Student discount available with your college ID + an extra discount when you see both exhibitions.

FRANCIS ALYS

Alÿs’s work starts with a simple action, either by him or others, which is then documented in a range of media. Alÿs explores subjects such as modernising programmes in Latin America and border zones in areas of conflict, often asking about the relevance of poetic acts in politicised situations. He has used video projection and film but also spreads his ideas through postcards. Painting and drawing remain central to his work too.

EXPOSED

Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects.

as comments as usual – post to your blog AND as text

200 words on where you would show the footage you have already shot (ie sainsburys etc) and why – think about the audience – who and why

What is a narrative? Include with your definition a citation of your source.

What prevents a narrative from being a random collection of events?

Write a 200 word proposal for a walking map. Say what you would map and why.

The V & A curated a superb group of digital work. We must try to create/ make more installation ideas at college.

+ the looping short video clip wall for the degree show would be an excellent idea even if its not interactive!

Post your photo and video blog links from Decode in the comments.

this is just the most awesome news

the indie version of unity 2.6 (previously $199) we have 10 licenses in room 106 is now F R E E

the pro version is still $1500 but the indie version is what you need to get started and very fully featured – it recently went cross platform and is just an amazing piece of software and it works brilliantly with C4D – we will be having a quick look in year 1, we teach it in semester 2 and last year a number of students used it for their double projects

F A N T A S T I C news – the news of the year to be honest – grab a copy before they change their mind

UNITY: Game Development Tool

for some web demos (you ned to install the web plugin first) see this page

Ass. 2 pt 1

(Other short work within Emergence were: Silent Mountain, Five Angels of the Millennium, The Quintet of the Astonished and Going Forth By Day).

Here are some of the themes discussed and alluded to:

the idea of representing presence
no longer around, echoes, silence

knowing something before and without words
using symbolism to convey thoughts

film time is not real time, not our time
simultaneous existence and representation

stirring without formal structure.

We also briefly looked at photomontage artist called Sean Hillen and his Irelantis work. Reconstructing history, retelling a narrative through multiple layered visual means.

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further to andy’s earlier post here’s the relevant passage from the information commissioners regulations for the installation of cctv

the full document is available here

9.2 Subject access requests

Individuals whose images are recorded have a right to view the images of themselves and, unless they agree otherwise, to be provided with a copy of the images. This must be provided within 40 calendar days of receiving a request. You may charge a fee of up to £10 (this is the current statutory maximum set by Parliament). Those who request access must provide you with details which allow you to identify them as the subject of the images and also to locate the images on your system. You should consider:

• How will the staff involved in operating the CCTV system recognise a subject access request?
• Do you have internal procedures in place for handling subject access requests? This could include keeping a log of the requests received and how they were dealt with, in case you are challenged.
• A clearly documented process will also help guide individuals through such requests. This should make it clear what an individual needs to supply.
You should decide:
• What details will you need to find the images? Is it made clear whether an individual will need to supply a photograph of themselves or a description of what they were wearing at the time they believe they were caught on the system, to aid identification?
• Is it made clear whether details of the date, time and location are required?
•What fee will you charge for supplying the requested images (up to a maximum of £10) and how should it be paid? Make this clear to people making access requests.
• How will you provide an individual with copies of the images?

If images of third parties are also shown with the images of the person who has made the access request, you must consider whether you need to obscure the images of third parties. If providing these images would involve an unfair intrusion into the privacy of the third party, or cause unwarranted harm or distress, then they should be obscured. In many cases, images can be disclosed as there will not be such intrusion.

Example: A public space CCTV camera records people walking down the street and going about their ordinary business. Where nothing untoward has occurred, this can be released without editing out third party images.

Example: Images show the individual who has made the request with a group of friends, waving at a camera in the town centre. There is little expectation of privacy and the person making the request already knows their friends were there. It is likely to be fair to release the image to the requester without editing out the faces of their friends.

Example: Images show a waiting room in a doctor’s surgery. Individuals have a high expectation of privacy and confidentiality. Images of third parties should be redacted (blurred or removed) before release.

Where you decide that third parties should not be identifiable, then you will need to make arrangements to disguise or blur the images in question. It may be necessary to contract this work out to another organisation. Where this occurs, you will need to have a written contract with the processor which specifies exactly how the information is to be used and provides you with explicit security guarantees.

and here is an interesting article from the guardian

Film stars of CCTV

Tony Oursler

Gary Hill
Donald Young Gallery

Mark Boswell

withhold
obstruct
abstract
replace
slur
blur
affect
remove
repeat
intend
silence
intimidate

remember/ reflect/ return/ rework

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