Symposium: Past, Present, Future. What is Time-based Media?

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Past, Present, Future. What is Time-based Media?
2pm - 5pm Friday 22nd March: Folkestone Quarterhouse.

The afternoon will begin with a rough history of video art by artist and writer Chris Meigh-Andrews who also will chair the programme, followed by presentations by Larry Achiampong, Jane England, Manuel Vason, Keith Piper and Lois Keidan. The invited speakers will present their own personal ideas and approaches to issues that are relevant to their practice, and show visual examples of their work. This will be followed by an opportunity for further discussion about the past, present and future of time-based media.

Chris Meigh-Andrews is an artist and writer and Professor Emeritus of Electronic & Digital Art at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of A History of Video Art, which explores the origins of video art and how new technologies continue to change and alter the way that artists and audiences engage with the media.

Lois Keidan is a co-founder and the Director of the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) which develops specialized resources, opportunities, projects and publishing activities for artists, audiences, students, researchers, teachers, writers, producers and promoters in the UK and internationally.

Jane England is gallery director/curator of England & Co. England will be discussing her work with artist Tina Keane who is a forerunner of multimedia art in the UK, has worked with film, video, digital media, neon sculpture, installation and performance.

Keith Piper is a British artist, curator, researcher and academic. Piper’s work explores the issues of racial, gender and class identity by presenting the viewer with what the artist describes as an ‘open-ended and contradictory puzzle of elements’ designed ‘to tease and irritate the spectator'.

Larry Achiampong is an artist whose solo and collaborative projects employ imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance and sound, to explore ideas surrounding class, cross-cultural and post-digital identity.

Manuel Vason coined the term PhotoPerformer and is fascinated by the correspondence between the art of photographing and the art of performing, exploring how two separate art forms can coexist and express, through collaboration and the creative tension of their differences.

Book Tickets now: https://www.quarterhouse.co.uk/whats-on/past-present-future-what-is-time-based-media

Early Bird £6/£4 concession until 15 March
Standard £8/£6 concession

This Symposuim is part of the Strangelove Festival 2019. To find out more go to our website www.strangelovefestival.com