NEWS

March 2010:
EVENT: Artist Talk with Swedish artist Cecilia Stenbom, Wednesday 17th March 2010 18:00 – 20:00. Come to meet and hear about the exciting work of ISIS Arts artist in residence. Please RSVP


February 2010:
CALL FOR ARISTS AND FILM MAKERS: Abandon Normal Devices is teaming up with ISIS Arts and the Big M, the world's first inflatable cinema to present an experimental and diverse film programme for Flagmarket Square in the heart of Preston on 27th and 28th March as part of the AND Festival. AND is a new festival presented by folly, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and Cornerhouse that welcomes audiences to experience the best in new cinema and digital culture. AND is part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy programme for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

AND and ISIS Arts are inviting submissions of existing screen based work, from the broad spectrum of new cinema and digital culture. Submissions should address themes and subjects broadly relating to the ethos of the AND festival, including but not limited to: food and health, work and play, diversity and disability.

AND welcomes submissions from local, regional, national and international artists. To find out more, please click on this link for application details, and pdf downloads. The deadline for application Monday 22nd February 2010.


January 2010:
ARTISTS: Check out New York artist Marina Zurkow's website and blog at www.o-matic.com.

ISIS: ISIS Arts thanks everyone for bringing festive cheer to the ISIS Christmas party, what a great way to end the year. ISIS Arts wishes you a Happy New Year!

ISIS: 2 – 7th February 2010. ISIS is booking now for Transmediale, Berlin.
Transmediale is an international festival for contemporary art and digital culture. Located in Berlin, it presents advanced artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies. Transmediale website


December 2009:
ARTISTS: Monday 7th – Thursday 10th December. Klaus Maehring visits ISIS to organise his 3 month residency that will take place in Easter 2010. Very exciting!
http://www.nomadicvillage.lufka.org

ISIS: 3 – 5 December. Re:Designing Cultural Politics in Stockholm. Clymene is travelling to Sweden to present at the Re:Designing Cultural Politics event! Intercult, in partnership with Culture Action Europe, presents a 3–day conference that will gather policy-makers from all levels of governance: local, regional, national and European. The aim is to explore vital links between these spheres and how they could better interrelate, creating beneficial conditions for culture and exchange. conference link


November 2009:
ISIS: Is proud that Clymene now sits on the board of Culture Action Europe.

EVENT: Saturday 14th November 14:00 – 16:00. Jorn Ebner and Monica Ross invite you to a Housewarming in reverse at 138 St. Lawrence Square, Byker NE6 1SU. On this site a row of council flats was demolished in 2008 to make way for the Byker South Redevelopment plan. The scheme has recently been shelved due to the current economic crisis - a situation that reflects the fragility of the social housing sector within society. Housewarming will take place in open space, no house stands on this site now and another may or may not again: the artists imply the history of their private occupation of a flat on this site as the basis to host the sharing of social space. see Wunderbar Festival website

ARTIST: Cecilia Stenbom in residency at ISIS. More information here...

EVENT: Wednesday 4th November 18:00 – 20:00. ISIS ARTS & BERWICK GYMNASIUM ART GALLERY invite you to an artists' talk event with current BERWICK GYMNASIUM FELLOWSHIP ARTISTS Andro Semeiko, Henna Riikka Halonen & Neil Morley. Matthew Walmsley, curator of Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, will introduce the artists. Refreshments will be available and the event is free. Please RSVP.


October 2009:
EVENT: Thursday 1st October 18:00 – 20:00. Come to meet and hear about the exciting work of Norwegian sound artist Maia Urstad. Maia will be at ISIS Arts throughout October as part of our latest research residency programme. Please RSVP. Admission free.


September 2009:
EVENT: Saturday-Sunday 26th/27th September 12:00 – 17:00. The BIG M at Abandon Normal Devises, Waterfront, Mann Island, Liverpool, Admission FREE.


