Podcasts about alchemy film

Recent EU law now allows citizens to complain if they have been harmed by AI, but what if they have co-conceived your offspring without you even knowing it?For Future Artefacts 20th Episode we're welcoming back Nina Davies with her new work SubScanners, alongside guest co-host Rebecca Edwards. This is the fourth work in a series of fictional traditional dances which loosely follow the structures of western folk dance; agricultural, spiritual, war and courtship. Set within a 15 minute fictional podcast from a nearby future, the characters discuss InterReproduction in the space sector, a reproduction research program for deep space exploration. They share InterRepro's "counterfeit labour scandal", resulting in the emergence digital offspring and of new courtship rituals called SubScanning.Davies presents questions on relationships with digital personhood inside and outside of a phone screen, and how reproduction and labour might exist outside of the body. Together we imagine what types of digital kinship might exist for these offspring, how we could care for them as children, and what their material connections to us might be.SubScanners warns us about the corporate consumption of public law, presenting a fiction where digital persons are co-opted by corporate guardianship and the only way people can regain control of their digital selves is to play these companies at their own game and settle the matter in family court.Working primarily with video, performance, writing and installation, Nina Davies considers current dance phenomena in relation to the wider socio-technical environments from which they emerge. Previous research projects have included; the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Oscillating between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices. Her work has recently been exhibited and shown at Matt's Gallery, London; Transmediale, AdK, Berlin; Seventeen, London; Pradiauto, Madrid; and, Chemist Gallery, London. Her work has been selected to partake in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023; Circa x Dazed Class of 2022 and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. In 2021 she co-founded Future Artefacts FM with artist Niamh Schmidtke and was awarded an Arts Council Project Grant to produce their 2022 programme and in 2023 they produced a mini series for Het HEM's online programme The Couch.Rebecca Edwards is a London based curator, writer and producer. Her interests include cultivating experimental curatorial methods, interweaving fluid approaches to production, dissemination and representation of artwork, and exploring the nested fields of technology, digital aesthetics and internet culture.Artist: Nina DaviesHosts: Rebecca Edwards and Niamh SchmidtkeMusic: Joe Moss and John TrevaskisProducer: Mat JennerBroadcast through Radio Thamesmead

Nina Davies shares her work ‘Learned Friends; Piasecki vs Wade' for episode 14 of the show. It is a fictional podcast voiced by characters Riley and Devon, who discuss legal cases that present the rising issues of using predictive technology within the justice system. Set in a world where technology documents the future just as well as in documents the past, people have begun to move in pre-programmed ways as a matter of safety, to be better detected by self-driving cars or correctly prescribed medications. In this episode we explore Nina's research alongside guest co-presenter Jorge Poveda Yanez. Together we connect the moving body to forms of digital choreography and truth making to predictive movement technologies.Bios;Nina Davies is a Canadian/British artist who considers the present moment through observing dance in popular culture; how it's disseminated, circulated, made, and consumed. She recently graduated from Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art where she was awarded the Almacantar Studio Award and the Goldsmiths Junior Fellowship position. Her work has recently been exhibited and shown at Transmediale, AdK, Berlin; Seventeen, London; Matt's Gallery, Mattflix program; Circa x Dazed Class of 2022, Piccadilly Lights in London, Limes in Berlin, K-Pop Square in Seoul, Fed Square, Melbourne; Overmorrow House, Battle; and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick. In 2021 She co-founded Future Artefacts FM with artist Niamh Schmidtke and was awarded an Arts Council Project Grant to produce their 2022 programme. Jorge Poveda Yanez is a dancer, theater-maker, researcher, and scholar working with new technologies, human rights, and the arts. He is currently the editor of Ghent University's DOCUMENTA journal, which focuses on theatre and performance studies. His training as a dancer/anthropologist (UCA - France), Performer (UCE - Ecuador), and Social Scientist (UDLA - Ecuador) led him to enroll in UCR's Ph.D. program in Critical Dance Studies, where he currently works as a Teaching Assistant too.Artist: Nina DaviesHosts: Jorge Poveda Yanez and Niamh SchmidtkeMusic: Joe Moss and John TrevaskisProducer: Flo LinesBroadcast through Radio Thamesmead

This time, an interview with artist filmmaker Julia Parks. Julia's practice encompasses film, animation and photography, often using series of photographs and projected 16mm film. Through this medium, she explores the different relationships between landscape, place and people, often focusing on the west-coast of Cumbria. ​ Julia is currently living in Hawick as part of a 6-month residency with Alchemy Film & Arts as part of their The Teviot, the Flag and the Rich, Rich Soil programme. In our chat we discuss Julia's love for exploring the geography, industry and history of a place through the people who live there. We talk about her time at St. Martins College and hours spent in the darkroom. We also talk about her 2021 film ‘Seaweed' and how she came to be interviewed about hand processing film in seaweed on the television programme ‘Countryfile' - which - as the name suggests, is all about the British Countryside.

