Dirty New Media photos
Here’s a selection of photos taken by Pete Ashton for Dirty New Media.
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Dirty New Media
Dirty New Media took place on Thursday 21st March at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. It was one of the most adventurous exhibitions that I’ve curated!
Thanks go out to:
- The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, for taking a chance and including something wildly different to their usual programme
- Vivid Projects, for asking me to curate this exhibition
- University of Birmingham for including Dirty New Media as part of their Arts and Science Festival, and for including videos in their Illuminate outdoor projections
- Pete Ashton, Sam Underwood, Leon Trimble and Ben Neal for providing lots of support and equipment at the last minute
- Keith Dodds, for his awesome work on the programme and other graphic design
- All of the performers, lecture-deliverers and artists that got involved (more below)
- And last, but not least, thanks to you, the audience, for travelling from the far reaches of England to attend Dirty New Media! You helped to make it a success!
Here’s a list of all of the works/pieces/artists included in the programme, should you want to check out more:
Dirty New Media preview: 1_approach.dnm: (inter)active viewership in dirty new media
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival.
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Shawne Holloway + Steven Hammer - 1_approach.dnm: (inter)active viewership in dirty new media
The invisibility of various technologies, interfaces, and wares, via their often seductive and seamless interfaces, fosters a kind of cultural ocularcentrism[1] vis-a-vis capitalist consumerism. Dirty New Media (DNM) seeks to disengage our perception of screen-based activity from the two-dimensional, and critique material production of objects and systems that produce, curate, and guide reception of various texts.
Dirty New Media preview: A/V Performances
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
AV Performances | 7-10pm
Minuek
Circuit Ben
Norah Lorway
Meta
Dirty New Media // REVOLUTION 02
THURSDAY 21 MARCH | 4-10PM | THE BARBER INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM
An engaging day of performances and interactive installations from digital artists, hacktivists and new media explorers from the West Midlands, Chicago and beyond. Artworks take the form of hacked and customised hardware, accessories, demos, lectures, data-mangling, projection and more!
Dirty New Media preview: Screenings part 2
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
Screenings | 6-7pm
Modulate - O>L>S
Description: A short audio visual journey exploring abstract narrative, movement, shape, colour, non verbal expression and spatial awareness. Sounds sourced from “The Octophonic Loop System"8.1 sound installation by Bobby Bird /Modulate, commissioned by Francisco Lopez.
Dirty New Media preview: Screenings part 3
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
Screenings | 6-7pm
Michael Lightborne - What Did The Duck Say To The Pig?
A stupid joke, told badly.
Bryan Peterson - [Dirty] inputs/processes.outputs
Appropriated Phil Morton video, twisted and built through analog video mixers
Dirty New Media preview: Exhibition part 3
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
Exhibition | 4-10pm
Jamie Boulton - C:\Users\5629a7\Pictures\IDDisplay.jpg
> Applying reality safeguards… > Discarding morality values… > Deactivating motivation protocol… > Accessing Internet Database… > Initialising… > Ready.
URRRGH - __KWEEN_CLARISSURRRGH, __YOUCHOOB_4_EVA, __ALADDINZ_CAT
Dirty New Media preview: Lectures
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
Lectures | 4-6pm
Jon Cates - WTF?! is D1RTY N3W M3DI∆?!
Dan O’Hara - An Irregular and Spasmodic History of Glitches and other Systemic Stutterings
Glitches interrupt the smooth realism of our mediated experience of the everyday world, from malfunctioning train announcement boards to distorted video streams and white noise in our phone calls. But is it only machines that glitch, or does ‘glitching’ exist in nature too?
Dirty New Media preview: Optical Theremin Workshop
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
Workshop | 12-2pm
Optical Theremin workshop with Circuit Ben
An optical theremin is a motion-operated instrument, based on an LM386 op-amp chip, we’ll be building them from scratch, learning the basic principles behind audio manipulation using voltage, and making some unholy racket! No soldering experience necessary.
Dirty New Media preview: Screenings part 1
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
Screenings | 6-7pm
Theodore Darst - Approach
Following a group shows’ theme of “home in the digital age”, Approach utilizes 3D modeling software to create a private digital sculpture garden textured, in part, with personal screenshots.
Dirty New Media preview: Exhibition part 1
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
Exhibition | 4-10pm
Kate Pemberton - Tracert
Tracert (pronounced trace route) is an examination of how traditional craft ideas translate into the modern multi-media networked world. A sampler has been cross-stitched by hand from a transposed graphic of a tracert DOS command.
Dirty New Media preview: Exhibition part 2
Dirty New Media will be making its way to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts on 21st March as part of the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science Festival. Over the week I’ll be providing an overview of the upcoming event.
Exhibition | 4-10pm
Dec Ackroyd - Cityscape #46
Cityscape #46 image is from a series of GIF based images that are made to resemble city skylines, the images are created using digitally broken image files
Dirty New Media, 21.03.2013
An engaging day of performances and interactive installations from digital artists, hacktivists and new media explorers from the West Midlands, Chicago and beyond. Artworks take the form of hacked and customised hardware, accessories, demos, lectures, data-mangling, projection and more!
This eclectic, expectation bending event is presented by Vivid Projects in association with artist/curator Antonio Roberts and The Barber institute of Fine Arts.
