DAS Resident Exhibition: Michael Hanna & Ryan Moffett

Thursday 5th August to Friday 20th August at PS2 Gallery, Belfast

Opening Private View Thursday 5th August at 7pm

Closing Private View Friday 20th August at 7pm

The Digital Arts Studios Residency scheme supports artists working with new media technology. In collaboration with PS² Gallery, DAS are presenting the work of Ryan Moffett and Michael Hanna, current residents at DAS.

The exhibition Inter alia presents a combination of old and new work by the artists. The opening of the show contains a selection of 24 video works by Michael Hanna produced between 2008 and the present. Over the course of the exhibition this work will be dismantled and reworked as the room becomes a combination of exhibition space and workshop while Ryan Moffett’s new project The Tree House is realised. For the period of the show the space will exist in a transitory state presenting elements from both artists’ work in various states of completion, and by the end all that will remain is Ryan’s finished installation.

In association with PS2 gallery, supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. DAS and the artists would like to thank Lawrence Street Workshops for their assistance.

DAS Outreach Project: Mobile Cities

23rd – 30th July 2010

Mobile Cities’ aim is to provide young adults who cannot normally access training opportunities, with an intensive week-long introduction to creative media production processes. The vocational emphasis will be complemented with an exploration of alternative representations of the environment and ways in which participant’s personal experience can be mediated by new technology. DAS have asked Belfast-based filmmaker/musicians Barry Cullen and David Baxter to steer Mobile Cities. They work collaboratively on multi-media audio visual events whilst teaching creative media and pursuing solo enterprises including: Filaria, Dodgy Stereo and Barry’s Electric Workshop.

The project is a co-production with the Prince’s Trust, forming part of the Get Started initiative. Mobile Cities is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

DAS Film Commission: Art on The Wall

20th July – 30 September 2010

Writer/Director Derville Quigley will produce a new short film with young people from Kilwilkie Estate in Lurgan.

Art on The Wall is a collaborative public art project funded by Re-imaging Communities and co-ordinated by the artist Helen Sharp. The DAS film strand will see participants engaging in the production and creative processes needed to plan, shoot and edit a professional video. Preview screenings will take place in local venues, with residents invited to have a final say in the finished film.

Derville completed a DAS residency in January 2010 and is the recipient of several awards and inclusion in the Virgin Media Shorts programme for her film: Hiccup.