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Open-Story Master Class documentary video, by visiting artists Mark Thomas and Mat Norman (Creative Leads at Soup Collective in Manchester) with level 5 students from BA Illustration, BA Graphic Design, Monday 28 April to Friday 2 May 2014

Welcome and Introduction Paul Sermon

Panel 1: Story Experiences

Robert Pratten CEO and Founder of Transmedia Storyteller Ltd. Mark Dunford Silver Stories Project lead University of Brighton. Ben Barker Experience designer and co-founder of PAN Studio. Three 20 min talks followed by 20 min panel discussion, Chair Paul Sermon

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By Birgitta Hosea, Expanded Animation on myblog.arts

Open-Story Symposium Audio Recordings

Panel 1: Story Experiences (MP3 Audio 85 Minutes)

Robert Pratten, Mark Dunford, Ben Barker, Chair: Paul Sermon

Panel 2: User Performance (MP3 Audio 110 Minutes)

Birgitta Hosea, Jeremy Radvan, Charlotte Gould, Roderick Mills, Chair: David Garcia

Panel 3: Generative Storytelling (MP3 Audio 85 Minutes)

Fiddian Warman, Mark Prendergast, Nicolas Marechal, Chair: Mark Dunford

Panel 4: Narrative Reframed (MP3 Audio 100 Minutes)

Matthew Noel-Tod, Louise Colbourne, Mark Thomas, Martin Andersen, Chair: Paul Sermon

Please follow this link to confirm your attendance at the Open-Story Symposium on June 23rd at the Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton, Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade

Symposium Programme

OPEN-STORY Symposium, Monday 23rd June 2014, 9:30am to 5:30pm

The Sallis Benny Theatre, School of Art, Design & Media, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY

09.00 Arrive

09.30 Welcome and Introduction Paul Sermon

09.45 Panel 1: Story Experiences

Robert Pratten CEO and Founder of Transmedia Storyteller Ltd.

Mark Dunford Silver Stories Project lead University of Brighton.

Ben Barker Experience designer and co-founder of PAN Studio.

Three 20 min talks followed by 20 min panel discussion, Chair Paul Sermon

11.05 Coffee

11.20 Panel 2: User Performance

Birgitta Hosea Research Leader for Performance at Central Saint Martins.

Jeremy Radvan Senior Lecturer in Illustration University of Brighton.

Charlotte Gould Programme Leader for Visual Communication University of Brighton.

Roderick Mills Senior Lecturer in Illustration University of Brighton.

Four 20 min talks followed by 20 min panel discussion, Chair David Garcia

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Panel 3: Generative Storytelling

Fiddian Warman Director and co-founder of SoDA (Society of Digital Artists).

Mark Prendergast Designer, animator and experimental filmmaker.

Nicolas Marechal Lecturer in Design for Interaction and Moving Image at the LCC.

Three 20 min talks followed by 20 min panel discussion, Chair Mark Dunford

15.20 Coffee

15.35 Panel 4: Narrative Reframed

Matthew Noel-Tod Course Leader for BA Moving Image University Brighton.

Louise Colbourne Artist and curator of interdisciplinary film practices.

Mark Thomas Creative lead and co-founder of Soup Collective Manchester.

Martin Andersen Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design University of Brighton.

Four 20 min talks followed by 20 min panel discussion, Chair Paul Sermon

17.15 Closing Comments: Panel Chairs

17.30 Depart

Panel Chairs:

Mark Dunford - Academic Quality and Partnership Director in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton, leads the Silver Stories research partnership which uses digital storytelling as a tool to gather stories from older people across six countries.

David Garcia - David is an artist, teacher and organizer who has pioneered new forms of critical engagement with art and media. He is currently based at the University of Bournemouth as a research fellow developing Tactical Media Files http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/ an on-line archive and resource for researchers and activists in conjunction with a series of expert meetings on the legacies of Tactical Media beginning in July 2014 at Amsterdam's Tolhuistuin.

Paul Sermon - Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Brighton. his practice-based research in the field of contemporary media art centres on the creative use of telecommunication technologies.

Symposium Presentations & Links

Martin Andersen - Senior lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Brighton and founder and creative director of Andersen M Studio.

Martin and his creative partner Line collected two Gold Lions in Cannes 2010 for their film ‘Going West’. The London based team have recently completed a campaign for Nationwide, as well as creating work for Discovery American Express, Channel 4, Star Alliance, JK Rowling, and Tempo Tissues.

