Day 4 - October 14

Curator: Michelle Cotton (UK), Sylvia Kouvali (GR)

ALL SAINTS GARDENS 21.30 - 22.00
CATHEDRAL GARDENS 20.30 - 21.00
EXCHANGE SQUARE 06.00 - 07.00 / 16.30 - 17.00

Titled after a chapter in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1937 dystopian novel, We Frozen Waves, five artists employing visual and textual codes familiar from the language of commerce and the information economy were invited to develop projects for Yama, a public art programme hosted via a 6m x 9m diode screen on the roof of the Marmara Pera Hotel in the centre of Istanbul. Their short works have been informed by the architecture of the screen, the Lumacom technology and the local context. The format of Frozen Waves is concerned with the role that technology plays in structuring communication, occupying what the architect Robert Venturi refers to as an ‘iconographic surface’, a façade that functions as a source of digital information that is by nature subject to renewal and change.

Frozen Waves will broadcast new work by Babak Ghazi (UK), Mustafa Hulusi (UK / Cyprus), Paul Snowden (Germany), Mark Titchner (UK) and Eva Weinmayr (UK) via publicly-sited screens in Istanbul and the UK.

Contributors:
Artist: Babak Ghazi, Work: choose1.jpg, Duration: 31s, Year: 2007

Artist: Mustafa Hulusi, Work: Expander, Duration: 1m, Year: 2007

Artist: Paul Snowden, Work: IN THE FUTURE, Duration: English version 3m 48s, Turkish version 3m 29s, Year: 2007

Artist: Mark Titchner, Work: Nope, Duration: 2m 37s, Year: 2007

Artist: Eva Weinmayr, Camera: Sylke Rene Meyer, Work: We Are Racing to God Aligning With the Shipwrecks by the Blue Galaxies. (Well, Well Do Not Exaggerate!), Duration: 4m 13s, Year: 2007

Curator: Rebecca Lennon (UK)

CATHEDRAL GARDENS 15.00 - 16.00
EXCHANGE SQUARE 07.00 - 08.00 / 23.00 - 00.00

In January 06, the BBC joined forces with a freelance digital curator, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), the Liverpool Biennial and an ever expanding network of local creative organisations to produce a programme of innovative and original, local national and international artworks for the BBC Big Screen Liverpool. This programme was called 37Seconds, based on the assumption that as you approach Clayton Square, it takes approximately 37 seconds to pass the Big Screen and capture the interest of the casual observer into pausing to watch.

Contributors:
Artist: Christian Jankowski Work: 16mm Mystery

Artist: Paul Rooney Work: On This Pitch: The song of the Street Vendor

Artist: Rose Butler Work: Platform

Artist: Eva Teppe Work: The world Is All That Is The Case

Artist: Saki Satom Work: From B to H

Artist: Mark Lewis Work: The Pitch

Artist: Semiconductor Work: All The Time in the World

Artist: Imogen Stidworthy Work: 7am

Artist: Trine Lise Nedreaas Work: Forget Me Not

Artist: Richard T Walker Work: Successive Inconceivable Events

Artist: Run Wrake Work: Rabbit

Artist: Qui Anxiong Work: In The Sky

Curator / Concept & Project Realisation: Myriam Thyes

CATHEDRAL GARDENS 07.00 - 08.00 / 10.00 - 11.00
EXCHANGE SQUARE 09.00 - 10.00

A participatory art project - a continuously growing series of animations with many authors: The flags of every nation in the world will transform into each other through flash animation. Between each two flags, scenes appear that show an aspect of the relations between the two countries. This series of animations is an exploration into the meaning of imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated associations through questioning, reassessing, fluidising and re-mixing of diverse national iconography.

