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e-merge

e-merge_a filmmaking mscape was commissioned by Birds Eye View 2009 as part of the film festival's Innovation Programme at the ICA, 5-13th March 2009, and is set in St James's Park. Funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

e-merge is Jackie Calderwood's current project exploring how media could enhance our experience of landscape, using moving image created in response to place. In a dynamic relationship between artist/designer, artefact, experience and audience/user, to what extent is freedom of choice possible?

Visitors to the park are provided with a PDA & headphones and offered a choice of music especially commissioned for the mediascape - which becomes the soundtrack to their walk and the resulting film. Walkers can watch their films in the park or later online. The website shows routes of walks, and the resulting films, in a celebration of the diversity of the individual within a collective experience.

More e-merge events are planned over the spring and summer, and Jackie will be re-mapping the landmarks of central London onto Weston Super Mare as part of an e-merge workshop with local students.

Journal Entries

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  Soundlines event 26/07/09

  2009 Jul 27 - 14:15 by Genevieve

  20 walkers braved the blustery weather that turned into torrential rain to attend the Mediascape Picnic and Soundwalks at Sand point on Sunday 26th July, l

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  e-merge at Worle

  2009 Jul 7 - 14:48 by Genevieve

  The final part of the ACE-funded e-merge project took place at Worle Community School, with a 2 day intensive workshop as part of Enrichment Week.

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  Jackie Calderwood's mediascape e-merge back at the ICA

  2009 Apr 29 - 16:12 by Genevieve

  Jackie Calderwood's filmmaking mediascape e-merge (AN Review: click here) was invited back to the ICA for an evening with game enthusiasts at sandpit #10 on the 22nd April '09, themed 'the end of the world'.

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  Birds Eye View film festival gets a touch of pervasiveness

  2009 Feb 21 - 17:14 by Genevieve

  Birds Eye View Film Festival is back, running in London from 5th-13th March, celebrating the best women filmmakers from around the globe, screening world-class films from world-class talent, with events taking place at the BFI Southbank, ICA, The Gate cinema (Notting Hill), and Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK on International Women's Day (March 8th).

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