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Discussion in progress in the MA Studio at Nottingham Trent University

And a happy New year.

The Creative Collaborations autumn creative industries conference season is aimed at artists, businesses, public sector and cultural organisations. This season is hosted in association with the Digital Arts Forum and the creative writers group '26'.


Intellectual Property: Copyright and 'copyleft' in the creative industries
Thursday 29th September
Broadway Cinema, Nottingham

£100 day fee / Free places for Nottingham based creative companies and practitioners*
*see eligibility below

The conference aims to explore issues such as;
* How might copyright law impact upon my creativity and business?
* How can copyrighted material be used within my work?
* What do I need to do to ensure the copyright of my work?
* What alternative ‘copyleft’ solutions exist to enable the collaborative development of creative work?

The day’s programme will:
* Review existing copyright legislation with particular relevance to the creative industries
* Provide access to legal expertise to address specific legal issues relevant to creative businesses
* Highlight the growing 'copyleft' movement (led by international organisation Creative Commons) that looks to re-address the sometimes restrictive use of copyright legislation and develop alternative legal frameworks for creative collaborations

Speakers include
* Robert Grose - Artist and Media Lawyer, lecturer at Royal College of Art and lawyer for The Guardian and Observer.
* Christian Ahlert - Creative Commons
* Steven Skiba - Media lawyer with Berryman Shacklock, Nottingham

Eligibility
If you or your company is Nottingham-based and working in the Creative Industries you may be entitled to attend this one-day conference for free – plus also gain access to additional pre/post-conference workshops with legal experts. If you would like to find out more about free eligibility please contact creativecollaborations@ntu.ac.uk or call 0115 9556312

For further information and to book a conference place, contact Lou Butler at conference@broadway.org.uk or call 0115 9526600


Creative Collaborations is a European Social Fund supported project.


Broadway Cinema
14 - 18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL

www.broadway.org.uk

NEW Creative Collaborations short course 11
21 September, 28 September, 5 October & 12 October, 3-6pm
Broadway Cinema, Nottingham.

Presenters include the architect Julian Marsh, artists John Newling and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and lecturer Emma Cocker.

In association with Sideshow, created in response to The British Art Show 6 which takes place in Nottingham in April 2006, Creative Collaborations presents a short course for artists and curators wishing to explore alternative and innovative ways to deliver their practice. The course will be held in the lead up period to the submission deadline for Sideshow and is designed to stimulate thinking about curation and creative production in new spaces across the city and surrounding region.

The course will consist of four 3-hour sessions covering;
* The Introduction to the city as a site
* Projection, technology and curation
* Social Intervention
* A brainstorming session with direct relevance to projects and proposals that will be developed over this period.

The course will be free to employees and self-employed practitioners in the Nottingham area. (Subject to postcode checks)

If you would like to apply for a place on this course or would like more information please contact Lou Butler on lou@broadway.org.uk or 0115 952 66 00

Application deadline: 9th September 2005

www.sideshowonline.org


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Broadway Cinema
14 - 18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL

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www.broadway.org.uk

# posted by Lou Butler @ Friday, September 02, 2005 16 comments

Mainframe is Jonathan Willets' new show at the 1851 Gallery, Waverley Street, Nottingham Trent University. The exhibition has grown out of Willets' AHRC sponsored PhD, which explores how emotion is constructed through science and art.








Willets describes Mainframe as an 'inn of information' or an 'art machine'. The focus of the exhibition is a model of ‘the Mainframe’ which transforms viewers into active participants by projecting their interactions using the beamer.



With Mainframe, Willets has combined semiotics and computational aesthetics to create a space to reflect on the notion of acceleration in 'a culture that never stands still'. The Exhibition is sponsored by the Arts Council, Habitat, Future Factory, the Bonnington Gallery and Nottingham Trent University

Visit http://www.tokyofrank.blogspot.com to access the ongoing tale of 5 Nottingham Trent students and their tutor on an exchnge visit to Tokyo, developing work in new technology and exploring the cultural and creative aspects of international collaboration.

Exploring the use of Flickr with large screen projection to send mobile phone images and also exploring the creation of a slide show in Flickr.

Nottingham Waterfront Projections (see Archive for 2004) 

Art About Money Street Projections at CoCo Lounge, Nottingham. 

Creative Collaborations Beamer event by participants on Course 5 (2004) Art and Money.

NEW SITES/NEW SIGHTS


Repeating the successful 2004 Course, this is your opportunity to become familiar with the new public display technology in the Nottingham region.
This short series of meetings is for creative practitioners who need to think through the implications of how new technology will affect their business and creative practice. It is a chance to try producing a public display of your own.
The course explores the cultural and technical background to recent display technology and enables you to gain hands-on experience of working with large scale projectors, surround sound systems and web streaming.
For a mixed group of practitioners from areas like marketing, performing arts, event management, web and interactive design, video production, installation and architecture.
We invite employees and individual freelance practitioners to apply for a limited number of places still left on the course.

Email Creativecollaborations@ntu.ac.uk with `Sites` in the subject area and we will send you more details.
The course is supported by the European Social Fund, EMDA and CINTIN and will be Free of Charge to employees and practitioners in specific (objective 2) areas of Nottingham.

The course consists of four Monday afternoons and an optional open development period.
Monday 9th May 3-6 pm
Monday 16 May 3-6 pm
Development period
Monday 6 June 3-6 pm
Monday 13 June 3-6 pm

We are flexible about work commitments and schedule the course around business need.

Creative Collaborations is a partnership between Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design and the Broadway Media Centre, delivering high level training to the creative industries.

Beamer used for innovative projection event.

Street Life. Kennington Road Screening of film made in the community, Kennington Road, Nottingham

Street Life -Community Screening, Kennington Road, Nottingham