photo opportunities
Video DJs 12.30pm, Wednesday 28 November, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of
Jordanstone.
CDI opening 5pm, Thursday 29 November, Centre for Digital Imaging,
Department of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone, Perth Road,
Dundee.
Masters EXPO 2001 opens at the University of Dundee next Thursday (29 November) showing the work of Video DJs, landscape artists and animators -the hottest emerging talents in art and design.
The Masters students' exhibition coincides with the opening of the new £1 million centre of digital imaging in TVI. Housing fifteen new state of the art work stations and cutting edge software usually used to create special effects in films, the new centre will be opened by Ian McMillan, head of Scottish Enterprise Tayside on Thursday 29 November at 5pm.
Students on the Masters programme have been using the new Maya software to create fantastic visual combinations coupled with powerful sound effects in a new phenomenon called video DJ-ing. Using the latest equipment in real time manipulation of video to create stunning background graphics the students are producing high quality graphics that are increasingly in demand in music venues.
The annual joint master EXPO from the fine art, TVI and design schools of Duncan of Jordanstone demonstrates the diversity of contemporary creative practice and brings together art, design and science through the combination of technology, ideas, culture and creativity. Many of the masters students are currently practising as professional artists, have taken a career break to undertake their MSc or have been studying part-time while working on commissions.
Some of the students' work on show:
John Carroll's study of the dark side of modernity has produced a series of symbols where all the functions of colour and language have been taken out to leave merely the graphic symbol. John is expressing the way in which society accepts symbols as substitutes.
Gair Dunlop has erected a two man tent - lonely and useless in a gallery and inspired by the hermit. Writings from prisoners waiting in Glasgow cells and by homeless people in a derelict shed in a forest are projected don to the gallery wall. Gair has curated and toured with Yuri Gagarin programme and completed three residencies in Scotland.
Gareth Moonie describes his stunning paintings as sky-scapes. Inspired by walking in the hills he successfully communicates emptiness, darkness and solitude on large canvasses. The ratio of sky to land is impressive - the sky is limitless and in a constant state of change.
Jane Sharkey has filmed four intriguing interviews with collectors of objects. Threads of memory, imagination, feelings and identities run through the four interviews but the themes of the films do not centre on the collections but on the people and how their past is remembered in the present.
Collins Mdachi from Tanzania has been looking at the western publishing for children in Africa. Aware of the Western stories and illustrations that he grew up with in Africa, he has turned illustration and story telling on its head using African illustrations from European stories and European drawings to accompany traditionally African tales such as the Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon.
EXPO 2001 includes painting , video, installation, inter-active and web-work, performance art, jewellery, product design, sound and print while many simultaneously explore the connections between such areas of practice and media forms.
EXPO opens to the public on 30 November in two venues - Duncan of Jordanstone College (30 November - 2 December Fri-Sat 9am-6pm; Sun 10am-5pm) and the Visual Research Centre in DCA (30 November - 16 December Wed-Fri 10.30am - 5.30pm; Sat-Sun 12.30pm-5.30pm). Screenings of the students' work will take place in Cinema 2 DCA at 2.45pm Sat 1 and Sun 2 December and at 12 noon throughout the week. All exhibitions and screenings are free./ENDS
Contacts
For preview visits Monday 26 - Thursday 29 please call Jenny Marra to
arrange a time - 01382 344910.
Kevin Henderson Fine Art co-ordinator 01382 345019
Gina Czarnecki Electronic Imaging co-ordinator 01382 345337
Pam Schenk 01382 345522 design co-ordinator 01382 345522