Sally Golding

Article:
Expanded Cinema Unowned: Noise and Liveness in the Contemporary

Author:
Sally Golding

Publisher and Date:
San Francisco Cinematheque, 2016

Publication:
Perceptual Motion reader

Editor:
Steve Polta

Layout & Design:
Tooth

Perpetual Motion documents San Francisco Cinematheque’s massive series of contemporary Performance Cinema, presented September–December 2016 at San Francisco’s Gray Area.

The largest undertaking in Cinematheque’s 55-year history, this series convened Performance Cinema practitioners from around the world—including arc, Scott Arford, Biege, John Davis, Trinchera Ensamble, Keith Evans, Sally Golding, Ken Jacobs, Kerry Laitala & Voicehandler, Karl Lemieux & BJ Nilsen, Hangjun Lee & Jérôme Noetinger, Michael A. Morris, Bruce McClure, Greg Pope & Sult, Raha Raissnia & Panagiotis Mavridis, La Révélateur and Jürgen Reble—for 7 incredible convergences of once-in-a-lifetime sight and sound.

Dynamically designed by Tooth, the hand-made Perpetual Motion ‘zine includes a live cinema manifesto by series curator Steve Polta, an essay surveying the field by renowned curator/historian (and performance cinema practitioner) Sally Golding, and copious images of series participants. – San Francisco Cinematheque


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Article: Issues in Contemporary Expanded Cinema: A discussion

Authors: Sally Golding, James Holcombe, chaired by Cathy Rogers

Publisher and Date: Contact Festival, London, 2016


In this article Golding, Holcombe and Rogers discuss ideas of community, politics and the practical strategies of contemporary live film performance from both a practitioner’s and curator’s perspective.


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Contact Festival included the work of over 70 artists and filmmakers, featuring single-screen films, multi-screen/performance-related works and site-specific installations. Accompanied by a publication including discussion pieces by Luke Aspell and collective-iz (on collective practices), Sally Golding, James Holcombe and Cathy Rogers (on different manifestations of contemporary expanded cinema), and short essays by Maria Palacios Cruz (LUX, Deputy Director), William Fowler (BFI, curator of artists’ moving image) and Nicky Hamlyn (filmmaker and writer), plus complete listings.

Contact is a series of screenings, events and exhibitions, involving contemporary experimental film/video and other art forms, organised by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne. Contact Festival took place in May 2016 at Apiary Studios, London. Funded by Arts Council England.

Parsing Digital: Conversations in digital art by practitioners and curators is a publication by the Austrian Cultural Forum London edited by Sally Golding, with articles commissioned by Golding. Featuring new conversations and critical urgencies in digital art with contributions by practitioners and curators.

Editor:
Sally Golding

Authors:
Addie Wagenknecht
Alex McLean & Ellen Harlizius-Klück
Irini Papadimitriou (V&A)
Luba Elliott
Manuela Naveau (Ars Electronica)
Martin Zeilinger
Sally Golding

Publisher: Austrian Cultural Forum London (ACF), 2018
Designer: Lisa Stephanides, Polimekanos
Production: Vanessa Fewster
Cover Image: Alex McLean, weaving code
Contents: 124 pages, colour and b&w
ISBN: 978-9999269-3-9-1

Alex McLean in collaboration with Ellen Harlizius-Klück, along with Martin Zeilinger, reflect on ideas gleaned from deep-research projects which consider the algorithm as a fundamental process essential to understanding digital contexts. McLean and Harlizius-Klück discuss their research which introduces McLean’s own innovative open source software TidalCycles to the historical weaving loom, to expand the notion of ‘algorithmic dance culture’. Zeilinger presents his ongoing project Pattern Recognition which foregrounds the importance of a critical research-practice to consider how evolving machine agency in artist–computer collaboration shifts our understanding of ‘authorship’ and ‘cultural ownership’.

Luba Elliott and Addie Wagenknecht bring fresh discussion and opinion to the field of digital art critique from their individual perspectives as practitioners. Elliott describes a path towards a comprehensive critique of digital art as one that now must consider a ‘familiarity with emerging technical features, an anthropological perspective [...], and an awareness of the global political situation’. Wagenknecht considers how we might better use machine learning systems in order to produce diverse and engaging art made by means of artificial intelligence, which might be more seriously critiqued within larger and historical art canons.

Manuela Naveau (Head of Ars Electronica Export), Irini Papadimitriou (Digital Programmes Manager at the V&A) and myself, Sally Golding (artist, and director and producer of the independent curatorial series Unconscious Archives) connect interests in exploring digital art through recent public projects. Naveau considers a 19th-century engraving as a mechanism for discussion to convey her enthusiasm for supporting today’s young artists via the international forum of the Ars Electronica Export programme. Papadimitriou addresses the museum’s role in initiating and shaping critical discussions around the impact of technology in society and culture, by drawing inspiration from literary sources and her own involvement with the Digital Design Weekend programme at the V&A in London. In my own article I attempt to diversify the conversation in digital arts by offering creative and personal ideas reflecting on technology and archiving while concurrently discussing artworks exhibited in the exhibition ‘Emotion + the Tech(no)body’, programmed by Unconscious Archives as part of the ACF’s digital arts strand. - Sally Golding, August 2018

Parsing Digital: Conversations in digital art by practitioners and curators is an Occasions 18 edition, a project initiated by the Austrian Cultural Forum London facilitating ongoing cultural exchange.

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