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Two works with touchable screen…Jackie Calderwood – Interactive Media Arts Presentation at the MA Media Showcase, 5th February 2008, Watershed, Bristol. Two works with touchable screen… 1: Avon New Cut Mediascape Imagine the warmth of a sunny spring afternoon, the sound of birds singing and water lapping as you walk down the chocolate path looking for the first shoots of ivybroom rape peeping through the banks of the Avon New Cut. Oops, but it’s a cold February night out there! So rather than experience the mediascape as a live, mobile technology, perhaps I could tell you a little more about it from here in the warm! A mediascape is a world of sound and image, held on a small computer, that comes to life as you move around, presenting media that is triggered by your location at that moment. It uses gps (satellite navigation) to map your position, and can give information, anecdotes, create an atmosphere, and magic moments when the mediascape and the world around fuse together in synchronicity. The Avon New Cut is a tidal, man-made, waterway dug between 1803 and 1809to facilitate the Floating Harbour. It’s popular today as a wildlife corridor into the heart of the city. The mediascape was part of a collaboration between the MA Interactive Media and the Southville Community Centre, and it’s based loosely on the friends of the avon new cut guided walk As you walk you will hear information, triggered by your position, about the local history and wildlife of the cut today. Upto 35 audio clips tell you about points of interest and specific buildings that you pass, upto15 photographs show flora and fauna that you may find here at different times of the year. My intention was to make a piece that would have free movement, be clear, engaging and easy-to-use for a public who may have little or no knowledge of using a computer, ipaq or gps. As a final year student on the MA Media I am interested in how new technologies can engage community and create a rich individual experience. Working with interactive media has added to the public work I do as an artist. Jackie Calderwood – Interactive Media Arts Two works with touchable screen… 2: A Touchscreen for ‘Love’, with the People’s Panel Unique Interpretation of the National Gallery Touring Exhibition The People’s Panel come from different walks of life, and they all bring a unique perspective to the works in ‘Love’. As lead artist and producer on the touchscreen project, I had the privilege of working closely with the Panel members to facilitate their own responses and to assist them in devising media content and an approach to interaction that would aim to enrich the experience of visitors to the exhibition. The theme that soon emerged became the title screen and leads into a series of short pieces… Due to copyright restrictions I’m not able to represent any of the works of art from the exhibition here tonight, so please imagine a painting that fits the interpretation we’ve made We followed an exploratory journey which, I think, successfully resulted in a range of diverse media that offer original interpretation to ‘Love’ – and possibly makes suggestions to how we each experience the world around us in unique ways both in and out of the gallery. ‘Love’ opened to a preview of 350 people on the 18th January. Jackie Calderwood – Interactive Media Arts Two works with touchable screen… Over the next few months, as a part-time student completing my MA, I will be bringing these ideas together to make an outdoor media experience that explores ways to link work within a gallery or museum with work created through location. If you’d like to know more, come and talk to me by the touchscreen, or drop me an email via my website: Avon New Cut mediascape credits:
Love credits: People’s Panel Touchscreen group: Diana Colston Jackie Calderwood - Lead media artist and producer Louise Evans - People’s Panel co-ordinator |
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