PRESENTATION: IDEA Arts Lab projects 1999
2.00pm Showroom / Cinema 3
Artists from IDEA will be presenting collaborative projects produced during its 1999 Arts Lab programme:

splitshift: an innovative new arts project featuring both interactive gallery and digital web broadcast station. A Manchester exclusive, this dual project showcases the work of more than thirty local artists and its web gallery allowing international participation.
webcinemaconcret: Welcome to a new form of film making. This project showcases experimental forays in making movies specifically for viewing on-line. Over six weeks 25 film makers developed a form of production specific to the web.

IDEA (Innovation in Digital and Electronic Art) is a Manchester based not-for-profit organisation established in 1996. Idea provides training, development and production opportunities for artists and creative technologists both face-to-face in Manchester and over the web.
Contact Jen Southern bus.gas@mcr1.poptel.org.uk
http://www.idea.org.uk

PRESENTATION: net.radio
3.30pm Showroom / Cinema 3
Heath Bunting, Rachel Baker (Radio Nation), Audrey Okyere-Fosu (Hull Community Radio), Mary Dowson, Jonathon Pinfield and Tez Burke (Bradford Community Broadcasting). On-line audio culture is thriving and net.radio is ripe for colonisation by both commercial interests and pioneering projects produced by small independents. Anyone can become a broadcaster, net.radio and MP3 technology allow the most obscure material to made available in the public domain. So, who are these broadcasters and how can you become one? The panel present net.radio projects, discuss infrastructures and debate the future of broadcast. This session is staged in association with Community Media Association (http://www.commedia.org.uk) who will be staging a hands on workshop on how to net broadcast following this session.

WORKSHOP: net.radio
5.00pm Workstation
Limited Tickets available. Please book early.

Ashley Gillard and Terry O'Leary from Interface Radio (London) lead an informal practical workshop allowing opportunities to ask questions and see all the elements needed to webcast.

FILM SCREENING: Digital Shorts Two
73 mins (Cert tbc)
4.45pm Showroom / Cinema 3 (Also screening Thursday 7.00pm)
A series of light-hearted 3D & 2D computer animated narratives.

Intergalactic Souvenir Shop (Boris Habek + D'amir Wanguard) A short experimental film exploring visual identity and story telling.
Faux Plafond (Français Vogel) A couple change a lightbulb and visit the moon.
A Viagem (Christian Boustani) 1543. A ship from Portugal drops anchor in Japan, for the first time.
Love Song (Bruce Currie) A small rat tries his luck in the great game of love.
Mr Rawson - A Case History (Christian Holland) A case study of a paranoid schizophrenic.
Rendezvous (Peter Lemken) Two puppets live in a weather house, not knowing of the others existence.
Emma 18 (Sam Morrison) A short film challenging the view that old is senile.
The Millennium Bug (Benjamin Smith) A cgi ride film depicting our defence against the Millennium Bug's attack.
Toyota Goldfish Idents - Two goldfish on their Millennium Night celebrations.
Aerial Fantasy (Daniel Barber) The Daewoo Lanos skateboarding on the biggest half pipe ever.
Bet on Black (Frank Budgen) A crowd of punters at a snail race, waiting to see who is the first to cross the line, for a pint of Guinness.
To Build A Better Mousetrap (Christopher Leone) The mousetrap of tomorrow is here today!
Un Temps Pour Elle (Erwin Charrier) A young woman comes to an island to film an eclipse.
Stationen (Christian Sawade-Meyer) A creature loses hope in a post-nuclear world.

FILM SCREENING: The Story of Computer Graphics
Siggraph - USA 1999 93 mins
6.45pm Showroom
'From its early development as an obscure topic of research to its widely accepted role as an important communication tool, computer graphics has exhibited a rich history of human accomplishment. Computer Graphics has changed the way we work and play. This movie documents some of the most compelling stories behind the striking graphics and technology that we take for granted in today's environment. This is the "human" story of representative innovators who have forever changed the way we interact with the world. The "Story of Computer Graphics" chronicles the history of the industry, its impact on society, and the excitement of future possibilities.' (Premiere).

EVENT: Hot Snack
6-6.45pm Showroom / Bar / FREE

Live Performance
Team Doyobi
8.30pm Showroom / Cinema 3
'The Team Doyobi aesthetic is based around a merging of both old and new electronic / digital technologies. Largely eschewing the use of samples, they work instead via hand-drawn soundwaves and waveform editing, generating loops through (often random) Amiga sequencing. Melodies are formed from gritty FX. Shifting and densely-layered. A stunning, chaotic space of shifting, glitch-riddled electronics, machine chatter, foggy FX and juddering jerk beats'. (www.fat-cat.co.uk/splitart/splitart07a.html)

Team Doyobi are Alex Peverett and Chris Gladwin who will be performing with interactive Video Sequencing by James Brouwer. All students and graduates of Phonic Art and Time Based Media at Hull School of Art and Design.

Live Performance
Smyglyssna
9.45pm Showroom / Cinema 3
Smyglyssna a.k.a Henrik Johansson samples analogue and acoustic, sounds combining these with the harsh clean sounds of digital processing.