TODAY at SPARK 07

Thursday 9 August

09.00 Digital Storytelling: Joe Lambert 11.00 Music Journalism: Daphne Carr 13.30 Film screening - Beck Cole & Warwick Thornton - extra screening by popular demand 13.30 Curator's floor talk - Existence Exhibition: Waikato Museum 15.00 Workshop: Digital Storytelling with Joe Lambert - this workshop is now full 15.00 Workshop: Lucia Koch - this workshop is now full 20.00 Live Music Gig - The Weather & The Gills: Ward Lane Function Centre

09.00: Joe Lambert | Moving Image Studio, R Block, Wintec Joe Lambert is a digital storytelling pioneer and the founder and director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. This California-based centre evolved a method of participatory media practice that has spread around the globe as a new communicative genre. Lambert and his colleagues have worked on innumerable projects involving educators, social services, broadcast organizations, activists, artists, and large and small organizations.

His latest effort, storymapping.org integrates their traditional practice with efforts in locative media. Joe has delivered his world-renowned Digital Storytelling workshop in 45 US states and 20 countries, assisting in the completion of more than 10,000 video works. Joe Lambert will present a history and overview of his digital storytelling practice.

11.00: Daphne Carr | Moving Image Studio, R Block, Wintec Daphne Carr is a music journalist, critic, and ethnomusicologist living in New York City. She is the Series Editor of Best Music Writing (Da Capo 2007, 2008), author of Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (Continuum 2007), contributor to the books Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs (Da Capo 2007) and Listen Again (Duke University Press 2007).

She is a staff writer for Club Systems International, columnist for Paper Thin Walls and a frequent contributor to the Associated Press. She is currently pursuing a PhD in ethnomusicology at Columbia University and runs a listserv for women music writers, Girl Group.

In this talk Daphne Carr will look at her roles as a writing curator, scholar/researcher, commercial press author and critic/journalist to discuss the role taste plays in choosing creative projects, methods to approaching taste in an objective way, examples of how "bad" taste can be the inspiration for great art, and the role taste will play in the 21st century mediascape.

13.30: Beck Cole & Warwick Thornton Film Screenings | Moving Image Studio, R Block, Wintec A selection of films by Beck Cole and Warwick Thornton, being screened again by popular demand. Beck Cole writes and directs for film and television. Her documentaries include: The Lore of Love, Wirriya - Small Boy which won Best Film at the 2004 Women on Women Film Festival in Sydney. Her short drama Flat was shown at the Sundance and Edinburgh Film Festivals in 2004. Warwick Thornton is a writer and director who in 1997 shot his first feature film, Radiance. In 1998 he was cinematographer on the award-winning short dramas My bed Your Bed and Promise. Green Bush won Best Short Film in the Panorama Section of the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival and two Dendy Awards at the Sydney Film Festival.

13.30: Curators Floor Talk - Existence Exhibition | Waikato Museum, Victoria St This large-scale contemporary art exhibition tackles some fairly hefty subjects in a relatively light-hearted way. The exhibition is not intended to encourage the viewer to make their mind up about the origins of life in all its forms, but to prod the generation of more questions. The premise of the exhibition builds upon the viewer's lived experience and assumes that most people have some belief regarding creation or evolution, or at the very least, wonder how we came to be. A star-studded line up of artists including Ronnie van Hout, Ricky Swallow, Peter Siddell, Natalie Robertson, Francis Upritchard, Zena Elliott, Mark Curtis, Michael Parekowhai and more...

20.00: Live Music Gig! The Weather & The Gills | Ward Lane Function Centre, 19 Ward Lane The Weather and the Gills join forces for an evening of folkin' and rockin' It's gonna be the ultimate electric hoe-down. The Weather is the latest project of Matthew Bannister (guitar, vocals) and Alice Bulmer (bass), veterans of Flying Nun bands such as Sneaky Feelings (part of the 1980s "Dunedin Sound") and The Dribbling Darts of Love.

With Paula Law (vocals, flute) and a floating cast of backing musicians, the Weather play folky pop music, with accent on songwriting and fun rather than performance perfection. This will be their first gig in Hamilton and also celebrates the release of a Matthew Bannister solo project Moth, a CD on Powertool Records which will be available at the gig.

The band also plans to release their debut CD Aroha Ave, partly financed by Wintec, as soon as they have finished making a video for the title track. Matthew Bannister also works at Wintec Media Arts department as a theory lecturer. So come along to hear how theory translates into practice!

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