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13 November:
5.30pm - talk by Professor Paul Coldwell
6.00-8.00pm - private view
exhibition open 12 - 21 November 2008, 9.00am - 8pm Monday - Friday
4 november: 6.30pm
£5/£4 concessions/£3 members:
to book a place: www.ica.org.uk or 020 7930 3647
5 november: 6.30pm
to add your name to the private view guest list email closetothesurface@gmail.com
3–9 november:
12–7pm (9pm thursday 6):
Digital Studio, Concourse & bar: free:
Quadrantes-Quadrants by Maria Lucia Cattani from Jonathan Kearney on Vimeo.
The video is part of the research project “Between one thing and another: original-multiple” by Maria Lucia Cattani, supported by CAPES, Brazil. It has been made as a contribution to the research project “The personalisedsurface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking” within FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment) and supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council), at the University of the Arts London.It was shown simultaneously on the plasma screens at Chelsea College of Art and Design Library, London College of Communication Library andCamberwell College of Arts Library, from June 2 to 20.It will be shown in the “Vaga-lume Experimental Video Festival”, at Instituto de Artes of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in November 2008.
This video explores how artist Charlotte Hodes researched and created work for
her recent exhibition ‘ Drawing Skirts’. An exhibition of figurative papercut silhouettes and motifs, based on the dressmaker’s paper patterns. It reveals her combined technical and artistic skills to produce works of considerable scale and invention, using the scalpel blade as the equivalent of the fine line of a pencil.
‘Drawing Skirts’ was the outcome of a collaboration between Charlotte Hodes, Senior Research Fellow, London College of Fashion and Dr. Cathy Treadaway, Research Fellow at Cardiff School of Art and Design, University of Wales Institute and Visiting Research Fellow in Computer Science at University of Bath. The research project ‘A Collaborative Investigation into the Role of the Hand Craft and Digital Processes within Creative Practice’ was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Paul Coldwell will be/has given the followings lectures:
Title: The personalised surface within fine art digital printmaking
Northern Print – Newcastle
Thursday 29th may 5.00
Paul Coldwell will be discussing the progress of the AHRC funded research project with regards to the principle case studies.
Title: Paul Coldwell-Recent work
Venue: Arts Academy Beijing, China
8th June
Coldwell will be talking about the relationship between his print and sculpture and the role of digital technology within his practice.
Title: “The Surface within Digital Prints”
Time: 18:00~19:30 16th June.
Venue: Event Space at British Council Korea
In connection with the exhibition of his prints at Andante Gallery, Seoul, the British Council are hosting a talk by Coldwell on his engagement with ideas of surface within his printmaking practice.
Their research includes:
‘Alternatives to four-colour and the development of photomechanical print processes’
‘The re-examination and revival of the collotype medium (19th century photomechanical printing process) as an ideal means of reproducing digitally generated hardcopy.’
‘Continuous tone photomechanical processes and their application with current technology, particularly in relation to printed ceramics.’
The details for the event are as follows:
Drawing Skirts: New Papercuts
18 April - 30 May 2008
University Gallery and Baring Wing, Northumbria University, Sandyford Road, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Textile Futures Research Group, University of the Arts London (UAL) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) explore the coded enquiry of three artists and researchers. Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, TFRG Guest Artist, Dr Barbara Rauch, Deputy Director SCIRIA (Sensory Computer Interface Research & Innovation in the Arts), UAL and Nicola Naismith, Lecturer at Norwich School of Art and Design.
http://www.tfrg.org.uk/node/10865
Following presentations, Dr Jane Harris (Director of TFRG), Helen Sloan (Director of SCAN) and Jess Laccetti (Institute of Creative Technologies) will conduct a panel discussion with the artists.
Tickets are £10 / £8 Concessions / £6 ICA Members
Available from the ICA: www.ica.org.uk / Box Office: +44(0)20 7930 3647
Institute of Contemporary Arts, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH. (GOOGLE MAP)
On the 15th of February FADE invited artist Simon Schofield to give a talk exploring the ideas behind his new series of work. He explained the special software developed, and implications for future images, designs and artworks. The talk was held at in the Red room at the Chelsea college of art and design. There was a range of people from the university at the talk including many students from the MA Digital Arts course at Camberwell. Simon talked about his work for an hour then participated in a panel discussion with Dr. Barbara Rauch and Prof. Paul Coldwell. This discussion also included questions from the audience about his his work and relation to the Personalised surface project. A podcast and video of the evening will be shortly made available on this site.
Here is a brief description of Simon Schofield’s work:
“In Simon Schofield’s images constellations of detailed visual elements are aggregated to form expanses of texture, pattern and substance. This method is used to create vibrant and highly naturalistic re-fabrications of the landscape and nature or to construct images that seem to be simulations or observations of microscopic scientific phenomena. He also uses this approach to explore the limits of drawing and pattern using highly detailed fields of drawn elements, or continual reconfigurations of decorative symbols and motifs. Despite their complexity, his images have a quiet, meditative and oceanic quality. In order to produce these images it was necessary for Simon to develop new software and image-making methodologies. The images produced are extremely high in detail, sometimes using literally millions of compositing operations, and are of very high resolution needing to be printed in order to expose their full richness.Simon is fascinated by the intersection of human expression and technology and, over recent years, has developed several software systems exploring the theme. These including the Piranesi 3-D paint system at Cambridge University, now used by architects and 3-D designer worldwide, and an Interactive Music system AudioROM for which he won a BAFTA in 1998. He was awarded a NESTA Fellowship in 2005 to expand his interests in Generative Image Making. He is a Lecturer in Digital Media at London Metropolitan University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.”