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| 03 Dec 2007 02:53:14 pm |
 Art & the Environment - Kilkenny |
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Hi all,
Great to see visuals up on the blog.
I was sent this press info today that some of might be interested in, if we happen to find ourselves in the southeast that is...
MOOT V Art and the Environment
Kilkenny County Council’s Arts Office in collaboration with the Butler Gallery is delighted to launch the fifth in the series of MOOT discussions, debates and seminars. MOOT is a continuous creative process providing a forum for powerful, focused and inspirational debates and discussion on a variety of subject matters. These events will, potentially, transform expectations, citing shifts in attitudes, perceptions and beliefs.
MOOT V is the first in the four part series that will investigate the role of artists in engaging communities and raise awareness of environmental issues. The first discussion will be an open format event where artists, environmentalists and the general public will be invited to question how arts and culture can contribute to addressing environmental concerns and promote change to more sustainable ways of living. The number of environmental concerns are vast and in the first discussion MOOT will be used to identify the key issues, artists and areas of focus for future discussions.
This panel discussion will take place on Thursday, December 6th in the Brewery Club Kilkenny at 8pm. The panel will consist of Chairperson Gregg Allen (The Village, Cloughjordan), Gavin Harte, sustainability consultant (IRL), Davie Phillips(Cultivate,Dublin) Eileen MacDonagh (IRL), artist and Simon Pascoe co-director of Red Earth (UK).
MOOT is jointly organised by Mary Butler, Arts Officer Kilkenny County Council and Louise Allen, Education Curator, Butler Gallery and is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland
MOOT V Art and the Environment, Thursday, December 6th
Brewery Club, Parliament Street, Kilkenny
Doors open at 7.45pm Starting at 8pm - Admission is free
Further details contact Mary Butler, Arts Officer mary.butler@kilkennycoco.ie or
niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie 056 779 4138
Louise Allen, Butler Gallery louise@butlergallery.com 056 7761106
2008 will see the continuation of the Art and the Environment series with MOOT VI, VII and VIII taking place in February, May and October. |
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Category : archeology
| By : Sarah |  Comments [39] |  Trackbacks [0] |
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| 01 Dec 2007 04:51:41 pm |
| Map and attached Data example |
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This is an example of a map of a site location with attrbute info added
this could be done for sites of interest people have visited |
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Category : General
| By : Malcolm | Comments [32] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 28 Nov 2007 11:50:41 pm |
| planning nightmares |
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red ,Blue, Green
dont honestly think it really matters
presumably primrose yellow is cheap and ubobtrusive.
If all housing were painted like a west Cork holiday resort i think there mite be few
discusssions spawned too.
The colour is irrelevant the proximity of the housing is far more obnoxious
who in there right mind would (unless needs must) want by choice to live in the central property. |
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Category : General
| By : Malcolm | Comments [59] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 28 Nov 2007 11:25:48 am |
| YBS - Yellow Building Syndrome |
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This is a question I put out on an architectural blog there, hoping to garner diverse and interesting replies:
Why is 'yellow', in particular a kind of mute primrose yellow, the overwhelming colour of choice for builders and developers in this country?
I am sure there are a plenthora of answers to this question, the most refined of which having subtle colour and market psycology underpinnings. I am currently trying to source a British TV drama in which a man refuses to paint his house yellow in defience of his neighbours, the local council and even his wife...his radicalism sees his life disintegrate apparently.
It will be interesting to see what/if new colours people in YBS houses will choose in the future. 
www.archiseek.com: http://www.archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=6479 |
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Category : culture
| By : Gareth | Comments [42] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 26 Nov 2007 03:11:53 pm |
| Technical Diagnostic on Image upload |
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Hi
out technical guy has been trouble shooting the image uploading problem, please see below for solution
From now on we recommend you change all images to GIFF format before uploading also see below.
As for AV files we have discussed this with Sean and he is aware, there was no official decision made on this format but in terms of the website this will be possible.
http://mywebland.com/forums/showtopic.php?t=724
This link above records the problems that the client NSNF has been having.
This problem occurs as there are discrepancies in the JPEG file format.
These problems are well documented in forums and technical websites such as Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200409_jpeg_tool.mspx
JPEG files are subject to VIRUS infection!!!!!!!!!
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2002/06/va_perrun.html
In summary there are multiple JPEG formats. But all appear in windows XP/2000 as .jpg
* .jpg
* .jpeg
* .pjpeg
* .pjpg
Within these formats there are three render modes:
1. Progressive
2. Baseline standard
3. Baseline "Optimized"
So in short unless the person uploading the image is familiar with JPEG file formats and render modes this form of image upload is unreliable on any web platform.
