Digital Revolution press release - Barbican

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It is the focus of a series of events presented by the Barbican throughout the spring and summer of 2014 that focuses on artists using digital media. Projects include a new Curve commission by United Visual Artists, theatre projects Kiss & Cry by Charleroi Danses and Zero Point by Darren Johnston; Tim & Barry present Just Jam; the Barbican Weekender explores art and technology and the tenth Wikimania conference is presented in association with the Centre. The seven exhibition spaces within the Curve gallery opens by juxtaposing 100 creative software projects from the 1970s to the present day, shown on their original hardware platforms. Showcasing work across art, design, music and film the interactive Digital Archaeology section creates an overview of key creative moments during this period of rapid change. Pieces range from the classic videogame Pong, the first website by Tim Berners-Lee, vintage music hardware such as the Linn LM-1 drum machine (used in the production of The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me) as well as early digital graphics experiments by John Whitney. It moves into The Games We Play, which focuses on the ways in which we are able to engage and interact with digital projects, featuring works by artists Cuppetelli and Mendoza, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Daniel Rozin as well as playable videogames by Harmonix Music Systems (Rock Band and Dance Central). We Create explores projects that allow people to become the creators. A highlight of this section is Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin’s crowd-sourced tribute website, the Johnny Cash Project, which allows people to contribute a frame to an online filmic tribute to Cash. It also explores; DIY culture through projects developed using the programmable Raspberry Pi, Arduino and MaKey MaKey platforms; and online video communities such as Minecraft (Mojang) and the Kickstarter project Broken Age (Double Fine) where fans are being involved directly in the game development process. Creative Spaces examines how digital technology is allowing rapid creative change in film, contrasting blockbuster Hollywood visual effects with the work of a new generation of independent film-makers. It explores the innovative visual effects created by Oscar-winning VFX Supervisor Paul Franklin and his team at Double Negative for Christopher Nolan’s groundbreaking science fiction film Inception. London’s Double Negative is one of the world’s leading VFX houses with recent and current projects including Man of Steel, Dark Knight Rises, Rush, Thor 2, Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Godzilla and Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film Interstellar. It also features Oscar-winning visual effects studio Framestore, with a particular focus on their innovative digital effects and the work of Tim Webber. Framestore’s recent and upcoming film work includes Gravity, 47 Ronin, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Inside Llewyn Davis. In addition it features the work of young digital filmmakers such as Kibwe Tavares (Factory Fifteen), who has used his experience as an architecture graduate to make the innovative short films Robots of Brixton and Jonah. This section also explores interactive film by artists such as Field's Energy Flow. Sound and Vision looks at how musicians have experimented with digital technology. Pieces include a new commission by global music artist and entrepreneur will.i.am which explores the interface between analogue and digital music in a live gallery experience. will.i.am is wellknown as a technology advocate and enthusiast. He served as Guest Editor of Wired Magazine earlier this year, is a founding investor in Beats Electronics, and launched his i.am+ mobile phone accessory company in 2012. Through his i.am.angel foundation, will.i.am encourages young people to study and engage with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). He also supports The Prince’s Trust by funding programmes designed to help young people build computer skills. The section also features Arcade Fire's interactive video Wilderness Downtown; Amon Tobin's Isam stage set which comes alive with digital projection; and a series of app-based projects in which artists have worked to visualise music, including the app REWORK_ (Philip Glass Remixed) by Scott Snibbe Studio. …/…
The next section is dedicated to DevArt, a collaboration between Google and the Barbican. DevArt is a celebration of art made with code, designed to inspire the next generation of developers and artists by reframing coding as a creative art form. It seeks to push the boundaries of what is possible when art and technology collide. Finally, the exhibition delves into what the future might look like; the phenomena of 3-D printing, featuring the work of fashion designer Ying Gao; digital fashion for performance, including London-based XO Studio; 3-D virtual reality gaming technology; the Oculus Rift Development Kit and wearable technologies including the BrainWriter (Not Impossible Labs) and Google Glass. As visitors journey through the Barbican foyers they will discover the Indie Games Space, devoted to the independent videogames movement. Featuring the work of a range of contemporary international indie developers, all in fully playable format, this section will also showcase explorations in different games genres, game art and distribution. Games such as Antichamber by Alexander Bruce, Proteus by Ed Key and David Kanaga and Flower by Jenova Chen look at how an individual (or small team) can now arm themselves with the latest creative tools to take risks and forge innovative experiences. ENDS Press Information For further information, images or to arrange interviews, please contact: Lorna Gemmell, Head of Communications +44 (0) 207 382 7147 / lorna.gemmell@barbican.org.uk Exhibition The exhibition is created and produced by Barbican International Enterprises with guest curator Conrad Bodman. The advisors are Jim Boulton (Digital Archaeology), Iain Simons (Director, GameCity, Nottingham Trent University), Caroline Roux (design writer), Julia Kaganskiy (Editor at Large – The Creator’s Project), Mike Stubbs (Director, FACT), Li Zhenhua (Curator). Digital Revolution will tour to museums and galleries internationally for a period of 3 years. The exhibition design will be a collaboration between Ab Rogers (ARD) and 59 Productions. ARD will lead on the spatial design and 59 Productions will lead on the media design of the exhibition. Events programme The exhibition will be complemented by a talks and events series which will include an accompanying film programme, In Conversations examining issues such as gender, security and technology, as well as industry focused panels looking at the latest developments in special effects and gaming and online and off line activities aimed at children and young people from east London. Online programme An online offer will accompany the exhibition, and will include a selection of specially commissioned interviews and exhibition content. In addition Google is developing a website that will have a source of inspiration for coders, a competition as well as behind the scenes videos of DevArt commissions in development and interviews with artists. The DevArt site and competition launch in February 2014. Catalogue An illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by leading authors in the digital field. The publication explores the preservation of hardware and software, creative coding, DIY culture, digital architecture and design, the future of gaming and the new developments in creative technology. Contributors include essays by exhibition advisors. …/…
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