Title:
Collision – Where Social Media Meets Fine Art...Or Not...
Date:
29 July 2010
Time:
1pm
Venue:
Adrian Cadbury Lecture Theatre, Aston Business Schoo,l Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET
Tel:
0121 663 0101
Email:
lm@rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Web:
www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Price:
£20.00 (£15.00 for Rhubarb International Review Participants)
Speakers:
Simon Roberts
Selected by The House of Commons as the nation’s official Election Artist, and commissioned by the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art to document the campaign activity in the run up to the 2010 general election.
www.simoncroberts.com
Christian Payne
Is a freelance mobile media maker who also specialises in Social Media & photography. An experienced journalist that has published in all the major British papers and many more overseas. Christian maintains and hosts blogs and podcasts with reader/listeners in over sixty countries.
www.ourmaninside.com
Mark McPherson
Mark McPherson is a 35 year old artist and art-photography entrepreneur. He is the founder of Big City Press, the independent West Australian-based publisher of the Hijacked photographic book series.
As a passionate curator, publisher and editor, McPherson is currently collaborating with emerging and established artists, curators, writers and photographers for future volumes of Hijacked. This unconventional project engages with alternative cultural and artistic networks of exchange and dialogue between contemporary Australian and international photographers.
www.bigcitypress.com.au
Once there was the elitist belief that everything that entered the white space of the gallery, came from the purist tradition. Very likely the images had been shot on film, or crafted through some infinite process using alchemy, poisonous chemicals and some years away from light, in the darkroom, practising the art.... Now though our galleries are becoming places where displacement happens, process is not all and the public are invited to show their own images there...
Now that the whole world is blogging, tweeting and face booking, what does this mean for the image? Is this obsession with technology for pleasure, self promotion or the hard sell? Does it begin with creativity but end up being financial? If you give more, do you get more back? Are there really free marketing possibilities and what do they look like? How do you integrate the demands of sharing technologies into your life and business? Where do creativity, well being and a sense of community live in your world? What will the fine art of the future look like and who will be making it, showing it, and where? How will artists be able to find their way through this myriad of electronic riddles and live to tell the story?
Our speakers will talk about the way they used social media to enhance projects, build business and operate globally while in remote places. They will bring tales about politics, creativity, communities and comedic situations and give you an insiders view on how its all worked for them.