25 February 2016
For our February Spin event, we will be meeting in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery to discuss current our exhibition The UNTITLED: Bad Entertainment. Over the last two years, our colleagues in the National Galleries’ Outreach Team have invited ‘the next generation’ to make the kind of art that they would want to see, inspired by the work of contemporary artists. Working in response to the 2014 GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland programme of exhibitions and events, young people from Alloa, Irvine and Edinburgh have made artworks and films that show their lives caught between the actuality of everyday experience and the fantasy world of media culture. Join us and Richie Cumming, NGS Outreach Officer, for what promises to be a lively discussion.
26 September 2013, 6-7.30pm
Welcome back after the summer break. Our September Spin event will be hosted by the Talbot Rice Gallery where we will be discussing the summer’s very successful Edinburgh International Festival exhibition, Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds. Those who came along for the Edinburgh Art Festival Art Late in August had a brief preview of this exceptional exhibition. We will be joined for the discussion by Talbot Rice Gallery Curator James Clegg who will join us to discuss the first survey exhibition of Paik’s work in Scotland.
No other artist has had greater influence on the use of technology in art than Nam June Paik; he prophesied changes that would shape the contemporary world, exemplified in his pioneering ideas, ‘Participation TV’, ‘Random Access Information’ and ‘Video Commune’.
Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds celebrates the 50th anniversary of Paik’s first solo exhibition, Exposition of Music – Electronic Television (Wuppertal 1963), when the artist brought television into the realm of art for the first time, presenting it as a tactile and multisensory medium. As part of the counter-cultural movements of the 1960s, Paik believed that artists should humanize technology, get their ‘fingers in and tear away the walls’ of the establishment. Paik, a trained musician, treated technology as a material part of his repertoire, which later expanded to include video, satellite transmissions, robots and lasers.
26 May 2006 at 6pm
This month, Spin: Edinburgh will visit Anatomy Acts, a comprehensive exhibition fusing art, science, history and medicine. There are over 160 exhibits on loan from a vast array of museums and universities across Scotland. We will be focusing on the contemporary selection, which includes specially commissioned work by Christine Borland, Joel Fisher and Claude Heath.
Joining us will be the exhibitions curator, Dr Andrew Patrizio, who will provide a valuable insight into the commissioned works that each present a unique view of this absorbing subject matter.
Patrizio’s selection is far more urbane than Gunther Von Hagen’s Bodyworlds and less sensationalist than Damien Hirst’s Hymn. We will have the chance to discuss the inspiration provided by the world of art and science which makes these works so exciting.
