Rider Spoke

Copenhagen, Denmark, August 12-16 2009

Presented as part of Copenhagen Metropolis Biennial - LIGHTSOUND Programme, www.lyslyd.com/en

Where: Søndermarkskvarteret, FrederiksbergTimes: August 12 to 16, 5pm - 9pm dailyBookings: Bring your own bike or use one of ours, tickets Kr. 50.Bookings through Scenebillet, www.scenebillet.dkTake a cycle ride in the streets around Copenhagen. A games console mounted on your handlebars will guide you as you roll through the city. Slip down an alley and find yourself in a quiet corner. Make a recording, then move on glimpsing traces of other players, eavesdropping under a bridge or from the top of a multi storey car park. Rider Spoke is presented in English with Danish translation available.Rider Spoke continues Blast Theory’s fascination with how games and new communication technologies are creating new social spaces.”Rider Spoke consists of a highly original and exciting form of augmented travel…a delicate, almost intangible work. Like other Blast Theory performances, it combines elements of trust and risk, irony and politics, confession and exposure, orientation and disorientation, everyday life and digital worlds.” - Realtime, Australia”The show’s greatest gift is that it manages to embrace the remorseless urban rush of the City while insisting on the individual’s ability to pierce it with quiet reflection.” - Metro, LondonRider Spoke in Copenhagen is presented by Blast Theory in collaboration with the Municipality of Frederiksberg. Following Copenhagen, Rider Spoke will tour to Edinburgh British Council Showcase August 24 - 27; Austria for Linz Capital of Culture & Ars Electronica August 30 - September 7 and Bristol Do at Arnolfini September 21 - 27.

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I’ve been writing a chapter  on adaptation for Lawrence Raw forthcoming  edited textbook -  no is not a puff! -  but  I thought I owed it to the students who helped and to Gavin  whose  recent talk  at the  Research Institute seminars  interpreted Gerard Genette’s typology of paratextuality is in understanding new media.    So I thought I’d try out with you this new diagram of the circuit of adaptation.  The name of course derives from Robert Darnton’s circuit of communication,  and while he details particular 18^th-century networks of communication, I’m using this one more generically.  Simone Murray’s model of the adaptation industry includes literary prizes -  see her article ‘Books as media’ in the International Journal of the book.  It’s use is evident when she applies it to Brokeback Mountain.  So similarly  my idea with this diagram is that it is annotated when it is applied to a particular adaptation event.  Many of the adaptations I have looked at have not been literary – and certainly not won prizes.   Traditionally discussion of adaptations has often taken the form of an exploration of how the source text – typically a novel, play, or myth – has been transformed into a new form, principally the film. Sometimes the process of transformation entails the shifting of genre, the elision of storylines, the interpolation of addition of text or abridgement,  and this leads to textual comparison. Adaptation studies has focused on postmodernist notions of intertextuality and hybridity resulting from the circulation of multiple versions of a text.  I wanted to get away from this and focus the discussion far more on the influence of paratextuality on audience’s choice of adaptation.  Unfortunately  the diagram got somewhat cluttered with large  numbers of paratexts  on it, but again they can form annotations  as it is applied.   Adaptation diagram  

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Up Against The Wall:Mural Symposium 2009
Identifying New Approaches in Contemporary Mural Practice
8th-9th May 2009

Paint it! Install it! Project it!

The substantial development in media technology in the twentieth century has had a significant impact on our daily life; our conceptions and the way we perceive the world around us. Multimedia and other digital media productions have had a particular influence on a number of visual conventions and artistic traditions, so what about murals?

This symposium presents the opportunity to address the impact of these new artistic activities and their potential for the production of murals that would integrate with contemporary architecture styles and public spaces.

The main theme of this symposium is to question the influences on and role of contemporary mural design across the globe. Drawing together practice-led research, new ideas and techniques being used in mural and site-specific art works we will open up the debate on the interrelationship between these art forms.

Papers and/or presentation on Contemporary Mural Painting and Mural Installation are warmly invited to address (but not limited to) such issues as:
•    Murals and New Media i.e. Video Installation and Projection Installation.
•    New approaches in producing contemporary murals
•    Murals as site-specific art forms
•    Depicting the Poetics and the Politics of space in contemporary murals

The symposium will be supported by a poster exhibition that will illustrate contemporary murals and site-specific works created by delegates.

Architects, Muralists, Painters, Media artists, art students and academics are all welcome to explore their ideas among their peers and to showcase their works and meet fellow students, practitioner and academic staff from all over the world.

Contributions are invited in the form of papers or presentations of creative work of 20 minutes max, to be followed by an additional 10 minutes of questions and discussion. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected papers will be considered for publication in the proceedings of the symposium.

Abstract should be no more than 300 words in length. Please include name, contact e-mail address, and any university affiliation, along with the title or topic and any audiovisual requirements. The dead line for the submission of the abstracts is Monday 30th of March 2009 e-mailed attachment should be in Microsoft Word Format.

The symposium will be combined with poster exhibition of Photographs/ Illustrations of previous or recent works of the delegates. So please attach PDF high-resolution format for the photos/ illustration you would like to exhibit.

Abstracts and all related attachments can be e-mailed or posted to:

Up Against The Wall: Mural Symposium 2009
Akmal Abdelrahman
c/o room c101
Research Institute for Media, Art and Design
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
LU1 3UJ
E-mail: muralsymposium@beds.ac.uk

Web:http://www.beds.ac.uk/research/rimad/muralsymposium

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The symposium will take place on the Friday 8th and Saturday 9th of May 2009, Luton Campus, University of Bedfordshire, UK.

The symposium is supported by the Egyptian Embassy in London and the Division of Art and Design, University of Bedfordshire.

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