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Fra i dag er det muligt at opleve særudstillingen 'People We Love - Viborg Edition' i krypten i Viborg Domkirke!

På fem smukt oplyste skærme vil værket 'People We Love - Viborg Edition' vise portrætter af 50 lokale folk fra Viborg. Hver person kigger på et billede af en, de elsker eller elskede. Et billede vi som beskuere aldrig ser. Vi mærker ufortalte historier, mens ansigterne fortæller historien om en person, de elsker og holder af.

Værket præsenterer et nutidigt og moderne bud på portrætter og fejrer ikke mindst menneskelivets måske største skat, kærligheden.

Oplev udstillingen frem til den 30. december 2023.

Viborg - UNESCO Creative City Media Arts Media College Denmark / MedieskolerneMediale Særudstilling: People We Love - Viborg Edition Viborg Stifts Skoletjeneste for Kristendomskundskab Viborg Domkirke Viborg Animation Festival Viborg Kommune

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🌟 Let’s Debate 🌟

What principles guide your creative vision?

Artists, creatives and thinkers are invited to come together on 13-14th March 2023 for Let’s Debate, a sector-wide conversation exploring how we develop creativity and culture in the UK today, hosted at Kala Sangam Arts Centre in the heart of Bradford.

Commissioned by Arts Council England and produced by us at Mediale, Let’s Debate will offer diverse perspectives and insights from inspirational speakers within the cultural sector and beyond, themed around ACE’s four Investment Principles. This programme is designed to spark conversation, flag challenges, hear solutions, and celebrate some of the most innovative, impactful and exciting work taking shape across the creative and cultural industries.

We’re working with four incredible co-curators across the programme, each dedicated to a specific Investment Principle:

✨Shanaz Gulzar, Director of - Ambition & Quality

✨Jo Verrent, Senior Producer - Inclusivity & Relevance

✨ , an online radio station and arts organisation based in Manchester - Dynamism

✨ and Zoe Rasbash, Environmental Emergencies Action Researcher at Bristol+Bath Creative R+D - Environmental Responsibility

ℹ️ For more information go to our website: Mediale.org.uk/projects/let’s-debate

🎟️ Let’s Debate is free to attend, and booking is essential. To register interest and find out when the ticketing system is open, please email your name and organisation to: [email protected]

👀 Look out for our full programme announcement in the New Year!

🚨 Immersive Assembly Vol 3 🚨

We are very excited to announce that Immersive Assembly Vol 3 has been selected for the Jerwood Developing Artists Fund, from 🤩

Immersive Assembly Vol 3 is an innovative artist development programme for early career digital artists, producers and creators; a multi disciplinary residency focused on learning, peer critique and developing new ideas/work, inspired by Immersive Art and Tech, bringing together a cohort of artists, technologists and cultural influencers to learn, share, network and play.

The is a dedicated fund from Jerwood Arts to support arts organisations to deliver transformative early-career artist development programmes across the UK. We are one of 12 new programmes announced as part of this fund, spanning from digital art to printmaking, opera singing to set design, and multi-disciplinary practices. This is the beginning of an evolving portfolio of programmes that will support artists at a pivotal moment in their careers to gain new skills, experiment with their practice and make new work.

Lilli Geissendorfer, Director of Jerwood Arts said : “Mediale are exceptional specialists in the art of digital and immersive tech and we are thrilled to be funding IA3. Support for early-career artists to get their hands on the latest kit and have the time and space to play and collaborate, with national and international partners, is critical for artistic innovation to thrive.”

🗓️ An open call for creatives will run from 9th January - 13th February 2023, with the hybrid, digital/in-person programme running from Feb - Nov next year.

👀 Keep your eyes on our website and socials for more programme announcements : www.mediale.org.uk/immersive-assembly/vol-3

😍 Check out the other amazing projects launching as part of this much-needed fund here: https://jerwoodarts.org/2022/12/06/jerwood-arts-announces-12-new-artist-development-programmes/

🐍 The Celebration of Snakes 🐍

As part of our ongoing programming work with , join artist for an exclusive, hands-on family workshop inspired by the Sin exhibition.

What gave snakes such a bad name? In the Bible, a snake tempts Eve to sin in the Garden of Eden, but it seems strange to cast the snake as the most evil of living creatures when it is humans who are destroying the planet. We need to cultivate a better relationship with the non-human animals that surround us in order to maintain and preserve the eco-system of our planet.

This workshop will celebrate the figure of the snake. Participants will create hybrid human-snake figures using sculpture and collage, and build monuments to snakes with techniques used by Sarah Lucas (seen in the exhibition), and John Stezaker. Rosie asks participants to think about what snakes would say to humans if we could communicate, and make snake music.

