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== Background ==
 
== Background ==
  
Premonition 2037 re-animates archival recordings, through the creation of a new installation and audio work and a series of related public events. The research explores the archive as a generator of reciprocal resources; releases, replenishes and future-proofs public domain materials; develops methods to interrogate value and meaning in archive material; and imagines a future date when copyright expires to explore possible futures.
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Premonition 2037 (2016) re-animates archival recordings, through the creation of a new installation and audio work, including
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a printed distribution element and was a commissioned project for the 50-year anniversary exhibition of Modern Art Oxford (MAO) – KALEIDOSCOPE. Eileen Simpson and Ben White were one of four artists who were commissioned to make new works, exhibited alongside iconic works from the past, which returned to the gallery from across the globe.
  
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In the spirit of the 1960s project of the MAO, to make contemporary art freely accessible to the widest audience, we produced an archive of recorded sounds –auditory traces of activity in the gallery, available for use
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by a future public, without restriction and beyond the scope of the current copyright term. Digitized from videotapes and audio cassettes held in the MAO archive - tape hiss, voices, musical notes, audience applause and shouts, recorded at previous public events, were collected together and processed using emerging information retrieval technologies to form a new archive of sounds and the source material for a new audio work, pressed to vinyl, for exhibition. A series of live events took place on a specially assembled platform that occupied a temporary future date – on which invited collaborators (Bambooman, Young Women’s Music Project and Lutto Lento) reanimated archive sounds for live performance. Events were recorded and will be released with copyleft licenses on 1st Jan 2037.
  
We're developing a new project for the 50 year anniversary of Modern Art Oxford.
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== Exhibition ==
  
 
'''KALEIDOSCOPE: A Moment of Grace'''<br/>
 
'''KALEIDOSCOPE: A Moment of Grace'''<br/>
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Preview:<br/>
 
Preview:<br/>
 
''Friday 15 April 2016''  
 
''Friday 15 April 2016''  
 
'''Premonition 2037'''
 
 
In the spirit of the 1960s project of the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, to make contemporary art freely accessible to the widest audience, the artists produce an archive of recorded sounds - auditory traces of activity in the gallery, available for use by a future public, without restriction and beyond the scope of the current copyright term.
 
 
Tape hiss, voices, musical fragments, audience shuffles and applause, recorded at past public events, are digitized from videotapes and audio cassettes held in the MAO archive, to generate a new sonic inventory. The artists process the archival sounds using emerging information retrieval technologies, to create a bank of source material and a new work for exhibition. A series of live events with invited collaborators, reanimate these sounds on a specially assembled platform. The events will be recorded and released with copyleft licenses.
 
  
 
'''Free events:'''
 
'''Free events:'''

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Background

Premonition 2037 (2016) re-animates archival recordings, through the creation of a new installation and audio work, including a printed distribution element and was a commissioned project for the 50-year anniversary exhibition of Modern Art Oxford (MAO) – KALEIDOSCOPE. Eileen Simpson and Ben White were one of four artists who were commissioned to make new works, exhibited alongside iconic works from the past, which returned to the gallery from across the globe.

In the spirit of the 1960s project of the MAO, to make contemporary art freely accessible to the widest audience, we produced an archive of recorded sounds –auditory traces of activity in the gallery, available for use by a future public, without restriction and beyond the scope of the current copyright term. Digitized from videotapes and audio cassettes held in the MAO archive - tape hiss, voices, musical notes, audience applause and shouts, recorded at previous public events, were collected together and processed using emerging information retrieval technologies to form a new archive of sounds and the source material for a new audio work, pressed to vinyl, for exhibition. A series of live events took place on a specially assembled platform that occupied a temporary future date – on which invited collaborators (Bambooman, Young Women’s Music Project and Lutto Lento) reanimated archive sounds for live performance. Events were recorded and will be released with copyleft licenses on 1st Jan 2037.


Exhibition

KALEIDOSCOPE: A Moment of Grace
Modern Art Oxford
30 Pembroke Street
Oxford
OX1 1BP

Exhibition runs:
Tuesday 29 March - Sunday 22nd May 2016

Preview:
Friday 15 April 2016

Free events:

Thursday 5th May, 7pm
Bambooman

Saturday 14th May, 3pm
Young Women's Music Project

Thursday 19th May, 7pm
Lutto Lento