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Media Art Bath's telephone number is now:

01225 442 591

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01225 442 591

Open improv follows Staging Sound

Porter Cellar Bar / 8.30pm
14 George Street /Bath

Matt Davies, Nick Rothwell and Adrian Smith will kick off the evening…

Following the Staging Sound forum will be an informal open jam session at the Porter Cellar Bar with an emphasis on the improvisational and experimental. We would like to invite sound artists, musicians and all other music/sound/noise makers to participate in this one-off event. It can be as relaxed and informal as you like, we are simply looking for some enthusiastic and confident participants used to working experimentally and collaboratively! This session will draw out some of the ideas under discussion in the forum and give people the chance to continue the dialogue in a sociable and relaxed atmosphere.

To check your tech requirements email: lucy@mediaartbath.org.uk

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

Staging Sound

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 7 - 8.30pm
BRLSI, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, £3/£2
Presented by Contemporary Art Talks programme

This forum asks a panel to consider what it is that makes sound so appealing to artists and audiences? Is it the immediacy of sound and the way in which it is connected to the present moment (of hearing/listening)? Or is it the different ways in which sound can access audiences that is its special appeal? Its potential for shared authorship and audience participation? And finally, has the spread of interactive gaming and digital technologies opened up more of a freeform attitude to making music / sound / noise?

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

Speakers biographies

David Cunningham is an artist and musician who has created a continuing series of installation works based on real time exploration of acoustics. He is Senior Research Fellow at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.

Lina Dzuverovic is the co-founder and Director of Electra, a London based contemporary art agency established in 2003. She has worked with artists and musicians including: Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Tony Oursler, Daria Martin, Hayley Newman, Christian Marclay, Kaffe Matthews, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Jacob Kirkegaard.

Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. As well as producing compositions and audio CDs, his diverse body of work includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, and site-specific multimedia installations.

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

The Sensible Stage

PRESENTED AS PART OF NEW WORK UK

The Sensible Stage explores the idea of staging, the staging of the self and staging as a theatrical device. The Sensible Stage explores the idea of the ‘stage of the sensible'; that is, the staging of a common ‘moment'. Using the real and metaphorical frames of the stage and the camera, The Sensible Stage treads the ground between the possibility and impossibility of this ‘common moment'. Blurring the frame of the stage and the frame of the camera opens up questions around participation and spectatorship as the immediacy of the live experience is restaged.

Presented by Whitechapel in collaboration with Lux.

Website Update!

If you couldn't make it to the performances or want to re-live them, then take a look under ‘Projects' where you'll find photographs and films of the performances by artists Lucienne Cole, Melanie Gilligan and Pil and Galia Kollectiv.

In the same section you will also find Media Art Bath's project archive where you can see our previous exciting projects.

BRING IN DAYLIGHT

A PROJECT SUPPORTED BY MEDIA ART BATH

A lyrical documentary by Sean Borodale & Louisa Fairclough. (16mm, 30mins) Sat Nov 17

Taunton Livestock Market is to close after more than a thousand years of market activity within the town. Saturday 17 Nov will be one of the last auction days. After the close of sales at 3pm, the Dairy Sale Ring will, for one day only, become a cinema for the preview of a new documentary about the market - Bring in Daylight. From 2pm, before the film screening, musician Tim Hill will be playing with his band Albion Horns, and Sheppy’s will be serving mulled cider www.bringindaylight.com

Lucienne Cole - Hi Fidelity Hi

20.00hrs Sunday 4 November
Widcombe Social Club, Bath (£3)

Hi Fidelity Hi is a performance by Lucienne Cole in which she draws upon interviews with record collectors, mixing them with her own vinyl anecdotes and memories. Collecting is sometimes seen as a lonely activity, as is playing records in the privacy of one's own bedroom. BUT playing records is also about sharing, broadening horizons, breaking down barriers and having a good time.

BRING ALONG YOUR FAVORITE VINYL TO PLAY AFTER THE PERFORMANCE!

Hi Fidelity Hi is presented as part of THE SENSIBLE STAGE, a programme of three discrete performance works.

Melanie Gilligan - The Miner's Object

16.30hrs Sunday 4 November
The Holburne Museum, Bath

The Miner's Object is a parable about experience and knowledge. Staged in the Holburne Museum of Art (after presentation at Tate Britain in September) the choice of site teases out a connection with late 18th century Bath as a place of both sensuous pleasures and an egalitarianism of learning.

The Miner’s Object is a storytelling performance in which a miner discovers a strange, unknown object, a discovery that unfolds a debate about the social and material qualities of knowledge.

Presented as part of THE SENSIBLE STAGE, a programme of three discrete performance works.

