...remoteness and connectedness in the digital age.
The Loch Computer project brings together writers, artists, computer scientists, humanities scholars and digital curators to ponder the meaning of remoteness and connectedness in the digital age. Funded by a Scottish Government Arts & Humanities Research Network Award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to the University of St Andrews, it is a project which crosses traditional boundaries between arts and sciences, as well as between scholarship and creative practice. New images, ideas and artworks will emerge from the network's discussions and encounters, and fresh working partnerships will result in the production of photographs and texts for exhibition and publication in both physical and digital formats.
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Loch Computer Here broadband hiccups. It ambles in, Portered by Shetland ponies. Weavers Swill and distil it, parcelling it out Parsimoniously in drams; But now the whole village intuits how On a clear day, if you ever get a signal, Voices down at the end of the pier Can speak as they like and may be heard Anywhere on earth and beyond. Robert Crawford |
Loch Computer Exhibition
The Loch Computer Exhibition will run from March 28 - April 8 at the Tent Gallery in Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, to coincide with the 2016 Edinburgh International Science Festival. The exhibition will feature a strikingly imaginative collaborative installation by photographer Norman McBeath and print-maker Leena Nammari, entitled De Locis Sanctis (On Sacred Places), a title derived from an account of the holy places of Jerusalem given to a seventh-century abbot of Iona by a traveller shipwrecked on the island. Created on Iona and in Jerusalem, McBeath and Nammari's subtle and unsettling installation is structured around Iona's Gaelic place names, and 'rhymes' sites on Iona with technologically fortified sites in present-day Jerusalem.
The Tent Gallery is at 78 West Port, Edinburgh EH1 2LE, and the exhibition is open Mondays to Saturdays, 2-5pm.
The Loch Computer Exhibition will run from March 28 - April 8 at the Tent Gallery in Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, to coincide with the 2016 Edinburgh International Science Festival. The exhibition will feature a strikingly imaginative collaborative installation by photographer Norman McBeath and print-maker Leena Nammari, entitled De Locis Sanctis (On Sacred Places), a title derived from an account of the holy places of Jerusalem given to a seventh-century abbot of Iona by a traveller shipwrecked on the island. Created on Iona and in Jerusalem, McBeath and Nammari's subtle and unsettling installation is structured around Iona's Gaelic place names, and 'rhymes' sites on Iona with technologically fortified sites in present-day Jerusalem.
The Tent Gallery is at 78 West Port, Edinburgh EH1 2LE, and the exhibition is open Mondays to Saturdays, 2-5pm.
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Text Copyright the Loch Computer Project 2014. Banner images Copyright Norman McBeath. Other images from iStockPhotos.
Loch Computer Project, School of English, University of St Andrews. KY16 9AL
Loch Computer Project, School of English, University of St Andrews. KY16 9AL
