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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmMmSu6gews&search=russian%20jumping

the plug has been pulled - but the vision lives on

Sadly and frustratingly the business unit at the Uni have said that we should postpone the conference. They need 35 bookings to break even against the venue and catering cost and we had a much smaller number of bookings.

However, the vision lives on! The idea will be back, hopefully in the New Year.

Humph...

I've heard there aren't too many bookings so far. I wonder if there will be a flood of bookings in the last 4 weeks. I wonder what the normal pattern for these things is.

Bob Dylan

I have just been watching the second part of that documentary on BBC2. I was stunned how Dylan kept moving while everything else, e.g. Newport Folk Festival and others stayed the same or only caught up much later. (I know that's not the first time that's been said about him.) Pity the programme ended SO abruptly when there were quite a few other unpopular changes he went through, like sweet country music (Nashville Skyline) and then into and presumably out of (kind of) religion.

Macbeth again

Dear Reader, I am involved in a pantomime this Christmas of... macbeth or Scots on the Rocks or Macbeth: the play that dare not speak its name. My fellow directors have suggested that I take the role of Macbeth. I had Banquo in mind. Macbeth is a bit too macho for my taste. Perhaps my devoted readership could help me make a decision on this.

Synopsis of the video work

Piecing it together - an investigation into experiential and scientific/rational knowledge in relation to the Scene of the Crime

In this presentation artists Salomé Voegelin and Helen Bendon will present their ongoing investigation into representations of the crime scene. These artists are currently working on an extensive body of new collaborative work combining their skills, experience and conceptual concerns in video, sound art and photography.

This particular work deals with forensic investigations of a crime scene, considering both, the factual account of forensic science (working with the UK national police training centre Centrex) as well as the cinematic and televisual conventions of its presentation. These almost polarised representations draw attention to the notion of forensics as an exact science in juxtaposition to ideas around the experiential knowledge invested in art practice. The new body of work produced for this presentation restages a crime scene from the point of view of the victim; borrowing from the conventions of the scientific investigation of forensic photography, whilst ‘falsifying’ and rendering ambiguous this scientific knowledge through the production of an actual and material narrative, leaning on the aesthetic conventions of the crime genre.

This particular project touches upon ideas of practice through both process and content. During the presentation the artists will discuss their research and development in relation to this work, talking specifically about process and intuitive knowledge as creative practitioners and how this informs the production of work.

Draft programme

I've put up the beginnings of the programme for the day on the conference website.

Our social world

I spent yesterday at a conference about social software; blogging (like this), wikis and the like; Our Social World organised in Cambridge by my friend Geoff Jones. More about innovation than intuition but extremely interesting all the same. It was a nice insight into how entrepreneurs think.At first I felt naked without my laptop - it doesn't have a wireless card anyway and THAT would have been worse, to scrabble around looking for a socket.

I have nearly got a title from 2 of the conference speakers - but not quite.