On 18th December 2007, Mediashed and Metal hosted a Party at Chalkwell Hall, which was s a mixture of a celebration of the imminent renaissance of the house as a creative space, a big thank you to everyone who has been involved over the last 3 years with MediaShed, and a celebration of the relocation of MediaShed to Chalkwell next year as part of Metals renovation of the space.

We'd like to thank everyone who supplied equipment, did the sound a visuals, performed, displayed work, brought food and drink, came and chatted and generally made the evening a great success.

Performers on the night were: Hybernation, Doozer, Little Penguin, The Sundown Poets (Jo and Cherryl), Chris Davison, Phillious Williams, Innocent Civilian, VJ's Mokital and Zomby, and the Telephasic DJ's, Rob G and Clifford.

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Mark Bushell

Public New Sense Ltd. Graphic Design, Illustration, Community Artist. 

Working with people and ‘whatever’s available’ in terms of materials and technology, encouraging people to work intuitively without conforming to preconceived notions of ‘Good Art, Good Practice’. Enabling recognition of ‘the validity of personal and collective creativity’ through participation in workshop based projects.

Damien Robinson

Is an artist working with digital media focusing on the interplay between images, sounds and vibrations.

AWSoM at Banff NMI

Her artwork was originally print-based and 3D; often based on children’s stories and toys, it has been shown in venues as diverse as phone boxes and the National Art Library. From 1998 she has increasingly used digital techniques allowing her to work with media previously inaccessible to her and other deaf people. Works include De@fsite for the Photographers Gallery, Aerial – an x-space commission for inIVA - and Songbird, a sonic/acoustic work initiated in a LabCulture Residency exhibited as part of ‘Re:Thinking Time’ at Peterborough Digital Arts in 2004.

Gordon Flemons

As a sculptor Gordon Flemons is interested in space; the space a form occupies, the space between objects, and how they are located in an environment. Yet with a background in biological research he is also interested in how things spread and change, moving through both space and time.

During a recent residency for the Centre for Arts and Design in the Environment (CADE) at Writtle College Gordon constructed a series of inflatable ‘follies’ in the college grounds. As they were inflated they changed ones perception of space in the gardens and also the way people moved through it. In addition, by the use of polythene bin bags and plastic shopping bags for their construction, the follies address the more political spaces of consumerism and landfill.

• Stuart has experimented in various forms of art since he was a young boy. Even at the age of 6 he was carrying around a camera all the time and taking pictures. He has had no formal training since, except to take GCSE art at school, resulting in a B grade.
• Since 1991 he has put pen to paper and written words, which found their way into the form of poems. To this day there are now over 700 poems in 13 volumes, available to read on stuartbowditch.co.uk. Sometimes he has been compelled to perform them live, to varying responses. One day he will compile them into an old fashioned book.
• In his teens he taught himself to play the drums and over the course of 10 years, he played in 3 bands of varying styles (Death Metal, Glam Rock and Punk), recorded a few cd’s and played numerous legendary gigs around London and the South East. But the time came to hang up his sticks and turning his hand to things more electronic.
• Using a laptop and USB keyboard, a world of rhythms unplayable by two human hands found themselves at his fingertips. But he quickly got bored of synthesized drum beats so he started making field recordings to capture sounds that he found around him every day. Taking sounds from around the house, industrial work places and remote outdoor locations, to name a few, make the core basis for works for songs he creates under the name Hybernation, as most of his programming work is done in the winter as he stays inside to keep warm. He has his first release out this November on Rednetic Records. Hybernation has played at many live events since 2005 including Arctic Circle, MultiVitamins, Sundown and Telephasic Workshop.
• This year Hybernation was asked to write the soundtrack to the film “The Duellists” commissioned by Futuresonic Festival, which explores the use of Parkour in Urban areas. It was filmed using only the in-house CCTV network in the Manchester Arndale shopping centre and the soundtrack was constructed entirely out of foundsounds recorded during the filming process in the shopping centre.
• Borrowing time on friend’s turntables he began to dj, and has been playing out since 2001, playing anything from ambient to electro, classical to electronica, grindcore to breakcore, what ever the occasion might call for. He’s had a regular show on local station Rise One 98.3FM since 2005 playing minimal and tech house to techno. Occasionally he is more experimental and creates a live alternative soundtrack to films or vj sets. He has recently also taught pupils how to VJ and DJ at Priory Special School in Southend-on-Sea and has CRB clearance.
• In 2003 he and poet Jamie Spraklen, gave birth to the Sundown Multimedia night in Southend-on-Sea, which runs bi-monthly to promote all forms of art including poetry, live music, sketch comedy, stand-up, improv, short films, dj sets, and new-media. To date it has played host to the crème of local talent alongside National favourites like John Hegley, Rachel Pantechnicon, Josie Long, Nathan Penlington, Liz Bentley, Polar Bear and many, many more.
• Telephasic Workshop is also an event started by Stuart with Paul Malone, in April 2006. Running monthly events it is a relaxed evening of quality electronics with a variety of entertainment from ambient, dub and electronica to electro and techno, alongside some of the best visuals east of London. It also plays host to lots of national and local talent including Dumi, Kristallo, Weirdgear, [relation], Rocket Number 9, Reason or Romanza, Sunosis, Zainetica, Jacen Solo and Robin Saville from Isan.
• Recently his efforts have been put into AWSoM (Ambient Weather Sound Machine) a project that uses the weather to play foundsounds in remote places. This project was funded by Arts Council England and is in collaboration with Damien Robinson and the Mediashed and has been installed at Two Tree Island, in the Thames Estuary, Sutton with Shopland Music Festival and part of "Interactive Screen 0.7 - User Friendly is Not Enough" at the BNMI in Banff, Alberta, Canada. 12-17th August 2007.

