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> From: [email protected]
> Date: Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:13:58 AM US/Eastern
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: New Media Scotland @ the Edinburgh Festival
>
> New Media Scotland presents two projects during the Edinburgh Festival:
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> Mike Stubbs - Strapline Generator
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> Rebrand your local area through HOST
> http://host.mediascot.org
>
> 8 August 2003, Stills, Edinburgh - Launch event in association with
> product. magazine. Further details at http://www.mediascot.org
>
> Strapline Generator is a playful yet poignant social observation on
> the current phenomenon of city branding as a strategy of marketing and
> regeneration. Strapline Generator asks viewers to respond to a series
> of questions on their local area and then creates slogans or
> 'straplines'.
>
> Strapline Generator is part of HOST, a space on the New Media Scotland
> web site dedicated to projects by artists. A Strapline Generator
> project page features in the fiction issue of product. magazine
> http://www.product.org.uk
>
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> Crossing Over Time
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>
> Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003: Official Selection as part
> of "The New Europe". UK Premiere of Crossing Over Time, a New Media
> Scotland touring video programme selected by Chris Byrne.
>
> 14 August 2003, Filmhouse, Edinburgh
> http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk
>
> For further details and to download the Crossing Over Time trailer
> visit http://www.mediascot.org
>
> What happened to the post-Cold War dream of transition to democracy in
> a new Europe? 23 inspirational short films which display by turns
> humour, dazzling visual inventiveness and bold attitude. Diverse
> storylines include a vertigo-defying journey down the outside of a
> Zagreb tower block; Call centre workers scripted into a music video
> drama; Comradeship between Siberian and Appalachian coal miners; and
> Andres Serrano's infamous 'Piss Christ' recreated through performance
> art.
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> Strapline Generator - Context
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>
> Strapline Generator is a complement to research into branding
> statements used by cities around the UK, and the practices and
> expectations of city marketing. The work forms part of Stubbs' City
> Strapline Industries project commissioned by Forma for an exhibition
> at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in 2004.
>
> HOST is a space on the New Media Scotland web site dedicated to
> projects by artists. Earlier projects also available to view on HOST
> feature a range of Scottish and international artists including
> slateford, Katrina McPherson & Simon Fildes, *candy factory, Luci
> Eyers, Dane, Torsten Lauschmann, Lindsay Perth, Claude Closky and
> Roshini Kempadoo.
>
> Strapline Generator made in collaboration with Dan Norton. Research
> assisted by Rachel Priestman. Supported by Forma, Arts Council
> England, Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, School of Television &
> Imaging at University of Dundee, & New Media Scotland. The Strapline
> Generator launch event is part of a double launch event with the
> fiction issue of product. Launch event supported by New Media
> Scotland, Stills, product. magazine, Newhaven, Tennents.
>
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> Crossing Over Time - Context
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>
> Crossing Over Time features works by international artists,
> commissioned between 1996 and 2001 for the Crossing Over residency
> projects, co-curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Nina Czegledy.
>
> Since its inception in 1996, the Crossing Over project has produced 47
> new moving image works. The post-Cold War dream of transformation and
> the cross-cultural metaphor of the journey are recurring themes in the
> Crossing Over shorts. Crossing Over crossed the globe from Sofia, Novi
> Sad, Ljubliana, Columbus, and Liverpool.
>
> The programme features works by Lala Rasic (Croatia), Herb E. Smith
> (USA), Krassimir Terziev (Bulgaria), Phil Collins (UK), Alexander
> Battista Ilic (Croatia), Dimitrina Sevova (Bulgaria), Antal Bodozcky
> (Hungary), Paul Rooney (UK), Baza (Yugoslavia), Boryana Dragoeva
> (Bulgaria), Gaspar Csongor (Romania), Susan B. Halpern (USA),
> Tsvetelina Gancheva (Bulgaria), Barbara Konopka (Poland), Maria
> Natasha Stukoff (Switzerland/UK), Ivan Mudov (Bulgaria), Mare Tralla
> (Estonia), Chris Speed (UK), Mary-Avril Gillan (Ireland), Levente
> Sipos (Hungary), Mike Kash (USA)
>
> Crossing Over Time is a New Media Scotland touring programme, funded
> by the National Touring Programme of Arts Council England. Crossing
> Over Time is available to tour to venues in the UK and
> internationally. Please contact us at the address below for hire
> details.
>
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> For further information on Straplines or Crossing Over Time contact:
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> [email protected]
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> New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774
> P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775
> Scotland, UK http://www.mediascot.org
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