Artists

Glenn Davidson and Anne HayesBased in Cardiff at Chapter Art Centre

www.artstation.org.uk glenn@artstation.org.uk

Copyright 2008 © Artstation.

Art & ResearchContents:

1. Project Title 2 Project over view3. Art Method4. The Team 5. Research Actions and Outputs6. Research Aims7. Anthropology – Research by Kath Williams8. SCEER research unit. – where Kath Williams works9. Promotion and Media 10. Timing and events 11. Security 12. Security system diagram13. Visualisation of Shepherds Treasure14. Management and Assurance15. Background to Research 16. Funding contact details17. Management contact details

1. Our Project Title

The Shepherds TreasureThe Art of Scientific Research

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Artstation + Kath Williams

2. Project overview • The Art project is to create a dynamic projected canvas of

compositions on the outside of the Shepherds Arms in Cwmaman.

• The Idea is to create a slowly changing picture of the life and times that have passed through the venerable old building to celebrate its inner life with a mural of light, images and text on its exterior.

• Compositions are created from oral histories, images and mobile texts made with and by the community.

• The broader research aims of the project are to involve as wide a range of the community as possible in thinking about Local Treasure.

• This project is feeding into research which hopes to establish new methods of contributing community views in planning process as supplementary planning guidance (SPG)

• Those participating, will contribute a vital role in advancing progressive democracy and sustainable community practice.

3. Art Method• Appointments will be made to meet or visit participants, a contact number

will be circulated (see PR 9) for those interested in participating.

• In the day: An Oral History method (recorded conversations) will be used along with photographs and text messages to capture peoples stories.

• Community memories are captured in text and Image and will be composed for later projection

• The team will also use interview material to prompt and direct mobile text responses to specific questions regarding Shepherds Treasure.

• The publicity will let people know when the project is running 1- 2 times a week, taking into account other events. (advice is sought from Cwmaman Institute and Communities First)

• When light levels are sufficiently low (late afternoon) through to mid evening on selected days operators will man the system (Ideally some one local).

• Projection is proposed from street level (vehicle) onto the 2nd and 3rd floor above eye line. Initial Research is required for best method and power supply.

• Compositions are projected onto the Shepherds Arms.

• Mobile text appears overlaid adding to the composition. see visualisation (13) and security (11 - 12 )

4. The Team Glenn Davidson Visual Artist – Co-Director of Artstation.

Davidson Studied Art in Stourbridge and Cardiff 1976-79 followed by fellowship in Cybernetics Amsterdam in 88. He has worked as an international visual artist since 1979 with partner Anne Hayes, forming as Artstation Limited in 1989 an internationally acclaimed art, media and research practice, based in Cardiff Wales. Artstation have produced Art Installations across the UK and Ireland in USA, Canada, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Australia and Japan. Davidson also works as a social entrepreneur to expresses his interests through art practice, science communication and sustainable development consultancy. He presents at the Cardiff Business School MBA, he moderated Café Scientific in Brussels 2006-7 for the British Council, and managed communications and technical consultancy on water Ionisation and sustainable transport in Bangalore India. Artstation produced the international Immigration project Paperwork for Cardiff’s European Capital of Culture bid. Consultancy, ArtMap for Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has led Davidson to a forthcoming Research Fellowship at University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) he is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Art – (FRSA).

Kath Williams Anthropologist - University of Glamorgan’s SCEER research unit.Kathryn Williams works for The Science Communication, Education and Engagement Research of the Faculty of Health, Sport and Science which undertakes ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary theoretical and empirical research into the modes, methods and media of science communication and popularisation in the 21st Century. Fusing expertise in both the natural and social sciences, and with a central – although not exclusive – focus on health, energy and environmental issues. The unit seeks to bring fresh analytical perspectives to bear on the design, execution and evaluation of communication between scientists, scientists and policy-makers, and scientists and the public.

5. Research Actions & Outputs

The key actions• To develop an interview template method as an exemplar for

SPG.

• Collect public memories of Shepherds Arms through interview

• To collect portraits, images and texts from the community .

• Actively to engage and increase public imagination for the Shepherds Treasure (helping where feasible with Institutes plans to revitalise and funding)

• To use mobile phone messaging to increase further public feedback

• To create an archive of oral histories for the community

• To publish the methods and findings for public record.

in Topos the European planning journal

6. Research AimsLandscape as defined by the European Landscape Commission is everything we see everything we hear, smell, touch and taste. Through the process of making the projected Art work - the Shepherds Treasure the team will research how new technologies may be used to understand locality - the Shepherds Arms is a local area of Landscape with it own particular identity. It is this identity on which the project focuses, high-lights, celebrates and preserves.

This research is new and cutting edge. Art is helping to bring forth community value for a local landmark and life surrounding it – the Shepherds Treasure

The team strongly encourage feed back about the work whilst it in progress. When it is finished we would like to ask what we could do better.

Key Aims 1.To research new methods of Cultural Interpretation of Landscape2.To create a projected Artwork in support of the above and to gather

anddistribute the research contents.