Pil and Galia Kollectiv – Better Future, Quad-Shaped
19.00hrs Sunday 28 October, Cube Microplex, Bristol
With a programme of films by Die Tödliche Doris

Melanie Gilligan – The Miner’s Object
16.30hrs Sunday 4 November, The Holburne Museum, Bath

Lucienne Cole – Hi Fidelity Hi
20.00hrs Sunday 4 November, Widcombe Social Club, Bath

Pil & Galia Kollectiv – Better Future, Quad-Shaped

19.00hrs Sunday 28 October
Cube Microplex, Bristol
(£4 includes Cube lifetime membership)

With a programme of films by Die Tödliche Doris (The Deadly Doris)

A short performance that pays homage to the square. Better Future, Quad-Shaped is a square dance routine based on a Samuel Beckett's television plays Quad I and II, Bruce Nauman's Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance) and industrial German band Die Tödliche Doris' Tanz im Quadrat.

The Deadly Doris's contribution to the 1980s Berlin punk scene and beyond has spanned many forms from music, film and performance. Programme selected by the band's founder Wolfgang Müller.

Tell us about your vinyl!

Hi Fidelity Hi is a performance by Lucienne Cole in which she draws upon interviews with record collectors, mixing them with her own vinyl anecdotes and memories. Collecting is sometimes seen as a lonely activity, as is playing records in the privacy of one's own bedroom. BUT playing records is also about sharing, broadening horizons, breaking down barriers and having a good time.

Hi Fidelity Hi will be presented at the Widcombe Social Club (Sunday 4 Nov 20.00hrs) and you are invited to bring along your favourite records to be played. There will be a pay bar and the night will culminate in dancing and merriment.

Contact hifidelityhi@hotmail.co.uk with stories and memories relating to your record collection and favorite records.

Hi Fidelity Hi is presented as part of THE SENSIBLE STAGE a programme of three discrete performance works.

Pil & Galia Kollectiv - Better Future, Quad-Shaped
Sun 28 Oct 19:00hrs, Cube Microplex, Bristol

Melanie Gilligan - A Miner's Object
Sun 4 Nov 16:30hrs, The Holbourne Museum, Bath

Lucienne Cole - Hi Fidelity Hi
Sun 4 Nov 20:00hrs, Widcombe Social Club, Bath

THE SENSIBLE STAGE

A programme of three performance works that use various methodologies of communication and engagement (or disengagement) ranging from storytelling to modernist theatre to participatory performance. THE SENSIBLE STAGE addresses questions of experience and perception, participation and spectatorship in relation to performance.

Pil & Galia Kollectiv - Better Future, Quad-Shaped
19.00hrs Sunday 28 October, Cube Microplex, Bristol
(£4 includes Cube lifetime membership)

Melanie Gilligan - The Miner's Object
16.30hrs Sunday 4 November, The Holburne Museum, Bath
(Museum entry charge applies)

Lucienne Cole - Hi Fidelity Hi
20.00hrs Sunday 4 November, Widcombe Social Club, Bath (£3)

juneau/projects/ – SEWN TO THE SKY

SEWN TO THE SKY saw the juneau/projects/ perform with their newly designed and produced musical instruments - a guitar in the form of a stag's skull and a bass in the form of a killer moth - which neatly tied in with the woodcraft-tapestry-type look of their animated game. Media Art Bath is proud to have commissioned the work which included the design and production of the instruments, designed in the haptic modelling lab at User-lab and produced using CNS routing. Media Art Bath also supported juneau/projects/ to continue their work with software designer, Ben Neal to produce levels 2,3 and 4 of the game.

Two very different performances of SEWN TO THE SKY took place: a rock n' roll auditorium gig on the Sunday night, and an unplugged performance in an idyllic pastoral location on Monday. Both performances culminated in the opportunity for audiences to try out the gear.

Project images, video and text can be viewed on the project blog or under Projects.
Photography: Sam Nightingale

juneau/projects/ - SEWN TO THE SKY

juneau/projects/ - Sewn To The Sky
Sunday 5 August, 7.30pm
The Michael Tippett Centre, Newton St Loe, Bath
Tickets £4 from Bath Festivals Box Office T: 01225 463 362 or at the door

Monday 6 August, 4pm
Meet in the foyer of the Michael Tippett Centre for a free outdoor gig

An interactive sound and visual experience where you the audience are expected to participate. Gaming meets rock!

Sewn to the Sky has been commissioned by Media Art Bath and is presented as part of the International Guitar Festival. A Bath Festivals Forum (BFF) education project, supported by User-lab, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.

G to project BLOG by clicking on image to your left.

Production residency, ‘RUNNER project’ by Amy Feneck

2 – 16 July 2007

Media Art Bath is supporting Bristol artist Amy Feneck who is returning to press to exit project space after a previous visit in 2006, for a two-week production residency to develop new work as a continuation from the ‘RUNNER project’.

‘RUNNER project’ investigates the constructed spaces that we build and live by through physical encounters with the urban environment and public space.