'Desktop Icons'
January 16th & 17th
doors open 8.00 programme begins 8.30.
all tickets are allocated

A programme of short digital films curated by Iliyana Nedkova.

Desktop Icons is an exciting collection of short digital films and videos by Scottish and international artists, exploring the cross over of popular culture, media and new creative technologies.
Artists include Chris Cunningham (England), Kristin Lucas (USA), Michael Maziere (England), Matt Hulse (Scotland), Phil Collins (N.Ireland), Mark Wallace (Scotland), Richard Fenwick (England), Beagles and Ramsay (Scotland), Linda Wallace (Australia), Mike Stubbs (Scotland), COM&COM (Switzerland), Simon Ellis (England), Torsten Lauschmann (Scotland) and many others from South Korea, Croatia, Austria, Germany, Belgium, France, Japan and Sweden.

The computer 'desktop' culture is often over-hyped as the mantra for the new century. It informs our present lifestyle choices, the way we create and consume today. Desktop Icons aims to de-construct and expose the desktop metaphor and its iconography - still considered the main element of the human-machine interface or a window to the digital world. Desktop Icons also borrows references from the world of popular infotainment. This is the brave new world where the new screen icons are promised their 15 Megabytes of fame. Seduced and manipulated by the new communication technologies, we are all promised a glimpse if not a slice of this world.
Richard Fenwick, 'RND#91:51st State'

Desktop Icons is a two-part programme, on Thursday the 16th of January: Desktop Icons 1.0 Friday the 17th: Desktop Icons 2.0

Chris Byrne, Director of New Media Scotland and Iliyana Nedkova, Desktop Icons Curator will introduce the screenings on 16th & 17th January and will be available for Q&A afterwards.

The running order for both nights can be downloaded below.

Download the Desktop Icons booklet in PDF format