Copyright and Contemporary Art: Challenges | Dr. Smita Kheria, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

eca research seminar series

Copyright and Contemporary Art: Challenges
 
Dr. Smita Kheria, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
 
Copyright’s struggle with emerging and novel areas of contemporary artistic
practice is evident in existing academic discourse. This talk will explore
how contemporary artworks resist the conventional requirements for copyright
protection: using specific examples to demonstrate the challenges posed to
the notion of originality, the categorisation of works, the requirement for
fixation and the possible reasons underlying any non-protection under the
law.

Smita Kheria, LLB (Hons) University of Buckingham, LLM University of
Cambridge, gained legal experience as a practising advocate in Corporate and
commercial law at the High Court of Calcutta. She undertook her PhD, at
Queen's University Belfast, where her work took a socio-legal approach to
authors' rights under copyright legislation and conducted a qualitative
study exploring digital artists conception of authorship and use of
copyright. She is an associate of SCRIPT <http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/> :
the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology
Law.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 4.30-5.30 pm
details at: http://www.eca.ac.uk/index.php?id=775
 
Hunter lecture theatre (O17), Hunter Building

          Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF

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Travis Souza - Doers And/Of Doings: A Pop-Up School[Scanned-Clean]

Travis Souza 

Doers And/Of Doings: A Pop-Up School
Closing Event: Saturday 26 February, 6pm

Throughout the month of February Travis Souza will be holding a series of workshops for a group of participating artists, the processes and results of which can be followed on a dedicated blog:

doersandofdoings.wordpress.com/ <http://doersandofdoings.wordpress.com/>

The project will culminate in a public closing event on Saturday 26  February at Sierra Metro.

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The Inventors of Tradition -GFT Film Screening

The Inventors of Tradition -GFT Film Screening

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Premiere Screening of Torsten Lauschmanns - At the heart of everything a row of holes

Dear Supporter,

Glasgow Film Festival are delighted to invite you to attend the premiere screening of Torsten's new work created as part of the Margaret Tait Award 2010.

Please join us for drinks at 7pm - 8.30pm at The Blythswood Hotel before moving to the GFT, 9pm - 10pm for the premiere.

Glasgow Film Festival would like to thanks Creative Scotland, LUX, New Media Scotland, Mary Mary and Dundee Rep for their kind and essential support.

 

Please RSVP to rsvp@glasgowfilm.org with TORSTEN in the subject line.

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Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz - 'Rape Me' 19 February - 2 April | Preview 18 February 7 - 9 pm

Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz - 'Rape Me' 19 February - 2 April | Preview 18 February 7 - 9 pm

Reply-To: info@marymarygallery.co.uk

'Rape Me' Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz 19 February — 2 April 2011 Preview: 18 February 7 — 9pm

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Help Save Edinburgh's Old Odeon Building

Help Save Edinburgh's Old Odeon Building

If you think the building should be saved please sign this petition and circulate to those you know who would support this inititiative.

You may remember that you signed a petition to save the old Odeon cinema building on Clerk Street in Edinburgh. We thank you, it made a big difference! It was the fastest growing petition Edinburgh has seen. It was handed over to Historic Scotland and DHP's plans to demolish the unique auditorium were 'called in' for a public inquiry.

However, the battle isn't over!

DHP was instructed by the government to put the cinema on the market. At the closing date in January 2011, a number of offers were made by parties who plan to preserve or to restore this historic building. But DHP still refuse to sell it! They claim the offers are not high enough and they have publicly announced that they intend to carry on with their original plans to build a boutique hotel at the site.

A Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) is our last hope to breathe life back into the old Odeon building. The Southside Community Council have set up a petition for the Edinburgh City Council to protect the building and to issue a CPO.

They need your help.

Please sign their petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save_our_cinema/ and help save this beautiful and unique building from being demolished. It will only take less than two minutes of your time and have a huge impact on a very worthy cause.

Thank you!

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Collective Gallery Press Release - White Knight

Collective Gallery
Press Release

White Knight
Alex Gross & Anna Mields | Emily Wardill
19 February - 3 April 2011
White Knight is a group show which brings together a new commission from Glasgow/Berlin based collaborating artists Alex Gross and Anna Mields and an existing work by Emily Wardill. Alex Gross and Anna Mields have developed a new filmwork Farbenlehre and will create an installation using architectural forms to interrupt the space of the galleries, reflecting on architecture's history and potential for utopian vision while Fulll Firearms Workshops by Emily Wardill shows footage developing the script for a feature film to be finished in December 2011. Supported by The Showroom Gallery, London - the workshops involve actors and non-actors working from a script in development, based around the Sarah Winchester story.

