27
January
2012
“We are news and sport.” is how Adrian Van Klaveren described BBC Radio 5 Live. Adrian is the controller of both BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He spoke at a Coventry Conversation about BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio can be successful.
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27
January
2012
Judith Townend - Digital Journalist, discusses how interactive media is changing journalism.
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27
January
2012
Executive Producer, Comedy BBC Jon Plowman talks about producing comedy for the BBC.
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27
January
2012
Dean Stockton the Senior Creative Director, Chello Media International talks about the future as a media creative.
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27
January
2012
London 2012, the view from two Coventry athletics heroes.
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25
January
2012
Joey Skaggs is a fine artist and social activist. Although he has painted and sculpted throughout his life, starting with his iconoclastic and controversial performance-art protests in the Sixties, his public work took on a new direction. Skaggs realized he could use art to challenge the system. Appalled at the cultural hypocrisy he saw around him, especially how it was blindly supported in the media, he began to satirize social issues with public performances and elaborately contrived media hoaxes. The mass media in turn became an unwitting collaborator in his concepts, reporting his satire as news. Joey Skaggs quickly acquired an international reputation as a cultural satirist and media critic. His work incorporates guerrilla tactics and traditional public relations techniques to promote his staged performances. Few media outlets over the last four decades have not fallen for one or another of his hoaxes. He has been covered in newspapers, magazines, and on radio and television around the world, in some cases many times as different people.
At the School of Visual Arts Joey Skaggs taught Media Communications including “Culture Jamming and Media Activism,” a course of his creation. He also taught at Parsons The New School for Design. He now lectures internationally on divergent approaches to addressing social issues through art. He’s the creator of the Universal Bullshit Detector Watch and the publisher and editor of “The Art of the Prank” blog. A master storyteller, he inspires in his audiences original and inventive insights while sharing the tools and techniques that foster independent thinking, media literacy, and creative activism. Like the Wizard of Oz, he reveals the man behind the curtain, showing, in a visceral way, the influence mass media has on society. http://joeyskaggs.com, http://artoftheprank.com
In this podcast he talks about some of his work.
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18
January
2012
This weeks guest podcast is from John Mair, who is Broadcaster and Academic.
In this podcast John discusses how he helped to orchestrate a media campaign to stop lorries using the B430 in Weston-on-the-Green. They had been using it as a rat-run to avoid congestion on the M40, causing all kinds of issues within the Oxfordshire village.
John talks about how by using just a laptop, some hard facts, doing journalists work for them and making sure the right people were involved helped the campaign to be successful.
This podcast is part of the Creative Activism Open Class- come and join us.
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12
January
2012
John Jackson is a New York-based writer and activist originally from London, covering social activism and international affairs. He is co-author of 'Small Acts of Resistance, How Courage, Tenacity and Ingenuity Can Change the World (2010)'. In this talk he discusses the book as well as some useful advice for activists.
This talk is part of the Creative Activism Open Class - Exploring Creativity and Social Change.
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12
January
2012
Open Art, or What could Open Art mean? - Round table discussion with Elly Clarke (Coventry University), Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins (Independent artists) and James Wallbank (Access Space Sheffield).
Elly Clarke (Artist/Curator)
Elly Clarke is an artist, photographer and curator/founder of Clarke Gallery in Berlin, but which is currently mobile, or one, could say homeless! She is interested in the impact of mobility (of people, information and things) upon sense of self, both when alone and as part of a community. She produced internationally recognized documentary projects such as Moscow to Beijing (exhibited in Helsinki, Moscow, Milton Keynes, London & New York) and the Broadway House Photo Project. Next up atMeter Room will be THE MOBlLlTY PROJECT, a traveling show that launched this summer at Galerie SUVl LEHTINEN in Berlin and will find its way to Coventry in January. Her first travelling exhibition,WUNDERKAMMER, is also currently on show at TROVE in Birmingham.
Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins (Independent artists)
Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins are two artists/organisers working collaboratively since 2006 across a number of experimental disciplines, communicative channels and media. They are currently based at Static Gallery where over the last year they have been developing an ongoing series of projects around free and self-initiated education. They approach their art practice as a means of political agency through which to interrogate and re-imagine the systems, spaces, institutions and situations of contemporary urban life.
James Wallbank (Access Space Sheffield)
For more than a decade James has developed and led action research exploring the impacts of creative digital engagement on personal, community and economic development. He works to shape ethical relationships with technology which are environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable. Currently he is CEO of Access Space Network, an organisation which provides the UK’s longest running free, open media lab. He works locally and internationally to seed similar creative digital communities. James has worked on projects with Oxford E-Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University’s Culture, Communications and Computing Research Institute (C3RI), Sheffield University’s Interdisciplinary Research in Socio-Digital Worlds (IRiS) Centre and “Imagination” at Lancaster University. He has authored several influential documents, including “Lowtech Manifesto” (1999), “Grow Your Own Media Lab” (2008) and “The Zero Dollar Laptop” (2010) which have spawned transnational networks of practice. James works with diverse groups, including young people, adults in danger of social and economic exclusion, people with disabilities, artists, designers, asylum seekers, professionals and technical experts. He is a frequent presenter at research conferences, universities and digital media festivals and delivers technical training for enterprises and community organisations. He has an MA in Art & Design and is a self-taught LPIC1 Engineer.
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11
January
2012
This is the first workshop from the Creative Activism Open Class- Exploring Creativity and Change, find out more at www.creativeactivism.net
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