[spectre] Thursday Club: on 1/11 with Veronique Chance & Rachel Steward

[Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x]]

*** NEXT THURSDAY CLUB ** NEXT THURSDAY CLUB ** *

Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL 
STUDIOS

6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, 
right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required.


*1 NOVEMBER with VERONIQUE CHANCE & RACHEL STEWARD
:
Live Run(ner) & Thinking Blue Sky *


Veronique Chance's research project (PhD Candidate Goldsmiths) considers 
the dynamic relation between the physical presence of the body and its 
presence as a screen image, through which she examines the impact of 
visual media technologies on our conceptions and perceptions of the body 
as a physical presence. The effects of these technologies on traditional 
notions and conditions of physicality and representation mark, she 
suggests, a shift in our relationship to, and understanding of the body 
as a physical presence as we become more used to interacting and 
communicating with the body through the immediacy of screen images. This 
has led to questions regarding the body as a material presence and to 
the technologically mediated image becoming associated with notions and 
ideologies of disappearance and disembodiment. Chance understands the 
condition of the body as being very much embedded in the material world 
and approaches her project through the proposition of what she calls 
'the physicality of an image', through which she argues for a 
reconceptualisation of the materiality of the body through its physical 
presence as an image.

For the Thursday Club Chance will present Live’ Run(ner), an artwork in 
progress that will record and transmit live the Great North Run through 
her own live experience of running the event. The idea is to recreate a 
live transmission of her eye-view in real-time, as she run the course, 
(literally ‘moving image’). Viewers would experience the event through 
her eye-view as she runs, through being able to ‘pick up’ a signal on 
their home computers and at wireless hotspots in the City.

VERONIQUE CHANCE is an artist practitioner and educator working across a 
range of media. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Fine Art by Practice 
at Goldsmiths. She also works as a Mentor for Artists in Residence 
Project, Morley College, London; Associate Lecturer, Foundation Course, 
Wimbledon School of Art; and Visiting Tutor, Fine Art/ArtHistory, 
Goldsmiths.

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Rachel Steward's research (PhD Candidate Goldsmiths) is based around an 
engagement with the psycho-geography of the everyday sky and its 
representation with contemporary visual culture. Steward is interested 
in how experiences of freedom, imagination, spirituality, orientation 
and weight are contextualised within manifestations of the skies of the 
post-human landscapes of C21st.
Her research addresses the literary and visual trope of the sky, 
specifically the blue sky. The specific material she will discuss is an 
index of sky photographs that she has been collecting for a number of 
years. The photographs all detail a sky at the occurrence of ‘a sky 
event’ i.e. the sky above the screening of James Benning’s Ten Skies, or 
the Whitechapel exhibition of Gerhard Richter’s Atlas, or the sky above 
Manuel de Landa talking of the sky as a painting of intensive different 
at the Creative Evolutions Conference in 2005. The photographs detail 
only the particular sky and contain no other visual information. They 
could be construed as ‘eventless’. However, seen together these images 
create a visual subject, a subject that works in a familiar way but also 
starts to describe a new set of relations with this space.

RACHEL STEWARD is a contemporary art curator and PhD candidate at 
Goldsmiths Visual Cultures. As a curator she has worked both in 
partnership with Helen Hayward and on behalf of other organisations on 
commissions that include working with Mark Wallinger, Amy Plant, Lothar 
Goetz, Daziell+ Scullion, James Ireland, Simon Periton, Mark Titchner, 
Florain Balze and Rose Finn-Kelcey. From 1994-1998 Steward set up, 
edited, published and distributed independent arts magazine ENGAGED.
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ALSO:


*22 NOVEMBER with JOSEPH TABBI
:
Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Three Case Histories *

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*13 DECEMBER with ALEX GILLESPIE, BRIAN O'NEILL & ROBB MITCHELL
:
Cyranoids...*


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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone 
interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, 
interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in 
today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).


For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or 
email Maria X at drp01mc at gold.ac.uk

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

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Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational Technologies  Goldsmiths Digital Studios skype: mariax_gr www.cybertheater.org