Fiona Reilly, 2021 INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTSince 2017, artist and researcher Kelly Lloyd has interviewed people in the arts about their livelihoods, documenting diverse stories of artists as workers. Join her discussion with the artist and writer Morgan Quaintance and critic Zarina Muhammad, part of writing duo The White Pube, on the issues and inequalities surrounding artistic labour.The White Pube is the collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they publish reviews and essays about art, video games and food. Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Mcevoy Foundaton for the Arts, San Francisco; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami.SHOW NOTESzarinamuhammad.co.ukthewhitepube.co.ukroughtradebooks.com/products/ideas-for-a-new-art-world-the-white-pubemorganquaintance.comwhitechapelgallery.org/events/this-thing-we-call-artwhitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/a-century-of-the-artists-studio-1920-2020

Ben Balcom (b. 1986, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker currently living and working in Milwaukee, WI. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and is the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema. Since 2013, Microlights has hosted over 50 film and video artists from around the world. Combining elements of documentary, fictional narrative, and abstraction, Balcom's films investigate the relationship between cinematic artifice and ordinary affects. He has explored melodrama, essay film, and, most recently, regional histories. His films have been exhibited at venues and festivals such as the European Media Festival, Media City Film Festival, Anti-Matter Media Arts, Alchemy Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Slamdance. Balcom received his MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and his bachelor's degree in Film-Video Production from Hampshire College. The books I mentioned in the interview are Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and Douglas Kearney's Sho. Garden City Beautiful from Ben Balcom on Vimeo. News From Nowhere from Ben Balcom on Vimeo.

Demelza Kooij is an artist, filmmaker, and lecturer. Her work is presented at film festivals, museums, art exhibitions, and conferences. Her latest film 'Wolves From Above' won the Jury Prize at the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival. She has previously taught at Edinburgh College of Art and worked at the Scottish Documentary Institute. I talked to Demelza about a few of her films, including her latest work Wolves from Above. We discussed her approach to presenting the work as a single channel installation at Alchemy Film and Arts, projected on the ceiling and viewed from the ground. You can find images, links and more on our website at www.intothemothlight.com

Rachel is the Film Programme Coordinator at Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema. Previously she was the Producer of Alchemy Film and Moving Arts Festival, and has also held roles at Film Hub Scotland, Edinburgh Film Festival, BFI Festivals and Picturehouse, and she is also an archive activist. Rachel co-founded a project called Invisible Women that examines how curators can address gendered absence in the archive through public exhibition and looks to reinsert women into cinematic history. Read their manifesto here: https://www.invisible-women.co.uk/manifesto This was succhhh a good chat, I learnt so much and Rachel is incredibly eloquent and intelligent. We talk about the Invisible Women project, particularly some of the women filmmakers that it’s helping to resurrect, programming in the age of Me Too and career pivots. Enjoy!

We go behind the scenes at the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, preview the 2019 edition and talk to the team that make this event happen.

I’m currently on the Alchemy Film & Moving Image Residency at Café Tissardmine, on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Morocco. This message will appear if I’m unable to upload the latest episode whilst I’m out there. Full episodes will return Monday 19th November.

Dr Richard Ashrowan is a moving image artist and film curator. He has been Creative Director of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in Scotland since 2010 and was curator for Scotland + Venice at the Venice Art Biennale 2017. In this episode he talks about shooting on 16mm film, the joys of filming in an isolated landscape and his love for his love of Tarkovsky and Brakhage.

An interview with renowned visual artist Jacques Perconte where we discuss his work, his approach to and manipulation of the digital image, and filmmaker Stan Brakhage. His work '29 Minutes at Sea' was shown at the 2018 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. The description of the work gives little away as to it's impact. "Because of this violence, the image bleeds. But the red does not remain on the surface of the water." We also make reference to his film 'Ettrick', an interrogation of the Scottish Borders unique textile heritage, and his new immersive video-opera, “Faust”.