & Kathy Hinde TokTek (NL)
15 March 08: Tom Verbruggen will present Crackle Canvas, Kiasma Theatre
http://pixelache.ac/university/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=27
Participate Project: Final Research
2008-02-01
http://www.participateonline.co.uk/
http://www.participateschools.co.uk/
NIP | Sonic Scope | Upgrade!, Lisbon, Portugal
2007-10-25
The final main leg of the NIP project (19th-22nd Sept 2007) went down a storm in Lisbon (18th-22nd Sept). Christina Kubisch and Lotta Melin lead a very interesting workshop mixing using electromagnetic frequencies and improvised or instant choreography. The workshops were held at Restart and on Friday 21st Sept, we took it over and presented some of the outcomes of the workshop. This public presentation was part of a series of performances and talks, which the NIP group gave at the gallery, Lisboa20 and Studio Bomba Suicide.
http://www.grainofsound.com/gos_v3/sonicscope07_en.html
NIP STEIM residency, Dec 2007, Amsterdam
2007-10-10
From the 11th to 18th December, the NIP group will be based at STEIM, Amsterdam working on developing project concepts and ideas.
OFFLOAD rockin'
2007-09-20
Thanks to everyone who participated in and supported OFFLOAD 2007. The event which was held over four days (13th-16th Sept) will be fully documented on the main OFFLOAD site (see link below). Our plans are to develop this project over 2008 and 2009 so watch this space for updates.
Next Public Meeting for OFFLOAD
2007-06-29
We are now busy preparing for OFFLOAD 'System for Survival' - network and systems art event that we are curating and producing in Bristol, 13th-16th Sept 2007. The event will be running across the city outdoors and inside venues such as Watershed, Spike Island and CREATE, environment centre. Full details about the project can be found at:www.offloadfestival.org
http://www.offloadfestival.org/offload07/
OFFLOAD 'System for Survival', 13th-16th Sept
2007-06-28
Come and participate in OFFLOAD
Bristol, 13th-16th Sept, 2007
OFFLOAD takes place outside in public spaces across Bristol. The main hub of activities will be the green and urban spaces in and around the Create Centre for Sustainability with special events happening outdoors and inside at the Watershed Media Centre, Spike Island, studios and exhibition space and other venues.
The key themes for OFFLOAD 2007 are:
1. Health, wealth and play
2. Trade, networks and nomads
Events and activities will include - site and public art works, online exhibition, music, interactive media and design, sound installations, live performances, seminars, talks and practical workshops. Learn new ways to survive and get active.
http://www.offloadfestival.org/
NIP in Portugal
2007-06-26
We are preparing for the final NIP tour and workshop session in Libson, 17th-23rd Sept, 2007. The workshop will be facilitated by sound and visual artist, Prof Christina Kubish and dancer Lotta Melin.
As norm, the workshop is open to the nine NIP participants, who have been selected from across the UK, The Netherlands and Portugal. Public performances, artists talks and exhibitions will be taking place in various venues across Lisbon from 19th-23rd Sept. For this Polar Produce are collaborating with the Sonic Scope Music Festival, Upgrade/Lisbon and the Gulbenkian Foundation.
http://www.lisboa20.pt/upgrade/
http://www.gulbenkian.pt/english
NIP in Amsterdam
2007-06-25
Thanks to the STEIM team and all who attend the concert on Wed, 20th June. We had a wicked time in Amsterdam and full details of the project and it's outcomes can be found at: www.newinterfaces.nip
Forthcoming - NIP 2007 at STEIM, Amsterdam
2007-05-05
Location: STEIM, Amsterdam, Center for Research and Development of instruments and tools for performers in the electronic performance arts
Workshop Dates: 19th - 21st June 2007, STEIM (the workshop is only open to invited artists)
Concert Date: 20th June 2007, STEIM (open to the public)
Workshop Lead: Michel Waisvisz (NL), Composer, performer and instrument maker and the director of STEIM. Working in the area of hand held interfaces/instruments for live performance in a variety of contexts.
