Digital Broadway presents an artists’ talk with local artist Gareth Howell and Daniel Wilson form Canada, who is in Nottingham to film TimeLine PART 2 in Nottingham’s Market Square, which will be shown on the Glass Screen in January.
Gareth and Daniel will talk about their work and their exclusive Glass Screen Commissions for Digital Broadway.
This is the first UK exhibition for filmmaker and digital artist Daniel. After studying in Canada and Sweden he has worked and exhibited all over North America and Europe. He is now based in Los Angeles and on an exclusive visit to Nottingham.
Gareth is a digital artist and animator based in Nottingham. He found himself moving closer to animation after years of working in Flash for websites and filling even the smallest bits of paper with doodles
On the GLASS SCREEN from SAT 1 DEC – SUN 6 JAN Gareth Howell’s nativity animation VERTEP*
Once upon a time in Nazareth, there was a girl called Mary. One day, she was visited by an angel, who told her that she was going to have a baby, who would be the son of God. Nine months later, in a stable in Bethlehem, baby Jesus was born to an audience of sheep, donkeys, wise men and drunk shepherds.
Even though Gareth only ever got to play a sheep, the Nativity is still his favourite bit of Christmas. Gareth loves Christmas and, if Santa is reading this, would like some Annuals. He has been a good boy.
*A Vertep is a Russian puppet theatre which depicts the Nativity.
Daniel Wilson’s TIMELINE Part 1 was screened on the GLASS SCREEN in NOV 2007 and Part 2 will follow in JAN 2008.
Today much of our time disappears into screens. TimeLine is an effort to use a screen to illustrate rather than steal time. Typically, images represent an area of space for a particular moment in time; TimeLine illustrates an "area" of time for a particular plane in space. Similarly, where in a typical photograph left and right indicates movement in space, in TimeLine left and right indicate movement forward and backward through time.
The piece consists of a single long scrolling image which is a unique visual chronological history of a particular plane in space.
PART 1 captured the history of the street in front of Hollywood's Egyptian Theater. Grauman’s Egyptian Theater is on 6712 Hollywood Boulevard and opened in 1922. The famous theatre was the site of the first-ever Hollywood premiere event. The film was Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks.
PART 2 will be filmed around Nottingham’s Market Square in December.
Digital Broadway Curators Jeanie Finlay and Anna Petry are hosting the talk.
Please RSVP to anna@broadway.org.uk
