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Job Title: Digital Arts Workshop Leader (deadline for applications, 6th Dec. 1999)
Responsible for: Participants and Volunteers
Report to: Statement and liase with NESA and the Adult and Community Education Service
Project aims and objectives:
The aim of this project is to provide an opportunity for disaffected young people in Norton Radstock to contribute their ideas and opinions to the regeneration of their town centres.
The towns of Radstock and Midsomer Norton are currently the focus of a government funded SRB project, (Single Regeneration Budget scheme). The project is looking at the physical regeneration of the two town centres.
Working with a digital artist the project participants will take photographs of their town centres and be shown how to change their photographs using image manipulation software, to show visually the real improvements they would like to see take place in Norton Radstock. These images will then be incorporated on a website, featuring a comments book on which the wider public can leave their responses. The website will be available to the public through a local cybercafe, the libraries, and Norton Radstock College.
This project has been established as a direct response to consultation with local youth centres, youth workers and young people in Norton Radstock. Most of the young people identified do not use the youth centres but prefer to play computer games either at home or in the local cybercafe, this project aims to target those young people, by offering them an arts project using a media which is relevant to their interests.
The project will have three main impacts. It will give local young people a real say in how their town centres are going to look, using digital media to represent that in a tangible form. It will teach specific technology and creativity skills to young people and aims to empower those young people to pass on those skills to the rest of the community, and it will provide a focus to bring together young people who currently do not participate in youth or arts activities.
This project is a collaboration between three agencies:
Statement: the media arts development agency for Bath and North East Somerset aims to increase participation in and access to the media arts.
B&NES Adult and Community Education Service.
NESA (North East Somerset Arts), a community arts organisation who work in consultation with local communities to develop arts projects that help to build a sense of community identity. NESA are based in Norton Radstock and are already working very actively in this community.
In addition we have the support of Norton Radstock College, the libraries, Radstock Youth Centre, Laterz Youth Project, and WireWorld Internet café.
Your Role:
To lead digital arts workshops for young people that, through manipulating photographs and establishing a website, will enable the participants to articulate and contribute their ideas and opinions to the SRB project.
Objectives:
1. Report directly to Statement
2. Work closely with the existing specialist workers and relevant local agencies, for example NESA and The Youth Service.
3. To work with young people aged 13-20
4. Devise workshops in consultation with Statement that also allow for input and flexibility from the participants
5. Work with NESA to introduce the SRB project to young people and lead participants in developing their ideas and opinions about the regeneration of their town centres
6. To provide 40 workshop sessions for young people in Norton Radstock in photography and digital media
7. To provide 5 days of training in digital media for NESA staff and volunteers
8. To enable young people to participate in the creation of a web site by April 2000
9. Attend project meetings
10. Contribute to an end of project report.
Essential skills and experience:
1. A practising artist with experience of working digitally and with an interest in public art.
2. Experience of working with young people
3. Experience of working in a community setting
4. Awareness of issues affecting young people
5. Experience of teaching/facilitating learning of digital and visual media
6. Good knowledge of multimedia and web-based applications for PC and MAC including Photoshop, HTML and Macromedia Fireworks.
7. Communication and presentation skills
8. A car driver with access to own transport
It is envisaged that most of the work will take place in an intensive period Jan-April 2000, with occasional planning and research meetings prior to this.
Most of the workshop sessions will take place in the early evenings.
Technical support and resources will be provided by Adult and Community Education, Leigh House Trust and Norton Radstock College.
Contract:
Minimum of 175 hours, on a self-employed basis, for £3,500 including travel expenses while working.
Selection procedure:
Applicants should send a CV and letter of application detailing artistic career and work experience to arrive no later than 6th Dec. 1999 to:
Dawn Giles, Statement, 16A Broad Street, Bath BA1 5LJ
For further information please contact Dawn Giles 01225 396479
* Apr.'99 *New Lottery funding programme: Details of a new Lottery funding programme which I am sure will be of interest to many groups in your area. This is a joint scheme supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council of England, Sport England,...
Transparent Room
Michael Pinsky
Enter the Transparent Room
Download a screen saver guaranteed to give you hours of enjoyment and
gain entry into the Transparent Room, artist Michael Pinsky's site
specific installation of images projected onto an exploded cube with
sound effects, which will exist in its physical form in Watershed's
Gallery One from Saturday 13 March but also exists in its virtual form
at http://www.watershed.co.uk/transparent
Visit the site, download the screen saver and then come and see us at
Watershed.
Screen saver Macintosh version -
http://www.watershed.co.uk/transparent/download/TRANSPARENT_ROOM.hqx
PC version -
http://www.watershed.co.uk/transparent/download/TRNSPRNT.zip
Want to comment? transparent_room@watershed.demon.co.uk
Want to talk to the artist? mpinsky@watershed.demon.co.uk
Want to talk to the programmer? philippa@watershed.demon.co.uk
Watershed Media Centre, 1 Canon's Road, Bristol. BS1 5TX
In order to run the screen saver you need a PPC Macintosh or Pentium
based PC running Windows 95/98/NT with at least 16MB of memory; 32MB or
more is recommended. You will also need to have QuickDraw 3D (version
1.0.7 or later), installed. You can download QuickDraw 3D as part of
QuickTime 3.0, free from Apple Computer, at
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
Supported by
Watershed, University of Central England in Birmingham, Arts Council of
England, South West Arts and the University of the West of England
also details regarding:
ARTISTS TO EXPLORE MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY
The deadline for this is 11 September 1998 *
this page is now for information only
The Clark Digital Bursary at Watershed
( Now concluded this page is left for reference only)
Digital Artist Residency, Dartington, South Devon. UK
( Now concluded this page is left for reference only)
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