Participating/invited artists:
Torsten Lauschmann; Kathy Hinde and Tom Bugs - UK
Sonia Cillari, Tom Verbruggen, Isaac Carlos - The Netherlands
Andre Sier, Andre Goncalves and Rudolfo Quintas - Portugal
Polar Produce at Venn Music Festival, 31st May-3rd June
2007-05-02
Venn Music Festival will be happening between 31st May-3rd June this year in Bristol. Events will be happening at the Arnolfini, Thekla and across all the main venues in the Stokes Croft area. For Venn, Polar Produce have been working with local artists, musicians and performers to produce 'Venn art'.
Specifically Polar Produce, will be 'The Listening Chair' a space for Venn audience to chill, relax and listen in new ways during the festival. Check out the beauty of Venn magic via the link below.
Forthcoming - Polar Produce in Portugal
2007-05-01
As part of NIP, Polar Produce will be in Lisbon from 17th-25th May, meeting up with the NIP artists, colleagues at Restart,Y-Dreams and Gulbenkian.
Come Outside at Enter_Unknown Territories, Cambridge
2007-04-29
'Come Outside', Polar Produce's bike powered project on energy transfer hit the streets on the 27th and 28th April in Cambridge, as part of Enter_Unknown Territories festival. We had a top time at the festival - and the project was run as part of the conference and main festival activities.
During 'Come Outside', participants were invited to come on a bike ride with Polar Produce, as they cycled they powered batteries via the bike dynamo. Cycling for 3 kilometers the each group could boil enough water for one cup of tea. Once the group had reached their destination Polar Produce gave a short informal lecture on energy transfer and how the energy generated could be used for powering other devices.
The project was well received by festival goers and we met loads of people and artists - check out the BBC documentations of the project; Active Ingredient's location based game, which is played by monitoring your heart rate and Mongrel's, very wicked MediaShed, video sniffin' and other projects (see links below).
http://www.enternet.org.uk/enternet/unknownterritories/home.acds?context=2659795
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/image_galleries/bike_energy_gallery.shtml
http://www.i-am-ai.net/home.html
NIP 2007 - Bristol Workshop and Performances
2007-03-30
We had a very successful first NIP event in Bristol (30th March-1st April). For three days artists from the UK (Torsten Lauschmann; Kathy Hinde and Tom Bugs); The Netherlands (Sonia Cillari, Tom Verbruggen, Isaac Carlos) and Portugal (Andre Sier, Andre Goncalves and Rudolfo Quintas) came together and discussed, developed and performed their work.
The public talks on Friday, 31st March at the Watershed Media Centre we're well attended with people participating over the day in the talks and artists discussions. On Saturday, 31st May the public performances at the Arnolfini art centre (Dark Studio) we're also very well received as were the Cube Cinema wrap up live events on Sunday 1st April. Thanks to everyone who attended the event particular those who specially travelled from across the UK (London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Cardiff) as well as Ireland, Finland and even some via Australia.
Zach Lieberman lead a great workshop on computer vision techniques and Openframeworks (a programming language that he has co-developed in this area). Computer vision is one of the central approaches pushing what is possible within interactive, real-time music, installation and live performance. Zach's open and informative approach to leading the workshop, meant that all artists involved found value in the event and we're able to see possibilities of how to extend their practice.
OFFLOAD - second public meeting
2007-03-27
OFFLOAD second public meeting was held at the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol on the 27th March. Again the meeting was well attended with twenty people from across the academic, arts, media and sustainability sector attending.Teresa provided an update about the event and local artist Heath Bunting spoke about the work he is planning to create for OFFLOAD.
Summary of the main happenings to date:
Create, Watershed, Spike Island, Cube Cinema key partners in the event; Key invited artists confirmed; Website launch in May 2007; First pre-flyers will be distributed in April 2007; Funding applications submitted; Discussions with Bristol City Council beginning around the use of public sites.
