[spectre] REMOTE

[Chris Byrne]

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REMOTE
new media artists respond to the Scottish Highlands
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The Iona Gallery, Kingussie, Inverness-shire
Exhibition: 4-16 November 2002
Open Mon-Fri 1-5pm Sat 10am-12pm. Admission free

What happens when urban realism and rural romanticism collide?

An exhibition featuring seven artists invited to respond to the 
physical and social environments in the Cairngorms through 
residencies in the area during Summer 2002.

Thomson & Craighead will exhibit new work 'The Price of Freedom' - a 
modified book form appropriating lines from John Barbour's epic poem, 
'The Bruce', as domain names offered for sale; and 'Making a case for 
the twinning of Newtonmore and Las Vegas', an open public letter 
accessible online.

r a d i o q u a l i a's 'listening_stations' project resulted from a 
residency at makrolab - a temporary art and science laboratory 
located near Blair Atholl during the summer of 2002. The work is part 
of ongoing research to make audible via an online radio station 
astronomy signals intercepted from space, including the planet 
Jupiter and the Sun.

Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson, both based in Newtonmore, are 
showing a number of projects including an interactive sound 
sculpture, web-journeys and found objects inspired by the A889 road 
from Dalwhinnie to Laggan, dubbed 'the most dangerous road in 
Britain'.

Cavan Convery, presents 'Ground Truth' - an on-line Geographical 
Information System of data, collected by a remote roving platform 
that records images and sound, overlaid on an extraordinary 3-D 
contour map of the Cairngorms offering sentimental personal 
discoveries.

=46ollowing the exhibition, the works can be experienced as part of 
HOST, New Media Scotland's online project space at 
http://host.mediascot.org

Artists' Talk: 3-5pm, Saturday 16 November 2002.
Refreshments provided. Admission free.
Chair: Dr Anna Paterson, writer and journalist, University of St 
Andrews. Author of 'Scotland's Landscape: Endangered Icon' (Polygon, 
2002).

=46urther information at http://www.mediascot.org

REMOTE is a collaboration between New Media Scotland and Highland 
Research, Newtonmore. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council; 
Highland Council; Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey Enterprise; Highlands 
& Islands Enterprise Broadband 4 Business; Scottish Natural Heritage; 
makrolab; Dalwhinnie Distillery.

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REMOTE Forum
exploring the geography of new media culture
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11am-4pm, Monday 18 November 2002, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Tickets =A310 / =A35 concessions. Lunch and refreshments provided. 
Pre-booking essential. Please contact The Fruitmarket Gallery on tel: 
0131 225 2383 or email: education@fruitmarket.co.uk

A one-day forum, gathering together leading media academics and 
writers Lev Manovich and Sean Cubitt as well as REMOTE artists 
Thomson & Craighead,
r a d i o q u a l i a, Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson, and Cavan 
Convery. Chaired by Sarah Cook and Chris Byrne, the presentations and 
discussions will question popular notions of urban monopoly on new 
technologies, and the construct of 'rural' as being 'remote.'

=46urther information at http://www.mediascot.org

REMOTE Forum is a collaboration between New Media Scotland and The 
=46ruitmarket Gallery. Curated by Iliyana Nedkova and supported by the 
Scottish Arts Council; University of Waikato, New Zealand; Moray, 
Badenoch & Strathspey Enterprise; Institute of Contemporary Art, 
London; Dalwhinnie Distillery.
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