The Centre is Here / Social Networking / Digital Portfolios
Thursday 22 and Saturday 24 October / Firstspace, Chapter Arts Centre
Project Outline
As part of May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology, Chapter and WARP are organising two further seminars as part of The Centre is Here. The seminars will focus attention on the professional development of artists in Wales.
This time The Centre is Here aims to offer artists the opportunity to hear first-hand a range of arts professionals talk about professional practice in the digital era.
Each of the seminars will have a specific theme related to how artists can best use online, digital and creative technologies to develop and promote their work. Topics will include the use of social networking sites, artists’ blogs, websites, digital portfolios and show reels.
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22 October 2009
1-4pm, Firstspace, Chapter Arts Centre
Social Networking:
This seminar will look at how artists can use social networking as a tool for the promotion of their practice and the creation of online artistic communities. It will also focus on the uses of these networks as places to generate new work, and to exhibit work to a wider public.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Martin John Callanan
Martin is an artist and researcher exploring notions of citizenship within the globally connected world. Concerns include information, data, and knowledge. He is currently Artist in Residence at UCL Environment Institute and Teaching Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art www.greyisgood.eu/
Emily Speed
Emily is an artist who, alongside her practice, maintains a number of blogs sited around her work and experience as an artist including a current a-n blog on artists’ payment (www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/497389/0/1/asc)
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24 October 2009
2-5pm,Firstspace,Chapter Arts Centre
Digital Portfolios:
This seminar will focus on the different ways that artists can use the internet to create online portfolios and web presence. It will include discussion from artists who make websites as work, those that create websites as online portfolios and those that blur theses distinctions. This day will also include a look at the uses and practicalities of CD portfolios as well as DVD showreels.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Neil Mulholland
Neil is a writer and Director of the Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies, Postgraduate Coordinator in Art & Design and a Reader in Contemporary Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland (www.neilmulholland.co.uk)
Ellie Harrison
Ellis is an artist whose website serves as an archive of her gallery-based work created since 2000 and acts as an introduction to her numerous online projects including the artist training programme which can be viewed online at www.ellieharrison.com
Sara MacKillop
Sara is an artist whose diminutive works depends on deft compositional shifts that transport familiar objects into imaginative realms. Her website serves as an introduction to her practice and as an important point of contact for curators and collectors. (www.saramackillop.co.uk)
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Seminar Structure:
Each seminar will feature four guest speakers each talking and taking questions for 15 minutes. Following a short coffee break there will be an opportunity for attendees to take part in group surgeries with a selected speaker.
1.30-2pm - refreshments
2-3pm - presentations
3-3.20pm - discussion
3.20-3.30pm - break
3.30-4.45pm - surgeries for participants to ask questions.
4.45pm - feedback
There are a maximum of 30 spaces for each symposium with tickets being allocated on a first come first served basis.
Deadline for booking and payment is Saturday 10 October. To book a place please contact Sean Edwards on sean@g39.org or telephone 029 2025 5541
Tickets are subsidised and cost £10, this will include light refreshments.
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This Chapter and WARP event is supported by Arts Council of Wales and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and is part of May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology.