MOTOHIKO ODANI AND JOE GILMORE & ANDREA POLLI EXHIBITION OPENING AT LOVEBYTES 05
[April 13 2005 - June 18 2005]
Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm
Entry is free.

Site Gallery presents the UK premiere of two new digital installations, in conjunction with Lovebytes 05 Digital Arts Festival.

MOTOHIKO ODANI - "Jackal" is a newly commissioned digital animation work by Motohiko Odani, Odani's imagination, rooted in academic classicism and cultivated by science fiction, horror movies, comic books and MTV, culminates in works that invoke our primitive senses such as sensuality, movement, speed and fear. The new work will feature solitary and isolated characters experiencing the minimum repetition of physiological needs - appetite, excretion; exploring the tragedy and comedy of living things.

JOE GILMORE & ANDREA POLLI - “N.” is a collaborative audio-visual installation by Joe Gilmore (UK) and Andrea Polli (USA) which takes real time online data gathered from research stations in the Arctic to build an audio-visual representation of the altering climate and conditions at the North Pole. According to NASA climate scientists, a dramatic warming trend has been experienced by the Arctic over the last decade that may accelerate global climate change. The N. installation expresses the isolation and environmental extremes of this remote region on top of our planet and the fragility and inter-dependence of our ecosystem.

Mathew Jarvis – Technical Manager Site Gallery
"I've worked at Site gallery for 4 years. I've helped set up 3 exhibitions installations for Lovebytes. I really like the work, especially the North Pole piece it's really interesting the way they've using live weather data and live information brought naturally across the internet. The sound work is going to be so natural as well, using the live streams of the north pole. It's brilliant a really good use of technology. I think it's really important for site gallery to be collaborating with Lovebytes and I think most of the CIQ. It's great that they all get together when a festival happens, no matter what it is, but because this is in new media and digital art, it's fantastic for us."

For more information see: www.sitegallery.org/exhibitions/
1 Brown Street / Sheffield S1 2BS
T: +44 (0)114 281 2077 / F: +44 (0)114 281 2078
info@sitegallery.org

N. - Image from the North Pole Still from Jackal, Motohiko Odani,


N. and Jackal opening at Site Gallery - Lovebytes 05

Jackie Jones
"I'm kind of disappointed with the Odani piece, it just stays the image of the house…and the poor dog! I used to know a dog like that, it just makes me want to cry."

Shirley, Sheffield

"I thought the Jackal pieces looked really fantastic but don't seem to go anywhere, so I though that was like, form over content and then with N. the idea sounds fantastic but visually it wasn't that stimulating."

Dave Hills – Feature Film Maker
"I haven't seen everything properly, you can't with all the people and wine. I'll come back later in the week, when it's quite and I can take it in."

Bryony Broom, Voluntary Sector

"Jackal is really disturbing. I'd seen some other work of his and it's all a bit disturbing but this is the first time I've seem anything of his is black and white, it's quite different. This is really quite hard. I think the sound piece is fantastic and I shall come again and again. Last week I was in a room with David Bellamy and loads of environmentalism and this is loads easier actually."

Gavin Hutchinson
"The piece with a the dog and the house is really interesting, dark, bizarre . I try to keep up with what's on at Site Gallery. The North Pole piece too is really good, good concepts behind it."

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