A recording of the afternoon discussion of a Methods Network workshop organized by Gregory Sporton, Visualization Research Unit, University of Central England (20 July 2007) at Margaret Street Building, UCE, Birmingham.
http://methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act23.html

During a workshop with Beatriz Cantinho(dance), Ricardo Jacinto(Cello) and Nuno Torres(sax), we explored the potential of a body tracking system in real time improvisation. Predefine rules for spacial and motion analysis of the performer were fed to sound manipulation modules, extending the soundscape created by the acoustic instruments. [read more...]

The third and final day of Intimacy was a symposium, with feedback from particpants and engaging discussion. A short montage of which can be found in this video.

The Empty Space Gallery

The Empty Space Gallery exists to foster creativity, and encourage debate
about what ‘art’ is and what ‘artists’ are. It’s a novel way of
encouraging people to engage with this thing we call ‘art’ and what it
might be. Ultimately it is an experiment in ‘art’, ‘artists’, those that [read more...]

The Film As Document In (Of) Real Time
A meta-linguistic performative experiment.

Key questions:
1. In my video live installations I investigate the perception of time
(psychological time ), non simultaneous artist and audience interchange in
liveness, and the production of the video document. Live recording,
pre-recording and their transmission, as overlapping layers of [read more...]

Painting in Light: Experimental Film and the Advent of Improvisational
Cinema

The traditional model for cinematic expression is as a controlled
environment moving forward in a linear direction. From its inception the
art of filmmaking has been dominated by a single form of chronological
development. Each film exists as a series of frames that are static at the
start of the film. [read more...]

This is a short montage showing some of the performances from day 2 of Intimacy.

Interview run by Ben Craggs.

Rachel Zerihan is a PhD Researcher at the School of Arts, Roehampton
University and Sessional Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.

Firstly may I take this opportunity to thank Rachel, the
co-organiser of Intimacy, for taking time out to contribute to this
discussion? [read more...]