Photo-ID: Photographers and Scientists explore Identity

The complexity surrounding the construction of personal and social identity will be explored in Photo-ID, a major exhibition in Norwich City Centre, throughout August 2009. It will present the work of nine specially commissioned photographers, who will each visually explore issues around identity. Their work will be shown within a context that explores how recent information about the human genome and its variations affects how we think about identity, now and in the future. Photo-ID will be freely open to the general public, and will be accompanied by a full programme of ancillary educational activities, a book and this website.
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Partners

The Photo-ID exhibition is funded by a Society Award from the Wellcome Trust.  The project leader is the Norfolk Contemporary Art Society (NCAS), but this is a partnership with the Norwich University College of the Arts (formally Norwich School of Art and Design) and The Forum Trust. In addition the whole project is being evaluated by the Research Centre at City College, Norwich.











www.n-c-a-s.org.uk

Norfolk Contemporary Arts Society (NCAS) is the grant holder on the Photo-ID project, which is a part of its ongoing exhibitions programme. NCAS has curated exhibitions that include Making Faces (2006) in The Forum, the The Naked Truth at the Fermoy Gallery in King's Lynn (2002), and  50 years on: Norfolk Contemporary Art Society at Norwich Castle (2006), and Surprise! Works from Private Collections in Norfolk (2005), both held in the Castle Museum in Norwich.  In 2008 it held its first open exhibition of artist members of the society, NCA2008, in The Forum.  The NCAS is a voluntary association (with some three hundred members) which champions contemporary visual art, particularly that of artists working in the region. The Norfolk Contemporary Art Society is a registered Charity No. 262730.




www.theforumnorwich.co.uk

The exhibition, Photo-ID, will be in the atrium of The Forum.

The Forum is a Millennium Commission Lottery Project from Hopkins Architects.  It is a unique landmark building situated within the heart of the cosmopolitan city of Norwich. It was built to house a new state-of-the-art library replacing Norwich's central library that tragically burnt down in 1994. It is now a dynamic and exciting centre for information, learning and entertainment. The Forum is a £63 million project and was funded by a £31.5 million grant from the Millennium Commission with matching support from Norfolk County Council, Norwich City Council and the business community.  Within the Forum are housed Origins (an interactive visitor attraction exploring the development of Norwich and the area over 2000 years), the tourist information centre, the City’s Millenium library, a restaurant and café, BBC East, The City Learning Station and The Learning Shop.  It now attracts over 1.5M visitors annually (and has good disabled access).  The Forum Trust is a charitable organisation established to manage both the building of The Forum (the capital project) and to manage, develop and co-ordinate the building and its services for 125 years from the date of completion of the capital project.

The Forum Trust Limited, 2 Millennium Plain, Bethel Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1TF         
Tel: 0044 (0)1603 727950
Fax: 01603 727955
Manager: Mark Hand - 01603 727976










www.nuca.ac.uk

Norwich University College of the Arts is a key partner in the Photo-ID project.

Norwich University College of the Arts is an independent higher education institution within the University sector, and has full responsibility for the design and content of its courses. There has been a School of Art and Design in Norwich since 1845.

The University College has a reputation for excellence, and attracts students regionally, nationally and internationally. In the 2003 Quality Assurance Agency's national subject review of art and design, we achieved the highest award of broad confidence'.

Norwich University College of the Arts is a member of GuildHE (formerly SCOP the Standing Conference of Principals), which represents Higher Education colleges, specialist institutions and some universities. The Mission of GuildHE is to make the case for institutional diversity and distinctiveness within the UK higher education sector, highlighting the interests and strengths of member institutions to government, national and international agencies, employers, potential students and the wider community.

The University College is also a member of the UK Arts and Design Institutions Association (UKADIA), a sub-association of GuildHE whose mission is to promote specialist institutions offering higher education courses in Arts and Design and to add value to their effectiveness through sharing good practice.

The school offers both a BA(Hons) in Photography and an MA in Photographic Studies.


The Research Centre at City College Norwich    

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The Research Centre is responsible for the evaluation of the whole Photo-ID project.  They have considerable experience of this kind of action research and the we have had previous excellent interactions with them.  Dr Angus Carpenter will take the lead in organising our evaluation.

The Research Centre was established in 1996 and is managed by Dr Angus Carpenter. As a centre, it offers an eclectic range of methodologies, specialising in qualitative data gathering techniques particularly action research, case study and evaluation.

Projects receiving European, national or regional funding have been carried out in areas such as social policy, education and training, business and management, information technology, organisational restructuring and small business development.



 
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