Saturday 21 March 2009, 10.30–17.00

With an emphasis on practice, and the artist's perspective, the day will embrace an eclectic range of approaches, and ask how digital and hybrid technologies are influencing artists and their work.

We are starting with a screening of Sebastian Buerkner's Purple Grey - in which an unhindered and infinite virtual flood of imagery and meaning turns into an insensitive, dreary obstruction to the creative process. And to start off the afternoon session, we're showing Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Phantoms of Nabua - a film made for the internet that strips cinema down to its fundamental element - light.

Belgian curators Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz kick things off with an illustrated talk to help "dismantle the common a priori assumptions on animation film and its limitations".

In the three panels - chaired by leading curators - artists from the UK, Senegal and the USA present and discuss their work.

10.30
Welcome by Gabriela Salgado, Curator of Public Programmes, Tate Modern and Gary Thomas, Co-director, Animate Projects

10.35
Film: Sebastian Buerkner Purple Grey (2006, 7'50")

10.45
Talk: Drawn to Life: Reanimating the Animated
Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz
followed by a Q&A

11.30
Artists' Panel: Drawn - Making Marks Move

"Animation is the art of reading between the lines. It is not about the art that is on the image, but about the art that emerges between the images."
Edwin Carels in The Animate Book

Chair: Angela Kingston
Artists: Ann Course, Simon Faithfull, Samba Fall
followed by a Q&A

14.00
Film: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Phantoms of Nabua (2009, 9'45")

14.10
Artists' Panel: Digital Thinking

"Is an image mediated by computer and electronic technology radically different from an image obtained through a photographic lens and embodied in film? If we describe film-based images using such categories as depth of field, zoom, a shot or montage, what categories should be used to describe digital images?"
Lev Manovich

Chair: Steven Bode
Artists: Joshua Mosley, David Blair, Jennifer Steinkamp
followed by a Q&A

15.50
Artists' Panel: Stills Moving: Interrupting the Real World

"We don't really experience photographs as static. Still images..represent accumulations of time - which we as viewer reactivate..perhaps."
Angela Kingston in The Animators

Chair: David Chandler
Artists: Dryden Goodwin, Emily Richardson, Ori Gersht
followed by a Q&A

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£15 (£10 concessions), booking recommended

    

Speakers details:

Stoffel Debuysere is a freelance researcher, producer and writer. He teaches critical film studies at the art academy KASK in Gent (BE). María Palacios Cruz is a PhD candidate at Université Libre de Bruxelles and a producer at Atelier Graphoui. Based in Brussels, they collaborate on curated film projects, including The Order of Things for MuHKA, Antwerp, and Drawn to Life - reanimating the animated, at Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles, Brussels. They are both part of the Courtisane collective.

Ann Course studied at the Royal College of Art and she lives and works in London. Screenings include Image Forum, Japan and Rotterdam International Film Festival. Exhibitions include 'Mutti ist böse' Galerie Barbara Thumm, The Animators (Angel Row, Nottingham), A Century of Artists' Film in Britain, Tate Britain, and Light Box: Art Now, Tate Britain. She teaches at Central St Martin's, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London.

Simon Faithfull lives in Berlin, teaches at the Slade School of Art in London and works with drawing, video and writing. He was awarded an Arts Council International Fellowship to Antarctica, travelling with scientists and technicians on the research vessel RSS Earnest Shackleton in 2004/2005. Ice Blink, the subsequent exhibition, toured to New York, London and Edinburgh. Other exhibitions include the Whitstable Biennale, Chisenhale Gallery London and Aspex, Portsmouth.

Samba Fall is originally from Dakar, Senegal. He lives and works in Oslo. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts of Senegal and works in a variety of media, including painting, installation, video and net art. He has exhibited in the Dakar Biennial, the Varna Biennial 08 "Videoholica" and in exhibitions in Africa, Europe and the USA.

Angela Kingston is an independent curator and writer. Recent exhibitions include Art with Strangers (Turnpike Gallery, Greater Manchester, 2008), Fairy Tale (The New Art Gallery Walsall and touring, 2007), and The Animators (Angel Row, Nottingham, and touring, 2005). A forthcoming exhibition on the theme of Underwater will be launched in spring 2010 at Towner, Eastbourne, and tour to other coastal galleries.

Joshua Mosley studied at The Art Institute of Chicago and exhibitions and screenings include the 2007 Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Donald Young Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. He is Associate Professor and Acting Chair of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Steinkamp studied at CalArts and ArtCenter in Los Angeles, and has had solo exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, The Nevada Museum of Art and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, among others. Her group shows include the 8th Annual Istanbul Biennial; she represented the United Stated in the 11th Cairo Biennial; and participated in shows at MASSMoca and the Seoul Museum of Art. Her work has been included in Visual Music at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. A retrospective of her work opened at the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art in 2006 and travelled onto the Kemper Museum and the Albright-Knox Gallery.

Steven Bode is curator and Director of Film and Video Umbrella and has initiated well over a hundred different projects, including major new works from artists including Isaac Julien, Gillian Wearing, Jane & Louise Wilson, and Dryden Goodwin. Other exhibitions include Airport (with Jeremy Millar), New Video from Great Britain (for MoMA, New York), and most recently, There is No Road, for LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain.

Dryden Goodwin studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Exhibitions and screenings include The Photographers' Gallery, Art Now at Tate Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery and Chisenhale Gallery, London.

Emily Richardson studied at Middlesex University and San Francisco Art Institute. Her films have been widely exhibited both in the UK and internationally, including Tate Britain, Artist's Space New York and Edinburgh, London, Rotterdam and New York film festivals. 6 Films, a dvd retrospective, is published by LUX.

Ori Gersht was born in Israel, he has lived and worked in London for fifteen years; studying for his MA at the Royal College of Art. His work, in both video and photography, has shown extensively in the UK and internationally. Solo exhibitions include: The Clearing (The Photographers’ Gallery, London), History in the Making (Photo España, Madrid), Afterglow (Tate Britain) and Pitch at (Chisenhale Gallery, London). His work is held in a range of national and private collections. Three books have been published on his practice: Afterglow, (August Publications, 2002), Day by Day (Pocko Editions, 2002), and The Clearing (Film and Video Umbrella, 2005)

David Chandler is a curator and writer, and currently Director of the visual arts agency Photoworks. He was formerly Head of Exhibitions at The Photographers' Gallery, London and Projects Manager at the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), and has written widely about photography and the visual arts.