The Digital Media Centre devises and hosts various projects for Education and group work. This can include addressing certain themes or targets. We can plan work and find suitable artists to deliver it.
We also undertake small digital video editing and production work. Some examples of our work are featured below.
Astounding Sounds, Amazing Images
The
South Hill Park Video Archive
Sample movies can be downloaded from the links below, alternatively you
can browse a collection of our productions on our YouTube
channel.
All movies are in QuickTime .MOV format. Click the links below to download.
Trade Winds installation - Jos Hadfield/Kristina Gjems 2007 (18mb)
Rotations Dance Project (extract)
2006 (21mb)
Assessing
the Evidence
Ceramic Conference 2005 (88mb)
Charcoal Animation & Soundtracks
Hosted as part of our series of weekend "Digital Developments" creative workshops, and led by animator T. Kim Noce and Martin Franklin covering the digital audio day.
Animation is always a very slow process, but this method of using redrawn and erased images made by charcoal produces some beautiful images.
Sound comes from original recordings made around the building and park, which was then used as source material, being further processed by a number of software "sound toys".
• Charcoal Animation Showreel
QuickTime movie 7.8mB
Surveillance
Running through December and January 08, the "Surveillance" video screening presented the work of 13 artists who submitted work in response to our international call for works.
The diverse interpretations of our theme ranged from free-running in the Arndale Shopping Centre to data mapping of traffic cameras on the Euston road.
• Surveillance
Artist List (PDF)
• Surveillance
artists interviewed on the "Gene Pool" podcast (mp4)
Electronics for Artists
Our first artist weekend in the "Digital Developments" season, led by kinetic sculptor/sound artist, Ray Lee kicked off in February 2008.
The two days took participants from the essentials of soldering, to hacking the circuit boards of audio toys and radios to create mutated devices that worked and sounded far differently from their original purposes.
To bring everything together, Ray introduced a MIDI Theremin into the mix, which, when hooked up to a set of relay switches, enabled each of the hacked devices to be triggered, either as a live improvisation or programmed arrangement inside a computer sequencer.
Hear an extract of the final combination of Theremin and hacked electronic devices in the file below.
• E4A Finale (mp3 2.1mB)
