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This blog has been set up in connection with the forthcoming Erasure exhibition of digital art at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in early 2011. This will be the first exhibition of its kind in the gallery, and we’d like to make it feel very different to the usual displays. Sound, light, movement, interaction – all of these are possible elements.
Rather than just set up the exhibition and select work for it, we are keen to involve local artists and students in the process. Our general theme is erasure and the effects it leaves behind, specifically in the context of digital media. But this is just a starting point. We want you to develop this in whatever direction you want. We will commission one piece of art, and ask others to produce their own responses to it. Some of these submissions will be selected for display in the gallery alongside the commissioned piece.
It goes further, however. We’d like contributors to agree that their digital work can be utilised and cannibalised in turn by others, and some of these second and third generation works will also be displayed.
We’d like this blog to be a forum for discussion, to help set the parameters for the exhibition. Feel free to comment on any of the posts, or register and contribute your own posts.
This looks like a really exciting project. I like the idea of by taking something away from a subject you can also add to it to create something new.
hey there, this sounds very interesting indeed. how would one go about getting involved?
thanks
-matty
Hi Matty, welcome to Leave No Trace. Glad you think it sounds interesting. Send me an e-mail with your contact details, to mail [at] notrace.org.uk, and I’ll let you know when we start this project properly. I hope it will be soon. In the meantime, keep checking the blog, and feel free to register as a contributor and post your thoughts about digital art. Cheers,
Alec.
Hi …. Happy New Year!! I have eventually managed to log in to the blog and have a look around. I too am very excited about the prospect of this opportunity. To have a chance to explore and create an interactive digital movement installation with filmed aspects, sound scape and live streams which alter the overall installation. Where parts are visible and invisible, appear and disappear depending on the interaction. It would be so cool to exhibit interactive digital art in the potteries, at such a fantastic venue. I grew up in Stoke, had my first real date in the museum….. would love the opportunity to encourage more young people to come and use the space (perhaps not for dating) interact with it, get excited about it too! Filmed aspects of the overall installation and the processes of interaction could form a spin off project and provide content for further works. This project could potentially bring together people from across the city, schools, groups, dance styles…. even form new groups out of it! Very vibrant and exciting!! See you at the meeting tonight to develop further. Cheers, Lisa
Hi Lisa, welcome to the blog, and Happy New Year to you too! I’m glad you’re so enthusiastic about this exhibition. I’m looking forward to seeing your ideas and proposals. (By the way, since you say you had your first real date at the museum, have you been to see the current Romantic Proposal exhibtion here? You could also post about that date on the Romatic Proposal blog: http://www.romanticproposal.org.uk!)