Andersen M also operate as an independent creative company and Martin also work on his own long term photo documentaries, soon to be published.

http://www.andersenm.com/

http://vimeo.com/andersenmstudio

http://www.littlescrapsofpaper.co.uk/Andersen-M-Studio

Ben Barker - Experience designer and co-founder of PAN Studio, producing interactive objects for installations and immersive theatre, and creating experimental objects designed to find new ways of enriching everyday living.

Louise Colbourne - Artist and curator of interdisciplinary film practices, expanded cinema, and modes of production and presentation within the digital age.

Dot 2010-13 (hand processed 16mm film). This piece has come about from a complicated series of both digital and analogue techniques, creating a perpetual looped hum of activity from a short excerpt of stills from The Wizard of Oz.

Waterfall 2014, This short work was intended as a interlude between other artists works within a programme that I put together called Flood, it includes a looped sequence from an animated film and an excerpt of soundtrack from The Night of the Hunter (1955).

http://www.louisecolbourne.com

http://bigscreen-filmgallery.tumblr.com/

Charlotte Gould - Academic Programme Leader for Visual Communication at the University of Brighton, researching interactive environments for large urban screens that explore user identity and the notion of a floating narrative.

Birgitta Hosea - Research Leader for Performance at UAL: Central Saint Martins, working in the field of expanded animation, investigating hybrid forms of practice in which animation meets live presence.

Nicolas Marechal - Lecturer in Design for Interaction and Moving Image and Physical Computing at the UAL: London College of Communication and interactive designer, installation artist and filmmaker.

My work is about exploring the city and its sonic environment as a means of generating and altering visual compositions and building creative devices for exploring the sonic and the physical spaces.

http://www.silent-city.net

Roderick Mills - Senior lecturer in Illustration at the University of Brighton, whose practice-based research explores narrative within hybrid - multidisciplinary illustration practice.

Matthew Noel-Tod - Course Leader for BA Moving Image at the University Brighton and artist filmmaker reframing narrative cinema in relation to experimental moving image, conceptual art, philosophy and literature.

Robert Pratten - CEO and Founder of Transmedia Storyteller Ltd, creators of Conducttr pervasive entertainment platform and is an internationally recognised authority on transmedia storytelling.

We bring stories to life via our multiplatform, interactive storytelling tool, Conducttr. Conducttr allows anyone to create personalized, immersive experiences online, in real life and everywhere in between.

Blog: http://www.tstoryteller.com/blog

Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/tStoryteller

Mark Prendergast - University of Brighton graduate from BA Illustration, Mark is a Designer, animator and experimental filmmaker, currently based in Berlin.

I took the opportunity to present the outcomes of a number of experimental video workshops I have recently run. Usually very open in nature, but with the aim to produce a singular video piece or small exhibition, these workshops are like an exercise in weaving a group narrative.

http://www.markprendergast.co.uk

http://markprend-rgast.tumblr.com

Jeremy Radvan - Senior lecturer in Illustration at the University of Brighton, investigating digital media as a real time practice, drawing through custom designed animation software.

Mark Thomas - Creative lead and co-founder of Manchester based interactive media arts development group Soup Collective, specialising in expanded narrative experience.

Fiddian Warman - Associate Lecturer in Digital Creativity at Birkbeck, University of London and Director of Soda, developers of projects ranging from learning apps and software to sculptural electronics and generative artwork.

PLAY YOUR PLACE is a HTML5 platform game creation tool enabling people to create browser based game levels about their locality to enable change. It was coded by Soda in 2013 for artists Ruth Catlow and Mary Flanagan and will be used at an event at the Tate Britain in July, 2014 getting people to engage with their built environment through drawing and gaming.

Irrepressible.info compares search for sensitive terms e.g. tianamen square results in censored & non censored countries e.g. Uk & china Our software pulls censored content into a database & then it is published across the web in web badges etc.

http://www.soda.co.uk

http://www.makersguild.org

Open-Story Projection Mapped

Students will be exposed to new models of storytelling, software skills and ways to develop digital outputs using software and applications available through the master class. This project will be delivered through a specific live-brief motion project approach on the theme of Open-Story, allowing the participants to experience and explore current contemporary digital media practices and research methods. It is intended to develop and present the outcomes from this master class into installations and interventions for the former Fruit and Veg market hall on Circus Street. This opportunity will form part of a discussion at the Open-Story symposium event in June, with the potential for an exhibition in the market hall space in the autumn of 2014.