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Mediashed @ Enter_Unknown Territories

Parkers Piece - 26th - 29th April 2007

Mediashed took part in the Enter_Unknown Territories Festival in Cambridge. We ran a temporary Mediashed space in on of 4 inflatable domes in the public park known as Parkers Piece.

We ran workshops, activities and talks on a variety of subjects including Spy Kiting, Social Telephony, The Networked Image, Video Sniffin', VJing and Retro Gaming, and performances of short films, live music, Audio/Visual experiments and DJing. Alongside all this, the space was open to the public for the whole festival to use and enjoy a selection of recycles computers, free and open source software, with friendly Mediashed personnel to help wherever needed.

Richard Wright

LMX Spiral 1998
www.futurenatural.net

Richard Wright is a media artist and researcher working in the field of digital moving image and interactive techniques. Over the last twenty years his work has been exhibited and screened at numerous festivals, exhibitions and seminars and broadcast by television channels around the world. In 1998 he received a PhD in the aesthetics of digital film making and has published nearly forty essays, articles, papers and reviews.

Matsuko Yokokoji

Matsuko Yokokoji graduated from Kuwazawa Design College in Tokyo in 1983. From two years prior to this she freelanced as a graphic designer and became the art director for Imperial Enterprise Inc. a company specialising in direct marketing in 1984. Yokokoji first came to the UK in 1987 to study printmaking and computer graphics at Guildhall University where she first met Harwood (another founder member of Mongrel). From 1991-1995 she worked as a researcher/coordinator for Japanese TV companies. In 1994 Yokokoji worked for Harwood’s ‘Rehearsal of Memory’ which first showed at Video Positive 94’ and later it became a CD-ROM which installation went 12 cities and 9 countries. ‘Rehearsal of Memory’ is a The Centre Pompidou’s permanent collection. In 1995 she co-founded the Mongrel group where she coordinates/designs Mongels projects. She is a company’s director of ‘Mongrel Ltd.’, there her role is to run the company as a general manager.

Graham Harwood

Short bio:

Harwood is the artistic director of the UK artist group Mongrel. His main interests are in the networked image and helping other people set things up for themselves. He currently lives at the mouth of the thames with Matsuko Yokokoji another member of Mongrel and their son Lani, were they are helping to set up a free media space mediashed.org for local inhabitants.

Long bio:

Harwood is best known for his collaborative work 'Rehearsal of Memory' (1995) produced with maximum security mental patients at Ashworth Hospital (permanent Collection Centre Pompidou et du Musée National d'Art Moderne) and as the founder of Mongrel an internationally recognised artists group specialising in digital media.

New Media & Other Artists

Working Nationally and Internationally the MediaShed works with many Artists, this forms alliances and partnerships that together benefit the community the individual artist and ourselves.

In this category you can review the profiles of these artists and their work.