Somewhere
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Somewhere is a multi-disciplinary UK-based creative organisation founded in 2001 by artist / film-makers Karen Guthrie (born 1970) and Nina Pope (born 1968) to produce and support projects with a concern for new audiences and innovative uses of media and technologies.
After studying together at Edinburgh College of Art, Pope & Guthrie completed MA's in London and began collaborating as artists in 1995, with their installation "Somewhere Over the TV" at the Collective Gallery in Edinburgh, followed by their live online travelogue "A Hypertext Journal" in March 1996,[1] which was one of the earliest blogs. One of the UK's earliest artists' websites, www.somewhere.org.uk has been online since 1996.
In 2002, Somewhere produced the media art project "TV swansong", the first live webcast of artists' projects commissioned specifically for the WWW, which took as its subject the demise of television in the age of convergent media. The project is archived at www.swansong.tv.
In 2005 Somewhere co-produced Pope & Guthrie's first feature film, the documentary travelogue "Bata-ville: We are not afraid of the future", which was selected for the 2005 Edinburgh International Film Festival. It was supported by funding from Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the European Cultural Foundation and Thurrock Council. It has since been shown many times, including at Tate Britain.[2]
Somewhere has many long-term collaborators including composer Tim Olden and technologist Dorian Moore.
[edit] Other works
Other works include:
- "The Festival of Lying", Grizedale Show, Cumbria (2000)
- "A Fair Place", British Council Group show, Nouvelles Peripheries, Istanbul, Turkey (2001)
- "Seven Samurai", Site-specific project for Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan - curated by Grizedale Arts (ongoing, 2007)
[edit] External links
- Tate Online press release (1999)
- Review of Bata-ville on BBC News website
- Bata-ville: We are not afraid of the Future, on IMDb.com
- Review of Bata-ville on Variety.com
- Review of Bata-ville on Telegraph.co.uk
- Article about Bata-ville on Radio Praha website
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