#Vimeo #graphicdesign #illustration #universityofbrighton #soupcollective

Open-Story Master Class

This student master class takes the theme of Open-Story, addressing transmedia narrative in a post linear open digital environment. A week-long motion graphics and interaction master class project, delivered by visiting artists Mark Thomas and Mat Norman (Creative Leads at Soup Collective in Manchester) for level 5 BA Illustration, BA Graphic Design and Postgraduate students wishing to join.

#Vimeo #graphicdesign #illustration #universityofbrighton #soupcollective

Symposium Speakers

OPEN-STORY Symposium, Monday 23rd June 2014, 9:30am to 5:30pm

The Sallis Benny Theatre, School of Art, Design & Media, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY

Speakers include leading creative media professionals, independent artists, research experts and Brighton visual communication alumni:

Martin Andersen - Martin is a senior lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Brighton. Founder and creative director of Andersen M Studio, an independent multi-disciplinary art and design studio that produce graphic design, photography, animations, films and music for a wide range of different clients (Cartier, Southbank Centre, American Express, Channel 4, Magnum, Reuters, Martini, Unilever, Accenture). Martin’s work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, Spain and France and published in books and magazines worldwide.

Ben Barker - Ben is a designer and co-founder of London based PAN Studio, producing interactive installations and experimental objects designed to find new ways of enriching everyday living. Pan's recent work has focused on the digital re-appropriation of city space. Their projects include Hello Lamp Post, a city wide platform for play and Run an Empire, a territory control strategy game that you play in the space around you.

Louise Colbourne - Louise is an artist and curator with a keen interest in interdisciplinary film practices, which focus around issues of the body, expanded cinema, and modes of production and presentation within the digital age. Coming form a background in both dance and sculpture Louise's work is concerned with movement of the body in space, rhythm structures and placement. More recently an interest in 16mm films has developed due to the material qualities of the film surface and the performative possibilities of techniques using the projectors themselves. Louise also appropriates audio-visual material gathered from a range of sources to include you-tube clips and found educational films as well as her own hand developed 16mm films. Louise curates a programme of video art, film and music for the Big Screen at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk each year and co-runs the Electro Studios Project Space in St Leonards. She has curated screenings for the Loop video art festival in Barcelona, the Liverpool Biennale, the Whitstable Biennale, the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and the No.w.here film collective in London amongst many others.

Mark Dunford - Mark is Academic Quality and Partnership Director in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton. He is also one of four founding Directors of the research company Digitales, and has led the delivery of major digital storytelling action research projects as collaborations between community groups and academic institutions, including Digem (2009-2012) and Extending Creative Practice (2010-2012). He is currently the Principal Investigator on Silver Stories (2013-2015), which involves nine partners across six countries making digital stories with older people. Before he moved into academia in 2008, he was Executive Director of Hi8us Projects, a charity specialising in collaborative media work connecting community groups, media professionals and strategic agencies and the lead partner in Inclusion Through Media, a 27 partner research project operating in the UK and Europe with an overall value of £6.5m and was one of the contributing editors to the book of the same name (Open Mute, 2007) which explored questions around inclusion and media practice. He has also worked extensively as a media consultant and has been employed as a member of staff at the BFI, BBC and Arts Council England.

Charlotte Gould - Charlotte is Academic Programme Leader for Visual Communication at the University of Brighton and has developed a number of interactive environments for large urban screens that explore user identity and the notion of a floating narrative. Through this work she encourages creative urban play and looks at the way the audience can experience the urban space through telepresent technology. Through her research she explores the creative and cultural potential that urban screens have to offer in the digital media age and how these emerging technologies and the digital infrastructure impact on the way that the public interacts within the urban environment. She has developed a series of projects, which allow the public to co- author the work through the creation of their unique narrative and she has undertaken a number of interactive installations and projects with key industrial partners, which include an interactive installation for Moves09 at the BBC Big Screen in Liverpool and for the BBC Big Screen at the Glastonbury Festival. She also produced an interactive installation for ISEA09 at the Waterfront Hall Belfast and for Moves10 at the Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool. “Shangpool Picnic” was a collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Shanghai, linking Liverpool and Shanghai together as part of the Liverpool Biennial.

