Cross-Disciplinary Frog Ltd

About Us (FAQ)

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Who are we?:
Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd., capitalises on two decades of experience and efforts from a number of entrepreneurs working in the fields of creative sound, visual arts, science and digital technology.
What is our legal form?
Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. is a limited by guarantee company based in Manchester, UK. It was formally constituted and registered in England in early 2010 by the Companies House; the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales. The Company's number is No. 07157099.
Object:
• FOSTER CREATIVITY: To foster the work of European contemporary artists, engineers and physical scientists working in areas of Creative Aurality, Visuals and Computing, who are willing to interact and take their knowledge beyond their areas of comfort and expertise.
• PROMOTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: pushing Innovation and Public Art as a Social Catalyst for Creativity and Business.
• COLLABORATION: To organise and facilitate contemporary art exhibitions and scientific research collaboration between European and non-European partners, to showcase united or individual outcomes to a global audience from a locally-targeted experience.
• ORGANISATION: To arrange and take part in lectures, seminars, panel discussions, symposia, workshops, and other outreach programmes associated with projects organised by cross-disciplinary frog ltd.
• AWARENESS: To increase audiences awareness and stimulate discussions and debate on issues surrounding contemporary visual art and sound in cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary contexts with scientific contextualisation.
• PRACTICE-LED: To curate, organise and take part in international exchange exhibitions and projects
• BALANCE: To integrate in the same working environments participants with different level of experience working in the same discipline (e.g. software beginners with professional developers) to learn from one another.
What main streams of work do we cover?:
• AURALITY AND MULTIMEDIA: group teams towards the realisation of specific creative outcomes
• ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS: Research, Education and Community Outreach, International exchanges and collective projects and Artistic/ Scientific Residencies
What past experience and new projects do we have?:
• CURATORIAL: In areas of curatorial art and international artistic exchanges, members of Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. co-directed two key projects; blackduck arts and greendog arts, which received generous support from a number of different institutions for the realisation of projects.
• RESEARCH: In ares of Research and Education, Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. members are involved or have been involved in Higher Education and Research at different world-class research centres such as, The NOVARS Research Centre or SARC- The Sonic Arts Research Centre. Also in community-oriented projects such as, The Carxofa Electric Band, or participation in Open Source Software Initiatives (e.g. Csound). Therefore, Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. becomes a catalyst for expertises and visions from both, freelance and academic worlds.
• Samples of successfully carried out projects include S.LOW, The Tornado-Project.org, Transfer Lounge, Universal shipping box or Swap/ Vaihto
• The first major project since Cross-Disciplinary Frog ltd started is S.LOW. For more details, visit this link
Do you have a strategic or business plan for your organisation?:
Yes, we do. In fact it is an organic plan which reunites and matches our vision and aims with an initial implementation for the period 2010-2013. It aims to be flexible enough to be able to respond to the needs and input from new members, partner organisations and audiences.

News

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NEWS 2011

[*] S.LOW – vip lounges are for ALL - Dynamic documentary Film - to be presented at Push IDKA International Festival 2011 - Sweden (08/April/2011)

[*] S.LOW – vip lounges are for ALL - Dynamic documentary Film - to be presented at GemDays, Hudderfield, UK (24/February/2011)

[*] Cross-Disciplinary Frog Ltd launches - s.lowie

s.lowie - s.low immersive engine is a division unit of Cross-Disciplinary Frog. Ltd, which focus is to seek extended viability of creative projects and experimental research (e.g. sound installations, immersive environment projects, interface design, etc) beyond their typical outcomes and realisations.

NEWS 2010

[*] PREMIER of S.LOW – vip lounges are for ALL (9/Dec/2010)

Version: Dynamic Documentary Film - Presented by Ricardo Climent

Venue: John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester, UK

Duration: 30 minutes film – 20 minutes presentation / 20 minutes discussion

[*] Curatorial (blackduckarts)

  +Attraction of the Opposites + IFFR. Rotterdam
  +Edgelogue, New Delhi
  +Screening Cyberbrothers. Pluton, Valencia
  +CeC'11. Gobal Art Video
  +black duck & RED NOMADE. Espacio Enter Canarias 10
  +Made in India. Mad Lab. Manchester
For more details, click here

[*] Pre-release / private rough-cut screening of: S.LOW – vip lounges are for ALL (31/October/2010)

Version: Linear Documentary Film
Presented by Ricardo Climent

Venue: Madlab, Manchester, UK

Duration: 30 minutes film – 15 minutes discussion = 45 minutes
For more, click here

[*] THE NATIONAL LOTTERY THROUGH THE ARTS COUNCIL NORTHERN IRELAND, FUNDS Gail Ritchie with the SIAP Programme to work on her Elephant Project for S.LOW (23/April/2010)

[*] WORK-EXPERIENCE FUND AWARDED to Andreas Roman for S.LOW PROJEKT (1/April/2010)

XEuropean Programme LEONARDO DA VINCI, the FGULEM UNIVERSIDAD DE LEON, Spain and Cross-Disciplinary Frog Ltd., UK signed an agreement for multi-disciplinary artist Andreas Roman, to start a six months internship in 2010.