July 2009:
EVENT: Wednesday 8th July 18:00 – 20:00. ISIS Arts invite you to an artist talk by London-based video artist, Nisha Duggal, who will be at ISIS Arts throughout July as part of our latest research residency programme. Refreshments will be available. The event is free and everyone interested is welcome. However space is limited, so please RSVP: isis@isisarts.org.uk or ring 0191 261 4407. Nisha's most recent exhibition was a solo presentation at Art connexion in Lille 2009. Solo projects have included commissions for Conjunction, Stoke on Trent, UK; Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK and Contemporary Art Forum, Canada. Duggal participated in group exhibitions at Ginza Art Lab, Tokyo; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK and Platform00005, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK, amongst others


June 2009:
EVENT: Monday 22nd June 17:00 – 19:00 Queen's Hall, Beaumont Street, Hexham, Northumberland. ISIS Arts and Queen's Hall Arts invite you to an artist talk event with digital animator, Marina Zurkow, who is researching her project Northumberland Nature 2.0 at ISIS during this month.

EVENT: Artist talk by Marina Zurkow from Brooklyn, who is researching her project Northumberland Nature 2.0 at ISIS. Marina Zurkow makes psychological narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the weather. These take the form of multi-channel videos, customized multi-screen computer pieces, animated cartoons, interactive mobile works, and pop objects. For more information on the artist visit: www.o-matic.com.


April 2009:
EVENT: ISIS is presenting The Big M in Brussels 20-22 April 2009 with the "At Home in Europe" programme. The event takes place at the Place Jean Rey, opposite Parc Leopold in Brussels.


March 2009:
ISIS: ISIS has won two culture awards for Enlightenment Festival – for best event Durham and best Overall Event for 2008.


February 2009:
OPPORTUNITY CLOSED: ISIS Arts are inviting Media artists from the UK and beyond to apply for a three-week research residency at ISIS Arts, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK between April to end of July 2009. Deadline for applications is Friday 20th March 2009. More...

OPPORTUNITY CLOSED: ISIS Arts is offering a limited amount of subsidised training opportunities for artists from the North East Region looking to update their digital/new media skills in a particular area. Deadline for this opportunity was Friday, 20th February 2009.

ARTISTS: In South London, Beaconsfield, are going to show a flat screen version of Fallen Idyll by Monica Ross, developed dring her ISIS Research Residency from 17 March - 10 May 2009.

EVENT: 16th February ISIS Arts artist talk with photographers Klaus Mähring, Patricia Azevedo and Julian Germain. Klaus Mähring is an Austrian photographer and founder of On the Road Productions, a mobile art project that has travelled around Eastern Europe since 2002. Klaus presented some of the resulting work and talked about his new artist collaboration project. Julian Germain and Patricia Azevedo, in addition to their personal work, have been investigating a number of collaborative art projects since 1995, most notably in Brazil with favela communities and street children. They presented examples of their work.


January 2009:
ISIS: ISIS has been shortlisted for the Arts Council Award 2008 ( Journal Culture Awards) for our commissions as part of 'Enlightenment - Durham International Festival of Light', in November 2008. More...

ARTISTS: "We Shall Overswim", Solo exhibition of Borjana Ventzislavova, Academy Gallery, 1 Shipka St., Sofia 10-19 January 2009. (ISIS Arts commission2008).


December 2008:
ARTISTS: Jorn Ebner's online audio work (the tender indifference), which was produced during an ISIS Mini Residency 2008 was honored with a Jury Recommendation for the [12] Japan Media Arts Festival. The work will be exhibited at the National Art Center in Tokyo, 4-15 February 2009.


November 2008:
EVENT: Workshop for adults with artists Kate Sweeney and Lindsey Duncanson, Sunday 30th November 2008, 12 - 2 pm, Berwick WorkSpace, Boarding School Yard, 90 Marygate, Berwick Upon Tweed, TD15 1BN. This workshop is free.
In connection with the installation We Shall Overswim by Borjana Ventzislavova at the Guildhall, part of The State of Berwick - Berwick Film and media festival, ISIS Arts is hosting a workshop targeted at adults interested in working with young people using film and media. Using the installations a starting point, artists Kate Sweeney and Lindsey Duncanson, both with extensive experience of working with young people, will lead this intense hands-on workshop using digital media.


March 2008:
ARTISTS: An excellent review of former ISIS artist in residence Joseph DeLappe's Iraqimemorial.org project, which he developed while on one of our Mini Residencies last year, has been written by John Feffer on the FPIF - Foreign Policy in Focus site: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5083