Reality Check: Vanishing Brightness

To coincide with this weekend’s Oktoberfest, we have a pair of QandAs from the Spring SCI-FI-LONDON festival, in which Alex Fitch talks to the directors of a couple of the more cerebral SF films that screened at the Stratford Picturehouse. Kristina Buozyte discusses her erotic techno thriller Vanishing Waves in which a scientist travels into the mind of a coma patient to try and revive her consciousness. Also Shezad Dawood talks about his feature film Piercing Brightness where cultures and alien encounters collide in an elliptical film shot on the streets of Preston, Lancashire.

Stills from Piercing Brightness and Vanishing Waves

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com

Links: Piercing Brightness tumblr
Vanishing Waves website
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Shezad Dawood
Listen to Virgine Selavy (ELectric Sheep Magazine) interview with Kristina Buozyte

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SCI-FI-LONDON Oktoberfest 2013

This autumn’s mini Science Fiction and Fantastic Film Festival takes place from 11th – 13th October 2013 at Stratford Picture House, Stratford, East London. Premieres include The Battery, Haunter, The Colony, The Machine, Battle of the Damned and Rewind This. Retro screenings include new prints of Tokyo Fist, Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Ikarie XB-1, themed allnighters include anime, X-Com and MST3K marathons and a second chance to see the Spring SCI-FI-LONDON film of the festival, Channelling.
A highlight of the festival is a rare chance to see the feature debut of youtube phenomenon Stuart Ashen in Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild with a Q and A after the screening with the star, plus an all day symposium about spaceship construction at The Crystal, Royal Victoria Docks E16 1GB

Screenings take place at Stratford Picture House, London E15 1BX

Full programme at www.sci-fi-london.com
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The Opera Hour – series 3/episode 4 (Stuart Skelton)

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable,
magic, lust, comedy. Today: Richard visits the Australian Heldentenor Stuart Skelton at The Coliseum in Covent Garden to chat about his love of English National Opera, ahead of tonight’s Gala at Cadogan Hall, ‘Stuart Skelton & Friends’; and how to decompress after singing the violent and tragic role of Peter Grimes.

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Originally broadcast on 10th October 2013

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Art Monthly Talk Show 10th June 2013

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Women are still woefully under-represented in the art world argues Jennifer Thatcher

The recent resurgence of feminism has seen the art world again come under scrutiny over inequality. Forty years after the flourishing of the Women’s Liberation Movement, why is there still so far to go?

‘Positive discrimination is illegal in the UK, yet it astonishes me that trustees can look around a room and, where there are few or no women, not feel compelled to make changes.’

Anguish and Enthusiasm: What Do You Do With Your Revolution Once You’ve Got It Cornerhouse, Manchester

and Linder: The Ultimate Form The Hepworth Wakefield by Bob Dickinson

London Round-up by George Vasey Raven Row • PEER • Showroom • Corvi Mora

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings

Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!

Special magazine subscription offer £29 .

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Art Monthly Talk Show 9th September 2013

Chris Mc Cormack, Art Monthly’s Assistant Editor discusses a feature and a review from issue 369 July/August Art Monthly magazine with the authors.

Art & Politics

Which side is art on ask Dean Kenning and Margareta Kern

In the face of government austerity measures which have squeezed artists and public arts provision more than any other sector, an elite art world has continued to prosper. Isn’t it time that, in order to develop political agency in their work, artists begin to acknowledge this glaring dichotomy?

‘Can art act in opposition to neoliberal power and manifest values based in equality, commonality and solidarity? Or does art simply manifest and further the interests of a transnational capitalist class?’

Omer Fast

Sophie J Williamson on Omer Fast: 5,000 Feet is the Best at the

Imperial War Museum, London summer 2013

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

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Panel Borders: 100 issues of The Walking Dead

Starting a month of shows on horror and fantasy comics, Alex Fitch talks to artist Charlie Adlard about drawing 100 issues of The Walking Dead. Alex and Charlie discuss the various storylines the artist has rendered since 2004, coming up with new character designs for humans and zombies alike, how the TV show compliments and diverges from the original comic, and drawing variant covers for the title to help support his local comic book shop.

