Jackie CalderwoodPhD Research Student: Institute of Creative Technologies,De Montfort University, LeicesterResident: Pervasive Media Studio, BristolFounder Member: Strata Collective, Somerset

Moving image: Creating conversations across place and community

mscapeFest „09, Fontys 25th November 2009

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• e-merge_a filmmaking mediascapeCommissioned for innovation programme,Birds Eye View film festival, ICA, March 2009Funded by ACE (National Lottery), supported by Pervasive Media Studio, The Royal Parks Public walks in St James‟s Park, films & traces on web. Also Sandpit*10, Southbank Arts Trail, Workshops with Wiltshire College, Worle School

• SoundlinesCurrent educational project with Strata Collective - to April 2010Sonic mediascape, with film and web, as a tool for engagement with sssi local landscapes and the human journey through time.

• AmbienceCommissioned by Bristol Festival, supported by Watershed and Pervasive Media Studio, Sept 2009UGC: Open call for films, mapped into mediascape with public event (PDAs) and resulting films on location via large format projection.

Work with Moving Image and Pervasive Media:

E-merge poster

e-merge_a filmmaking mediascape

Filmmaking by walking, for a public audienceUrban/rural

Collation and re-presentation on webIntention for gallery/public space

parallel playback

www.e-merge-walks.blogspot.com

E-merge

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E-merge: Films in the park

Theo

www.e-merge-walks.com

E-merge website

E-merge evaluation & feedback“Fun!” “Intriguing” “Unusual and interesting”

“The mediascape was fantastic; this was my second visit as it wasso brilliant the first time. It is really inspirational.”

“E-merge was a lovely and memorable way to enjoy the park!”“Appreciated the way in which the music and headphones cut me off

From my surroundings in order to make me more fully appreciate them!”“Supportive environment for women; innovative; mediascape made the

familiar strange - which was wonderful!”

Feedback at Birds Eye View:

Online Survey:“The music allowed me to focus on my surroundings more; when watching the films

online some visuals in the park became more focused; I actively took different routes when walking to see the results.”

“It was nice to have the opportunity to watch the film after the experience … like a home video.”

“It was a really inspiring experience which made us think about the park both spatially, teleologically, and temporally. The mediascape brought out concepts of the park in both

time and space (photographs and maps). ..the right balance was struck between the artistry of the footage and the flexibility of this footage as the building blocks for the

construction of the personal narrative of ones film.”

Old Park Images

Alexander Starritt, a-n review

”The main interest of the mediascape is in the way it explores visual memory.It implies that the way we build up a mental picture of a place is not topographic but defined by incident.When I now try to picture St James‟s Park, I see neither a map nor the view from a particular spot; I seethe preening swan or the passing cars from Jackie Calderwood‟s videos.This is perhaps the overriding impression left by the mediascape: a confrontation with the total subjectivity of our perception. Easily acceptable as a philosophical principle, it is much more disconcerting in a practicaldemonstration, not least because it highlights the impermanence of our mental picture. I suppose that if I were to visit the park enough times and walk through it along enough different routes, all these new memories would be overlaid until my memory of it become more objective and less linked to specific occasions.It also implies that if we remember a place in terms of the incidental observations made there, a subsequent absence of those things would make it a different place in our minds. Since my memoryof St James‟s Park is now built around swans and cars, a park without swans and cars would, at least in my personal visual memory, no longer be St James‟s Park. Perhaps it is this that explains the profound alienation we often feel when returning to a well known spot after many years. The incidental, superficial changes that we notice make us feel as if we have somehow landed in another place, not the one we knew and loved, but somehow another, occupying the same space.And it is for this reason that a greater temporal dislocation would have been an interesting additionto the mediascape. The inclusion of videos from other seasons or, even better, from the time when the park was used to graze cattle, would have heightened that sense of subjectivity, of the fundamental unknowability of a place, which remains even after the park is forgotten. It is this, combined with the realisation that our places must die with us, that allows Calderwood‟s mediascape to elicit a feeling of profound transience,a feeling that nothing, nowhere, will ever be the same again.”

