[spectre] Project Features|| Feb'05 featuring Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson

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"Project Features"
<http://features.nmartproject.net> 
is happy to present during February 2005 
its second feature: 
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Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson 
and their interactive netart piece, entitled: 
"Ardnamurchan Zillij" (2004). 
 
Between July and September 2004 Simon Fildes was New Dynamics Artist in Residence in the dispersed communities of Ardnamurchan as part of the Scottish Arts Council supported programme for Social Inclusion Partnership Communities. This was a part-time role to develop new 'new media' work with young people. Whilst staying there the award-winning video-maker Katrina McPherson worked along side Simon to create a new work called 'Ardnamurchan Zillij'.
The artists created a collaborative work with individuals from the geographically diverse groups in Ardnamurchan, Scotland . They built up a bank of over 130 digital tiles based on looping moving images. The interface allows a user to select tiles and design a constantly moving colourful mosaic of small video clips. The video clips were created by designing, choreographing and videoing the movement of individuals in the communities of Ardnamurchan and the environment around them, and reducing the clips to near abstract shapes and sounds . The idea to create an interactive moving digital mosaic was inspired by the artists fascination with Islamic Moroccan tradition which relies on geometry and endless repetition as an outlet for expression using shapes called fourmah to create intricate patterns, Zillij. Katrina and Simon were interested in exploring some cultural parallels in this non representational form of art with the west coast of Scotland. 
 
About the artists: 
Katrina McPherson 
has made many single video-dance works that have been broadcast and shown at festivals across the world; 'Moment' was awarded the prestigious 'Best Screen Choreography' award at the IMZ Dance Screen Festival. Katrina received the prestigious Creative Scotland award in 2002. As well as editing many of the video-dance works directed by Katrina. 
Simon Fildes 
is involved in the on-going development of New Media works in public spaces and in 2000 he was awarded one of the Scotland's Year of the Artist residencies. Simon has just completed two new media artist in residency projects in the Highlands of Scotland this year. In 2001 Katrina and Simon collaborated on making a web dance work 'big' for the funding scheme Alt-W at hyperchoreography.org; and made a series of works about the Scottish road A889 for the 'Remote' residencies project for New Media Scotland in 2002. They produced a new 30 minute dance film "the Truth" with Ricochet Dance Productions in 2003. In 2004 they received funding from Scottish Arts council to develop their Hyperchoreography concept further. 
 
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"Project Features"
<http://features.nmartproject.net> 
which will feature during 2005 each month
another exciting art project
using net based media for artistic expression.
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The first issue on http://features.nmartproject.net <>
was featuring is January 2005 -->
Doron Golan (USA)
and his streaming video
"Tale of Crow" (2004) 
more details on http://features.nmartproject.net <>
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"Project Features"
http://features.nmartproject.net <>
is curated by Agricola de Cologne
 
New!! 
the article on the new Italian magazin of digital culture
DigiMag01 - issue 1 - February 2005, entitled: 
"Agricola de Cologne - e la memoria virtuale"
to be found on the frontpage of 
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/ <>
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experimental platform for New Media art
operating from Cologne/Germany 
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