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A choice of workshops and discussions:
Kooj Chuhan (video, music and digital media artist) will discuss and demonstrate
the impact and potential new technologies can have on community arts projects. MASS TECHNOLOGY : MASS IDEOLOGY : MASS CONTROL : MASSIVE YUK!
WEVH: How technology can empower community groups. This workshop will explore practical examples of how community groups have been able to use information and communications technologies for networking, sharing information and creating their own presence on the Net. Aimed at women with little or no previous experience, the workshop will include hands-on exercises as well as demonstrations.
MITER (Manchester Institute for Telematics and Employment Research): 53 degrees is Manchester_s first database-driven website built for artists to showcase their work in a virtual audio/visual gallery. We are offering an opportunity for artists interested in showing their work on the 53degrees site to attend our workshop.
Information: Kim Bour. Tel. (0161) 908 0534 email: kim@cyspace.co.uk.
IDEA will give an informal workshop on web and CD-ROM building software. Participants can discover and explore the Internet and to try software currently taught at IDEA (including Macromedia Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks & HTML). A chance to register for their GO Getting Online course, see IDEA trainee work and register for other future training opportunities.
Tadpole with David Coyne: Adobe Photoshop and scanner taster/demonstration.
"Instant transportation to the destination of your choice. The com.art.99 molecule breakdown and reconstruction machine. Visit your favourite city or another world!"
Other treats will include:
Gramscis Bug has entered into the system creating turbulence - leading somewhere and it ends in 00. An interactive quest for an elusive answer, stored on a single disc and hidden somewhere in the city. To find it examine the history of the last 99 years. Make the connections. Crack the codes. Also available free on CD-ROM, via www.gramscisbug.com and selected venues (see digital summer 99 brochure for details: tel. (0161) 232 9671).
Visit the Dark Side of the Pie: During Youth Work Week 1998, 150 young people from Wigan embarked on creating a Virtual Reality Time Capsule, the culmination of which is a CD-ROM with a whole host of information, poetry, news stories, original music and photographs that are a snapshot of 1998. Come and find out about the process we went through and explore the Dark Side of the Pie.
Stretford High School showing their work with the Halli Orchestra on CD-ROM.
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