Review of e-merge_a filmmaking mediascape by Alexander Starritt, March 2009

Published on artist newsletter interfacewww.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews

E-merge in 4 locations

Sandpit

„Location sensitive media leads us to „scrawling‟ on our physical environment as a way of articulating and sharing itineraries and spatial stories that might otherwise be invisible within that public space.‟

Clodagh Miskelly, Constance Fleuriot (2006)

Layering community media in place. Digital Creativity Vol.17, No. 3, pp. 163-173

Clodagh and constance quote - scrawling

E-merge Worle

Process at Worle

e-merge at Worle School:

2 day intensive workshopYear 10 students

•E-merge (London) remapped to schoolplaying field

•Stimulus for reflection

•Create content - photos, audio, video (editing)

•„Welcome to Worle‟ - play on entry

•„Worle Students‟ e-merge‟

•2 x Primary visits

•Discussion between student groups

Year 10 Reflections London and Worle

Reflections (year 10):

London:

BirdsI like the squirrel running through the treesTrafulgar SquarELondon EyeI liked the movement of people and cars amongst large monumentsSped up sunrise, walking. Time manipulation.I liked the horses and animalsLiked the moving people partBirdsDappled sunlight

Worle:

Buildings - different viewpointsGrassDifferent height levelsFriends and some lessonI noticed how different the school feels with no childrenEnvironmentAnimalsD.T.TreesWorle was very flatShow the school animalsEnvironmentNothing except PEEnvironmentAnimalsSports Facilities

„Welcome to Worle‟

Emerge worle help

Locking emerge feedback sheet1

Locking emerge feedback sheet2

Roz Hall quote: democratic digital technologies

„... digital technologies have a role in developing democratic forms of cultural participation through the potential for dialogue about that which is being made... People‟s priorities are always shifting, reflecting changes in their context and their relationship to it. ..‟

Roz Hall (2005) p.32. The Value of Visual Exploration:

Understanding Cultural Activities with Young People, The Public, Birmingham

AmbienceCollaborative Filmmaking Mediascape

for the Bristol Festival October 2009

Supported by: Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol Festival

www.ambience2009.blogspot.com

Ambience at brizfest

Area of Research:

Community InteractionCommunity imaging

(crowd delivery)extra-device,

freedom to experience

Subtlety of InteractionSensing for rich interaction

(personal sensors)extending languages

of communication

AuthoringUser Generated Content

For pervasive consumption(collaborative systems)

owning experience

Moving Image& pervasive

computing/delivery(accessibility) Underlying Questions

Affect/effect of

•Urban/rural

•Time/timelessness

•Movement/stillness

•Inside/outside

•Maker/artifact/consumer

„Ownership‟ of choice & creativity

Experience as Synthesis/paradox?

Relationship of individual with the whole

Creativityknowledge

„communication‟

„Reality is conjunctive, a complex movement where each one tries to “find one‟s place.” ….I cannot resist by protesting: I must have intelligence about it, that is, be in excess of it, and by that same fact already be, in advance, inventive.‟

Bernard Stiegler (2008) p.73. Trans: Barison, D.

Acting Out, Stanford University Press

siegler

Soundlines

„Creativity is not a single power that people simply have or do not have, but multidimensional... an attitude: a willingness to reconsider what we take for granted. ... intelligence is essentially creative, that our lives are shaped by the ideas we use to give them meaning. Creativity is a process of seeing new possibilities. We all have creative capabilities but these are related to different media and processes. Realising these capacities relies on being in control of the medium – on having the necessary skills –combined with the freedom to take risks. The relationship between knowing and feeling is at the heart of the creative process.‟

Sir Ken Robinson (2001) p.137. Out of Our Minds:

Learning to be Creative, Capstone Publishing, Oxford

Ken robinson - creativity

Photos and traces

www.jackiecalderwood.com www.ambience2009.blogspot.com

www.e-merge-walks.com www.e-merge-walks.blogspot.comwww.stratacollective.org www.stratacollective.blogspot.com

jackie.calderwood@btopenworld.com