Recorded in front of a live audience at Infinity and Beyond Comics, Shrewsbury, Autumn 2013. Originally broadcast 7th October 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Charlie Adlard signs art from The Walking Dead 106 / alternative cover for the issue / interior art

For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: The Walking Dead official website
Charley Adlard’s website
Infinity and Beyond shop website
Article on the signing event in The Shropshire Star
Listen to Alex’s 2010 interview with Charlie Continue reading →

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Polish Deli 6.10.2013 Feat. Robert Piotrowicz p.1

This is the long awaited and anticipated interview with Robert Piotrowicz, a sound artist, musician and composer from Poland. We finally had a chance to meet and talk in the studio because of his gig at the first edition of Unsound Festival London 2013. We talk about his musical journey two latest releases from 2013 (available here) , his methods of working and other interesting things. We also obviously get to listen some of Robert’s music.
This is first part of this interview.

Language: English
To find out more about Robert go to: http://www.robertpiotrowicz.net/news.html

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Hooting Yard: On Tin Foil

The best thing you can do with your tin foil is to fashion for yourself a conical tin foil hat. It is important that you make a cone shape, rather than trying to mould the tin foil into the approximate shape of, say, a Homburg or a trilby or a stovepipe hat. Though the wonder of tin foil is that all these hat types could quite easily be made, you must stick to the cone. In part, this is in homage to Jimmy Goddard and the copper cone he used for daily communication with space people. But do not jump to the conclusion that your tin foil cone hat will help you to talk to space people. It won’t. Nor will it protect you from weird unearthly menacing electromagnetic rays and beams and invisible hoo-hah. If such phenomena exist, and can dislodge and jumble and even control the innards of your brain, they are hardly likely to be dissuaded by a sheet of tin foil, are they?

This episode was recorded on the 2nd February 2012. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the six publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants , Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke and Brute Beauty And Valour And Act Oh Air Pride Plume Here Buckle! are available for purchase

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Hello GoodBye – 05.10.13 – Ft: Skinny Girl Diet, Benjamin Folke Thomas + Rowan Coupland

Live music show with deXter Bentley and crew on Hello GoodBye this Saturday lunchtime. The first of a new series with Skinny Girl Diet (Pop-Punk), Benjamin Folke Thomas (Americana) and Rowan Coupland (Acoustic Pop).

PLAYLIST

Benjamin Folke Thomas – Extend No Greeting (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Folke Thomas – Married Blues (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Folke Thomas – One More Ride (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Folke Thomas (and Bill Thomas) – ‘Interview’
Teta Mona – Cross the Line
The Wave Pictures – Like Smoke
Rowan Coupland – Puzzle Pieces (LIVE SESSION)
Rowan Coupland – Lucciole (LIVE SESSION)
Rowan Coupland – Skeleton and Ivory Urn (LIVE SESSION)
Rowan Coupland – Muscle Memory (LIVE SESSION)
Echowood – Shipwrecker’s Revenge
Rowan Coupland – ‘Interview’
Melodians Steel Orchestra – The Man Who Sold the World
Staer – Flashing Teeth of Brass
Skinny Girl Diet – Burn Outs (LIVE SESSION)
Skinny Girl Diet – Lazy Eye (LIVE SESSION)
Skinny Girl Diet – Wasted Smile (LIVE SESSION)
Skinny Girl Diet – Comedown (LIVE SESSION)
Art Trip and the Static Sound – Stop
Skinny Girl Diet – ‘interview’
Piper’s Son – Mining

Presenters: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live Sound Engineer: Tom Kemp (assisted by Lisa Geurts + Beth Rogers)

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Wavelength – Simon Payne

Simon Payne

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The Opera Hour – series 3/episode 3

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy. Today: Richard looks at how opera has both welcomed and vilified immigrants and those who came from outside. Composer Guy Harries talks about his new opera ‘Two Caravans,’ detailing the exploits of migrant workers picking strawberries in Kent.