Flag Metamorphoses lays stress on the relations between nations and identities as changing ones: Only in the permanent re-creation of values, symbols and ways of life, in mixing with others and differing from others, cultures and societies stay alive. Each artist who creates a flag animation expresses such a relation in his/her own way.
www.flag-metamorphoses.net

Contributors:
Artist: Myriam Thyes, Work: Congo - Belgium, Duration: 1m 05s, Year: 2005

Artist: Norbert F. Attard, Work: MetaWarphoses (Malta - Turkey - Germany - UK), Duration: 2m 37s, Year: 2005

Artist: Myriam Thyes, Work: Korea - Japan (religious symbols), Duration: 35s, Year: 2005

Artist: Babel, Work: United Kindom - Barbados, Duration: 40s, Year: 2006

Artist: Myriam Thyes, Work: Brazil – China, Duration: 43s, Year: 2006

Artist: Peter Chanthanakone, Work: Laos - Canada, Duration: 45s, Year: 2005

Artist: Christoph Frei, Work: Bolivia – Japan, Duration: 50s, Year: 2006

Artist: Myriam Thyes, Work: EU 2020, Duration: 2m 30s, Year: 2005

Artist: Rona Innes, Work: India – Scotland, Duration: 1m 07s, Year: 2006

Artist: Myriam Thyes, Work: Spain - Mexico, Duration: 40s, Year: 2005

Artist: Anke Landschreiber, Work: Congo - Uganda – a fantasy, Duration: 50s, Year: 2006

Artist: Jorge Lara / I. R. Tello, Work: Afghanistan and Mexico – a comparison, Duration: 57s, Year: 2005

Artist: Ajdin Pajevic, Work: Bosnia & Herzegovina (+ Serbia + Croatia), Duration: 2m, Year: 2006

Artist: Max Pohlenz, Work: Stars'n'Stripes Gun Crazy, Duration: 1m 12s, Year: 2005

Artist: Nicola Tauscher, Work: Korea – Japan (beauty and war), Duration: 1m 28s, Year: 2006

Artist: Irena Paskali, Work: Ex-Yugoslavia, Duration: 45s, Year: 2007

Artist: Joanna Priestley, Work: Harmonic Convergence (Bulgaria – Mongolia), Duration: 38s, Year: 2007

Artist: Barry L. Roshto, Work: Cuba – USA, Duration: 35s, Year: 2006

Artist: Myriam Thyes, Work: Switzerland - Germany - Switzerland, Duration: 44s, Year: 2005

Artist: Slobodan Tomic, Work: Croatia – USA, Duration: 1m 23s, Year: 2007

Artist: Myriam Thyes, Work: India - Bangladesh, Duration: 50s, Year: 2005

Artist: Barry L. Roshto, Work: Red and Yellow - a Historical Review of the Vietnamese Flag, Duration: 3m 31s, Year: 2005

Artist: Rona Innes, Work: Malawi and Mozambique, Duration: 1m 24s, Year: 2005

Artist: Myriam Thyes, Work: Caribbean Carnivals, Duration: 4m 45s, Year: 2006

Artist: Monika Oechsler, Work: World Cup Fever, Duration: 6m 40s, Year: 2006 

Curator: Michelle Kasprzak (CA/UK)

ALL SAINTS GARDENS 07.00 - 08.00
CATHEDRAL GARDENS 22.00 - 23.00

This programme presents the highlights of Transmedia, a series of projects by the art collective, Year Zero One, who have been using urban screens in Toronto, Canada to display work by artists since 2000. The group has produced three Transmedia screening programmes, on three different urban screens in downtown Toronto, where video art is presented at regular intervals between advertisements. The Transmedia project provides artists with the creative challenge of producing moving-image work that is very short (often a minute or less), and that will be sandwiched between advertisements. But as with most limitations, the conditions of using urban screens as a platform fosters innovative work.

Contributors:
Artist: Colin Zipp (CA), Work: Niverville MB - 08.04, Duration: 1m, Year: 2006

Artist: Maris Mezulis (CA), Work: Fast Sale, Duration: 1m, Year: 2006

Artist: Shaan Syed (CA), Work: Girl Smoking, Duration: 1m, Year: 2006

Artist: Gwen McGregor (CA), Work: 3 months - New York, Toronto, Duration: 1m, Year: 2005

Artist: Cheryl Sourkes (CA), Work: Live From the Wedding Cam in Las Vegas, Duration: 1m, Year: 2005

Artist: Risa Horowitz (CA), Work: Studiopace, Duration: 1m, Year: 2005

Artist: Pascual Sisto (ES/USA), Work: 28 Years in the Implicate Order, Duration: 1m, Year: 2004