Alex Gross and Anna Mields
Collaborative German artists Anna Mields and Alex Gross were commissioned by Collective to make the video-project Farbenlehre. Farbenlehre is set in a small village in Spain, Catalonia; a strange German 'colony' on a hillside 3 hours south of Barcelona. The village was founded in the early seventies by German art teachers as an architectural experiment.

The film is a portrait of this site on the 'outskirts' of German society and based on old 8mm film footage with similarities to Mields' and Gross' first collaborative film-project Arkenberge. Real places and documentary footage is mixed with fiction and sculptural performance. Central to Farbenlehre is the usage of colour in relation to the site, the white houses of the village are the stage for a narration loosely bound to a performative examination of colour.

Some of the colour-installations Gross and Mields will build will be reminiscent of Johannes Ittens "Expressive Farbenlehre" and the pure modernist approach towards colour. The performances though will evoke the feeling of a dark shamanistic ritual. In Farbenlehre the white houses of the village will function as an empty canvas for our colour-experiments.

The concept for the group show is to challenge the notion of white cube gallery space as an empty canvas by using it as a specific context to act upon rather than context free architecture. Gross and Mields will trans-locate some of the architectural features of the village into the white-cube and use them as stage for an examination of colour. The film Farbenlehre will be shown as well as installations and objects influenced by what they found during filming and a colourful wallpainting will be made directly in the space.  Emily Wardill's Fulll Firearms Workshop offers architecture as a frame of conciousness, conflating a physical experience with the emotional dimensions of space.


        Biography Alex Gross
Born in Berlin, Germany in 1975.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
Diploma in fine Art, Universitaet der Kuenste-Berlin, 2003
Meisterschueler of Prof. T. Cragg, UdK-Berlin, 2004

Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, 2006
Kuenstlerischer Mitarbeiter, Fine Art, TU-Berlin

        Biography Anna Mields
Lives and works in Glasgow & Berlin                  
EDUCATION                   
Master's of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 2005-2007
Meisterschueler, UdK, Berlin, Germany, 2005                                          
Diploma Fine Art with special success, Universitaet der Kuenste, 2001-2004
Five-month exchange, school of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, 2004


Emily Wardill
Fulll Firearms:  

    Imelda is building a house to accommodate the ghosts of people killed by the firearms manufactured by her father's firearm company. While the house is being built, a number of squatters move into the property and Imelda mis-recognises them as ghosts. Jerome, as with the other squatters becomes kind of a confrontation for Imelda of her own experience.

Imelda (voice-over): Imelda sees a man in a room in a house.
The house is at such a distance that she can see his movement
but he cannot make out expressions.
He leaves the room and enters another that she cannot see.
The light is left on in the room even though it is the middle of the day.
Suddenly, he is outside, walking quickly down a lumpy slope
away from the house.
His feet hit the ground at irregular intervals as he navigates
clods of earth and grass.
He trips into a small run and is at the beach.
The light is almost so bright that there is no colour and the
pebbles glare at the shiny sea.
The sky seems to stretch away in strict clarity.
The man's hands are shaking
And he approaches the sea, bends forwards and places them into
the still water.
When the water settles again, he sees his face reflected back in
its glassy surface
And it is the face of another man.

Excerpt from We are behind by Emily Wardill and Ian White, 2010.

Fulll Firearms Workshops by Emily Wardill shows footage developing the script for a feature film to be finished in December 2011. Supported by The Showroom Gallery, London - the workshops involve actors and non-actors working from a script in development, based around the Sarah Winchester story.


        Biography Emily Wardill
Born in England, 1977
Lives and works in London
Senior lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art.
 


- - - - Notes to editors - - - -  - -
·      For more information or images, please contact: Jill Brown on 0131 220 1260 or jillbrown@collectivegallery.net
·      Collective is funded by Creative Scotland and City of Edinburgh Council.
·      Alex Gross & Anna Mields' film project Farbenlehre received funding from the Goethe-Institut.

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Workshop event at Talbot Rice

Dear all,

There are still places available for the next event taking place at Talbot Rice.

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‘Biblioteck Babylon’: the Sketchbook as object / Tuesday 15 February / 6pm

Open to everyone, this informal drawing session aimed at adults will be led by artists Sharon Quigley and Louise K Fraser. This after-hours workshop will provide a unique opportunity to explore contemporary drawing practice inspired by the book drafts in the current exhibition.