The UNIVERSAL file format for the web is .GIF, gif is a standard developed for interchange within web platforms, this format was developed to make web graphics load quicker and be stable on any server type.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Stop uploading unreliable JPEG files and start uploading .GIF files. You will not have any more problems.
How to change a file from JPEG to GIF?
This free image tool kit from infranview
http://www.irfanview.com/
Allows you to change images from JPEG or any format to GIF. |
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Category : mmdesign
| By : admin | Comments [57] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 23 Nov 2007 06:54:46 pm |
| 'Arigna Empire' |
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Stumbled upon this well written article from a highly esteemed, reliable and neutral source…the following website. http://www.answers.com/topic/arigna.
This seems like it might be of interest regarding external perceptions of the Leitrim and is perhaps relevant to Sarah’s investigations on the matter. I was geuinely impressed that the text was accompanied by a pop up advertisment. ‘Arigna Property For Sale On Ireland's No. 1 Property Website www.Daft.ie/Arigna/’
Arigna:
‘Arigna (Irish: An Airnigh) is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. Arigna, near Lough Allen (on the Shannon-Erne Waterway), is a sleepy, easy-going village on a scenic route between Keadue and Sliabh an Iarainn (Gaelic for "Iron Mountain"). The surrounding area has great and unspoiled beauty.
Up to 20 years ago, Arigna had a working coal-mine with more than 400 people working for the company. Today, a small museum hosts artefacts of the Mining Experience and visitors are taken down the mine to experience the conditions under which local people worked for years.
The beauty and view from the moutains overlooking arigna and surrounding villages and towns is spectacular.One amazing thing is you can see five counties from the mountains.The working conditions were extremely dangerous in the mines the conditions were cold wet and dirty. Since the closure of the mines the greatest danger that exists in Arigna would be that to the unscruptlous stranger popping into Flynn's Bar for a pint. Gential mutilation is likely to follow.
In recent years the 'Arigna Empire' has been extended to a corner of nearby Drumshanbo, in the establishment known a 'Henrys Haven', where traveller-style bare knuckle fighting, drug-dealing and even prostitution have become commonplace. Activities to which the 'Ariggies' have taken well to in this area are Fist Fighting and Prostitution, complemented by remeniscing about the great Roscommon teams of the last few months. Following such activities they all return to their County Council built homes as the majority of them have been barred from popular nightclub 'Cartown House'’ |
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Category : culture
| By : Elaine | Comments [36] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 23 Nov 2007 04:38:35 pm |
| Rururbia & its cousins |
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'Rururbia' Leitrim Village.
The following are a selection from The Shock Of The New: 100 concepts describing recent urban change
This is a collection of terms coined over the last 30 years by theorists to 'capture' new patterns of urban change and spatiality. This proliferation stemmed principally from demographers trying to define new patterns of developement and the spatial, economic and social relationships these had when the terms Urban, Suburban and rural began to blur and hybridise into one another. One term especially for me might have currency in the Irish rural context. Rururbia might be defined as a hybridised human settlement pattern in
which developments that are essentially urban/suburban proliferate over an extensive tract of countryside. Rururbia is dependent on its connectivity to extensive and dispersed social and economic nodes with the private automobile as the primary (if not only) facility for connection to these places.
Since we have essentially adopted a North American model of car culture and sprawl beyond traditional suburbs, I wonder what other terms from below might be useful in describing the new 'Super-Rural'
Boomburb
Edgeless city
Exit ramp economy
Disurb
Concentrated decentralization
Countrified city
Outtown
Penturbia
Suburban freeway corridor
Rururbia
Suburban growth corridor
Servurb
Slurbs
Suburban nucleation
Technoburb
The new heartland
The Shock Of The New: 100 concepts describing recent urban change:
http://www.envplan.com/epa/editorials/a375.pdf
Super Rural: Ireland's participation in the 2007 Venice Architectural Biennale:
http://www.architecturefoundation.ie/vb06/Downloads/VB06_PressRelease_30Aug.pdf
Regards to one and all,
Best,
G.
