New Media Opportunities for Young People
'untitled-title' - Bridport Museum - March 25 - 28 2008
Are you a young person aged 16 -19 with an interest in sound recording and new media?
Bridport Museum and PVA MediaLab are looking for participants to work with professional artists to develop a new audio work for Bridport Museum.
What’s in it for you?
You will produce a work with a contemporary edge - built from your creative ideas, your investigations and your views on the locality, today in 2008.
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a fast track and applied insight into working with sound recordings
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get hands on skills needed to record interviews, sound FX and atmospheres
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see how to edit and arrange material into a surround sound experience
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see how to invent new ways of presenting ideas for installation exhibits and broadcast/download media
Participants will work with specialist artist-facilitators Duncan Whitley and Thor McIntyre-Burnie to enhance their written or spoken word responses to the museum collection. 'untitled-title' aims to encourage participants to engage with and interrogate the Museum archive, with particular reference to the recently established 'Spinning Yarns' project http://www.spinningyarns.co.uk/
The material gathered will be edited by the participants and presented at a showcase event in the museum in April 2008.
Workshops are free of charge and will take place March 25 - 28.
To book a place contact us on 01308 459071 or admin@pva.org.uk
Thor McIntyre-Burnie - http://www.aswarm.com/
Duncan Whitley - www.shotgunsounds.com
Questions? email lab@pva.org.uk
Working with young people (13-16) whose interests include photography, sound recording and new media the studio has produced "Because It's Lovely", a record of contemporary sounds and images from west Dorset. The participants worked with professional artists, Andrew Lovett (sound artist), Peter Sheridan (visual artist) and James Price (animator/film maker).
The studio and Fra H Newbery Trail worked in collaboration to explore what heritage means to young people today, what is important to them and what makes Bridport the place it is for young people. Over four days in February participants had the opportunity to work alongside the artists to develop new skills in sound recording and digital photography and to curate their own work for public display.
The resulting audio and photographic panorama will be exhibited at Bridport Arts Centre from 2nd April – 5th May 2008.
The project has been funded by the Heritage Lottery, Bridport Town Council, West Dorset District Council and Dorset County Council.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact:
Crystal Johnson (Fra Newbery Trail): Crystal.Johnson1@virgin.net