Using a green screen, participants will then place their snake-selves and sculptures back in to the Garden of Eden.

Sssssssee you there!

⏰ 11am - 4pm
🗓️ Sunday 20th November 2022
📍 York Art Gallery
🎟️ FREE & drop-in

Commissioned and produced for York Art Gallery, with support from

🐍 The Celebration of Snakes 🐍

As part of our ongoing programming work with , join artist for an exclusive, hands-on family workshop inspired by the Sin exhibition.

What gave snakes such a bad name? In the Bible, a snake tempts Eve to sun in the Garden of Eden, but it seems strange to cast the snake as the most evil of living creatures when it is humans who are destroying the planet. We need to cultivate a better relationship with the non-human animals that surround us in order to maintain and preserve the eco-system of our planet.

This artist-led workshop aims to celebrate the figure of the snake. Families will create hybrid human-snake figures using sculpture and collage, and build monuments to snakes with techniques used by Sarah Lucas (seen in the exhibition), and John Stezaker. Rosie asks participants to think about what snakes would say to humans if we could communicate, and make snake music.

Using a green screen, participants will then place their snake-selves and sculptures back in to the Garden of Eden!

⏰ 11am - 4pm
🗓️ Sunday 20th November 2022
📍 York Art Gallery
🎟️ FREE & drop-in

Commissioned and produced for York Art Gallery, with support from

SIN: After Hours 😈

Last Friday we hosted the first ever After Hours event , for their exhibition Sin. Audiences had the opportunity to experience live music and workshops from the incredible , and take an alternative tour of the exhibition with multi-disciplinary artist .

🪩 All Hands on Deck are a Manchester based DJ collective for women, trans and non-binary DJs. They run open-deck parties and DJ workshops, with the aim to create accessible, inclusive and low-pressure spaces for underrepresented groups to try their hands at DJ-ing. They provided the soundtrack to our night through continuous DJ sets and beginners workshops.

🤳🏻 Borkkvlt is a dancer, choreographer and musician based in Yorkshire. Their alternative tour of the Sin exhibition explored the contemporary placing of the concept of sin in our digitally-connected world, and rediscovering ‘sinful’ everyday behaviours.

This After Hours event was the first element of our public programme for the Sin exhibition. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming exhibition-themed, family workshops in November & December, including an artist-led session with 👀

Sin is open until 22 January 2023, and is organised by with .

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SIN : After Hours 😈

Last Friday we hosted the first ever After Hours event , for their exhibition Sin. Audiences had the opportunity to experience live music and workshops from the incredible , and take an alternative tour of the exhibition with multi-disciplinary artist

🪩 All Hands on Deck are a Manchester based DJ collective for women, trans and non-binary DJs. They run open-deck parties and DJ workshops, with the aim to create accessible, inclusive and low-pressure spaces for underrepresented groups to try their hands at DJ-ing. They provided the soundtrack to our night through continuous DJ sets and beginners workshops.

🤳🏻Borkkvlt is a dancer, choreographer and musician based in Yorkshire. Their alternative tour of the Sin exhibition explored the contemporary placing of the concept of sin in our digitally-connected world, and rediscovering ‘sinful’ everyday behaviours.

This After Hours event was the first element of our public programme for the Sin exhibition. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming exhibition-themed, family workshops in November & December, including an artist-led session with 👀

Sin is open until 22 January 2023, and is organised by with .

📸:

We’re so pleased to be welcoming Senah Tuma to the Mediale team, as our Visual Arts & Heritage intern! ✨

Senah is a curator, workshop facilitator and aspiring producer. She studied History of Art at the University of York, where she first got involved with Mediale as a volunteer on our 2020 Festival. Senah is now pursuing her PhD, researching the emotional impact of exhibitions and designed environments.

Senah is interested in topics of representation, multimedia art, emotion and immersive narratives, especially the ways that narrative and emotion influence our connections to artworks, which she has explored through her own curation of exhibitions.

She is really looking forward to developing her skills with Mediale, and the team are so looking forward to supporting Senah and getting her involved in our upcoming projects! 🙌

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We’re delighted to announce we're collaborating with York Art Gallery, to bring a dynamic public programme of cultural events and critical engagement to their 2022 exhibitions including Body Vessel Clay (OPEN NOW). 🎊

This public programme will drive deeper engagement and accessibility with the work, activating critical thinking around some of the urgent themes explored within each exhibition.

We last collaborated with York Art Gallery on the Human Nature exhibition for YM2020 and are delighted to be working with them to deliver a programme of events alongside their exhibitions, including family workshops, the Teenage Art School, and ‘After Hours’ openings.

Keep your eyes peeled for more info on those coming soon!

