Events Archive

Sexed Robots - Paul Granjon

Monday October 23rd to Saturday November 4th
Lighthouse, Brighton

Always good for a dirty weekend, Brighton played host to Paul Granjon’s infamous ‘Sexed Robots’. The cyber fornicators resided in the Lighthouse building from October 23rd to November 4th as part of the digital festival. These two autonomous wheeled platforms are fitted with nylon genitalia to explore their environment, seeking their partner in order to mate. Commissioned for the Venice Bienalle 2005, their first visit to the UK was courtesy of Brighton organisation Blip.

Station House Opera - The Other is You

Wednesday 1 - Sunday 5 November and Wednesday 8 – Sunday 12 November 2006
Brighton Fringe - The Basement, Brighton

A play in Europe – the Netherlands, Germany and England. Nine people from the continent perform together in one single production. Three audiences, one in each city, experience the performance simultaneously. A basement in Brighton, a school in Groningen and a café in Berlin merge to become a fourth imaginary space. Station House Opera’s extraordinary new show is performed at the same moment across Europe. Projected live from each city onto three screens above the actors, a narrative unfolds, immediate, unpredictable and alive. As the three cities merge into one, relationships form across countries. Berliners visit the sea-front and Brighton gains a canal. Languages and lovers cross over and involve us in a live puzzle. Rehearsed and performed over the internet by a company of actors who only ever meet in cyberspace, The Other is You is the latest ground-breaking project by experimental performance company Station House Opera, with HAU Berlin and Grand Theatre Groningen.

Pyrophonic!

Friday 3 November 2006
The Old Market, Hove

Pyrophonic! A live performance by musicians and visual artists commissioned by Lighthouse and Blip. The first spark was provided by Paul Granjon who demonstrated primitive fire-making technology and sang a couple of songs with his home-made machines. This was followed by several short sets that fanned the flames through a combination of improvised music and computer-generated sound. Ollie Bown and Sam Britton (Icarus) joined Tom Arthurs, Maurizio Ravalico and Lothar Ohlmeier, united by common interests in improvisation and electronic music. In the final set, Squint and Brittski added visual fuel to the mix with their unique blend of 16mm footage and looped video and slides.

dSCAPE/06 - Portfolio Clinic

Tuesday 7 November 2006
Fabrica, Brighton

The portfolio clinic was an opportunity for digital media creatives to get advice from the region's most successful creatives. The evening was aimed at the established and emerging digerati, including multimedia design students, recent graduates, freelancers and those in the industry looking to develop their careers. Representatives from animation, web design, games and e-learning companies were on hand to talk about how their companies have succeeded and what they look for in potential new employees. For those that bring portfolios there was invaluable advice on how to snare that sparkling career.
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dSCAPE/06 - Animation Night

Wednesday 8 November 2006
Fabrica, Brighton

New for 2006, the African animation night celebrates the role of internationalism in digital art by showcasing work from a sector typically dominated by American and European artists.

Paula Callus (from the National Centre for Computer Animation, at Bournemouth University) and Tessa Lewin (from Lighthouse) curated the programme which had its premiere night at the Brighton Digital Festival.

Having taught and worked in Africa, animators Paula and Tessa showcased a collection that represented the various styles and content they encountered in the past 2/3 years. Much of the work has not previously been screened outside its country of origin.
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Brighton And Hove Web Awards

Thursday 9 November 2006
Fabrica, Brighton

Affectionately known as the digital city, Brighton and Hove has over 500 websites produced in and about local lifestyles. Websites for businesses, communities, artists, galleries, school, bands, pubs, news and everything in between make up the rich digital fabric of the innovative city.

The Brighton and Hove Web Awards, now in its sixth year, celebrated the creative talent behind local businesses and recognised the effort put into creating slick, user friendly websites. The glittering Oscar-style awards were voted for by members of the public and then judged by a panel of industry experts.
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dSCAPE/06 - Designers Night

Friday 10 November 2006
Fabrica, Brighton

Designers Night was about giving designers the space and freedom to showcase their finest work while allowing them to discuss the creative drive and inspiration behind their presented piece. The night captured the essence of local talent while celebrating this very unique and creative community that inspires pioneering design and innovation, in all its many forms.
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D-Fuse - UNDERCURRENT

Psrt of Cinecity
Saturday 18 - Sunday 26 November 2006
weekdays 4-8pm
weekend 12- 8pm
Lighthouse, Brighton

Undercurrent brings together sound and visual artists based in the UK and China in a cross-continental collaboration. The project feeds from a pool of audio, video and photographic material collected by D-Fuse from cities in both countries.This is being re-interpreted in response to questions of urban architecture, economic and social change as well as our personal relations to the space that surrounds us. Undercurrent is a multi-screened, mmersive environment of high-resolution video/images and sound.

Running Stitch

Saturday 18 November - 17 December 2006
Fabrica, Brighton

For the past four years Jen Hamilton and Jen Southern have been using GPS (global positioning systems) technology to explore urban environments. GPS devices can detect exactly where someone is on the planet in terms of latitude and longitude by receiving satellite data. During Running Stitch, visitors to Fabrica will be given the opportunity to take a GPS-enabled mobile phone with them to track their journeys through the centre of Brighton. The resulting individual GPS drawings of the visitor's movements will be projected live in the gallery disclosing aspects of the city unknown to the artists. These routes will subsequently be retraced and combined to form an evolving tapestry that reveals a sense of place and connectiveness. Running Stitch will create a live map that shows how the patterns of our lives are reflected in the streets and urban spaces we occupy.

Fast Forward

Tuesday 28 November 2006
Lighthouse, Brighton

Fast Forward is a new seminar series devoted to contemporary issues and ideas related to the artists' moving image and digital arts co-presented by Lighthouse, Screen Archive South East, Videoclub and Wired Sussex. As Head of Exhibitions at the BFI, Michael Connor is leading the development of a new exhibition space dedicated to artists' film, video, and new media within the new BFI Southbank complex in London that opens to the public in February 2007. He will discuss this new development and consider why the moving image is transforming the nature of contemporary art.
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