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As we celebrate our 10th birthday, New Media Scotland, is delighted
to host the press launch of the Edinburgh Art Festival at The
University of Edinburgh's Inspace, our new home.
InSpace is a public engagement facility that explores the cultural
significance of informatics and new media practice. Prior to the
official launch of the InSpace programme in the autumn, we’re delighted
to be able to present an exhibition of new artworks, devices and
creative applications commissioned by the Alt-w Fund from artists and
technologists based in Scotland.
Digital culture is pervasive and ever-evolving. The Alt-w Fund supports
experimentation with new media, as both artistic subject and as
creative tool. The focus for 2008/09 was to support projects which
dynamically engage audiences beyond the traditional screen. The
exhibition Reveal/Reset reflects our information-rich world where
attention is a commodity. As consumers we filter, as creators we share.
In response, we forge new paths. The featured artworks engage with
these accelerated times and their dispersed networks of communication.
Alex Hetherington’s performance will explore cultural forms that employ
fakery and deliberate misinformation. Distance Lab’s body-drawing
communicator allows lovers to communicate over distance through the
language of touch using light alone. FOUND Electronics have created
Cybraphon, a robotic band, image conscious and emotional, its playlist
effected by online community opinion.
Emma Tolmie has subverted the experience and aesthetics of 3D film with a retro-futurist vibe. Thomson & Craighead have produced a whirlwind tour of the world’s war zones using Google Earth and the photostreams of Flickr. Sarah Kettley’s Aeolia wearables have found finely crafted new ways to sense our own body movement.
Wendy McMurdo and Paul Holmes were inspired by digitised avatar
figure skaters at once real, manipulated and now delightfully mimicked.
Benjamin Dembroski’s network of delicate sensor driven devices seduce
as they sway in the fields have visualised the poetry in bird’s flight
and the ultimate triumph of nature over man.
The distribution of Alt-w Fund awards is managed by New Media
Scotland and funded by Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council.
New Media Scotland is a national development agency fostering artist
and audience engagement with all forms of new media practice.
Reveal/Reset, 5th August to 5th September 2009
InSpace
Edinburgh Art Festival
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