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• Practice-Based Research

  Posted: May 25th, 2007, 6:01pm EST by Linda

  A description of Practice-Based Research is now on the CCS web site .

  Topics include:
  Practice-Related Research
  Practice and the Role of Research
  Differences between Practice-Based and Practice-Led Research
  CCS Doctoral Programmes
  Historical Background
  The PhD and Knowledge
  Outline for a Practice Related Thesis
  Advice to PhD Students
  Questions and Answers
  Definitions and Terms
  Bibliography
  Ethics

Legart

• ‘Performed film’/Film Screening event

  Posted: April 18th, 2007, 3:25pm EST by Mike

  Australian Centre for Photography, 257 Oxford Street, Paddington, 9332 1455

  Saturday 28 April 2007, 6.30pm

  MIKE LEGGETT

  expanded screen, performed film, structural film 1970-1981

  Sydney’s Teaching and Learning Cinema will present some film and video works by Sydney-based British born artist Mike Leggett.
  Mike Leggett has been making art with film and video since the early 70s. He was a foundation member of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op Workshop, established in 1969. The film labs in the workshop were the platform for key creative output of its era, Mike’s early films using the Workshop labs to explore the physical parameters of film, foregrounding their structure within a system of representation. Included in the program is his seminal 1971 work Shepherd’s Bush.
  Mike collaborated and taught with intermedia artist Ian Breakwell in the early days of performance art in Britain. In 1970, Mike and Ian made Unword, a film based on a series of performances. It was not until 2003 that Mike and Ian realised the work in its intended form – cost limitations made finishing it impossible at the time, yet easily done in 2003 with contemporary technology. A startling black and white energy-filled evocation, Unword is in the collection of the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds City Museum and will receive its Australian premiere at the ACP.
  Two films in the program, Erota Afini (1973) and Vistasound (1981), use a rigorous metrical image structure to investigate the scope of readings of cinematic images. Erota Afini comes to us from the Lux archive in London and its screening involves a ‘performance for projectionist’. Vistasound (in a never-before-seen 3-screen version), will be installed in the ACP galleries between 6pm and 7.30pm. Also on the bill is the Standard 8 1968 work Three Women of Bristol, a film thought long lost, re-discovered in 2006.
  We are very pleased to be able to present Mike’s film-performance-lecture Image Con Text, as it resonates strongly with the aims of the Teaching and Learning Cinema: that watching films should be a discursive activity - cinema should not merely be passive consumption of moving images.

  The screening is hosted by the Teaching and Learning Cinema. For specific details see the websites:
  www.teachingandlearningcinema.org,
  www.acp.au.com.
  For further information contact Louise Curham This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it 0412 271 612

Babyboomer

• Creativity & Cognition 2007 Tutorial

  Posted: February 20th, 2007, 11:32am EST by Linda

  A proposal for a one day tutorial called ‘Understanding and Evaluating Creativity’ to be given at Creativity & Cognition 2007 was successful. Linda Candy and Zafer Bilda are joint presenters.

  The aim of the tutorial is to provide the participants with an understanding of the significance of creativity for interaction design and to give guidance about the design and evaluation of systems with respect to their role in creativity support. Participants will also be provided with tools for analyzing and evaluating situations in which creative engagement and interaction may be taking place.

  OBJECTIVES ARE:
  • Provide up to date knowledge about creativity from research and practice
  • Provide an understanding of the significance of creativity for interaction design
  • Provide guidance for the design and evaluation of creativity support tools
  • Provide an overview of methods, tools and techniques for observing creative activities
  • Describe a video based methodology for demystifying creative processes
  • Engage participants in exercises for studying and analyzing creativity and creativity support

  Creativity and Cognition 2007

Legart

• Book chapter: Experimental Film and Video

  Posted: December 6th, 2006, 2:24pm EST by Mike

  I wrote a chapter for this recently published book about 18 months ago. In common with most of the other 30 odd contributors, using notes made for the production film and video artworks in Britain between the late 60s and mid 80s, I have reflected on that activity from the contemporary context. However, the focus of the book is on the screen cultures of cinema and film / video installation. Whilst most refer to digital media, only myself and Chris Welsby actually raise the issue of audience interactivity and presence. As an exposition by many of the artists responsible for British film and video art of the 70s, it is not only an exemplar of reflective research but also a useful source book for the domain.

  

  From Dr Jackie Hatfield’s Introduction chapter:

  Since the 1960s Mike Leggett has made key works across film, performance, video and digital media, and has practiced as a curator, writer, director, producer, photographer and computer consultant. In Image Con Text (1978-2003) Film / Performance / Video / Digital he discusses the shifts in technology from the analogue to digital (film, video, digital and computer) traversed through the series of artworks, the Image Con Text project. Leggett contextualises the complex processes of his work alongside the relative critical and philosophical debates, from the analogue technologies of film and video to interactive computer augmented multimedia.

  Leggett, M. (2006) Image Con Text (1978-2003) : Film/Performance/Video/Digital. Experimental Film and Video: an Anthology, ed Hatfield, J. John Libbey Publishing, UK. ISBN 0 86196 664 3

• Convergence article: ‘Collaboration and P-BR’

  Posted: December 5th, 2006, 1:43pm EST by Mike

  Convergence, the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, has just published (12.3) an article I wrote six months ago, called: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Practice-Based Research, and hopefully will contribute to the CCS on-going development of these ideas.

  The abstract is below and the full version is one of the Pages on my blog.
  Practice-based research and actual collaborative projects between artists and scientists have shown that knowledge about each other’s fields, whilst necessary for identifying probable outcomes of mutual benefit cannot anticipate the emergence of the possible - does knowledge in the form of written papers or experiencial artworks emerge from loose collaborations or the highly specified kind? Case studies from early 1970s video through to contemporary digital projects examine collaborations between artists, scientists and technologists and the involvement of audiences with interactive media art that will, between respondent and correspondent, create human computer interaction of a different order, a new aesthetics of interdisciplinary spaces.