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Site still under construction Monday, May 17, 2004 Talks Further talks will be added to this section in due course. FOR FULL LIST click on pdf file just below this text. The talks reproduced here are unedited, so there is inevitably repetition in the texts when similar themes are addressed for different audiences. . . Full PDF Lecture Notes

Audience & Narrative.

Friday, January 01, 1999

Changing View of Public Spaces Conference, Royal College of Art, London.

"Iím going to raise some more general principles and concerns about the process of engagement, - about interactivity and NEW narrative structures, how identities are shifting within new relations between the global and local, the impact of emerging technologies - particularly around communications". . .

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The privatisation of public art?

Friday, January 01, 1999

Public Art Now Conference, ICA London,UK

'The metaphor often used is that of the shaman whose inner visions and dreams are communicated to the rest of the tribe through ritual means. This is seldom placed within the context of the public role of the shaman as carrier of tribal ímemoryí and future ívisioningí.. In short this metaphor is romantic atavism. . .

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Art in Parks

Monday, June 01, 1998

Adding Value Conference, Portsmouth, UK

'With the extension of ípublic spaceí from the urban into the countryside - through the establishment of National and Regional Park authorities, and the expansion of the tourist industry - the tradition of the ísculpture gardení has been expanded into the ísculpture parkí. Public art has added a cultural dimension to the ícountryside experience'. . .

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The Artist in the 21st Century,

Monday, January 06, 1997

Tate Gallery, London, UK

'Weíre primitives. But primitives in a new age. And rather than look back nostalgically, we can take the lessons that are still available to us and move into the future. As Giotto was to the development of perspectival representation, so our generation (if we are fortunate) will be to representations of cyber-space and the network society'. . .

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Art, Ecologies, Culture and Change

Wednesday, January 01, 1997

Infromation and the City, Oxford University, UK

"We believe it is time to move beyond a practice wrapped in the myth of the heroic artist attempting to create an oasis of aesthetics in an increasingly anaesthetic alienated environment...By their very nature these questions require an interdisciplinary approach and an international dimension". . .

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Gallery of the Future,

Wednesday, January 01, 1997

Loughborough University UK

"Post and extra-gallery work is already beginning to create new relationships between the local and the global, and a new wave of cultural theorists like Castells are beginning to recognise that new forms of communication will radically shape the development of our culture". . .

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Notes: on íCommunityí

Monday, January 01, 1996

Public Art in Southwark, S.London Art Gallery,UK

"What does ícommunityí mean? It is a problematic, contested term, especially when applied to art. All common sense and intellectual rigor seems to go out of the window, a screen comes down, a distancing takes place: it is not about íusí but about íthemí. Communities are íotherí; what other people belong to - the working class, the disadvantaged". . .

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Open Spaces, closed minds

Monday, January 01, 1996

Open Spaces Conference, Winchester UK

"We are dissatisfied with the way much of Public Art is commissioned and used. It is exploitative for the majority of artists, mitigates against real consultation. Such approaches tend to use art as a band-aid for badly designed public spaces or urban deprivation and is often a ígilding the ghettoí exercise". . .

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Public Art & Photography

Saturday, January 01, 1994

Maximising Access, Photographers Gallery, London UK

"Does setting photographic images in a public space ensure greater access to art for a wider public? I don t think so. But Is greater access to Art (as currently framed by our society) the real goal? For me, no. The question of access has to be situated in wider cultural & social context and placed within an extended notion of what art is or could be". . .

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The Art of Change

Saturday, January 01, 1994

LITTORAL Symposium, Salford University, UK

I believe that most ícriticalí practitioners, those I know at least, don t operate in that ípureí area of negativity. Although there is a big debate about what positive images are, the work I will be showing today is emphasising that side a bit more than others that I could have shown you. . .

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Digital Dreams- a new visibility?

Saturday, January 01, 1994

Digital Dreams conference, Newcastle, UK

Letís learn the lessons of that last great dreaming - in the 60s when people thought that the íimmersable representationsí of sex and drugs and rock festivals would bring about the revolution. They awoke to find that the world had moved on, leaving revolution on the record shelves. . .

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Community and Engagement,

Wednesday, January 01, 1992

Beyond Studio Practice, University of East London,UK

" What we mean by ícommunityí here is important, since the word often associated with nostalgic or highly romanticised images of íplaceí. This in our experience is not very useful, indeed it is counter productive within a dynamic of change". . .

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