Paul Gillard
We have an interview with Paul Gillard, a digital artist who was working on training at the Phoenix during Animated Exeter. His website includes watercolours so not all his work is digital. He uses Artmatic on a Mac for some work. So far we have only shown him a couple of files from scene.org but he is prepared to look at more in future.
Paul's work is also interesting in itself. Working on a Mac he has no worries about large files. 'Save to Quicktime' is a natural. There are Flash versions on his site and there is also a DVD that be shown on occasions with permission. This DVD was shown at the Panasonic shop during animated Exeter on a plasma screen.
Looping a DVD was convenient although cable to a laptop also worked.
Hidrazone
"HIDRAZONE is a space for practitioners and writers in the field of digital and interactive arts.
Our main goal is to provide a forum for aesthetic quality in digital and interactive arts practice, and intellectual quality in theoretical commentary and speculation within this field. The zone is emerging and would we welcome contributions from both practitioners and theorists"
Their existing site includes Barcoder from Russell Richards. so what would they make of scene.org?
Digitale Kultur
http://www.digitalekultur.org/en/
Based in Cologne, Digitale Kultur aim to promote scene.org at events such as CeBIT and the forthcoming Realtime Film Festival at fmx/05
They do have writing about scene.org but most of it is in German. at CeBIT they showed several files on plasma screens to good effect. If budgets were available they might visit the UK, possibly close to a showing of 'A New Canvas'. Also possible, Greg Kurcewicz visit to Koln. Meanwhile web links more likely.
Recently lauched site http://www.demoscene.info/
Scene.org files are designed to work with a graphics card on a small screen. We need to find ways of reaching larger groups of people, even just to persuade them to download their own copies. Maybe create DVD or work back to tape. There are technical problems but also a cultural issue around attitudes to film. Can a film festival nclude other media?
Possible Problem No 4
The people creating scene.org files may not want them to be transferred to quicktime and/or shown on large screens. So far there has been no objection. Scene.org are considering a Creative Commons licence as they find people may change their minds later. We will assume it is ok to reformat anything from scene.org unless told otherwise.
The scene.org awards show is on the 26th March. Presumably if they have decided to do an awards show then they welcome publicity.
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Animex is a word for a digital fringe for Animated Exeter. Exeter City Council have no official connection and prefer the word Animex to be associated with the event in Teeside. There are other websites called Animex, including two in Japan. There is no major event in Exeter till Feb 06 so apart from experiments there could be online links with other spaces. Psand.net and/or Radio Vague are interested in streaming media but this comes later, after we find a away to display downloads.
is this animation?
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Animex has been based at Hyperactive Cafe and at Life Bytes
The tape and DVD will be edited by Jo Gedrych,
whether or not there is a 'script'.
Contact Will Pollard will.pollard@gmail.com
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There will be a meeting on April 1st at the Central Library Exeter
4pm "wi-fi Exerter"
5pm about scene.org
6pm selected from scene.org awards
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Background topic, content and bandwidth
See also this PDF
At CeBIT the Digitale Kultur stand was close to the
World Cyber Games and the Dance Music Awards.
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