Projects 2002/03
Resourced by a grant from London Arts under their "Developing Digital Media In London" programme, MAP is working on the following collaborative projects with artists over 2002/03.
See the original call
for background and further info.
With Mongrelx
A 2 week open-access "masterclass" workshop
for people to experiment with multimedia and make new content on themes
with a strong street focus.
Followed by a showcase event with results
of the masterclass plus additional visuals, sounds and plenty of food.
Scheduled for June 2002
Proposed Venue: Ocean, Hackney.
To be confirmed but preliminary meetings look hopeful!
Print
{"Hello World"}
A Primer on Software for Artists and
Artists Software
With Richard Wright
A series of public workshops and a cd-rom publication that aims to be the "Ways of Seeing" of software: an attempt to make the cultural analysis of computer systems and software more accessible and to look closely at the values that underlie the way computers and software are meant to be used, how they give form to "creative" practices and the environments in which they are deployed.
map::london is most likely to concentrate on a series of carefully formulated participatory workshops whose proceedings will be documented and published.
Scheduled for June - December 2002
THE SELF-INSTITUTION RESEARCH UNIT
With Howard Slater, Josie Berry, Jakob Jakobson and others...
A long-term research process into forms of organisation as taken up and applied by self-initiated and self-managed organisations working in culture and other, related areas. The research will both gather information and provoke dialogue between groups that might see themselves as disparate or unconnected. An ongoing strategy for publishing the research and dialogues is being devised.
Scheduled for April 2002 - September 2003
A "Festival of Surveillance"
With The Institute of Applied Autonomy, Graham Bell and others tbc
The nominations process yeilded two projects concerned with the use of CCTV cameras in public space. The institute of Applied Autonomy proposed isee/London. This is a project to observe and record the position of cameras in a specified area and use the co-ordinates to create an on-line map with which a "path of least surveillance" can be calculated. Graham Bell's Release on the other hand is an incitement to respond to the presence of surveillance cameras by performing to them; using this ready-made media infrastructure to generate ones own 15 minutes of fame...
MAP is working on an idea to produce these projects within days of eachother, and provide an opportunity for other London based artists and culture producers to suggest and organise their own initiatives for the "Festival of Surveillance".
Scheduled for Oct 2002 or May 2003
Venue: for "Release": Canary Wharf (tbc),
for others: tbc.
With Bock and Vincenzi
Dancers/performers Bock and Vincenzi will be making a project that is another stage in their long research process into "nothingness", which has led them into a detailed exploration of the relationships between the body, visual perception, performance, sound and space. Bock and Vincenzi will be producing a poster campaign for a public performance: in which the dance happened only in private. but with audio documentation made accessible to the public.
Scheduled for Oct 2002
Venue: Posters around London, telephone
recorded "information", possibly "Resonance FM" artists radio station.
Indentity_Runners
Identity_Runners consists of 3 women, from Australia, Italy and New York, working in writing, visual media and the net. Theirs is a proposal for an inhabitation, a 2 or 3 week temporary lab for "stubborn and unstable media, a research space, generating a drifting matrix of constructive (dis)content arising from critical gazes directed at specific elements of the military-industrial-entertainment complex as it is currently being played out in hard space and media space by the United States and its conspirator|allies in the current so-called "war on terrorism". Softly from the Ruins will seek to involve London based artists from all disciplines and backgrounds, especially those with an interest in technologies of destruction, migrations of people and the effect of power structures and media discourses on everyday life. The inhabitation may result in and involve production of media including stickers, posters, radio broadcasts, video, and the hosting of events for instance workshops, meetings and screenings.
A long research process will be undertaken to plan the project internationally and locally, using web-based tools to share information and create transparancy as the project comes together.
Scheduled for: May 2003
Venue: tbc