Site specific Installations - Commissions - Projections and Video Tapes
Still from video documentation of "Sunbeam", 2011.
The University of Central Lancashire has released a short film to coincide with this event, which has been posted on Youtube and can be viewed by clicking on this link.
The Digital Aesthetic 3, 2012 Conference and Exhibitions at the Harris Museum and the PR1 Gallery in Preston opened on Friday, Oct 5th. We celebrated with a wonderful dinner at Heathcotes Brasserie on the Friday evening. Artists at this table include Mary Lucier, Peter Campus, Kathleen Graves, Paul Harrison and Terry Flaxton. There are more images of the dinner on my facebook page.
DA 3 opening dinner at Heathcotes, Oct 5th, 2012
I have posted the transcript of an interview I made with Sei Kazama and Hatsune Ohtsu during my visit to Tokyo in 2010. Click this link to view the text.
Sei Kazama and Hatsune Ohtsu
Click on the link for info on the forthcoming Digital Aesthetic 3, 2012 exhibitions and symposium, beginning Oct 5th-Dec 31st, 2012.
Peter Callas, Postscript, digital print on photographic paper, 261.15 cm x 86 cm, 2004
On Aug 10th and 11th, I participated in “Welcome to the Treasuredome”, showing a 16 minute time-lapse of the City of London recorded over seven days from the top of the Monument. The work was specially edited by Stuart Moore of Sundog Media with a music track by Chris Bush and shown in the ICCI (Innovation for Creative and Cultural Industries) 360 dome as part of the Cultural Olympiad in Weymouth, Dorset.
Outside the ICCI Dome, Aug 12th, 2012
Monument 360 inside the dome
My current site-specific project “In Darwin’s Garden” will be profiled in an on line exhibition which will be presented during August. For further information and details click on this link.
This event includes a screening on July 28th of Still Life With Monitor, an early single-screen videotape I made in 1984, selected by Adam Lockhart at Rewind.
I have
just posted the transcript of an interview I made with Michael Goldberg in Tokyo during Oct 2010, in the writings section of my web site. Considered by many to be the “Godfather of Japanese video art”, he is also the author of The Accessible Portapack Manual, and one of the co-founders of “Video In”, Vancouver.
I’m happy to be able to announce that our applications for funding to Arts Council England and the Lancashire County Council for the DA3 exhibition and symposium have been successful!
On Thursday I spent an interesting day working with artist and film maker Stuart Moore of Sundog Media in Plymouth, who with Kayla Parker has developed an exciting project to produce a series of 360 degree panoramic projections (Welcome to the Treasuredome) for the ICCI (Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries) which will be screened during Aug 2012 in a specially constructed dome structure incorporating 5 data projectors and surround sound as part of the Cultural Olympiad. We have been working with a 15 minute HD time-lapse sequence that was recorded during The Monument Project (2009-2011), and will include a specially commissioned music track by composer Chris Bush.
Stuart Moore working on the sequence at Sundog Media in Plymouth
Still image from Monument time lapse sequence.