REPOST from LIGHTHOUSE: 

The Informals

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 6.30-9pm Lighthouse, Brighton, BN1 4AJ

The Informals is a new performance by artists Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne about ways of living in the digital age, decentralisation and non-conformity.

This autobiographical work uses live music and documentary film footage, to focus on the experiences of young ‘digital natives’ in the Russian city of Murmansk. In order to escape the norms and social constructs of northern Russia, young people in Murmansk gravitate to deserted areas of space where they collectively improvise, creating new narratives through their digital community and culture.

There will be a Q&A with the artists at the end of the performance.

The event is free, but due to capacity, booking is advised.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-open-session-the-informals-tickets-

The annual Brighton Film Festival opened yesterday – it is in its 17th year,  co-directed by Tim Brown / Frank Gray from the University of Brighton.  Two weeks of world cinema, premieres, shorts, student films and talks and live cinema.

The whole events programme is here:

http://www.cine-city.co.uk

From the Cinecity website:

SUN 24 NOV / 4PM DEPOT in Lewes:

‘Frank Gray’s new book, The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film, examines film’s early history through the work of the Hove film pioneers, G. A Smith and James Williamson. For this conversation with art historian and psychoanalytic psychotherapist Dr Robert Snell, Frank will explore Smith’s relationship with contemporary ‘spirit’ culture at the end of the 19th Century.

Smith was a mesmerist, magic lanternist and a member of the Society for Psychical Research, and expressed a particular fascination with the representation of the ‘other side’ through a set of ‘vision’ films. They enabled both the conscious and unconscious realms to be visualised simultaneously, a compositional concept which had had its origins both in painting and the theatre.

Presented by The Arts Forum of Psychotherapy Sussex which promotes and encourages an exchange of ideas between psychoanalysis and the arts and all are welcome to its events. Frank is the Director of Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton.’

Care(less) by Lindsay Seers is a deeply moving 15 minute long artwork currently showing at Fabrica, Brighton, which responds to research being conduced at University of Brighton, University of Birmingham and University of Lincoln.on ageing and care provision for older people

From the exhibition brochure:

‘Using a combination of lens based and digital 360 degree images, viewed within a virtuality headset, Seers explores the hallucinatory and embodied effect of VR. We are drawn into a state of the aged: a state in which we can quickly become invisible’.

For further information on the research go to olderpeoplesselffundingcare.com

For more information on Lindsay Seers exhibition and the extensive program of events go to fabrica.org.uk/events

The Messy Edge 2019

Organized by festival director Lawrence Hill,  Messy Edges, the Brighton Digital Festival’s annual conference, was a vibrant, hugely insightful and innovative day-long event which included a host of brilliant speakers, from Bill Thompson, to Catherine Allen, to Akeelah Bertram and Kuchena, Carmen Weisskopf of Mediengruppe Bitnik, Rhiannon Armstrong, Maya Indira Ganesh, Tonya Nelson and Dr. Nishant Shah. The conference highlighted the huge potential and productive activation of digital media to make the world a better place, but it also highlighted potential misuses and risks associated with their usage.

Kuchenga and Akeelah Bertram – whose work is part of the Digital Festival and currently in the show Desire Lines, Edward Street, University of Brighton. https://www.akeelahbertram.net

Emillie de Keulenaar from OlLab discussing the production of misinformation and the dissemination of far-right political thought across fringe and mainstream platforms.

Here (below and above) are some of Rhiannon Armstrong’s collaborative poems.

Thursday 30th October
6:30 – 9pm
Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St
Brighton, BN1 4AJ Continue reading Viral Open Sessions: Creating Culture Our next Viral Open Session is with guest speaker, Emma Warren (author) joined by Matt Weston (director at Spacemakers) and Bobby Brown (artist manager in the music industry) to discuss the relationship between space, culture and community. →

HIDDEN PATHS

A new and timely exhibition ‘Hidden Paths’ offers an immersive and reflective space to explore how current crises of extreme weather, automation, political instability and inequality are connected in deep and often invisible ways.

‘Hidden Paths’ welcomes visitors to consider the troubled systems that we live in and the possibilities for transformation. Through a series of artworks – from a sonic waterfall, sculptures, recipes, film and video, to a virtual reality (VR) experience – visitors will explore how we imagine the future and what it could mean to live in zero carbon futures that foster equality and wellbeing.

