COURSES AND WORKSHOPS TO DATE

Input 2 Training programme

Digital Audio. Training programme that commenced in November 1999 with a winter school for artists working with digital audio from Max and MIDI to generative sound, at Dartington College of Art. Final workshop held July 2000 at the University of Plymouth.

Keystroke. On-going project that began in September 1999 for writers using new media to build their skills and their expertise. The course explores how the new wave of writers are working on-line and with other forms of digital media: an opportunity to share and exchange information and develop work in a critical context.

On-line Film. Residencies and commission for on-line film at the Cube Cinema Bristol.

Input 1 Training Programme

Input 1 was a training programme for media and arts practitioners, teaching them to make sustainable and manageable websites. Groups of trainees worked with trainers who helped them design websites and each group devised an on-line arts project.

Over ten organisations and artists groups from the South West participated during 1998/99, including Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre, Newlyn Art Gallery, Poetry Can, Art and Power, Bath Festivals Trust, West Somerset Arts Consortium, Club Rhombus and Skillnet SW.

Input 1 and 2 were held in partnership with Skillnet SW, University of Plymouth, University of the West of England, Dartington College of Art and Smart SW with support from the European Social Fund.

COMMISSIONS AWARDED : CLARK / DA2 DIGITAL BURSARY

2000 : Simon Poulter : Afterworld

Simon Poulter has been awarded the third Clark/DA2 Digital Bursary for his project Afterworld. Afterworld intends to examine the work of technology and its cultural and social influences. It extends the view that technology is not neutral as often portrayed by manufacturers, but imbued with political and capital strategies. Simon is making a number of digital multiples over the course of a year which will include a power point presentation, a java script with comments from the diamond sutra, and a bar table constructed with an internal computer. Working across a broad range of digital media, Simon uses pieces of live art and digital work, the outcomes of which will be presented accross the region.

1999 : Mongrel : Invisible Geographies

Artist group Mongrel were awarded the second Clark / DA2 Digital Bursary in 1999 for their project Invisible Geographies. This was presented as an installation, software publication and website that made a live connection between simultaneous exhibitions at Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, and the ICA, London. Mongrel, a ‘mixed bunch of people and machines', developed Linker, their own custom made software to create virtual maps. The software is designed as an easy accessible tool that can be given away free to any groups or artists who want to use it to make work. Mongrel's own maps charted their growing relationship with Bristol and their dialogues with the people they met.

1998 : Rebecca Goddard and Michelle Henning : Wingwalkers

Multimedia artists Rebecca Goddard and Michelle Henning were awarded the first Clark / DA2 Digital Bursary in 1998. Their installation, Wingwalkers, was exhibited at the Watershed from 7 November 1998 to 3 January 1999.

Project partners: J A Clark Charitable Trust, Watershed Media Centre and University of the West of England; ICA project supported by the Cap Gemini Imaginaria Award.

COMMISSIONS AWARDED : DA2 OPEN COMMISSION

The DA2 Open commission has been awarded annually to regional artists for the development of any form of digital project.

Luke Jeram : Tide

An installation influenced and altered by the moon's gravitational pull.

Joseph Hyde : Periphery

A video and sound installation which deconstructs illusions surrounding technology and multimedia.

Martin Rieser : Understanding Echo

An interactive installation that re-awakens the mythological foigure from the Echo and Narcissus myth.

COMMISSIONS AWARDED : OTHER

Suky Best

One of five DA2 county commissions, a series of digital prints produced in collaboration with Aune Head Arts exhibited 2000.

Michael McGraw

A body of work that makes fictional alterations to the landscape. Produced through a digital printmaker's residency based at the Print Centre of the University of the West of England during summer 2000.

Uninvited Guests : Guest House

Bristol based performance group, Uninvited Guests, were awarded the Fluid commission to support a performance using new technologies. Guest House took the audience on a tour of an impossible building made up of rooms gathered from elsewhere and be developed in residence at Arnolfini, Bristol. Performed during October 1999.