📸: Body Vessel Clay Exhibition @ York Art Gallery, Open 24 June - 18 September 2022. Credit Charlotte Graham.

Immersive Assembly Vol.2: ‘Bodies & Gemometry’ got off to a bang this month with our cohort visiting York for a 2-Day intensive course of workshops, speakers and visits!

⭐️DAY 1:
We kicked off the course with trips to York Castle Museum & York Art Gallery to explore their collections and have a look at York’s history through the lens of the residency's theme (‘Bodies & Geometry’). We then headed to XR Stories at University of York for a keynote given by Kit Monkman and a showcase of Absent Sitter.

⭐️DAY 2:
We spent the day University of York for a workshop from Davy & Kristin McGuire (where the cohort got a sneak peak at their upcoming work) and a Blender Workshop from Antonio Roberts , where the cohort animated the objects they 3D scanned from York Castle Museum collection.

It was really wonderful to see our cohort get to meet in person and already begin to discuss potential ideas together.

And a big thank you to our partners:
Embassy of Denmark in the UK, Arts Council England
York Unesco City of Media Arts & Guild of Media Arts, Viborg - UNESCO Creative City Media Arts , The Animation Workshop, Viborg Animation Festival & Viborg Kunsthal

📸: Sodium Films
💻 You can find out more about Immersive Assembly & our cohort on our website - Link in our bio.

📢 Our Open Call for artists to take part in Immersive Assembly Vol.2 Bodies & Geometry has launched!

Are you?
✨ Based in York/North Yorkshire or Viborg region (Denmark)
✨ An emerging to mid-career artist/studio working in animation, play and performance
✨ Experienced working collaboratively
✨ Experienced working or experimenting with immersive technology

To apply, please submit the form (link in our bio) by the application closing date, Thursday 17th of March 2022 (5pm GMT)

We’re so thrilled to be working with Viborg Visuals , Viborg Kunsthal, The Animation Workshop (Official Page) and York Museums & Gallery Trust on this latest instalment of Immersive Assembly.

This project is supported by Arts Council England and Embassy of Denmark in the UK , and is a pilot for creating unique international artist development opportunities between York and Viborg, both UNESCO Creative Cities of Media Arts.

We are thrilled to welcome our new creative producer, Tanya Boyarkina, to the team! 🎉

Tanya is a Russian-born London-based artist, researcher, curator, and cultural/digital producer aiming to demystify complex technological processes through playful, collaborative, and participative formats.

She has been working with museums, galleries, independent art institutions, and diverse artists (emerging and established, local and international) for almost a decade, including working at Tate and Furtherfield. Through curating and producing online and real-life events, she has helped connect audiences of all ages and abilities with evolving digital cultures.

Tanya’s current Critical Digital Learning research explores relationships between people, spaces, technical objects, digital logics, and their cultural implications. Realising potentials for activism, decolonial practice, environmental debates, and promoting inclusivity.

Tanya is also a co-founder of Compiler , a platform for conceptual digital art, curation, and critical practice addressing contemporary socio-political challenges.

🙌 We’re excited to have Tanya and her fantastic skillset and enthusiasm on board as we progress into Mediale’s new chapter.

Immersive Assembly Vol. 1 Project Proposals are now available on our website! ✨

In December we brought the first Immersive Assembly to a close as the cohort grouped into 3 teams to develop a collaborative idea around the theme of Ritual & Connection.

These ideas were then pitched to an influential group of national and international panellists, including Paul Glinkowski, Senior Manager Arts & Technology at Arts Council England; Myriam Achard, Head of New Media & PR Partnerships at PHI Centre; Ruthie Doyle, Director, Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) at Sundance Institute; and our very own board member Kay Watson, Head of Arts Technologies at Serpentine Gallery.

You can now read about these ideas and some of the feedback from the panellists on our website!

➡️ Link in our bio!

INTERNSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🚀

We’re so excited to announce our first of three internship positions is open now! This first internship will focus on Immersive Storytelling and run from May-August 2022. This internship is paid and will be a mix of remote and in-person working at our York office, with 1-1 mentoring from one of our fantastic producers.

⛵️If Immersive Storytelling doesn’t quite float your boat then keep your eyes peeled for our other upcoming internships in Music and Visual & Performance art. You can find out more about these upcoming internships and when they will run at the link in our bio.

We’re really excited to be able to offer these opportunities for early-career creative producers to gain experience and training by working with Mediale on some really exciting projects.

✨ We look forward to reading your applications and welcoming some new people to the team!

Any questions please contact willow at [email protected].

EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK WITH YM!

Firstly we are looking for a Creative Producer!

We are looking for someone experienced to come on (ideally) full-time at the beginning of the exciting year we have planned for 2022. You can find out more information about this position on our website, link in our bio.