Individual artist participants: Thomas Buckley | Cliff Crawford | Toni Slater| Idil Bozkurt | Alexandra Stuart-Hutcheson | Sam Hewitt | David Holyoake| Molly Astley | Katharine Vega | Rebecca McDonald-Balfour | Envy | Tyler van der Berg | Emily Hallows | Elia Habib | Annie Elliott | Ben Ireland | Lucy Wood | Gregory Campbell |Otter Lieffe | Faumuina Felolini Tafunai |  Charlotte Pulver

Media and guests are invited to the launch event for ‘Hidden Paths’, 6-8pm on Wednesday 16th October, at ONCA Gallery. Click here to RSVP.

This exhibition is part of Brighton Digital Arts Festival 2019.

ABOUT THE THE ORGANISERS

The System Change HIVE is a new Brighton based collective bringing together young and established artists, together with sustainability experts and digital technologists to explore sustainable futures and alternative systems through the power of art. The HIVE is set up by charity Swarm Dynamics together with partners University of Brighton School of Media, the ESRC STEPS Centre, Wired Sussex and ONCAGallery.

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Swarm Dynamics is a charity and artist collective that harnesses the power of arts and imagination to engage audiences on sustainability issues with a focus on communicating sustainable futures and post capitalist societies (‘system change’) through the use of the arts.

Hidden Paths

This might be of interest; SEAS is a local organisation that puts on topical exhibitions and events that bring together digital technology and art.

Windrush Presence depicts the contribution of the Windrush generation to the UK and the experiences of Afro-Caribbeans from the first Windrush arrivals in 1948 to today. The works in the exhibition include digital art, video installation, photography, films and textile works. The opening of the exhibition on October 12th, from 3 to 6 pm, will include a tour of the exhibition with the participating artists; a talk by Dr. Michael McMillan about his book and exhibition The Front Room which documents the living rooms of the Windrush generation (previously exhibited at Geffrye Museum); a presentation by the curator Bolanle Tajudeen about the impact of the Windrush generation on British Art; and a conversation with the photographer Mal Woolford and his neighbour Charlotte Woolford who have found that their ancestors share a dark past.

Supported by Royal Pavilion & Museums’ BME Heritage Network, Brighton & Hove City Council, The Art Council, the BMECP.

Windrush Presence Exhibition at SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon
12/10 – 12/11 open every weekday & Saturdays 11:00 -17:00
BMECP/SEAS
10/a Fleet St. Brighton BN1 4ZE

Opening event Saturday, October 12th 3-6pm
Please confirm attendance here or on:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhibition-windrush-presence-tickets-69273658377

Curator: Dr Gil Mualem-Doron
Participants
Akila Richards, Poet / Barrel (a participatory art project and a room installation)
Alan Compton, Photographer / ‘Unheard Voices’ (photography project)
Bolanle Tajudeen, Curator / The impact of Windrush generation on British Art (a talk)
Edi Jay Mandala, Artist / The UnBIGOTten (A graphic novel)
Gabrielle Raven, Artist / London Rain (mixed media painting)
Grant Lambie, Artist / Road Map of Kenya (mixed media collage)
John Titi, Story Teller / The Journey
Josef Cabey, Artist / Windrush Doranne’s Series (digital paintings)
Judith Ricketts, Artist / Son of Canaan (Photography series)
Katy Beinart & Kate Theophilus, Artists / Brixton Conversations (a short film)
Linett Kamala, Artist / State of Education – (painting series)
Dr. Michael McMillan, Lecturer, curator, artist / The Front Room (photography research & book)
Mal Woolford: Photographer (with Charlotte Woolford) / Touching Distance (Photography)
River Sweeney, performer and visual artist / The Factory (a video installation)
Sabine Kaner, Artist / Hold on to colour (textile work)
Suchitra Chatterjee, Writer and artist, Now and Then (mix media collage)
Tony Kalume: Artist / Celebrating African & Caribbeans in Sussex past
and present: the lives of Dr. Cuthbert Williams & Shirley Williams (a
short film)

Brighton Digital Festival kicks off today

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