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Artists awarded placements to work with Creative Archive
The 大象传媒 and Arts Council England
today announced the names of the two artists who will be given access
to archive material in order to produce original works of art.
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Vicki Bennet and Chris Dorley-Brown will both take up four-month placements which will be funded by Arts Council England and hosted by the 大象传媒.
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Vicki will be given unrestricted access to the entire
大象传媒 archive, whilst Chris will be working with material released
by the 大象传媒 and other members of the Creative Archive Licence Group.
Both will be given free reign to manipulate, mix and rework the material
to create a series of artworks.
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Vicki has been working with remixing video for the past 15 years under the name People Like Us and has had work exhibited at the Tate Modern and Sydney Opera House. The results of her placement will be shown within the 大象传媒. If the material can be cleared, it will be exhibited more widely.
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Commenting on her placement, Vicki said:
"As an artist working with found footage, my interest lies in the appropriating and collaging of media in hope of gaining some kind of insight, reflection and evaluation as to where we stand in relation to when the original material was made.
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"By taking something apart and putting it in a
new location it can shed new light on both where we have come from
and where we stand and should go next. This is why it is so very
important that archives should be accessible, in the way that libraries
are."
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Chris, who works almost exclusively with archival film, audio and photographic
material has recently won the Prix Italia Award. The results of his placement
will be exhibited and available for download though the Creative Archive
website http://www.creativearchive.bbc.co.uk.
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Chris said: "My work is reliant on interesting archive sources. The 大象传媒 archive is probably the one I fantasize about the most, so for me the opportunity to undertake this placement is one I value highly.
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"The opening of this and other archives by the
Creative Archive Licence Group goes against the grain in these days
of commercial monopolisation, but I feel that the 大象传媒, its audiences
and the creative community can benefit in new and wonderful ways
from this gesture." 听
The aim of these placements is to highlight and stimulate the inspirational possibilities of the Creative Archive Licence, a collaboration between the 大象传媒, the BFI, Channel 4, the Open University, Teachers' TV, the Community Channel and MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives).
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Under the licence, the public can download moving images,
audio and stills and rework them creatively for non-commercial use. 听
John Willis, Director of Factual & Learning, 大象传媒, explains: "The calibre and volume of applicants for these placements has been extraordinary.
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"Both Vicki and Chris are hugely talented artists
and have championed this field for quite some time, we are very lucky
to be able to welcome them to the 大象传媒.
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"We hope that their work
will both help inspire new thinking in the artistic community
and demonstrate the creative possibilities of the Creative Archive
Licence." 听
Kim Evans, Executive Director, Arts, Arts Council England, commented: "The overwhelming response shows just how engaged many of today's artists are with issues of ownership, downloading, distribution, remixing and the public domain.
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"The visionary new approach to culture marked
by the Creative Archive License has clearly captured their imagination
and we look forward to seeing the results of Vicki's and Chris's
placements."
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Notes to Editors
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The Creative Archive was first announced in August 2003, at the Edinburgh Television
Festival by the former 大象传媒 Director-General, Greg Dyke.
- The first content was release in August 2005.
- The Creative Archive allows people to download
clips of 大象传媒 programmes from bbc.co.uk for
non-commercial use. Once downloaded, the user can keep the clips
on their PCs, manipulate and share them, so making the 大象传媒's archives
more accessible to licence fee payers.
- These placements are being delivered as part of
the Arts Council's 'Artist Time Space Money' project portfolio
and by the 大象传媒 through the Creative Archive project.
- The artist placements were advertised nationally
last year and were selected and appointed jointly by the 大象传媒, its
Creative Archive partners and Arts Council England.
- Membership of the Creative Archive Licence Group
is available to major national collections, broadcasters and commercial
organisations who wish to share content with the public on the
same terms, and is committed to the process of improving the service
to the user. See http://www.creativearchive.bbc.co.uk.
- Arts Council England is the national development
agency for the arts in England. Between 2005 and 2008, it is investing 拢1.7bn
of public funds from Government and National Lottery.
This
is the bedrock of support for the arts in England. Its vision is
to promote the arts at the heart of national life, reflecting England's
rich and diverse cultural identity.
The council believes the arts have
the power to transform lives and communities, and to create opportunities
for people throughout the country.
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JH
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