Forum of Creative Convergence

[furtherfield]

BlankThe third annual b.tv Forum of Creative Convergence "b.playful" is taking place at the NCPM in Sheffield on the 28th and 29th Nov. 

The time-table on Thurs 28th Nov:

11:00 - 11:45  Breakfast                                 11:45 - 12:00  Welcome

12:00 - 12.45               

David Docherty - Managing Director of broadband content at Telewest on peer to peer vs paid distribution models: Q and A

1:00 – 2:30                   

Playing SMART Panel: Dr Lizbeth Goodman (Director, SMARTlab, UK) will chair, talk and show demos of convergent media work with Gary McDarby, Jacki Morie and Chris Bregler. 

"In recent years, it has been possible to begin to think through the implications of freedom of movement and expression in online games. This presentation presents a number of works in progress, aimed at creating safe spaces for adults and children to play . . . and interfaces that would allow children of differing abilities to communicate through customised characters on screen" 

3:30 - 5:00                   

New Economic Models: Sean Dodson presents and mediates with Ray Thomas and Mark Peters. This panel explores economic shifts due to virtual realities and extended connectivity.

5:30 - 5.45                   

Professor Jeff Jones  (Director of Applications, Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre QUT) presents Innovation Happens when Industry and Creativity Collide. Jeff will talk about the Creative Industries Precinct and Kelvin Grove Urban Village Development in Brisbane Australia, an exciting and innovative national hub for new creative, artistic ventures, research, development, and commercialisation. 

Shooting Live Artist 2002/03:

1:00-2:30                      

Completely Naked and Furtherfield in conversation with Charlotte Frost.

Skin/Strip Online is a collaboration between Completely Naked, curators of interactive live arts events, and Furtherfield.org. An interactive, digital photography installation in which the participating audience create expressive images of their own naked bodies, displaying them next to others in the context of an artwork. The general public are invited to express their naked identities in a work that explores social activity and communication and frees us from mediated ideas of the 'perfect' body. This project is a celebration of difference and expression. Furtherfield is collaborating with Completely Naked to stage Skin/Strip Online as an online event. Skin Strip exhibition events have already taken place at The Museum of the Unknown in London, UK and at the Centre of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, Spain. The exhibitions clearly represented distinct expressions of cultural identity connected with their geographical locations and we anticipate a similar distinctness with Skin Strip Global.
http://www.furtherfield.org/ & http://www.completelynaked.co.uk/


3:30 -5:00                     

Leslie Hill, Helen Paris and Daniel Gosling in conversation with Mike Phillips.

 
The timetable on Friday 29th Nov: 

10:00 - 10:45               Professor Duane Varan - Director, Interactive Television Research Institute at Murdock University, Australia and recipient of the Australian Prime Minister's "University Teacher of the Year Award", on Interactive TV and where research might lead. 

Duane Varan’s presentation will explore the historical context surrounding the evolution of new media art forms. Drawing on the experience of the introduction of sound in cinema, he will highlight similarities with current issues surrounding the nascent interactive television industry. Varan's presentation will then explore how the worlds of techies, suits and creatives must converge if bold, yet sustainable content models for interactive television are to evolve. He will demonstrate why he believes that the development of distinctive convergent media requires new convergent skills.  

11:00 - 12:30               

New Collaborative Opportunities: Chaired by Walter van de Cruijsen with Kelli Dipple, Adam Hyde, Jo Hill and Derek Richards on forging new methodologies and collaborative narratives. 

1:30 - 3:00                  

Humanising the Digital:Chaired by Ghislaine Boddington, Celia Pearce, Veli-Pekka Raty and Stuart Green discuss ways of developing dynamic interfaces between human and computer.

Ghislaine Boddington (Artistic Director of Future Physical) uses examples from the Future Physical programme and the CellBytes series to examine the extension of opportunities for digital technology as it becomes more able to truthfully react to the needs and ways of the living moving emotional human body in everyday life. 

3:30 -5:00                    

Network Topologies: Chaired by Giles Lane with Simon Pope, Jonah Brucker Cohen and Fee Plumley on the future possibilities of mobile creative communications and networks.

Shooting Live Artist 2002/2003:

11:00 - 12:30               

Third Angel in conversation with Alan Fountain.(Head of the Centre for Cultural Industries and The Television Centre at Middlesex University) on Pleasant Land , public web and live engagement in an investigation of what " Englishness " means to us today creating a living bank of postcards, stories, images, objects and identities. http://www.thirdangel.co.uk

1:30 - 3:00                  

Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard in conversation with Richard Adams  and Vivienne Gaskin (ICA) on File under Sacred Music; Breaking new ground in combining live art, digital media and rock 'n' roll - an ambitious live re-enactment of The Cramps seminal 1978 performance at Napa Mental Institute, a net cast, a web site and a remake of the 'original' bootleg film. http://iainandjane.com

 3:30 - 5:00                  

Ronald Fraser-Munroe in conversation with Manu Luksch 

An interactive digital drama set in the lost 'reality' department of a tv station. This digital film noir introduces characters with attitude as they battle to broadcast reality to the junk tv fed public. For a limited period users will be able to ring or text characters on the iROOM Mobile. http://www.k3media.demon.co.uk

5:00 - 6:00                 
Final resume and dream discussion with invited speakers.

7:30 - 10:30                

"b.playful’s Connections" at the Site Gallery.

Finger food, wine, sounds and a chance for afterstorming around Susan Collins new work, Transporting Skies, with live remote links to Newlyn Gallery, Penzance. This event is sponsored by the CIQA. 

TICKET PRICES:

Prices include entry to the forum, breakfast, lunch, refreshments, toys and entry to Friday night networking event. (N.B. all prices are inclusive of VAT.) To book please call Nigel (0114) 2254644 or Katz (0114) 2213057, you can pay either by cheque or credit card.

 

Full: £200 – 2 Days / £105 – 1 Day

Non-Profit Organisations: £115 – 2 Days / £60 – 1 Day

 

Check out the cyber farm-yard mini-website at   www.convergence-arts.com 

for more info.

 
Katz Kiely 
Festival Director 
b.tv 
The National Centre for Popular Music 
Paternoster Row 
Sheffield 
S1 2QQ 
Phone:- 0114 221 3057 
Fax:- 0114 225 4606 
url: www.convergence-arts.com 
http://www.theculturecompany.co.uk 
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