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Category : culture
| By : Gareth | Comments [89] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 15 Nov 2007 01:05:36 pm |
| archiving |
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| I had a look at the website for the Centre for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), as suggested by Sarah. Their Land Use Database (of which an edited version exists on the website) seemed to me to be a very appealing way of documenting our changing uses and understandings of, and relationships to, land and landscapes. As far as I could make out, members of the public as well as the CLUI team can suggest sites to be included, possibly submitting their own images and descriptions. This seems to result in a detailed and diverse archive, stretching far beyond what could be achieved by a dedicated team of researchers. Further, its engagement with people outside the organisation I imagine encourages use of the database, and perhaps constructive criticism and refining of the database as well – and if it does not, it could. The visual element of the archive is attractive too, with images of the places in question, or maps showing their location, included for each entry. I wonder whether this might provide a model for a New Sites – New Fields GIS? Would it be possible to solicit suggested sites, images, maps and descriptions from members of the public, to add to the artists’ contributions? If it worked, this could be an effective way of archiving the myriad small- and large-scale changes in rural and urban parts of the Breifne region, and might even give some idea of how these changes are being received. |
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Category : Archiving
| By : Bryonie | Comments [25] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 12 Nov 2007 02:39:27 pm |
| Archives and Art Practice |
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Just wanted to post some sources that people may or not be aware of given the current discourse around archiving and contemporary art practice.
1. Julie Bacon on art's new(ish) interest in the archive: CIRCA issue 119, spring 2007 (not available online yet)
2. Sarah Pierce's Metropolitan Complex project : www.themetropolitancomplex.com
3. The Atlas Group Archive http://www.theatlasgroup.org/
4. The Center for Land Use Interpretation (this is a really fantastic resource and really interesting for us to look at as a model I think) www.clui.org
5. 'Nayia Yiakoumaki's In An Archive Fever is an examination of the archive as a rigidity in flux considering the great interest of curators and artists in institutional archives taking as impetus Derrida's Archive Fever'… http://www.art-omma.org/NEW/issue10/text/theory/10_In%20an%20Archive%20Fever%20by%20N%20Yiakoumaki.htm
6. Anna Harding's POTENTIAL: ongoing archive looks at the processes of sorting and organising information opened to scrutiny by artists. She investigates it in practice with a curatorial initiative POTENTIAL: ongoing archive which took place at the John Hansard Gallery Southampton... http://www.art-omma.org/NEW/issue10/text/theory/10_Potential%20ongoing%20archive%20by%20Anna%20Harding.htm
7. Elpida Karaba's Thoughts on an archive project considers the curatorial possibilities of archives and looks at the role of the curator as the creator of systems of networking established by 'living' archives. She takes as a case study Charta project an archive of artists living and working in the Balkans. http://www.art-omma.org/NEW/issue10/text/theory/Elpida%20Karaba_Thoughts%20on%20an%20archive%20project.htm
Just for those of us who might be a bit self-reflexive about the whole archiving impulse and what we're setting out to do, or what related projects other art practitioners have been doing. I'm sure Christine might have more thoughts to add to this, since from my understanding it particularly relates to her practice. Also Sarah and Julie work at Interface, which organised some events relating to these issues.
Ps sorry about the long stringy links – couldn’t get the URLs to work properly. |
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Category : Archiving
| By : Sarah | Comments [43] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 12 Nov 2007 02:20:48 pm |
| Unexplained Phenomena in the Landscape... |
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Just to point out before I begin that I had planned on writing a post of this nature anyway, it's not just a purely facetious response to Sam's post below on the Dobar-Chú!
I think the research archive has huge potential, and I'd like to think that it could accommodate research that is outside the factual, and is maybe speculative, anecdotal, subjective, or even possibly spurious. Two things come to mind for me here, first - the 'Big Cat' sightings in the north west (though has mostly actually been in Antrim) and also that Roscommon is apparently the highest area for UFO sightings in the country.
Links to 'Big Cat'/ mysterious animals sightings:
http://www.blather.net/blather/2003/11/update_big_cat_sightings_in_ir.html
http://www.mysteryanimalsofireland.com/Homepage.htm
http://www.mysteryanimalsofireland.com/IrishExoticCats.htm
http://www.mysteryanimalsofireland.com/county_antrim_cat.htm
http://www.leitrimobserver.ie/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=2571&ArticleID=1388772
These strike me as pretty unique ways to be reading the landscape we are looking at, and also can imagine they would be exciting contexts for certain artists to respond to after Christmas.
Also, with the question of the LSC archive being developed, I think it would be useful for us to look at existing archives in the area, maybe including those that are less mainstream as well as the official channels such as local studies, genealogy etc. Form links/ share information/ accommodate existing research in making a new, specialised archive? |
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Category : Hokum?
| By : Sarah | Comments [43] | Trackbacks [0] |
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