videoclub - 2009 / 10
24 Oct 09 - Mobile Movie Trail - WHITE NIGHT28 April 10 - Beyond Surveillance
VIDEOCLUB presents Mobile Movie Trail for WHITE NIGHT 2009
24 October 09 - 6pm - 12am (Saturday) - Free to take part
Mobile Movie Trail is a selection of minute long films that you can download
to your phone. Films are ‘hidden’ invisibly along a trail throughout Brighton, from
Jubilee Square to the seafront.
As you journey along the trail, following a printed movie treasure map (available
from White Night info point in
Jubilee Square) you will come across ‘X’s on the
floor that mark the location of downloadable videos using the Bluetooth function
on your phone.
Videos will be shareable once collected, allowing you to share the films you have
collected with family and friends for as long as you have them.
There will be a ‘Bluetooth Angel’ at the beginning of the tour who will show you
how to access the Bluetooth function on your phone. The angel will be situated at
the White Night info point in Jubilee Square. Maps of the trail will also be available
from the White Night info point.
Films have been made by international artists, including Armen Antranikian,
Yasuko Tadokoro, George Barber, Anna Weatherston & Tula Parker, and Hetain Patel.
White Night Brighton and Hove 2009 website
Funded by White Night Brighton & Hove and Arts Council England. Made possible with technological and project management support from Blink.
THE TRAIL
1. Jubilee Square – White Night information point
2. Outside Theatre Royal, New Road
3. Outside Fabrica Gallery, 40 Duke Street
4. Outside Moore House, 13 Black Lion Street
5. White Night Penny Arcade, Fishing Museum on the beach
THE FILMS
One-Minute Study of 10 Beats - Hetain Patel
The rhythms usually performed by hands on the tabla drums,
are translated into full body movements as the torso is
marked with Kanku (the red pigment traditionally used in
Hindu ceremonies to mark a dot on the forehead). The chanting
and clapping form part of an ancient percussive language,
which in this instance, shapes the 10 beats called Jhaptaal. Commissioned by motiroti
Le Fil Rouge - Yasuko Tadokoro
Everyone has someone somewhere in the world, they are
connected to you by an unseen red thread - will you
ever find them?
Automotive Action Painting - George Barber
Observed from an overhead camera, a man stops by the roadside
one morning and empties the contents of a number of large cans
of paint over the tarmac. As the light rises, along with the
level of traffic, the cars spread the paint along the surface
of the road, creating an abstract smear of vibrant colour.
One-Minute Guide to Planet Earth - Armen Antranikian
An attempt to summarise modern life on planet earth in sixty
seconds. The short film received a Jury Commendation at
Filminute 2007, the international one-minute film festival.
The jury said: “How refreshing to find such a delightfully
off-beat guide to a place we could all use a bit more perspective on!”
Beach Jam - Tula Parker and Anna Weatherston
A sample-heavy funk track provides the revving and screeching
sound effects for a toy car as it is ‘driven’ along a stretch
of sea wall, from the ‘metropolis’ of a snow-shaker past a ‘Weekend’
tail-back of traffic before arriving, in the wheel tracks of
Thelma and Louise, in Brighton.
videoclub and Index on Censorship present: 
BEYOND SURVEILLANCE
curated by Manu Luksch
28 April 10 - doors and bar 6pm, screening at 7pm
A screening of art works developed in response to and in counteraction
against surveillance technologies, with a panel of speakers discussing
the consequences of and alternatives to surveillance in our daily life.
What are the consequences of surveillance on our daily lives? Is surveillance
provoking a climate of self-censorship? Is a society without a paternalising
infrastructure of control, such as surveillance and censorship, possible?
As surveillance technologies become more ubiquitous – from CCTV to data-mining
on websites to mobile phones to Google streetcar – does it not become ever more
important to consider the implications and to develop creative, radical responses,
counteracting and reversing acts of surveillance?
Artist and curator Manu Luksch has selected several works which explore
differing aspects of re-activism to surveillance technologies; selected
artists include: David Valentine, Caspar Below, The Bureau of Inverse Technology and Michelle Teran.
Panel of speakers:
- Caspar Below – artist
- Julia Farrington – Head of Arts at Index on Censorship
- Manu Luksch – ambientTV.NET / artist
- David Valentine – artist
Manu Luksch is highly celebrated for her work investigating the use of
surveillance technologies in artistic practice: Ambient TV In particular
her work 'Faceless' has been internationally recognised and celebrated for
its approach in exploring CCTV / surveillance technology in society.
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Funded by Arts Council England and Brighton and Hove City Council. Supported by Lighthouse.