Download the latest DAS Programme Brochure for all our training opportunities, talks and events in August and September. The brochure also contains details of our enhanced membership scheme which offers significant discounts on workshops, services and equipment hire. Further details on all the DAS programming strands can also be found via the links on the left.

email office@digitalartsstudios.com to make bookings, or for further information on any of the DAS programming strands.

Tuesday 6th July 2010

6.30 – 7.30pm, Digital Arts Studios

David Clark creates net.art projects which have played at Sundance, SIGGRAPH, Transmediale Berlin and the Museum of Moving Images in New York. His web project A is for Apple won the top prize at the 2003 SXSW in Austin, Texas and the FILE2002 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is currently Associate Professor in Intermedia at NSCAD, Halifax, Canada.

During his DAS residency David is researching an interactive digital opera entitled “The End: A Digital Opera in Seven Colours”. A broad contemplation of the transition from our human to the post-human era, the work will look at the mystery of Alan Turing’s suicide, touch on Freud’s idea of the fetish in Psychoanalysis, probe the dark cult of personality behind Jim Morrison and visit the realm of the fantastical and allegorical in The Wizard of Oz.

http://www.chemicalpictures.net/

David Clark Artist Masterclass

Thursday 8th July 2010

David Clark will be hosting a special one-day workshop introducing 3D imaging software. This intensive course will be of particular interest to visual artists seeking to learn key software applications for creating net.art and and motion graphics. Participants will focus on Unity, a 3D games platform used in creating iPhone Apps and Sketch-Up, a CAD application used in Google Earth. Both software packages are available in free downloadable versions. It is advised that participants have some prior basic computer knowledge, ideally using the Mac platform.

This DAS Masterclass is free but spaces MUST be booked in advance by emailing office@digitalartsstudios.com or telephoning 02890 312 900

The International Residency Programme is funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

This intensive workshop introduces participants to digital music production and sound engineering. Using Ableton Live and Amadeus Pro to create, mix and output audio the workshop will introduce the core elements of loop editing, midi sequencing/ control, sampling, synthesis and using the platform for live performance, DJ-ing, re-mixing and soundscape creation for video & film. Participants will make live recordings during the workshop and are encouraged to bring their own files for re-mixing and editing.

Date: 15th – 17th June

Time: 6 – 8.30pm

Cost: £80/£50

for bookings email office@digitalartsstudios.com or phone 02890 312 900

Dates: June 30th & July 1st

Times: 10am – 5pm

Venues: Day 1 – Belfast Exposed || Day 2 – Digital Arts Studios

Fee: £100

Facilitated by Niamh McDonnell (multi-media artist/researcher), Pawet Bignell (visual artist), Rui Chaves (sound artist)

This workshop is the first of a series offering 6 community arts facilitators or artists working in the community the opportunity to be part of the project “on-off-states”, mapping points of view of the city. The project brings together the idea of collecting audio and visual material describing cityscapes and the use of simple digital recording devices. Working between computer software programmes and hands on material processes, the workshop provides the knowhow of putting together a multi-media toolkit for map making. The D.I.Y. experience involves introduction to the means of accessing open source software programmes and the experience of working between computer and hands on material process. Participants come away with an extended repertoire of creative processes and material outputs, with ideas for making tote bags, badges and fanzines. Experience in computer design is not required, just a willingness to experiment with map making using a multi-media toolkit to explore the idea of relating to the environment of the city.

Please bring your mobile phone and connectors for download to computer.

For booking and all further enquiries contact Niamh McDonnell at: niamh.mcdo@googlemail.com

“Utilizing some of the most groundbreaking extended vocal techniques and original hardware instrument designs in the new generation of New York City’s improvisers, Lesley Flanigan’s work pushes through sheets of gorgeous shimmering sound into a sublime resonant feedback loop. With a background in sculpture, her work creates a kind of sonic terrain which encapsulates and envelopes the human voice (as well as the listener’s inner ear).”

www.lesleyflanigan.com

Lesley Flanigan will be giving a talk at DAS at 6.30pm on Friday 11th June. Entry to the presentation is free but please contact DAS prior to attending as space is limited.

Preceding her talk Lesley will be available for an afternoon seminar. Beginning at 2pm the seminar will form a peer-critique with participants presenting their work to the group. Spaces are limited to five and must be booked in advance from DAS. There is a charge of £10 (£5 concession) for each participant. Contact DAS at: events@digitalartsstudios.com for further information and bookings.

In association with Bbeyond, Space Delawab & PS2

email office@digitalartsstudios.com to make bookings, or for further information on any of the DAS programming strands.

Thursday 20th May 2010

6.30pm

Lisa Malone has been using the residency to integrate stop-frame animated elements into her sculptural and drawn practice. Ryan Moffett is using motion graphic software with original high definition footage to build the video elements of large scale multi-media installation.

All DAS talks are free and open to the public.

Thursday 6th May 2010

6.30pm

Niamh McDonnell is working on the multi-disciplinary project ‘Performative Digital Texts – Repositories of the Virtual’ and is using her DAS residency to create a multi-user website in collaboration with Belfast arts networks. Cian Doherty is working on a ‘visual tone poem’ that explores the co-expression of sound and image, exploring territory shared by psychology, music, science and art.

All DAS talks are free and open to the public

email office@digitalartsstudios.com to make a booking, or for further information on any of the DAS programming strands.