Martin Creed, Turner Prize winner of the "lights on lights off" fame/notoriety, will be speaking on Feb.23 at the Glasgow School of Art Friday event. This is likely to be hugely popular and they have issued a notice saying that while the event is free it is ticketed and these must be got in advance.
YouTube.Just read that YouTube are going to start paying folk for their videos…wonder how much?
James Provan a young videomaker and songwriter from Scotland has been paid £2,000 by Time-Warner for a clip of one of his videos. His web site is: www.gir2007 His pancake video is enormously popular.
Studio on the worldwide web
Local paper, Allanwater News, carries a story this week about my online work with videos.I liked the headline:
Reaching out to a whole new audience
It includes the following quote from me:" I work with new media, digital photography, digital video and computers because they are the tools of our age and offer the most appropriate medium to say something new about the world we live in."
And still the photographs come rolling in!
yet more phone calls, email and a letter from people who were in Craig-y-nos hospital offering photographs and amazing stories.I am trying to keep track of this online at my other weblog: www.craig-y-nos.blogspot.com but I have so much material that only a fraction gets put online.
Home again!
Week researching book in South Wales, a real emotional roller-coaster. People kept saying:"I have never talked about this before…" It was a cathartic experience with some breaking down and crying.
Came back to Scotland to find 53 phone calls, emails and letters waiting: all from people wanting to share their memories and photographs. My partner has been acting as my secretary and he says that after each traumatic phone call he needed" to sit down with a stiff drink".
It was with relief that I switched on the computer and moved into the virtual world. Several more have joined my video site on You Tube.
Oh yes, I got a letter from Brigadier Derek Kirk saying that my video of the Argyll's march through Stirling has gone into the Regimental museum in Stirling Castle.
Just when I thought I was getting comfy in new media, having cast aside traditional media, I discover this is being replaced by social media.
MediaGuardian are running a one day conference on March 22 which is described as a "multi-stream summit….challenges facing traditional media in the digital age…consider the impact of changing from new media to social media, the effect of IPTV and internet radio and the challenge of democratising content in the user-in-control era."
What's IPTV?
Ann Shaw is an artist/writer based in Scotland working in new media. As a journalist she campaigned and wrote about many social and medical issues. She is a feminist and founder member of Falkirk Womens Aid, active in the trades union movement and former member of National Union of Journalists Equality Working Party, and founder member of Forth Valley Open Studios.