If you would like to participate in OFFLOAD contact Teresa on: teresa.dillon@polarproduce.org or 0117 9044 872
http://www.offloadfestival.org
Participate Pupils Workshops
2007-03-12
On the 12th and 13th March, the Participate schools team held teacher and pupil workshops at 21cc, Whitecity, BBC. The workshops were aimed at supporting teachers and young people into the Participate project and providing them with the necessary skills to run the project in their own schools. The team went through each school activities - making your own 60 second film and sensing data using environmental sensing monitors, visualizing your data via Google Earth. Other activities which will be available for schools include making your own online science poster.The workshops are part of the ongoing Participate schools project, the outcomes of which will feed into the summer trials and activity plan.
http://www.participateonline.co.uk
OFFLOAD partners - Watershed, Spike Island and CREATE
2007-02-16
Good news for OFFLOAD Watershed Media Centre, Spike Island arts studios and exhibition space and the CREATE, environmental centre have agreed to become partners venues in OFFLOAD. Details of the OFFLOAD programme and artists contributions will be coming up in May 2007.
http://www.offloadfestival.org
Participate Updates
2007-01-22
Teresa attend, along with colleagues at the BBC, the Participate plenary event was held at Nottingham University, Mixed Reality Lab on 22nd and 23rd January. The plenary brought together all the main partners - Nottingham University, University of Bath, BT, BBC, Sciencescope, MicroSoft and Blast Theory to discuss plans for the forthcoming year and how the different aspects of the project interlink.
Directors Workshop
2007-01-15
Teresa attended the Directors Workshop week, which was organised by Briar Monro, Theatre Bristol, Street and Circus Producer and held at the Circus Space, Kingswood. The course involved spending one week exploring and discovering with other directors approaches and techniques to creating theatre and live performance. Leading the course was Rose English, who monitored and guided the group. Supporting the group were students from Circomedia School, Kingswoods.
http://www.theatrebristol.co.uk/
Participate Updates - Teachers Workshop
2006-11-29
On the 28th November, 2006, Teresa lead a workshop at the BBC for teachers interested in getting involved in the Participate project. The workshop was co-developed with schools Participate team - Sciencescope, Bath University, BBC, BT and Nottingham University.The workshop was a follow up from previous school sessions held over June/July 2006. Attending the workshop were primary and secondary teachers, academic researchers Local Educational Authority ICT coordinators, members of the BBC and the core Participate school team.
http://www.participateonline.co.uk/
LXP Project Updates
2006-11-10
Teresa has been working on the Learners Experience, JISC - Joint Information Systems Committee project. Lead by Professor Grainne Connole and Dr. Maarten de Laat (who also works part time with Polar Produce) the project investigated learners experiences of elearning in higher education.
The outcomes of the project were presented to on the 10th October 2006 to JISC team at the Said Business School, Oxford University, with follow up presentations planned for the 23rd November at Bristol University, Department of Education.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_learneroutcomes.html
OFFLOAD - first public meeting
2006-11-09
The first public meeting for OFFLOAD was held at the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol on the 11th November. The meeting was the first opportunity Polar Produce had to discuss the event and twenty-one people from across the arts, academic, ecology and sustainability sector attended the event. Alma Clavin, town planner and PhD researcher, Oxford Brookes presented on the concepts and terminology around sustainability and ecology.
http://www.offloadfestival.org
Networked Performance Practice via the Grid
2006-10-10
Following on from the 'Taggin' Workshop', Polar Produce will present a more theoretical paper on the 'The Art of Taggin': Locative-based Performance and the Construction of Shared Interpretations', at the Location Grid Technology Symposium, 19th October 2006, Bristol University.
The symposium will summarize previous workshops happenings and explore the links between eScience and the performance arts. Practitioners working in the areas of online and distributed networked performance from the US, UK and Japan will present work via live link up using the Bristol University Grid.
Wondering what is the 'Grid'?