Mediale’s key strength is its team, which is made up of a diverse range of expertise with knowledge bases from a wide scope of creative mediums, from immersive technology, to music, performance and visual arts. All of our projects are critical and engaged, with an unapologetically high production standard. We want to build on this rich and diverse team, so if you'd like to apply, tell us the new expertise, experience or contacts you feel you could bring to the team. Specialisms are very welcome.

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW!
DEADLINE: 1pm, Thursday 13th January
For any questions contact [email protected]

Read the full job description on our website:
https://yorkmediale.com/opportunities/job-opportunity-creative-producer/

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We are also so excited to announce our brand new Internship Programme!

As part of our long term commitment to talent development, we will be running 3 4-month paid internships for early-career individuals interested in creative production and in helping us bring ideas and commissions to life. As well as working on one or more of our exciting upcoming projects, each internship will be paired with one of our amazing producers to receive 1-1 mentoring and will focus on a different specialism: Immersive Storytelling, Music, and Visual and Performance.

This exciting programme of internships is a great opportunity for young creatives to gain more experience in the arts, working with a dynamic team of producers and a roster of world-class artists to create work of national and international significance. We will prioritise applications from individuals based in York & North Yorkshire.

Information on dates, deadlines and how to apply will be released in January. All up-to-date information is available on our website and social media channels ().

https://yorkmediale.com/internship-programme/

🔦 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT (3/3)

To round off our showcase of the Immersive Assembly: Vol 1 Ritual and Connection cohort, we asked Joshua, Florencia and Yair about the importance of collaboration in informing and influencing their work today.

Immersive Assembly: Vol 1 Ritual and Connection is brought to you by , with the support of the , and . Find out more about the Immersive Assembly at the link in our bio.

🔦 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT (2/3)

Continuing our spotlight on the Immersive Assembly: Vol 1 Ritual and Connection cohort, Hankun, Akeelah and Shao told us what drew them to immersive storytelling and creating immersive art specifically.

Immersive Assembly: Vol 1 Ritual and Connection is brought to you by , with the support of the , and . Find out more about the Immersive Assembly at the link in our bio.

🔦 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT (1/3)

Today we want to showcase the inaugural cohort of Immersive Assembly: Vol 1 Rituals & Connection, an international digital residency bringing together 9 emerging practitioners and collectives from across the UK, China, Argentina, Ghana, Mexico and Zimbabwe.

We asked Frances, Anna, David and TMSKD DJ which rituals of connection that they normally practice were halted by the pandemic, and how this impacted them and their work.

Immersive Assembly: Vol 1 Ritual & Connection is brought to you by , with the support of the , and . Find out more about Immersive Assembly at the link in our bio.

We have had a complex but exciting journey with People We Love. Originally commissioned as part of the 2020 York Mediale festival, the installation then closed just three days after opening due to a national lockdown, before returning to York Minster last month. There’s now just one week left to see People We Love at York Minster. However, we’re delighted that it will be making its US premiere in Pittsburgh next year!

To celebrate this, today (and for today only) the faces filmed in Pittsburgh will be taking over the screens in York Minster.

In the year since its initial run, People We Love has taken on an even more affecting quality, allowing viewers to reflect on the past year, the loved ones that we have missed, and the ones we have lost. And we are delighted for it to find a new audience internationally.

In this image, John, a lecturer at the University of York, watches his sister Penny, who lives and was filmed in Pittsburgh, on the York Minster screens.

🎟 Entry to People We Love is free with entry to the Minster (also free for York Residents!) Find out more and book in our bio!

Created by KMA.

We’re so excited to introduce our creative contributors to Immersive Assembly: Vol 1 Rituals & Connection. As part of the residency, the cohort will take part in a series of talks, panels and one-to-one mentoring sessions with leading UK digital artists.

These include art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, artist and film-maker Kit Monkman, Alexa Pollmann, director of performance design collective Peut-Porter, Nathalie Blue, agent and producer on Little Big's NEWFORM and artist May Abdella from Immersive storytelling studio Anagram.

These sessions will inspire the group to further explore the theme of rituals and connection before arriving at their final idea, which they will pitch to a panel of experts from across the immersive arts industry in December.

This panel will consist of Paul Glinkowski, Senior Manager Arts & Technology at Arts Council England; Myriam Achard, Head of New Media & PR Partnerships at PHI Centre; Ruthie Doyle, Director, Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) at Sundance Institute and our very own board member Kay Watson, Interim Head of Arts Technologies at Serpentine Gallery.

Immersive Assembly is a digital residency for our times, brought to you from York by York Mediale, and connecting the UK, China, Argentina, Ghana, Mexico, and Zimbabwe with the support of the British Council, Goldsmiths, University of London and Arts Council England.