[syndicate] Blue Skies

[Chris Byrne <chris@cryptic.demon.co.uk>]

<x-rich>Blue Skies

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Colin Andrews, Catriona Grant, Beverley Hood and e@t


23 March - 28 April, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh


Blue Skies is an exhibition of newly commissioned works by
Scotland-based artists using digital technologies. The work in the
exhibition explores how technologies are mediating our sense of time
and space and how this process impacts on the way we perceive our place
in the world and our relationships with other people.


'I may be some time', a single-channel video work by Colin Andrews,
uses appropriated and bleached archive film of a polar mapping
expedition made in the 1930s. The work is rich with allusions -
Antarctica becomes a landscape of the imagination, the geographical
unconscious, a Terra Incognita.


'Genuine Offer of Friendship' by Catriona Grant is a screen based
interactive work about the mechanisms of friendship, in which different
people can be paired by the user. They present themselves, offering
information about what they expect from and what they can bring to a
friendship. All the people live or work in the Greater Pilton area of
Edinburgh. These people from a real community have been brought
together in a virtual community; some knew each other, some had never
met. The user can try to make appropriate pairings or whimsical
choices, mirroring the chance meetings and arbitrary decisions our own
relationships are based on. 


Beverley Hood's work 'trans-locale' is represented here by video
documentation of the recent performance at Stills. The work is an
intervention within the environment of online video conferencing.
'trans-locale' broadcasts two dancers performing the Tango from a live
space into the online video conferences. Here they weave another level
of 'dance' - leaping from server to server, country to country,
temporarily visible to those connected to each of the selected
conferences.  For further information on the performance see
http://www.bhood.co.uk/translocale


e@t - a group of five artists working in Scotland: Jim Hamlyn, Jim
Buckley, Sarah McKenzie Smith, Andy Kennedy and Jon Pengelly - have
been meeting, collaborating and producing work together since January
2000. In this exhibition the group share a meal in real time with a
group of artists in the States, and talk via a satellite link up about
collaborative practice - passing the salt across time zones and
continents. For further information on e@t visit
http://www.eatprojects.org


This exhibition is accompanied by a new publication containing an essay
by Francis McKee. Copies will be available from Stills in return for a
suggested donation of ?2.50 (plus ?2 postage for mail order).


<smaller>'I may be some time' by Colin Andrews was commissioned by Film
and Video Access Centre, Picture This Moving Image and Watershed Media
Centre; Supported by Stills, the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish
Arts Council's National Lottery Fund. 'Genuine Offer of Friendship' by
Catriona Grant was commissioned by New Media Scotland, supported by
Edinburgh College of Art, Greater Pilton Design Resource, Polaroid
(UK), the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Arts Council's
National Lottery Fund. 'trans-locale' by Beverley Hood was commissioned
by New Media Scotland in partnership with Stills and New Moves
International with funding from the Scottish Arts Council's National
Lottery Fund. e@t have received support from Gray's School of Art and
the Scottish Arts Council


</smaller>For further information about any of the artists in 'Blue
Skies' please contact:


Stills                         New Media Scotland

23 Cockburn Street             P.O. Box 25065

Edinburgh EH1 1BP              Glasgow G1 5YP

info@stills.org                info@mediascot.org

                               http://www.mediascot.org


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P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP     Fax. +44 141 564 3011

Scotland, UK                    http://www.mediascot.org

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