Birgitta Hosea - Birgitta is a London-based media artist. Her practice ranges from video installation and animated performance art through to commercial motion graphics and is included in the Tate Britain archive. In her work, she seeks to imagine new ways in which animation could be combined with the living body and emerging technologies. Expanding animation out of the screen and into the present through the use of interactive technology, holographic projections onto live performers, database characters and live video feeds, this has taken many forms such as a lunch party where participants are invited to have a conversation with a cartoon character and a séance with a medium who channels digital doubles and emits electronic ectoplasm. Birgitta works as Course Director of MA Character Animation and Research Leader for Performance at Central Saint Martins. She has been awarded an Adobe Impact Award, a MAMA Award for Holographic Arts and an honorary fellowship of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Nicolas Marechal - Nicolas is an interactive designer, installation artist and filmmaker, he teaches on the BA design for interaction and moving image and the MA interactive design communication at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London). Nicolas gained an MSc in Electronic Imaging from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (University of Dundee) and a BA in Film Practice at the Institute of Broadcasting Studies (Belgium). He started his career by directing, editing documentaries and video art. His work has been either broadcasted or exhibited internationally. For the last ten years, he has worked as an interactive artist and designer. His latest exhibited work, '+soundscape', is an audio interface for a soundscape in collaboration with sound artist and LCC senior lecturer, Peter Cusack. Recent works include: IMI Max patches - a learning tool to program Max in the visual arts (2010-present), +Soundscape - interactive soundscape installation (2009), Intrusion(s) - interactive audio and video installation (2008), CITYroom - interactive video installation (2006) and SILENTcity - Taipei, interactive video art (2005).

Roderick Mills - Roderick is Senior Lecturer & Year Coordinator for BA(Hons) Illustration level 6 at the University of Brighton. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, Roderick has worked across most areas of illustration including editorial, publishing, corporate literature, web design, advertising, exhibition design & animation. Working with international clients including The BBC, Royal Mail, The Design Museum, The National Theatre, Opéra National de Paris, Penguin Books, The New York Times, Yale University, Pentagram Design, New York Magazine, Die Zeit Germany, Le Monde France. Awards have included: Print Certificate of Excellence USA, Society of Publication Design SPOTS, Sciart Research Award The Wellcome Trust, AOI Images 24 Pentagram Prize, The Quentin Blake Award for Narrative Illustration RCA, The Folio Society Awards RCA, The ED&F Man Portfolio Prize RCA. Recent exhibitions have included Super Contemporary at The Design Museum, participation at LISTE 09 The Young Art Fair in Basel, & 4. Kunstsalon Berlin is represented in both London & New York by Heart Artists' Agent. In 2011 Roderick joined the Board of Directors of the Association of Illustrators and since March 2012 has been Deputy Chairman of the AOI, presiding over various committees including the Illustration Awards Steering Group & VaroomLab Editorial board. Is also the co-founder of the Illustration Forum MOKITA, which has stage two symposiums at Somerset House.

Matthew Noel-Tod - Matthew is Course Leader for BA(Hons) Moving Image at the University of Brighton. His work as an artist and filmmaker has been exhibited internationally and is represented in major international collections of moving image work. Matthew studied Fine Art at The Slade School of Fine Art, Norwich School of Art and Design and Fachhochschule Aachen and holds and MA in Feature Film from Goldsmiths, University of London. He participated in the Collegium Sacilense of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Italy, 2000-2001 and completed the LUX Associate Artists’ Programme, London in 2008. He was artist-in-residence at The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw in 2005 with an Arts Council England International Fellowship and in 2008 he was selected for the Film London Bristol Mean Time Residency at Picture This, Bristol. He received a Film London Artists’ Film and Video Award for his film Nausea (2005). From 2011-2012 Noel-Tod was artist-in-residence in Victoria Park, London with Chisenhale Gallery and he is a current recipient of the ACME Studios Firestation Work/Live residency 2010-2015. Matthew's work is held in the collection of the Pompidou Centre, Paris; the British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive and is distributed by LUX, UK.

Robert Pratten - Robert is CEO and Founder of Transmedia Storyteller Ltd, creators of Conducttr the pervasive entertainment platform. Robert's experience uniquely places him at the intersection of entertainment and technology: he graduated from Salford University in 1989 with an honors degree in Microcomputing and quit work in 2000 to attend the London Film School. He has written, produced and directed two award-winning, critically acclaimed feature films - London Voodoo (2004) and Mindflesh (2008) as well as producing the transmedia project (which was the proof-of-concept for Conducttr) Lowlifes. Today he is an internationally recognized thought-leader in transmedia storytelling - regularly speaking at conferences including the World Innovation Conference and SXSW Interactive and also to transmedia meetup groups to encourage and inspire a new era of independent multiplatform creative thinking. He plays an active role in the continuing development of Conducttr and advising clients on how best to engage audiences using multiplatform interactive storytelling. Recent clients include CANAL+, Harlequin Mills & Boon and Disney. He is author of the book Getting Started in Transmedia Storytelling: A Practical Guide for Beginners. He can be found online as @robpratten.