Free event, please book your place by contacting the gallery. Email info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk  or call 0131 6502210.

Feel free to pass this on to any friends or family you feel may be interested.

Best wishes,

Shawn Coulman
Marketing & Education Assistant
Talbot Rice Gallery

The University of Edinburgh
Old College, South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL

T: 0131 651 4784
F: 0131 650 2213

           W: www.trg.ed.ac.uk

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The Inventors of Tradition

The Inventors of Tradition is an exhibition, film screening and publication conceived by Beca Lipscombe and Lucy McKenzie (Atelier) and Panel, in partnership with the Scottish Screen Archive at National Library of Scotland and exhibition designers Martha.

At the intersection between art, design and social history, The Inventors of Tradition is a subjective study of the history of the Scottish textiles industry since the 1930s. It brings together samples of world-class design, the archive material of individuals and companies and a series of short documentary films sourced from the Scottish Screen Archive. In response to this material the artist Lucy McKenzie and designer Beca Lipscombe, from Atelier, have produced a series of new works including clothing, furniture, painting and accessories.

Atelier’s new collection has been produced in collaboration with Begg Scotland, Caerlee Mills, Hawick Cashmere, Mackintosh, Muehlbauer, Janette Murray, Steven Purvis and Elizabeth Radcliffe.

Exhibition
22 January – 26 February 2011
21 Stockwell Street
Glasgow, G1 4RZ
Open Tuesday – Saturday, 11am - 5pm

http://wearepanel.co.uk/index.php?page=the-inventors-of-tradition

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Keith Farquhar: More Nudes in Colour, Glasgow

Keith Farquhar Press Release
A press release with information on Keith Farquhar's exhibition, More Nudes in Colour, Glasgow can be downloaded as a PDF at www.tramway.org/press (scroll down). For further enquiries please contact jo.lennie@ntlworld.com
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Tramway is owned by Glasgow City Council and programmed and managed by Culture & Sport Glasgow Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE    Phone: 0845 330 3501

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Peter Liversidge in Huntly. Artist's Talk 7 Feb 2011

deveron arts
the town is the venue                                                                                       huntly ab54 8br | tel 01466-794494

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In residence with Deveron Arts, Feb 2011
Peter Liversidge


Artist’s Talk
Monday 7 Feb 2011
7.00pm Empty Shop, Bogie Street, Huntly Free Admission. All welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

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Artist's Talk

Monday 7 February 2011, 7.00pm, Empty Shop, Huntly

Deveron Arts’ artist-in-residence Peter Liversidge will be giving an Artist Talk about his previous work and what he is planning for Huntly on Monday 7 February at the Empty Shop, Bogie Street, Huntly.
 

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Peter Liversidge

For many artists, the proposal is one of the starting points in realizing a project. For artist-in-residence Peter Liversidge, the medium –the proposal- is the message. Peter’s work begins in his kitchen table, sitting alone writing proposals on an old manual typewriter. These hand typed pages propose an array of possible and impossible ideas for performances and artworks. In a sense the first realisation of every work is in Liversidge’s head, then on the page, then in the mind of the reader, and finally (perhaps) as a physical object or happening. In every case, the first ‘artwork’ from any series of proposals is the bookwork that presents the collected ideas.

He writes a new set of proposals for each project, often geographically relevant to the venue, but really just putting his current, often bizarre ideas on paper, forming a body of work that acts as a window into a very active mind. Humour is key to his work, and his Proposal series, which has evolved over the past 10 years range from the impractical to the absurd, such as a project to fill one of Liversidge's own exhibitions with smoke so that the art is concealed behind a thick white mist. His work opens for the reader the realms of possibility.

“&hellip the process is also about the notion of creativity: it’s important that some of the proposals are actually realized, but no more so that the others that remain only as text on a piece of A4 paper. In a sense they are all possible and the bookwork that collates the proposals allows the reader to curate their own show, and because of its size and scale the bookwork allows an individual to interact with each of the proposals on their own terms, one to one”.
Over the past few years Liversidge has worked in this way with an increasingly diverse body of institutions and places including: Proposals for Liverpool (Tate Gallery, 2008), Proposals for Barcelona (Centre d’art Santa Monica, 2007), Proposals for Brussels (with the British Council for the Europalia Festival, 2007), Proposals for Miami (Art Basel Miami, 2009) and Jupiter Proposals (Edinburgh’s sculpture park Jupiter Artland, 2009). Liversidge had a major solo show, THE THRILL OF IT ALL, at Ingleby Gallery in 2010

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