Dr Angela Piccini
Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television
Bristol University
Helsinki Presentation
2006-10-02
Polar Produce has been invited to speak about the work of Polar Produce at the Centre for Research on Networked Learning and Knowledge Building, University of Helsinki, Finland. Based in the Department of Psychology the Centre carries out research on collaborative learning in the workplace and across all levels of education. Teresa will be discussing the links between Polar Produce's work and research into collaborative digital performance practices.
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/networkedlearning/eng/
Taggin' Workshop
2006-09-18
Polar Produce were recently invited by Dr. Angela Piccini, Drama Department, Bristol University to faciliate a workshop on the links between semantic web, locative based devices and access grid technologies.
The workshop used the notion of 'tagging' as a means to create user generated knowledge systems in semantic and Web 2 spaces. Considering tagging as a form of folksonomy in social software programs (e.g, Flicker, del.icio.us) the workshop explored how such forms of knowledge creation can be used to challenge existing taxonomies and develop more inclusive understandings of artistic and performance practice.
This was achieved by a practical, hands-on, paper and scissors workshop, where participants were asked to collaborate and create a database and carry out on-the-fly tagging of a live performance scene. These excerise were used to discuss the relations and pros and cons between semantic web, locative devices and access grid knowledge construction and transfer.
Speck Adventures
2006-09-15
Polar Produce are pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with members of Department of Informatics, Edinburgh University on an initial R+D project using their very, very small and low fi 'speckled' computers (5x5mm in size!).
The project is at a very early stage but the main idea is to explore the use of the 'specks' as wearable devices for live performance. Our focus at this stage will be on creating what we are calling 'speckled skins' i.e., placing the specks on parts of the body and playing with gesture and body movement. At this stage we cannot say much more but details will follow later this year - so watch this space.
ALT-C Conference, Edinburgh
2006-09-15
Polar Produce have been working in collaboration with The Open, Southampton and Exeter Universities on a JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) funded project. The project investigates students perspectives and uses of digital technologies across four subject centers (Medicine, Computer Science, Languages and Economics).
At this years ALT-C conference in Edinburgh, Polar Produce with other members of the research team presented the initial findings from the study. The full report will be available via the JISC website by the end of this year.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2006/
Participate Update - Phase 2
2006-08-06
Polar Produce are pleased to announce that they will continue to work with the BBC on the Participate project. The second phase of the school's aspect of Participate will be taking place between August '06-March '07. Alongside the BBC, Polar Produce will be project managing the second phase of development, plus working with the key partners in designing and developing a website, resources and overall content for the school's side of the project.
Futurelab Open Source Report Launch
2006-06-27
Teresa Dillon and Seb Bacon have co-written for Futurelab, Bristol a report that examines 'The Potential for Open Source Approaches for Education'. The publication will be launched at a special discussion day on the 4th July 2006 at Channel 4 along with Futurelab's publication on social software. For further details about this event contact Lacia Ashman, Communications Manager, Futurelab.
To download this publication go to:
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/opening_education/floss_01.htm
PicNic and NIP at Venn Music Festival
2006-05-22
As part of the Venn Music Festival, 2nd-4th June, Bristol, Polar Produce will be putting on a free PicNic and new music event at the John Wesley New Room, Broadmead.
Sample the international culinary delights of the Stoke Croft area in the delightful surrounds of the John Wesley New Room. PicNiC offers an alternative to the foods generally found in Broadmead, with information and talks on cuisine and fare in the modern city, surviving in the post apocalyptic metropolis (Heath Bunting), birds (Nick Gray) and feral trading (Kate Rich).
Join us in the evening for NIP 01 the first of a series of events exploring new interfaces for live performance. Featuring artists interested in new modes of performance and music making. Each performer takes their turn and responds to the building and one another, playing for 15 minutes each, over the evening, they will collectively create a shared composition.
