The Agent Ria:registeredinart
works: www.youtube.com/registeredinart
info: www.facebook.com/registeredinart
The Agent RiA:registeredinart platform was initiated by Lyndsay Mann
in March 2010 to explore works by artists using documented performance,
sound and video, often alongside other methods within their practice.
RiA was conceptualised as an online channel where new works by different
artists are uploaded periodically, adding to a collection.
The channel has become a resource with videos selected for shows in the UK
(Tate Modern, London) and USA (DCCP, Detroit) as well as developing into
a curatorial mechanism, which includes an expanding off-line programme.
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Most recently, RiA initiated artists film within the 2012 Middle Eastern Film Festival, Edinburgh, curating artists’ moving image works within this Filmhouse cinema programme for the first time, including a concurrent programme on the channel throughout February.
RiA also received funds to host an artist’s talk and screening event, which took place at Stills, Scotland’s Centre for Photography, as well as commission new work in response to the festival themes, the results of which will be screened on the channel from June 2012.
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In August 2011, RiA curated Spelling the Myth, a screening programme across the Edinburgh Art and Fringe Festivals, creating the first exchange between these two major festivals: Edinburgh Art Festival Archive
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In the past year RiA projects have been supported by Hope Scott Trust and Creative Scotland.
Press:
Feb 12 ‘Edinburgh Celebrates Kurdish Cinema’, Abu Dhabi Film Festival magazine
Feb 12 ‘Middle Eastern Film Festival Focuses on Kurdish Filmmakers, Subtitled online: a cultured view on world film and television
Feb 12 ‘Five-a-day: Films, fairytales and far-off realms’, STV Local feature
Aug 11 ‘the gallery’ a daily image from the Art Festival’, P2, The Scotsman Festival Guide, Monday 15 August