Artist: David Jhave Johnston (CA), Work: Lipservice, Duration: 15s, Year: 2002

Artist: Marina Zurkow (USA), Work: Parthenogenesis, Duration: 1m 30s, Year: 2002

Artist: Michael Alstad (CA), Work: 15 second blowjob, Duration: 15s, Year: 2002

Artist: Louise McKissick (CA/USA), Work: iloveyou, Duration: 15s, Year: 2000

Artist: Willy Le Maitre & Eric Rosensweig (CA/USA), Work: Methane, Duration: 15s, Year: 2000

Artist: Tanya Read (CA), Work: Mr Nobody in High Off the Hog, Duration: 15s, Year: 2000

Artist: Lucinda Schreiber (AU), Work: Water, Duration: 15s, Year: 2000

Curator: Michelle Kasprzak (CA/UK)

ALL SAINTS GARDENS 07.00 - 08.00
CATHEDRAL GARDENS 22.00 - 23.00

Otherworldly takes viewers on a journey through spaces that are at once familiar and alien. Nelly-Ève Rajotte's piece, Valo, explores a mysterious interior which is reminiscent of a sterile control room. In Comrade Valentina, Nina Levitt considers not only the bravery but also the charisma of the first woman in space. Kelly Richardson's Exiles of the Shattered Star is a contemplative piece in which we witness the beauty that results from destruction. This programme premiered on the screen at Federation Square, Melbourne, which is situated in a cluster of futuristic buildings clad in a fractal façade of zinc, glass and sandstone, rising above street level to also offer views of the Yarra River and the city.

Contributors:
Artist: Nelly-Ève Rajotte (CA), Work: Valo, Duration: 7m, Year: 2005

Artist: Nina Levitt (CA), Work: Comrade Valentina, Duration: 2m, Year: 2006

Artist: Kelly Richardson (CA/UK), Work: Exiles of the Shattered Star, Duration: 30m, Year: 2006

Curator: Kristin Gray (USA)

ALL SAINTS GARDENS 11.30 - 12.00
CATHEDRAL GARDENS 08.00 - 08.30 / 23.30 - 00.00

Victory Media Network®, a multi-sensory and multi-dimensional epicenter for Dallas, Texas, celebrating art and community on a global scale, brings to Manchester a dynamic and engaging mix of content such as digital art, animation and film shorts, as well as work from one of Victory’s sponsors. www.victorymedianetwork.com

Contributors:
Artist: Tal Rosner (UK), Work: Stravinsky Concerto, Duration: 6m, Year: 2006

Artist: twenty2product (USA), Work: Densha, Duration: 1m 30s, Year: 1999

Artist: Target, Work: Butterfly, Duration: 45s, Year: 2007

Artist: Aaron Koblin (USA), Work: Flight Patterns, Duration: 3m, Year: 2005

Artist: Dennis Miller (USA), Work: Release, Duration: 3m 15s, Year: 2004

Artist: Target, Work: Revolutions, Duration: 2m 15s, Year: 2006

Artist: Victor Ingrassia (USA), Work: Shore Morning, Duration: 1m 30s, Year: 2006

Artist: Scott Hall (USA), Work: Journey 1, Duration: 3m, Year: 2006

Artist: Target (USA), Work: Target Art Connects, Duration: 45s, Year: 2007

Artist: Till Nowak (DE), Work: Delivery, Duration: 8m, Year: 2005

Curator: Marcus Kreiss (DE/FR)

ALL SAINTS GARDENS 20.00 - 21.00
CATHEDRAL GARDENS 21.00 - 22.00
EXCHANGE SQUARE 08.00 - 09.00 / 17.00 - 18.00

Souvenirs from the Earth started the first 24/7 TV channel for video art on a German cable network in September 2006. The programme has been developed to transform big flat screens into futuristic paintings, addressing a universal need for decent, advanced visual entertainment with every screen that is installed. A project right out of the imagination of artists like ambient guru Brian Eno or video art pioneers Nam June Paik and Bill Viola into the reality of international audiovisual business.

Redeeming the promise made in 60s sci-fi films where walls were moving images, Souvenirs from the Earth gives TV-tired members of the post MTV generation the possibility to avoid the black hole of an inactive screen in an elegant way; by having an ever changing art work delivered right into their homes.

