[syndicate] ScatterProjects - If Elsewhere

[karen at interval.org.uk]

SCATTERPROJECTS
IF ELSEWHERE
15.6.07-6.7.07
Preview 14.6.07
6-9pm

www.scatterprojects.org

The Media Centre
7 Northumberland Street
Huddersfield
HD1 1RL
0870 990 5007
www.the-media-centre.co.uk
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm

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In the "old days", before the Internet, the term 'local' was used to define our
surrounding physical environment. We defined our location with an X on the map,
and our 'locale' consisted of what was within our sight line, or was 'a stones
throw away'. Such terms have since been adopted for use in our online
environment, aimed at keeping terms familiar and easy to use, but subsequently
generating a duality of meaning, one that blurs the boundaries of the real and
the virtual.

If Elsewhere draws from these shared terms and looks at the concept of the
Glocal - the global local. Glocality, Glocalisation, all whisper of something
close, perhaps an act of making something personal, or a redefininition of our
understanding of the near and the far. Our world has physically shrunk; cheap
air travel and our networked population mean that the global has become local
in every sense. If Elsewhere is interested in how people take control or
represent themselves in this Glocality, and as a body of work considers the
nuances of the immense and the intimate, revealing different portrayals of this
fascinating blend of ephemerality and permanence, public and private.

If Elsewhere is the culmination of a 6-month collaborative project consisting
of an 8 person curatorial working group. This includes: Richard Carter, Joanna
Johnston, Omar Johnson, Maura Skillen and Joe Turner, final year BA Multimedia
students from The University of Huddersfield. It has been supported by Jen
Southern, Artist and Lecturer at The University of Huddersfield; Clare Daněk,
Programme and Marketing Manager at The Media Centre, Huddersfield; and been
coordinated and creatively directed by Scatter - Karen Gaskill, Artist and
Researcher.