Brighton Media Centre ENews - November 2003
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	BRIGHTON PHOTO FRINGE AT BRIGHTON MEDIA CENTRE ...................................................................................... During the Photo Biennial you have the opportunity to see new and recent work by Brighton based photographers in Friese Greene House basement (15 - 17 Middle Street). The exhibition includes the first showings of Paul Reas' video installation, 'Portrait Of An Invisible Man' and Mark Powers' series 'From The Edge Of The A To Z' alongside work by Martin Cole, Jim Cooke, Lisa Creah, Magali Nougarede, and Xavier Ribas. The corridor and stairwell on the ground floor of Friese Greene have been transformed by the photographs of Bipinchandra and Simon Evans. The powerful and facinating imagery is well worth a look. The Brighton Photo Fringe is running alongside Brighton's first Photo Biennial which has been hailed as Britian's most imporant photography event. With exhibitions running until November 24th, Brighton Photo Fringe is a fantastic showcase for local photographic talent. Over thirty shows and events are being held throughout the city in addition to Brighton Photo Biennial exhibitions at venues such as Fabrica, The Pheonix and Brighton Museum. For further details of the Brighton Photo Fringe please visit www.photofringe.org Or further information on the Brighton Photographic Biennial please visit www.bpb.org.uk CATHY TEESDALE AT BRIGHTON MEDIA CENTRE GALLERY ...................................................................................... Also coinciding with the Photographic Biennial and Photo Fringe is an exhibition by award winning photographer Cathy Teesdale. 'Stealing Beauty' is Cathy's first solo exhibition and presents a collection of luminous images caught on her travels through exotic, theatrical and familiar landscapes. All Cathy's work is for sale with prices to suit every budget, ranging from £30 for a triptych to £295 for a limited edition A2 print. Most images being exhibited can also be ordered in a range of sizes to fit into any home or office. For more details please email cathy@cathyteesdale.com Or for more information on the Gallery and upcoming shows please email emily@mediacentre.org or call 01273 201371. BIZVIZION WINS SOUTH LONDON CONTRACT ...................................................................................... Congratulations to Bizvizion, based at Friese Greene House (15 - 17 Middle Street), who have been awarded a £200,000 contract to spend on developing innovation accross South London. Bizvizion is a consultancy firm which specialises in advice and support for the Creative Industries, Innovation and Regeneration. Based in Brighton Media Centre, it represents a consortium of specialisms based on Bizvizion's own experience in supporting and advising innovative companies and the public sector. They have been awarded a contract to run a one year pilot programme for the South London innovation centre. The new innitiative, Innovate South London, has been set up with three key objectives: - to promote the concept of innovation accross South London and attract strong partners to this important project - to provide guidance, inspiration and business support for entrepreneurs and businesses with innovative ideas - to create increasing levels of specialist accomodation and services for South London businesses The pilot innovation centre also aims to encourage individuals, groups, businesses and the public sector to use innovation and creative thinking to encourage growth to the South London economy, transforming job prospects and making South London a more competitive and prosperous place to do business. For more details please visit: www.innovatesouthlondon.co.uk or email Ian Elwick NIXON McINNES WINTER WARMER! ...................................................................................... Nixon McInnes, based at our Old Steyne site have had their dreams answered! Ann Summers have officially engaged them to conduct a series of Usability Tests on their website - a massively important business channel for them which takes millions of pounds worth of saucy orders every year. Nixon McInnes will be conducting these usability tests on Ann Summers' flagship website www.annsummers.com with the objective of identifying areas where the site's navigation, layout and overall 'architecture' should be modified to improve user-friendliness - an ever-important goal for an ecommerce website. Nixon McInnes believe websites should be as easy to use as toasters, but that the majority of websites fail and are instead frustrating to navigate and difficult to use, resulting in lost business results. Usability testing aims to address these problems. Nixon McInnes see this project as very exciting, Director Will McInnes said: "We are absolutely chuffed to have this opportunity to work with Ann Summers on their awesomely successful ecommerce site, a site that generates multi million pound revenues - great stuff!" You can keep up-to-date