Dear SSC members,

If you are interested in the talk, please contact Irina at uspia@nus.edu.sg.

Regards
Seah Hock Soon, President
ACM SIGGRAPH Singapore Chapter
Website: http://singapore.siggraph.org
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A talk by UK based digital artists group will be given in Cyberarts 
Studio next week. I welcome all SIGGRAPH members, it's open to everyone 
(free admission).

Thank you,
Irina


Art Talk - "Desperate Optimists" (UK)


Venue: Cyberarts Studio, level 5, University Scholars Programme, Old 
Admin Block, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent.


Time and Date: 2-4pm, September 18, Thursday, 2003


Desperate Optimists (Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, 
www.desperateoptimists.com) are from Dublin, Ireland. They have lived 
and worked in the UK since 1987. For over ten years desperate optimsits 
have been making works for a variety of media and contexts including 
digital arts, video, film, radio and performance.


They have been invited to Singapore by spell#7 to direct and facilitate 
'Wirecrossing', a collaborative web-film project involving 6 
localartists from different backgrounds and interests. With a 
backgroundin both experimental and community theatre performance, Joe 
and Christine began to work specifically with new media about 5 years 
ago. They have since developed and exhibited a number of works for the 
internet. The are concerned with notions of narrative and place,as well 
as with the moving image, and the complex ways it intersects with time 
and space, its limitations and possibilities, especially when streamed 
online. Their work interrogates the idea of bringing real geographies 
and communities into virtual and fictional realms. The project in 
Singapore, 'Wirecrossing' will be a development of these concerns, the 6 
Singapore-based artists will each be responsible for a segment of a 24 
hour film shoot, which will shot inreal-time, translating into a 24 hour 
film, which will then be processed into the non-linear experience of a 
website. Joe and Christine are hoping to bring this concept to other 
cities and countries in the near future.


They will present extracts from their work and discuss how their process 
has evolved, with particular emphasis on the use of digital technology 
in 'moving image' projects, working with communities and in 
collaborative situations.


Desperate Optimists are here as part of The Year of Living Digitally


The Year Of Living Digitally is a new media arts festival that is taking 
place throughout October at several venues throughout the city. It 
features film, web, peformance and music at Esplanade, Substation and 
Zouk and involves local and international artists from Europe and Japan.


www.livedigitally.net