Mark Prendergast - Mark graduated in 2012 from the University of Brighton with a first class honours in BA Illustration. Mark is a Designer, animator and experimental filmmaker. He primarily works with images, sound and motion. Mark tries to search for existing materials and systems that can be exploited to produce new types of movement and say new things. For him his work is a series of ongoing explorations and investigations. Mark currently lives and works in Berlin. He is part of the HORT-collective.

Jeremy Radvan - I am a teacher and a draughtsman. I studied BA Illustration at Manchester Polytechnic. Drawing movement has always been part of my work and this has lead onto a study and practice of animation. My MPhil (the Use of the Computer as Tool for Observation, RCA, 2000) was primarily concerned with animation and my subsequent research including MSc Creative Systems at Sussex, was born out of a number of collaborative performance projects with dancers and musicians. These included performances at The Royal Opera House, Saddlers Wells and The Tramway in Glasgow. My long-term research project is centered on the relationship between drawing and digital media. It began in 1997 and has involved an investigation into the qualities of digital media as a medium for drawing, encompassing real time drawing as part of dance performances and the development of custom written animation applications. I am currently collaborating with a composer with the aim of creating a series of longer animations. Jeremy is a senior lecturer in Illustration at the University of Brighton, investigating digital media as a real time practice, drawing through custom designed animation software.

Mark Thomas - Mark holds and an MA in Creative Technology from the University of Salford and has been actively involved with all aspects of moving image since graduating with a BA Hons in Interactive Arts from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000, working both independently and collaboratively with film, video and interactive media. Since founding Soup Collective in 1999 Mark has developed his role as both an independent Film-maker, directing promos and documentaries for acts such as Elbow, Doves and Editors - and is a Creative Director within Soup Collective and SoupCo, developing large-scale AV projects and installations for clients such as the Imperial War Museum North, the National Football Museum and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Mark currently divides his time between his work with Soup Collective and teaching animation in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford.

Fiddian Warman - With a grounding in fine and digital arts Fiddian embodies a synthesis of creativity and technology and is passionate about the application of this hybrid in cultural, learning and social contexts. Formerly a sculptor and furniture maker, Fiddian became interested in the creative possibilities of computing and mechatronics in the early 90s and completed a digital arts MA in 1996. He then cofounded SoDA (Society of Digital Artists) in order to act as an umbrella for its members’ creative practices and to cross digital and physical making for commercial projects. This synthesis of digital and physical still informs SoDA’s practice 18 years later, which encompasses creating interactive installations, objects and online experiences for a broad international range of clients from cultural organisations like the Tate and the Science Museum, publishers such as Pearson Education and commercial clients such as Boeing. SoDA is now stepping up its development of products, principally focusing on new manifestations of the BAFTA-winning SoDAplay online simulation suite and the media montage system MASH. Interested in the rapid growth of the Maker movement and in particular the intersection of creative practice with digital and physical making, Fiddian launched Makers’ Guild in 2011.

Paul Sermon, Symposium Convener - Paul is Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Brighton. He studied BA Fine Art under Professor Roy Ascott at the Newport School of Fine Art in the mid 1980s and completed his MFA degree at the University of Reading in 1991. He then went on to be awarded the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica award; in the category of interactive art for the hyper media installation Think about the People now, in Linz, Austria in 1991. He produced the ISDN videoconference installation Telematic Vision as an Artist in Residence at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany and received the IMF Sparkey Award from the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles, for the telepresent video installation Telematic Dreaming in 1994. Since the early 1990s Paul’s practice-based research in the field of contemporary media art has centred on the creative use of telecommunication technologies. Through his unique use of videoconference techniques in artistic telepresence applications he has developed a series of celebrated interactive telematic art installations that have received international acclaim.

Confirmed Speakers

OPEN-STORY Symposium, Monday 23rd June 2014, 9:30am to 5:30pm

The Sallis Benny Theatre, School of Art, Design & Media, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY

Confirmed Speakers Announced; including leading creative media professionals, independent artists, research experts and Brighton visual communication alumni: