I feel I have successfully referenced the following criteria:

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   1. How did you arrive at your management group and what is its structure - Through volunteering and voting as a whole year group. We chose to have the following teams: Marketing and PR, Fundraising and Merchandise, Catalogue. We also elected a group president, secretary and treasurer.          
   2. What is your role in the organisation? Outline your duties and the expectations upon you. -                                                                            My role in the organisation is head of marketing and PR. This involves overseeing a team of 5 people. Delegating responsibilities such as gaining official sponsorship, designing a brand, advertising online and in national publications, applying for funding for the london and edinburgh tour (and arranging all the finer details of this), social networking.                                 
   3. What are the key issues/considerations arising out of the relationship with Peter Scott Gallery? (contract/deadlines/health and safety)                            The contract has to be signed by tomorrow and each member of the class will pay a £40 deposit. There are no obvious health and safety implications with my work, apart from any wires and cords will have to be covered and taped to the floor.
   4. Describe the descision making processes for the catalogue. (references/design/funding/taste)                                              The majority of decisions for the catalogue were made by the catalogue team and were not group decisions. We asked Gerry Davies to write the tribute part in the front but as far as I am aware he declined! The design is similar to the brand created by the Marketing team. We funded this through bake sales, socials, and sponsorship from North West Mediation Solutions.                 
   5. How do you want your work to be represented within the group show? (issues/tensions/opportunities)                                       I wish to project my latest film which I am in the process of making, in the video viewing space upstairs in the Peter Scott Gallery. It will need to be viewed on a large scale so one feels they are almost a part of the piece.   This could cause issues and tensions as other digital artists in the class may also require their films to be viewed on a large scale and would mean showing one film after another.. which I am not so happy with as viewers may not wait around to watch all the films on a loop when there are 39 works to be seen.                                                         
   6. What overall design/look/hanging arrangement do you want for the solo aspect of the show in the studios?                                 I will possibly be displaying my work in the installation space of the new LICA Building, or in a blacked out space in Bowland Annexe. I will have my film ‘Out of Touch’ projected on a large scale, and my film from last term displayed on a television set in the same space, preferably with a sofa in front so the viewer feels the environment is like a familiar homely space.                      
   7. What are the practical considerations in terms of location, spatial arrangement, lighting, technology, audiences? ( you can use plans, maps, and measurements)                                         As some of my work is to be projected I will need darkened spaces. My newest piece can be viewed by standing in front of the large scale projection, therefore seating etc isn’t important- and it will be less than five minutes long. However my work in Bowland Annexe or the Installation space will need a sofa, or reflect a familiar home environment. Technology required will be 2 projectors, a television, and 3 dvd players. 

I had a meeting with the marketing team today to decide how we are going to be able to promote ourselves online and to decide who to send invitations to.

I will be setting up a facebook group for the marketing team where we can share information about any free online advertising we may be able to get, and to find sites that advertise art exhibitions and degree shows.

I then gave each member of the team a city or area of their own in which they will promote the degree show. The show will be promoted by sending invitations and catalogues to 6th form colleges, foundation courses, curators of galleries and gallery directors etc, and any other people from creative businesses who may be interested in coming. 

We will be dividing London between everyone in the group so we can make sure we cover all the galleries.

The emails will include a short greeting message and the invitation and a pdf of the catalogue will be attached.

hazelblake:

- Thursday 5th May- A discussion with Richard from the Peter Scott Gallery about practical considerations for our degree show.

- Wednesday 11^th May- Hand in Curatorship work and CD

- Wednesday 11^th May- Email Rachel Daniel with artist statement

- Monday 16^th May- Email Rose or Anna with artwork images

- Monday 20^th June- All practical work ready for exhibition

- Tuesday 21^st June- Exhibition (eek)

After looking at different options for the catalogue, the group came to the decision that it was best to use a square format, as we needed something bigger than previous years because there are so many of us, but an A4 size just wouldn’t have looked professional enough. If we had gone for the same layout as previous years, with each artist having 2 pages each, then we would have had to get the catalogue bound which would have raised the costs considerably. With each person having just one, fairly large page, it means we can get them stapled in the middle and save about £1000. The design of the catalogue was chosen by the catalogue team. I think the inside pages work really well and have a professional layout. The cover is a bit fussy for my personal taste, and the font isn’t the same as the posters and invitations which is a shame, as I would have preferred if the degree show had one overall brand image that was cohesive throughout. Especially seeing as we had to have so many votes with the class and redesign the poster and logo until the lecturers were happy with it! I do like the catalogue overall though, and we have been told it’s main function is as a souvenir for the students and their families I will, however, be sending the catalogue out to art world professionals as a PDF attachment with the invitations. Hopefully this will act as a preview for the degree show and encourage more people to come.

This is something I have given great consideration to recently.

The title of my dissertation was “The Role of the Gallery in a Society Shaped by Technology” and the conclusions I came to were that a physical gallery space isn’t necessarily the right environment for my work.

My work is about the need for people to connect and how we  are achieving these connections more and more through technology. It’s a bit of a utopian ideal that many digital artists seem to share, and one could certainly take a negative view point and argue that technology is in fact alienating us even more from each other. I, however, feel we should be embracing these technologies.

I have been looking at artists such as Jeremy Bailey, who create work which is specifically to be viewed online. 

Thanks to social networking, we have the ability to share information with one another for free nowadays and there isn’t really an elitist institutional control over net art- as there would be for art being shown in a gallery. 

Having my work on the Internet means anyone can view my work for free, I am not out for financial gain but wish to share my work and ideas with anyone who wants to see them. 

Being a digital artist, my work is produced for the screen. I make my work on a 27” monitor and this is how I am used to seeing it. In my last film/performance, I am watching the television in my living room, my character is then transported in to the television and is able to interact with the programs. This television is also a 27” screen. 

When I watch programs on iPlayer and 4OD, or watch YouTube videos, they appear in a small rectangle in the corner of the screen. I want to keep this viewing process in mind when creating my films in the future. 

I am thinking of displaying my work in an online gallery rather than the physical Peter Scott Gallery, yet I need to think of a way to make this accessible to people in the Peter Scott Gallery- seeing as we have to have a piece of work in there. 

So far my ideas include having a live Twitter feed projected on the wall where people can make comments about my film that they have viewed online, or possibly having a computer or iPhone that viewers can watch my film on. The point of this is that technology is becoming a part of who we are and we need to embrace it and use it to connect with one another, as was Paik’s vision.

Having my film displayed on an iPhone could be interesting as the viewer would have headphones in and be able to hold the screen close to their face, therefore not getting distracted by anything else in the room. 

I would have to attach the iPhone to an elasticated wire in the wall (as they have in phone shops) so it doesn’t get stolen..

I’m not sure which of these ideas would work better, as viewing a film on an iPhone is quite an anti social activity, whereas a live Twitter feed would promote social interactions.