Exhibition Days 10-20th May.....

DAY 3 - Tuesday, 13 March 2006 @ Mediashed, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

In attendance:
Drew Hemmington, Katherine Moriwaki, Derek Shaw, Terry Slepcevic, Matsuko Yokokoji, David Valentine, Richard Wright, Stuart Bowditch

Today was the turn of Harwood to talk about his plans for the Art for Shopping Centre project, Net Monster.

To start with Harwood introduces the National Heritage installation because of its dialogue about race and racialisation and as an introduction to Mongrel history (viewed on a projector).

DAY 1 - Sunday, 11 March 2006 @ Mediashed, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

Those present were:

Drew Hemment: Future Everything (CIC). DJ & events organiser - Futuresonic. Social diversity and interactions
Katherine Moriwaki: Artist and lecturer. Technology in art & media systems
Graham Harwood: Mongrel - widening the scope/availability of media, media art & systems
David Valentine: MediaShed & film making, LFS, E2PROM
Derek Shaw: MediaShed Facilities Manager, SoSLUG organiser and SOSEAN Server Manager
Stuart Bowditch: MediaShed Technical Support and musician - Sundown Multimedia, Telephasic Workshop, E2PROM
Rob Gretton: Sound engineer and DJ - Telephasic Workshop. Member of Sonic Arts Network, currently forming Southend-on-Sea Electronic Arts Network
Terry Slepcevic: Short-film maker and co-runs Retro Gaming events at MediaShed

DAY 2 - Monday, 12 March 2006 @ Mediashed, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

Those present were the same as Day One:

Today was the turn of Kathirine Moriwaki to talk about her plans for her Art for Shopping Centre project. She started with discussions on migrations, social integration and sense of identity, and also about contemporary US culture, incorporating the Internet, gaming and technology. Informal culture from such things as the environment, skateboarding, surfing, shopping / consumerism and decoupled identities. She talked about a shift of perspectives within racial, cultural, class and language and the friction at points of intersection between these perspectives/intersection of concerns. Infrastructure and systems was also a topic including media systems as art and structural characteristics of ad hoc WiFi networks.

Thirty years after Brian Eno's Music For Airports, Futuresonic presents Art For Shopping Centres, exhibition of major, world premier artworks, after which you will never look at a shopping centre the same again. Art For Shopping Centres is the centrepiece of Urban Play, continuing Futuresonic's focus since 2004 on taking artworks out of the galleries and into urban space.

Workshops: 11-13th March 2007 @ Mediashed, Southend.

Festival and Exhibition: 10-12th May 2007 @ Arndale Centre, Manchester