7. AnthropologyThe University perspective of the Shepherds Treasure project:

From the University website:http://case.glam.ac.uk/CASE/Research/SceerIndex.htm

2. Science Communication & Cultural Interpretation of the Landscape

(K. Williams, G. Davidson)

Cultural interpretation of the landscape is a growing area of scientific communication in the museum and tourism sectors, particularly with regard to environmental and sustainability science.

This project aims to identify and analyse the latest developments in theory of practice within this area with the aim of situating them against the broader background of current trends in public engagement with science and technology.

8. SCEER - what do they do ?

Kath Williams is a researcher at the Science Communication, Education and Engagement

Research (SCEER) unit which is based at the University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd.

SCEER aims to:

• Generate new knowledge about the design, development, delivery and evaluation of science communication, at all levels and in all sectors of the field;

• Apply that knowledge in developing education policies for the preparation of science communication professionals in scientific organizations, government, museums, science centres, the media and elsewhere;

• Participate in developing policies that integrate science communication into science and technology research practice and policy;

• Develop multidisciplinary research in science communication

For more policy and procedures see: http://case.glam.ac.uk/CASE/Research/SCEER%20Research%20Policies%20and%20Procedures.pdf

see funding contact page for contact person slide 16

9. Promotion and MediaPromotion and media

1.Posters and postcards will be made and distributed to venues shops and centres and local people and the media. Branding will be used.

2.A project phone number for text messages will circulated

3.Email and website communication will target funders, planners at RCT council and other interested parties.

4.The projection itself will also attract passing people and will include project phone number.

5.Partners are invited to liaise with the team on messages they may wish to incorporate in compositions.

Media Interest (Radio, TV, newspapers etc) Artstation must be consulted on all media activities surrounding the project.

10. Timing and EventsThe project requires low ambient light for the projection. Winter to late spring following

sunset through to mid evening is envisaged on 1 or 2 evenings a week. The project needs to get going. We are imagining the public, shoppers and home coming traffic will pick up on the projection. The project ends when light levels intercede (mid - late April).

The following steps are now required:

• Projection tests and electrical sources are required .

• Interviews can proceed as soon as the green light from partners.

• At the same time as interviews, publicity will be organised and distributed (advertising times and text telephone numbers for the project.)

• Mobile Texts will then start arriving and be archived for later use

• After a few interviews some compositions will be ready for projection

• The Projection then combines the two sources on the wall of the Shepherds Arms.

11. SecurityTo address possible abuses of the projected text system.

• All phone numbers and texts received will be saved, even if they are not used for projection.

• In the exceptional case of serious abuse, further consultation with Partners and if necessary reasoned contact with the originator will be sought.

• The system has been designed to completely separate public mobile phone access from the projected image separating the public from the wall.

• A public project phone number is used to receive public text messages,only material which is fit for purpose and responds to questions will be used. (ambiguities can be held back for further discussion with project partners.)

• Texts cleared by the operator of the public phone are sent to the system phone.

• Text may then be sent on to another non public phone number and from there into the projector and onto the wall.

• Pictorial and interview content will be composed by Artstation in association with Kath Williams and have the consent of participant for use in the project.

12. Security

Text your memories of this place

07740 173164

13. Visualisation

The

Shepherds Treasure

Composition of

Oral Histories

Images

Text messages which respond to research questions

we had such fun in there.. We started our own game ….everyone had a place to sit

14. Management and Assurance

As originators of the project Artstation in association with Kath Williams accept full responsibility and liability for all work on the Shepherds Treasure project. The company has a Public Liability insurance and is a Limited Company number 3173958.

Partner advisory group

The company wishes to work in partnership with other local groups with an interest in the Art and research.

Funding partners

Arts Council Wales

University of Glamorgan

UnLtd

All have codes of practice governing grant recipients.

(see: contacts in later slides)

15. Background research The Shepherds Treasure

A scheme called “County Treasure” (CT) is up and running in Vale of Glamorgan. It is a development control tool which supplies supplementary planning guidance (SPG) for Local Development Plan policies.

The method involves local people voting for their favourite “county treasures”; buildings and other elements in the environment to which the public express an attachment.

CT is a method of airing public feelings and creating a transparent method for assessing development decision making.

Currently no system or agreed method exists across Wales for SPG often no grounds for historic architectural preservation where public valuation is high.

16. Funding Contacts

Arts Council Wales Visual Arts Officer: Anthony Owen-Hicks 9 Museum Place, Cardiff, CF10 3NX, Tel: 029 20 376500

University of Glamorgan Professor Mark Brake director of SCEER research group

01443 654351

Kath Williams: Cultural Interpretation of Landscape Research

http://case.glam.ac.uk/CASE/Research/SceerIndex.htm

Unltd Gareth Bickerton - Regional Director for Wales

17. Management Contact

Project Directors - Artstation Limited.

Co Directors: Glenn Davidson and Anne Hayes

Artstation

Chapter

Market rd.

Cardiff UK

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02920226922 studios

07740173164 mobile phone

glenn@artstation.org.uk

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