with other developments in this growing Brighton-based agency by signing up to their monthly eNews from the homepage here www.nixonmcinnes.co.uk where you can also learn more about their organisation. WIRED SUSSEX DIGITAL FILM EVENING ...................................................................................... On Thursday 27th November from 6:30 - 9:00pm Wired Sussex will be hosting a special digital film evening, which will form November’s Wired Ventures. This FREE event is part of the ‘CINE CITY Digital Cities’ festival programme, supported by Wired Sussex and sponsored by Baker Tilly. The event will include digital film presentations and discussion by a panel of industry experts, including representatives from 4 Minute Wonders, Lighthouse, onedotzero, and Screen South. A Q&A session will give attendees the opportunity to raise issues and ask questions. This will be followed by networking during which attendees will be able to talk to key industry players and other digital film makers. CINE CITY is Brighton's new annual film festival running from November 21st to December 3rd this year. For more information and to register to attend this event, please visit www.wiredsussex.com BIRDS EYE VIEW ...................................................................................... Birds’ Eye View is a unique initiative promoting British women filmmakers and is based at Brighton Media Centre in the Old Steyne . The only UK women’s film festival, Birds’ Eye View tours the best short films by emerging women filmmakers to independent cinemas across the country, with celebrity presenters and guest speakers. Now touring 10 UK cities with a fresh and exciting programme of 6 selected short films by up and coming British women filmmakers, this tour promises to be even more exciting than the last. Already hot-listed in Elle, previewed in i-D and soon in Dazed & Confused, Bird's Eye View is now supported by Joanna Lumley, Anthony Minghella and Sarah Radclyffe. The films being shown include: Between the Wars (dir. Emily Woof - 12 min) the acclaimed British actress’s directorial debut explores the changing relationship between an asylum seeker and a war veteran living on the same council estate. Left or Right for Love? (dir. Magali Charrier, choreographer Maria Lloyd - 5 min) Highly original and imaginative, this is a brilliant example of that exciting new fusion: dance film. I Expect Joan Feels the Same (dir. Sophie Williams, Bournemouth University - 3 min) A powerful documentary about love and regret. Intimate, honest, low-gloss storytelling from our youngest contributor. Plus Not Waving (dir.Jane Rogoyska - 4 min), Hysteria (dir. Alys Hawkins, RCA - 3 min) and Deep Down (dir. Christin Cockerton - 14 min). The tour will be arriving in Brighton at The Duke of York’s Cinema on Wednesday December 10th at 6.30pm. For more details please visit www.birds-eye-view.co.uk or email Rachel CREATIVE CLUSTERS - CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ...................................................................................... The Call for Presentations for the second Creative Clusters Conference (taking place in Brighton, UK, 28th April - 1st May 2004) is open from 29th October to 8th December 2003. Creative Clusters is interested in regeneration and development projects that deliver outcomes in both cultural and economic terms. If you have been involved in a groundbreaking project in any part of the world, or you have a compelling contribution to make to policy, then send a proposal via the conference website ( www.creativeclusters.co.uk ) The Creative Clusters orgainisers are also seeking policy papers on subjects such as Financing Creativity, Cultural Value and Economic Value, Social Inclusion and the Rise of the Creative Class and A Sense of Place - Cultural Industry and Cultural Tourism. Please visit the website for further details. DATA PROTECTION SCAM ...................................................................................... Brighton Media Centre has recently received a very official looking document from the "Data Protection Agency Services - Enforcement Section", which is trying to get us to part with £95 to comply with the Data Protection Act. The Act exists, but no-one should part with any money to the Company above, or any such company who is trying to frighten businesses into paying inflated sums to them. In the real world, if you still need to register under the DP Act, this will only cost £35, and will not be accompanied by threats. We would like to suggest that the best response is to either : A) bin the scam letter; B) contact the local Trading Standards Office C) If you have parted with money, try (B) or your solicitor to get the money back. If you have paid one of these illegal companies, they probably won`t have registered you under the Data Protection Act anyway, so you will still have to do that..............! For further information and advice please visit www.stopecg.org/dataprotection.htm
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