Week 4 in the Office!

Our little office is becoming a proper hub of activity, We have a nice set up and tea on tap! We were in Monday and Tuesday of this week and were primarily looking at sponsors. Its all about researching the company and linking their interests with our own, which is time consuming and repetitive, but I strangely quite liked it. I preferred it to looking for the funding anyway. When you find a relevant quote it is satisfiying, it feels like yes, got ya! I have also been working on the marketing side of things. I learnt how to use tweet deck which was useful and I have also been updating our mailing list system. We are now on mail chimp which means you will be able to sign up to the mailing list on our website and select areas of interest that you would like to recieve information on. So, once I fully get to grips with it, prepare yourselfs for some really good newsletters/campaigns!

Jaki Middleton and David Lawrey

I have been trying to find out the cost of shipping two crates from Nottingham to Australia. We are really interested in having 'The sound before you make it' (2005) by David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton in our 'The Way Forward' exhibition. This piece is a three-dimensional stroboscopic animation that collides moving image history with our own pop culture recollections and it fits perfectly with the ideas we want to explore within exhibition and supporting workshops! The cost of shipping seems to vary greatly but I am trying my best to find a quote that works with our budget. We really want to show this piece if possible!

The Way Forward : New Graphics

We met again on Monday to discuss some new promotional material for the Cutting Room's upcoming event 'The Way Forward'. I was given the task of designing a new web banner for the event.

'The Way Forward' Banner, designed by Vivienne Du

It was definitely fun to do a bit of design work and see it actually being used to promote the site not long after completion. It is a nice change to do some design work on the side of my practice.

The featured artwork is an interactive installation by Neil Mendoza and Anthony Goh "Escape" that was recently installed in the V&A; a series of old mobile phones and electronics transformed into kinetic sculptures that sing and move like birds when a phone number is dialled by the viewer.

(Credit to Toby Wolf for his photographs featured in the banner.)

Find out more about 'The Way Forward' exhibition and how to apply here: http://www.the-cutting-room.org/Templates/thewayforward.html

I am currently in the process of posting the open call submissions for 'The Way Forward' on various sites to invite artists to apply for this upcoming exhibition. If you are interested, please check the Cutting Room website for more details.

New Facebook Page

So today I have been busy working on making our Facebook page more active in the Facebook community. The aim of the new page is for us to be able to post on the walls of others as well as have them post on ours, http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003491320404. It wasn't a particularly difficult task but it was quite time consuming and it made me realise just how much work really goes into managing/promoting an event, even on the seemingly simpler tasks such as the Facebook page. I have also been looking for printing quotes so we get our leaflets printed. I think a local company would be ideal but I will carry on looking around and see what comes up. It is nice to be a part of the whole process and I am looking forward to my next day in the office.

Introducing the Interns

We are Vivienne Du and Jo Hooper, and this is our first day on the Digital Stage internship. Over the next 19 weeks we will document our experiences in curation and event management, our new contacts with the art industry in Nottingham.

We will be taking part in a series of events and exhibitions in the forthcoming months, including 'The Way Forward' (23rd May - 8th July) which will explore old technologies used in new ways. It will explore re-enactment, re-creation and repetition of the past. More information about upcoming events will be available via The Cutting Room website.

http://www.the-cutting-room.org

We have been introduced to the events being planned and organised this year, and helped with arranging the dates in which all the tasks would need to take place. There is certainly a of planning and organisation that goes into an exhibition/event before it is realised. We have been given responsibility to enhance The Cutting Room's Facebook presence, and create this blog.