Exhibitions at Lovebytes 96

The Workstation. 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield

1st - 17th May
9am - 8pm Mon - Fri.
EXCEPT Bank Holiday Monday.

CMYK x 4
1st - 17th May

An exhibition of specially commissioned posters by four leading design studios.
The Designers Republic, Dave Kirkwood (www.lovebytes.org.uk/lb96/you), Eg.G and N-Studios.

Multimedia Gallery at The Workstation.

EMOTIONAL COMPUTING
4th - 10th May

Emotional Computing is a commissioning scheme for interactive works on floppy disk based upon the success of the 1mb pieces that can be downloaded from The Hub. 12 pieces were commissioned. They are all very diverse and meet the brief which is to engage with the user at a conceptual or emotional level. It was developed by Richard Gooderick at the Film Department of the Arts Council of England.
The Hub was created in May '95 to support the creative use of desktop computers. There is a Hub Website http://www.ace.mdx.ac.uk/Hub/Hub.html and regular meetings take place in London and Bristol. We will be celebrating the first birthday of The Hub at Lovebytes and launching the West Yorkshire Hub.

STILL IRL - JOHNNY YEN
1st-17th May

Images of rain dripping down a window form a gentle and subtle backdrop to intercut flashes of memory.

This installation is quite simple. It consists of a tv monitor with speakers, placed as a window in a room. Video tape replays an image of raindrops on a window with flashes of memories now and then.

The installation was shown at the Norwegian Governments annual art exhibition Kunstnernes Hus (The House of Artists), autumn 1995, and a short version in the screening programme at the MUUU Festival in Finland.

MR PUNCH - DAVE McKEAN & NEIL GAIMAN

Images from the graphic novel which won the Victoria and Albert Museum Best Illustrated Book Award in 1994. (also see seminars - Thursday 9th)

ADVENT - CLIVE GILLMAN
4th -10th May

An interactive multimedia advent calender concealing explorable spaces - each day revealing new signs that enmesh the viewer in a growing megalomania.

'Advent', is an interactive journey into the 25 days preceding the birth of something messianic. The journey is set in and around the shoreline of a mythic river and takes the form of a fictional personal diary.

At the heart of the piece is an advent calender. This calender being similar to the type that can be bought at Xmas, 25 different small windows concealing images relating to the story of the nativity.

On this Advent calender are a series of dates which conceal explorable spaces. When one of these dates is selected by the user the screen dissolves to reveal a range of images, sounds and objects. The entire sequence of days being linked together by a series of texts taken from a diary which forms the story. This advent story is very different from the Christian story, involving the descent of an anonymous individual into self-deification. Each day revealing new signs that lead them (and the viewer) to become more enmeshed in a growing megalomania.

Occasional clues to this story will appear as hidden on-screen buttons that allow the user to locate and explore new dimensions of a particular image or object. Although the themes of the piece are complex and non-visual, they will be illustrated by a range of still and moving images from along the waterfront and its hinterland, depicting the strangeness inherent in a close examination of urban artifacts. Showing a sequence of details of the architecture, machinery and monuments of late 20th century England, at the end of the industrial revolution.

BLUE MOON - CONAL MCDERMOT - (1st-17th May)

Conal is an artist with a burning passion for rhythms and cycles presents one aspect, where the Moon leads life into a microcosmic dance with her own ancient dance of love.

An attempt to communicate via abstracted curves from body language, one complete luna cycle. Seven captured images of a female form opening and closing, are digitally manipulated, enhancing texture and colour to create the balanced pattern of particular dance.

Blue.

Also at Workstation:

PHIL WOLSTENHOLME - PRINTWORK (1st -17th May).

MULTIMEDIA GALLERY (4th - 10th May)

PERFORMANCE THE WORKSTATION (7th - 11th May)

THE KILLING SHOW - THIRD ANGEL Exhibition 9am - 7pm. Performance - 7.30pm (£4/2.50 concessions)

'I knew a woman once. Her face was in every newspaper. Nasty affair. Never really saw her in the same light again.' Maureen Morris 1958. A photographic installation with accompanying performance, looking at the sordid business of murder in the media. Not suitable for children.