Festival of Projections

WHERE: Darkroom, Eliot and Stanley Holland Room, Eliot Cloisters
WHEN: Sunday 10:00-16:00

Led by artists from Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film (BEEF) this one-day workshop will focus on various strategies in and out of the darkroom for creating short 16mm film loops for installation or performance. In the morning, we will learn DIY methods for exposing and hand-processing printed loops from negative, to be used in conjunction with photogram, scratching, and other mark-making techniques. In the afternoon, we will explore splicing, loop-making, installing, and performative projection strategies. Participants from the ‘Negative’ workshop are invited to use their hand-processed negatives; for anyone else found footage negatives will be provided.

This is the second of two, one-day workshops. No previous experience with filmmaking is needed for either workshop, and you are welcome to book for just one workshop, or both.

The cost of one workshop is £20, and £35 for both. To book go to store.kent.ac.uk and search for Projections.
There is a Bring Your Own Beamer event on Sunday evening at 19:00, which participants are welcome to attend, with Matt and Marcy, to project work created in the workshops.

WHERE: Darkroom, Eliot and Stanley Holland Room, Eliot Cloisters
WHEN: Saturday 10:00-16:00

Led by artists from Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film (BEEF) this one-day workshop introduces the Bolex, a clockwork 16mm film camera loved by generations of filmmakers from documentary makers to animators to artists. In the morning, participants will learn to shoot short rolls of black & white film. Thought will be given to the imaginative negotiations of the constraints of this machine by artists such as Andy Warhol, Maya Deren and others. In the afternoon, we will divide into small groups to develop the film using Lomo tanks in the darkroom.

This is the first of two, one-day workshops. No previous experience with filmmaking is needed for either workshop, and you are welcome to book for just one workshop, or both.

The cost of one workshop is £20, and £35 for both. To book go to store.kent.ac.uk and search for Projections.
There is a ‘Bring Your Own Beamer’ event on Sunday evening at 19:00, which participants are welcome to attend, with Matt and Marcy, to project work created in the workshops.

WHERE: Pollard room, Eliot Cloister
WHEN Saturday and Sunday, 14:00-20:00

H0₩ CAN I €A$€ ¥0UR MIND ₩ITH0UT L¥ING springs from the same source material as The Cube, referencing a letter written by one of eight young people who disappeared in Idaho in 1959 and in particular a mention of ‘Manfred’, a young man with autism who stopped talking. Sit down in the comfortable chair and allow yourself to be told a story without words, in 360 degrees and quadraphonic surround sound. This is a chance to experience Circa 69’s latest virtual reality work, which is a work in progress due to premiere later this year Mutek Festival, Montreal.

WHERE: Peter Bird room, Chilver room and Taylor room, Eliot Cloister
WHEN Saturday and Sunday, 14:00-20:00

You awake to find yourself sitting at a table across from a stranger, your friends gone, faced with the question, ‘how do you build a reality which doesn’t collapse within three days?’

Based on the true story of one of history’s strangest mass disappearances, The Cube combines multi-sensory virtual reality performance with the age old art of storytelling, and places you at the heart of the story, in the role of one of ‘the disappeared’. This multi-platform one-on-one performance work by veteran immersive media artist Simon Wilkinson combines games engine technology with virtual reality and live performance to create a truly transmedia narrative experience. Funded by Arts Council England with additional support from Cambridge Junction and The Old Market.

WHERE Across The City
WHEN Friday 19:00-19:30

Future Signals is a morse code conversation between the University and the city of Canterbury, using beams of light from signal lamps to send messages. The project has been created in collaboration with Dr Chao Wang, from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts.

In celebration of the University’s 50th anniversary, Future Signals will look to the next 50 years, with public figures transmitting a short hope, wish or aspiration for the next half century – their projections for the future in just 5 words projected through morse code.

Everyone in Canterbury is invited to respond to the message by turning their lights on and off manually three times, to signal “R” (in morse code, ‘received as transmitted’). The city’s response will be led by a signal lamp at Canterbury Cathedral. Everyone in Canterbury can join in – by flicking bedside lamps on and off,  pointing torches pointing out of windows, and shining phones at the sky.

At the same time as the morse code messages flash across the dark sky, we will be transmitting the messages via radio. Tune in at 7pm to CSRfm on csrfm.com / 97.4fm to hear the messages.

Future Signals closes with everyone flashing their lights six times in unison to signal “SK” (in morse code, ‘end of transmission’).

With thanks for support to Questions of Space: a Festival of Ideas, 20-22 June 2016. In a new collaboration in response to the topic of space (architectural space, private space, sacred space, public space, acoustic space, communal space) University of Kent humanities researchers will discover and open up to the public the secret spaces of Canterbury Cathedral, guided by those who inhabit this extraordinary place as clergy, craftspeople, conservators, guides and educators.