ARTE Creative

http://creative.arte.tv/

Think you will all appreciate this site (especially Kit and Nathan) - it's a new video sharing website run by the French/German TV channel ARTE that's dedicated to showcasing all forms of creative work, especially video art, film, new media and moving image. Quite a few European institutes and film festivals have been using it to share work, but also artists too like Roman Signer and John Wood & Paul Harrison. So far it's still in Beta mode which is why I'm guessing not many people seem to be aware of it yet (I only heard about it yesterday), but it will probably take off in time - and hey, could be another good place to upload your work...

I'll leave you with an interesting video on the site - Bad Beuys Entertainment's SICTOM (2001), which beat Guy Ben Ner's Stealing Beauty (2007) by a fair few years with the idea of using furniture stores as film sets...

John

The Creative Act

Hey all,

The Creative Act is a short essay by Duchamp in 1957 and talks about the intuition of the artist and the importance of the audience in the validation of art work. I came across it today, it's short but sweet and I'd say worth a read. In a period when certain people were writing about what art should be, Marcel always seems to be far more radical in his thinking.

Also found it kind of interesting when he mentions how there are millions of artists creating but only a few thousand are discussed or accepted and by the spectator and many less again are consecrated by posterity. Even before the internet, the development of a variety of the academic schools of art with their degrees and the thousands of students who choose that route, we're really not very different form other periods of the past.

Also watched the 2nd episode of the film Odyssey program and it was really rather good (think Nathan might find this one rather insightful)

Kit

The Story of Film

Hey all,

Watched the first episode of the epic series by Mark Cousin's that covers the history of film and is surprisingly called The History of Film: An Odyssey. Its on more 4 and its something like 12 one hour long episodes that reveal cinmea and how it came to be and evoled to what it is, including a lot films he deams as important which are generally unknown in the mainstream and wouldnt be included in the the top 100 geatest films ever ever list you find cropping up every year (Still can't believe Superman Returns is in Empires 100).

The first episode was very good, Cousin's narrated over the entirety only cutting away from scenes from films, images of sets and locations then and now with quick interviews from critics, and film buffs. Certain ways he approches the how he presents the documents reminds me greatly of Godards history of cinema, although it doesnt have the intensly annoying type writing that goes on throughout (yet). I will keep watching it and thought I'd give it a mention because I have a feeling some of you may find it really informative and useful to your practices or just as an extra way of finding out about amazing movies that need to be added to the list of films you must find and watch... There's already a load for me from just the first episode!

 
Kit

and look!

http://thisiscentralstation.com/opportunities/creative-publications-wanted.aspx

*Jen*

ooo for those who want one

studio space up for grabs : gotta apply though!!

http://thisiscentralstation.com/opportunities/studio-available-this-october.aspx


*Jen*