Glory Box- Friday 18 to Sunday 20 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

ARTIST Howard Griffin with students from the MA Architectural Visualisation
WHERE Jarman DELETE Piazza ADD Square
WHEN  Friday, Saturday and Sunday after dusk

Presented by Howard Griffin from the School of Architecture, Glory Box celebrates a fusion of animation and architecture.  Architects constantly abstract three dimensions into two, as the act of drawing a plan creates an abstraction of the 3-dimensional space.  Projection Mapping offers an opportunity to reverse this process, projecting 2-dimensional digital data onto 3-dimensional form.  At the School of Architecture, MA Architectural Visualisation students  learn the process of projection mapping, gaining an understanding of the ways in which animation not only depicts, but interacts with architecture.  This series of short animated sequences is the conclusion of their work.
With thanks to students; Archis Achrekar, Theodora Karsiki, Aliz Kopenetz, Angela Mantilla, Thea Marshall-Behrendt, Tom Marston, Manouk Nijland, Zain Tanweer and Park Hin Yeung.

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ThinkNation: Projection of Ideas- Saturday 19 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

WHERE: Gulbenkian Cinema
WHEN: Saturday, 15:30-16:30

ThinkNation is a platform for young people to share their views alongside leading thinkers on how technology is changing the world, creating opinions and possible solutions to the challenges young people are inheriting.

ThinkNation Projection of Ideas will showcase talks and performances from the inaugural ThinkNation event that took place at the Gulbenkian in December 2015, hosted by Rick Edwards (BBC, ITV, C4), as well as a short documentary on ThinkNation. Talks include discussions on the morality and issues underlying big picture technology- including Artificial Intelligence and mortality. Screening will last for 45 minutes and will be followed by a 15 minute Q+A session with Lizzie Hodgson, Director of ThinkNation.

@thinknat / thinknation.co

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Forgetting to Resist- Saturday 19 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

ARTISTS: Richard Barnes with collaborators Dr Zara Bergstrom and the Project/Resist Team
WHERE: Outside The Gulbenkian
WHEN: Saturday 15:00-18:00

Is it possible to resist a brain scan? Can we project a new version of ourselves; even at the level of neuro-activity? These exploration of these questions point toward a radical rethinking of the relationship between politics, art and science, explored in this piece by artist Richard Barnes.

Working with Dr Zara Bergstrom, from the School of Psychology, Barnes has created an animated sequence from images and data generated by brain scanning techniques which explores the tension between conscious perception and auto suggestion. We are left wondering about the way brain activity is presented to us as the truth of who we are, and whether or not we can ‘learn to forget’ if we want to resist the images of what we have become?

Project/Resist is made up of Chris Henry, Iain MacKenzie, Hannah Richter, Stefan Rossbach; all members of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent and connected to the MA in Political Theory and Practices of Resistance.

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A Common Darkness: Black Box- Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

ARTIST: Richard Misek
WHERE: Jennison Production Studio
WHEN: Saturday and Sunday 14:00-20:00

Black Box is a four-screen video installation, a collage of some of the visually darkest scenes in film history. Made from light, but eschewing it, the video provides a counterbalance to the festival’s surrounding illumination. Darkened rooms and windowless cellars, deep forests and caves, outer space and inner spaces, abstract spaces and graphic spaces… under cover of darkness, and with the support of a seamless soundtrack, all merge into a single cinematic space of indistinct activity. Variously crowded and empty, violent and peaceful, erotic and reflective, this tenebrous on-screen space itself merges into the darkness of the black box studio in which it is screened: the cinematic darkness spills beyond the frame to create an immersive black space where image and imagination coexist.

Richard Misek is a filmmaker, and lecturer in digital arts at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts.

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A Secret History of Music Video- Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

ARTIST Murray Smith
WHERE Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 (and TV screens across campus)
WHEN Sunday 15.30-17.30

Surf to the nearest available music video channel, and you’ll probably find yourself watching some pretty familiar and predictable stuff – the same two or three basic visual ideas endlessly recycled. If you look hard enough, though, the history of music promos – and music sequences in feature films – reveals a much more diverse array of experiments in the fusion of music and film. A Secret History of Music Video, curated by Murray Smith, Professor of Film in the School of Arts, picks out one path through this neglected field of audio-visual exploration.​

A Secret History of Music Video will run as a silent loop on various monitors around campus in the days leading up to the festival, arriving on the big screen, with big sound, on Sunday.

Screens can be found in College Receptions, Tanglewood Reception, Park Wood Reception, Keynes Atrium, K-Bar, Rutherford at the top of the stairs to dining hall, Sports Café, Origins, Darwin Atrium and Hut 8.

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Listen to the voice of the bard: Rhys Trimble, projecting Kent- Saturday 19 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

WHERE: Meet at the Gulbenkian box office
WHEN: Saturday 15:00- 16:30 walk and workshop

Saturday 18:30- 20:00 walk and performance

Join poet Rhys Trimble for a series of readings, walks and collaborations in Canterbury’s woodland. At 15:00 Rhys will lead a 20 minute walk into woodland to a secret outdoor location, where he will lead an open workshop, and collaborative investigation of creative writing, inspired by the surroundings. Workshop is open to all ages and writing experience.

The walk will take place again at 18:30, where Rhys will perform and present the results of the creative writing workshop. 

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Bio-Art: A digital exploration of bioscience- Saturday 19 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

WHEN: Saturday 14:00-20:00
WHERE: Create Cafe, Marlowe Building

Science meets art in this exhibition, which celebrates the work of staff and students in the School of Biosciences. This collection of images, each generated through engagement with current research, showcases the beauty in scientific data.

The exhibition aims to shed some light on laboratory life and the process of discovery in the biological sciences. Every image shown has a story to tell, and explores cutting edge research in the fields of biomedical science, biochemistry, genetics and biotechnology. In addition to introducing new and interesting concepts at the forefront of scientific research, the exhibition aims to encourage the viewer to explore their own perspectives on art within the context of the biological sciences. This series of projections celebrate just a few examples of the intricate patterns, and the beautiful shapes and colours that are inherent in the exploration of nature’s processes – whether at a molecular, cellular or at a larger scale.

Images selected by Wei-Feng Xue and Dan Lloyd, members of academic staff from the School of Biosciences.

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Vanessa and Me- Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

WHEN Saturday and Sunday 14:00-20:00
WHERE Rutherford Lecture Theatre 2

This video and sound installation reflects on the way that images of women have been and continue to be projected in modern and contemporary art. Drawing upon the artist’s involvement in a controversial gallery project by contemporary artist Vanessa Beecroft, this evocative installation invites the viewer to consider how the male gaze functions and how ideas of femininity and womanhood are constructed in the contemporary world.

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Build Your Own Beamer Workshop- Sunday 20 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

WHERE: The Venue
WHEN: Sunday 16:00-19:00

Turn your mobile phone into a DIY projector with just a paperclip, a shoebox and a magnifying glass. Just drop in to this workshop, and we’ll provide materials (£2 suggested donation) and someone to show you how. The workshop is suitable for all ages. Over 18s are welcome to come to the Bring Your Own Beamer event, starting at 19:00 at The Venue, where you will be able use the projector you’ve made in the workshop.

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Make your own Animation Workshop- Saturday 19 March

Posted on February 21, 2016 by ehf

WHERE: Jarman Studio 6
WHEN: Saturday, 15:00-17:00

Come and learn how to make your own stop-motion animation and mutoscope – a hand-operated early motion picture device operating on the same principle as flipbooks. Suitable for ages 6 – 9 years. Workshop lasts for two hours. First come first served. Free of charge and materials provided.

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