Friday IFI: 1.30 - 2.45pm Moving Images and Public Spaces:

The Role of the Commissioner.

The panel explores a variety of commissioning processes and practices within film, television, the visual arts and new media. The participants include Jane Doolan (Arts Council), Noemi Ferrer (Bord Scannan na hEireann), Lorcan Finnegan (media practitioner), Jane Gogan (RTE), Aisling Prior (Breaking Ground) and Paul Rowley (artist), and the panel will be moderated by Maeve Connolly (Institute of Art, Design and Technology). The discussion will focus on differences between commissioning and other forms of funding, and on the role of the commissioning process in developing new and existing contexts of reception for the moving image