The programme is a lineup of 10 to 60 minutes long video-paintings; often very slow, colourful films specially produced by different artists, exploring for the first time the physical dimension of moving images the new big screens can offer. Each film is a visual invention, there is no classical storytelling, and there is no sound as there is no sound with traditional paintings.

The project was presented for the first time at the ICA in London and at the 1999 Venice Biennale. London's Sketch gallery, which hosted a 12 screen installation based on the programme in 2005. Negotiations are under way to make the channel available on British cable networks. www.souvenirsfromtheearth.com

Artworks:
Camions - 12m 10s; Nightshooting - 15m 04s; Feger - 6m 18s; Beach - 9m 22s; Link - 3m 02s; Passerbys - 14m 56s 

Curator: Johannes Gees (CH)

CATHEDRAL GARDENS 08.30 - 09.00 / 14.30 - 15.00
EXCHANGE SQUARE 16.00 - 16.30

agent-provocateur.ch is an independent non-profit project for the production and distribution of video-spots of cultural activists that deal with contemporary social and political issues. agent-provocateur.ch is based in Switzerland. The spots are between 30 and 90 seconds in length and are shown on television, public screens, cinemas and websites. agent-provocateur.ch has produced more than 150 video-spots since 2005. The third annual competition for short movie clips will be launched in October 2007. ap = reference selection for viewing online at www.agent-provocateur.ch

Contributors:
Gian Rupf / ap190; Balint Kostyal / ap192; Simone Zuberbühler / ap188; Laura Baettig / ap187; Andrea Ehrat / ap185; Brünggle, Jaberg / ap183; Peter Aerschmann / ap174; Oliver Müller / ap175; Fabian Gasser / ap172; Patrick Meury / ap168; Florine Ott, Lea Meyer / ap170; Benny Jaberg / ap167; Andrea Staka / ap164; Kerim Seiler / ap161; Leo Maillard / ap159; Rolf Lyssy, Anne Rüffer / ap156; Roberto de Luca / ap151; Anna Luif / ap150; Keller, Locher, Pearson / ap148; Tobias Noelle / ap149; Breitenmoser et al. / ap145; Jaskiewicz, Morgen / ap144; Selz, Bruinink, Eugster / ap140; Milena Milivojevic / ap85; Rafael Sommerhalder / ap77; Erik Dettwiler / ap73; Lutz, Guggisberg / ap66; Gianni Motti / ap64; Koerner Union / ap160

Curator: Lets Go Global

CATHEDRAL GARDENS 09.00 - 10.00
EXCHANGE SQUARE 12.00 - 13.00

Global Cream is a medley of delicious digital content created by Lets Go Global. This cultural cornucopia will feature music, art, comedy and children from Chorlton Park Primary School as part of a Creative Partnerships Manchester Salford project presenting some unforgettable animations. Join us at the screens for these urban treats. 

Times 09.00 - 11.00 & 18.00 - 20.00

Based on the original photographic work of Edward Muybridge's study of pigeons in flight this work utilises Bluetooth technology to build an interactive environment in which pedestrians control the number of birds based on the number of enabled mobile devices present within a 10m/33ft range. The pigeons appear to fly over a virtual Manchester skyline while commuting pedestrians travel beneath.

Times 10.00 - 12.00 & 18.00 - 20.00

nocinema.org is an automatic net-based documentary/fiction of interludes, drawing upon a string of live webcams across the world transmitting live scenes collected from different locations. The sound, each time offering a different overlay, comes from a real-time shared database which is fed and updated by a team of sound artists/partners, including Magali Babin, DinahBird, Christophe Charles, Yannick Dauby, Jérôme Joy, Luc Kerléo, Alain Michon, Jocelyn Robert and Chantal Dumas. nocinema.org

The installation is a form of a surveillance device that allows the passer-by to generate images and sounds. The movements of people, captured by a camera, are converted into graphic patterns and sound modulations. If nobody is there to trigger this, there is no sound or image. Every visitor can do as one pleases: roam, dance, stamp, run or simply wave a hand and explore means of activating images and sounds.

Times 12.00 - 13.00 & 17.00 - 18.00

2008: Man with a Movie Camera is an experiment in database cinema. Based on Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece, this version takes his concept of "decoding life as it is" into the twenty first century. Individuals are invited to upload shots and scenes based on scenes from the original film, creating a database which then streams as a film. As a collection of personal visions this montage is in Vertov's terms "a continuous exchange of visible fact". Uploads to the site will take place continuously: the nature of the database is infinite. Visit dziga.perrybard.net to take part!