Exploring the psycho-acoustics of the John Wesley New Room, for one night only, the oldest Methodist chapel in the world will ricochet to the tones of vocalist ALEX ALDERTON and composer SIMON THORNE (Cardiff), hum to MATT OLDEN (Bristol) and his MaxMSP inspired audio-visual generator 'THE JUNGULATOR' and whirl in response to the handmade radars and obsolete NASA technology produced by 'THE INNER MACHINE' (Bath). Adding to this cacophony of sound is MATTHEW LOVETT & MUSICIANS (Cardiff) and JAMES KENNARD (Basingstoke) tuning fork experiment.
PicNIC, Sat 3rd June '06: 12.00-18.00, John Wesley New Room, Broadmead, Bristol (across from Boots chemist)
NIP 01, Sat 3rd June '06: 19.00-22.00, John Wesley New Room, Broadmead.
PicNIC and NIP 01 are free events, no tickets required.
Further details, tickets and lineup for Venn 2006 can be found at:
http://www.vennfestival.com/
Venn Radio, Polar Produce Live
2006-05-15
Part of the very wicked Venn Music Festival, 2nd-4th June 2006, Polar Produce will be hosting a live radio show on Thursday 1st June 2006. The show will feature a mix of tracks from Missy T, details of the upcoming PicNIC and NIP 01 event at Venn and talks with special guest, Heath Bunting. As one of the contributors to PicNIC, Heath will be discussing his arts practice, scavenging for food in the city, cannibalism and surviving in extreme conditions. Not to be missed, if you want to keep alive.
Listen in on: Venn 87.7 fm on Thursday 1st June, 16.00/4pm
For full details on the Venn Music Festival go to:
http://www.vennfestival.com/radio/index.htm
Participate Commission
2006-03-27
Over 2006-2007 Polar Produce will be working on the Participate project with the BBC. Participate is a collaboration with Bath University, Nottingham Mixed Reality Lab, Blast Theory, BT, BBC and Sciencescope to develop an integrated pervasive experience for public participation in environmental issues. For more information on Polar Produce's involvement in this project refer to this site main project's page.
For full details about the Participate project refer too:
http://www.participateonline.co.uk/
New Research on Digital Content for the Museums and Cultural Sector
2006-03-16
Polar Produce have been commissioned by the British Communication Technology Agency, BECTA to carry out a primary piece of research on the sustainability of digital content within the museum and content sector. The report will be launched in September at the British Museum (date and times tbc).
For further details about this report please contact:
Diana Shore, Educational Content Directorate, Becta
www.becta.org.uk and www.ngfl.gov.uk
Tommorrow's People Conference, Oxford, UK
2006-03-10
Polar Produce have been award a bursary to attend Tommorrow's People: The challenges of technologies for life extension and enhancement' conference, Oxford, 14th to 18th March 2006. Teresa Dillon will be speaking at the conference about the similarities and differences between science and art and the role of the artist or arts group within the fields of research and technology
http://www.martininstitute.ox.ac.uk/jmi/forum2006/
Our Place Commission
2006-03-06
Polar Produce have been commissioned by the Girls School Day Trust to design their virtual learning portal and related sites. The collaboration which will take place over 2006-2007 involves collaborating with GDST to design a portal, which connects the Trust's twenty six UK schools. The commission also includes developing a short presentation, which illustrates the concepts behind networked, pervasive environments.
http://www.gdst.net/
Live performance research, Brighton UK
2006-02-23
Teresa Dillon has been invited to the Department of Media and Film, Sussex University, Brighton, UK to give a presentation on her performance practice, work within Polar Produce and related research. The talk will take place on the 8th Februray 2006 in the Department of Media and Film.
