Art Research Communication

ARC to co-organise new media symposium, Liverpool

ARC Co-directors Iliyana Nedkova & Chris Byrne are working towards an international symposium on new media art curating and theory, taking place in Liverpool during early 2006. ARC are co-organising the symposium with Professor Colin Fallows of Liverpool School of Art & Design. ARC will co-publish an electronic and print publication to coincide with the symposium. Major partners in organising the symposium are Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores University; Arts Council England, North West; and FACT.

ARC to curate exhibition for Berwick Film Festival

ARC Co-directors Chris Byrne and Iliyana Nedkova are curating an exhibition for the first ever Berwick upon Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival, to be held in September 2005. ARC are working with international artists to present moving image and sound works at venues including the Berwick Gymnasium.

Chris Byrne to present at OKNO, Brussels

ARC Co-director Chris Byrne will present a public lecture on radio art, streaming and networks at OKNO, Brussels on 18th June. In summary, the lecture will cover the following topics.

“My talk will explore artistic practice with streaming audio via networks. Specifically I will look at net.radio, and how artists have developed models for independent dissemination of their work. I will examine a variety of artists and practices, from purely Internet broadcasting/narrowcasting to links with offline local and/or micro-broadcasting. Along the way I will link these practices to the development of increasingly open standards for streaming, give some examples of the technologies for streaming and what technical choices might mean for independent practices and their sustainability. I will also look at the recent phenomenon of podcasting and how this is creating a new model of ‘time-shifted’ internet radio.”

From the archives: Chris’s Home Page

ARC Co-director Chris Byrne has finally got round to putting his old web site back online. The site comprises a number of online projects, and some documentation of offline projects from 1997-99. There are also some critical texts which were published from 1993-99. One can see an influence from e-mail and early computer aesthetics: note the ‘old skool’ BBS ASCII art look of many of the pages. The main site was given a ‘refresh’ in late 1999, which is the look it sports now.

Enjoy this trip down memory lane…