Times 13.00 - 15.00 & 22.00 - 00.00

This chance-oriented visual poem is a collaboration between the Korean motion graphics designer Yeong-woong Cheong and Digital Media Artist Bill Seaman. Seaman shot video footage, video stills and abstract images in Seoul and across the Korean Countryside, forming a database that will be drawn upon to juxtapose with the poetic text in an open, chance-oriented manner. A new soundtrack of Korean traditional music, experimental dance music and popular musical forms will also complement the work.

In 1968 Andy Warhol stated that; ‘In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes’. 15x15 advances this statement into the 21st century; with new media technology anyone and everyone can be world famous....for 15 seconds. Participants contribute to the piece using a standard mobile camera phone that can capture video, sending chosen clips using MMS (Multimedia Message Service), or upload from a personal computer to the online database at www.15x15.org or via email to me@15x15.org

Curator: Susanne Jaschko

Supernature is a video and animation programme that brings nature back into the urban environment, thus fulfilling the modern urbanist’s desire to partly re-naturalise functional city centres. Through its artificiality today’s subsequently implanted pseudo-nature recalls classic examples of urban decor such as the ornamental facades of the Art Nouveau and Japanese miniature gardens.

The programme Supernature picks up on this contemporary trend to reintroduce nature into our stone-heavy urban surroundings. It also responds to the amazing popularity of TV series’ featuring wildlife, zoos and pets. Instead of presenting an ideal nature, the video works show unsettling sceneries – boring nature, an impossible nature, fully designed nature, nature between beauty and ugliness, an unravelling nature.

Supernature has been specially assembled for Urban Screens Manchester 07 by its curator Susanne Jaschko.

Contributors:
Artist: Gudrun Kemsa, Work: Riverside, Duration: 12m 50s, Year: 2002

Artist: Niklas Goldbach, Work: Rise, Duration: 2m 22s, Year: 2007

Artist: Günther + Loredana Selichar, Work: Granturismo, Duration: 5m 10s, Year: 2001

Artist: Simone Häckel, Work: Sleeping, Duration: 3m

Artist: Trevor Morgan, Work: RT S NJ 07733, Duration: 8m, Year: 2003

Artist: Lynne Marsh, Work: Volcano, Duration: 5m 30s, Year: 2006

Artist: Sean Capone, Work: The Sculpture Garden, Duration: 2m, Year: 2004

Artist: Peter Aerschmann, Work: Union Square, Duration: 10m

Artist: Timm Ringewaldt, Work: Rund, Duration: 5m, Year: 2007

Curator: Marcus Kreiss (DE/FR)

Souvenirs from the Earth started the first 24/7 TV channel for video art on a German cable network in September 2006. The programme has been developed to transform big flat screens into futuristic paintings, addressing a universal need for decent, advanced visual entertainment with every screen that is installed. A project right out of the imagination of artists like ambient guru Brian Eno or video art pioneers Nam June Paik and Bill Viola into the reality of international audiovisual business.

Redeeming the promise made in 60s sci-fi films where walls were moving images, Souvenirs from the Earth gives TV-tired members of the post MTV generation the possibility to avoid the black hole of an inactive screen in an elegant way; by having an ever changing art work delivered right into their homes.

The programme is a lineup of 10 to 60 minutes long video-paintings; often very slow, colourful films specially produced by different artists, exploring for the first time the physical dimension of moving images the new big screens can offer. Each film is a visual invention, there is no classical storytelling, and there is no sound as there is no sound with traditional paintings.

The project was presented for the first time at the ICA in London and at the 1999 Venice Biennale. London's Sketch gallery, which hosted a 12 screen installation based on the programme in 2005. Negotiations are under way to make the channel available on British cable networks. www.souvenirsfromtheearth.com

Artworks:
Escalade - 10m 10s; Bamakofoot - 10m 27s; Metro - 10m 23s; Cantine - 6m 03s; Fassad - 4m 57s; Paspas - 6m 05s; Plasticbarock - 10m 59s; Station Etoile - 4m 53s