Research and Development, Gotland, Sweden
2006-02-22
Teresa Dillon has been invited to give a talk to game development students at the Trans-Reality Game Lab, Gotland, Sweden. The presentation will focus on the relationship between research and development and the kinds of skills necessary to work in new media industries. The presentation will draw on recent research and the work of Polar Produce
Creative Collaboration, Goteborg, Sweden
2006-02-20
Teresa Dillon has been invited to give a talk to staff and students at the IT-University of Gothenburg on 'Creative Collaboration: A theoretical and practitioner perspective'. The talk will be held at on 3rd March at the Grace Hopper Room, IT-University of Goteborg University, Sweden
http://www.gu.se/
Open Source for Education
2006-02-13
Teresa Dillon will be presenting at the Futurelab Free and Open Source Seminar Day in London on 28th February 2006. The presentation will focus on the recent report Teresa wrote with Seb Bacon on 'The potential of open source approaches for education'. This publication will shortly be free to download via the Futurelab website. For details about this seminar please get in touch with Lacia Ashman at Futurelab on +44 (0) 117 915 8222
www.futurelab.org.uk
Taking Ground Details
2006-02-03
Polar Produce have just completed the first phase of research and rehearsal for their current site-specfic performance, Taking Ground.
Taking Ground reflects on 200 years of innovation within travel and the contributions of the engineer Brunel. The piece considers the perceived influences of progression within this area and what it means in relation to our individual and collectives lives. The work focuses in particular on notions of journey and departure.
In considering such themes the group are discussing with senior citizen's at the Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol their impressions of how transport has changed within Bristol city over the last three decades.
Brunel Lock (off Brunel Lock Rd), Cumberland Basin, Bristol Harbour
Street map ref: Postcode: BS1 6XS
Dates: 6th and 7th April, 2006
Time: 3pm
Price: The event is free and no tickets are required
Taking Ground is part of Brunel 200
http://www.brunel200.com/
Concepting Pervasive Multi User Applications
2006-01-20
Teresa Dillon will present and attend at the above workshop between January 26 and February 01 2006, Oulu, Finland. Working in collaboration with experts from across Europe and America, the workshop focuses on concepting new uses of pervasive and locative media within the arts, broadcasting, gaming and new media works.
http://www.sagasnet.de/sagaswif/previous.php#51
Digital Collaborations, Oulu University, Finland
2006-01-10
Teresa Dillon will present the work of Polar Produce and her research on new media collaborations and production at The Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education on Thursday, 2nd February at 8.30-10.00 in room KTK234.
http://edtech.oulu.fi/
http://www.edtech.oulu.fi/index.php?id=255
http://edtech.oulu.fi/ http://www.edtech.oulu.fi/index.php?id=255
Taking Ground Commission
2005-11-07
Polar Produce are pleased to announce that they have been commissioned to create Taking Ground for Brunel 200. The performance will take one of Brunel's often overlooked inventions, the wrought iron swing bridge, which currently sits in the Harbour as it's main starting point. The piece will be devised and performed in collaboration with Kathy Hinde, Swen Steinhauser, Tayna Steinhauser, Mary Southcoutt and Dominic Fryett. Taking Ground is the companies second site specific work and will take place in Bristol Harbour in April 2006 (dates tbc).
Measc Press Release
2005-09-20
Press preview - Wednesday 19th October 2005
For further information, contact
Gail McKenzie, Press & Publicity Officer, Arts Service, Bristol City Council
Tel: 07795 445 869
Email: gail_mckenzie@bristol-city.gov.uk
or
Teresa Dillon, Director, Polar ProduceTel: +44 (0) 117 9044 872
Email: teresa.dillon@polarproduce. www.polarproduce.org
Measc Dates and Tickets
2005-05-19
Tickets for Measc are now available from the Arnolfini box office
Tel: 0117 917 2300 / 0117 917 2301
email boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk
Price: 8.00 pound full, 6.00 pound concessions
Dates: 19th to 22nd October, 2005
Times: 7pm to 10pm
Measc Updates
2005-01-30
For regular Measc updates please refer to the Measc production process, refer to below blog link.
Measc Commission
2004-10-30
Bristol City Council has commissioned Measc a locative media, site specific performance project about consumerism as part of their Creative Bristol 2005 program. Measc will uniquely use tag technologies to allow audience and performers to interact as they journey through the 18th century Methodist museum and chapel the John Wesley New Room, Bristol.
Polar Produce will be working on Measc from January-November 2005 with support from HP Labs, Bristol and IPI, London. The main performances happen in October 2005, dates to be announced.