For more about Andreas Roman click here

[*] THE NATIONAL LOTTERY THROUGH THE ARTS COUNCIL NORTHERN IRELAND, FUNDS Iain McCurdy with the SIAP Programme to work on his U-BAHN SONICOGRAPHY PROJECT for S.LOW (19/April/2010)

[*] January 2010: COLLABORATION AGREEMENT SIGNED WITH TWO PROJECT SPACES IN BERLIN for the realisation of S.LOW PROJEKT
Cross-Disciplinary Frog has formally agreed with NK-Berlin and 91mQ-Berlin the liaison and realisation of activities for S.LOW Project in 2010

NK is a 500 square meter factory floor, dedicated to Sound Art practices run by Farahaz Hatam and Julian Percy. In a very short period of time, NK has become and inevitable meeting point for to berliners and international artists working with sound and computers and a large number of workshops, sonic events and other activities have taken place.

91 mQ project space is situated in a former brewery in East Berlin. The building is currently transforming itself through the presence of numerous workshops, studios and spaces for artistic experimentation into a hub for creative experimentation. The decision to open a project space in this kind of environment places 91mQ in opposition to the current art system of commercial galleries and art fairs. 91mQ places the artist at the heart of the contemporary art debate. The aim of the project is to create links with other sites within the art world and believes in art as a line of thought that is vital to our understanding of the development of the world in which we live. 91mQ wishes to encourage a dialogue between a variety of people and communities be they artists filmmakers, video artists, writers or critics, 91mQ encourages both curated thematic group exhibitions and exhibitions by individual artists developed from open submission calls.

About Us (FAQ)

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Who are we?:
Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd., capitalizes on two decades of experience and efforts from a number of entrepreneurs working in the field or visual arts, creative sound, science and digital technology.
What is our legal form?
Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. is a limited by guarantee company based in Manchester, UK. It was formally constituted and registered in England in early 2010 by the Companies House; the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales. The Company's number is No. 7157099.
Object:
• To promote the work of European contemporary artists, engineers and physical scientists working in the areas of visual, sound and computing, who are willing to interact and take their knowledge beyond their areas of comfort and expertise.
• To organise and facilitate contemporary art exhibitions and scientific research collaboration between European and non-European partners, to showcase united or individual outcomes to a global audience.
• To arrange and take part in lectures, seminars, panel discussions, symposia, workshops, and other outreach programmes associated with projects organised by cross-disciplinary frog ltd. To increase audiences awareness and stimulate discussions and debate on issues surrounding contemporary visual art and sound in cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary contexts with scientific contextualisation.
• To curate, organise and take part in international exchange exhibitions and projects
• To integrate in the same working environments participants with different level of experience working in the same discipline (e.g. software beginners with professional developers) to learn from one another.
What main streams of work do we cover?:
• International exchanges and collective projects
• Research, Education and Community Outreach
• Artistic/ Scientific Residencies
What past experience and new projects do we have?:
• In areas of curatorial art and international artistic exchanges, members of Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. co-directed two key projects; blackduck arts and greendog arts, which received generous support from a number of different institutions for the realisation of projects.
• In ares of Research and Education, Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. members are involved or have been involved in Higher Education and Research at different world-class research centres such as, SARC- The Sonic Arts Research Centre or NOVARS Research Centre. Also in community projects such as, The Carxofa Electric Band, or Open Source Software Initiatives (e.g. Csound). Therefore, Cross-disciplinary Frog Ltd. becomes a catalyst for expertises and visions from both, freelance and academic worlds.
• Samples of successfully carried out projects include The Tornado-Project.org, Transfer Lounge, Universal shipping box or Swap/ Vaihto
• Our first major project since Cross-Disciplinary Frog ltd started is called S.LOW. For more details, visit this link
Do you have a strategic or business plan for your organisation?:
Yes, we do. In fact it is an organic plan which reunites and matches our vision and aims with an initial implementation for the period 2010-2013. It aims to be flexible enough to be able to respond to the needs and input from new members, partner organisations and audiences.

Links to Projects

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2010 PROJECTS:

ONGOING PROJECTS:

PAST PROJECTS

Contact

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• For general information:
email: info [at] cross-disciplinary.org

• Education projects:
email: education [at] cross-disciplinary.org

• Research Areas:
email: research [at] cross-disciplinary.org

• s.low project:
email: slow [at] cross-disciplinary.org

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CROSS-DISCIPLINARY FROG LIMITED
MANCHESTER
United Kingdom
Company No. 07157099
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