Dear New Media Curators,
I hope this email finds you well.
AV Festival 08: Broadcast
<http://www.avfestival.co.uk/> begins today with
the opening of the exhibition Crumb co-founder,
Sarah Cook, has co-curated - Broadcast Yourself.
Some of the highlights of the coming few days are outlined below.
Very best wishes
Honor Harger
Director, AV Festival 08
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
AV FESTIVAL 08 - STARTS TODAY!
AV Festival 08
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, UK
28 February - 8 March 2008
The AV Festival <http://www.avfestival.co.uk/> is
a biennial international festival of electronic
art, moving image and music. AV Festival 08:
Broadcast will take place across the three urban
areas of NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland &
Middlesbrough, 28 February - 8 March 2008.
The theme of the festival is broadcast.
The UK has begun to switch off analogue
television signals, paving the way for television
to become entirely digital. At the same time the
internet and mobile networks have created
opportunities for us to 'broadcast ourselves' in
entirely new ways. As the landscape of
broadcasting changes irrevocably, AV Festival 08
will be a catalyst for debate about the future of
broadcasting, and an event to celebrate a century
of on-air and online transmission.
AV Festival 08: Broadcast features of over 100
new commissions, exhibitions, screenings,
concerts, workshops and events.
___AV Festival 08: Highlights
Our opening weekend is focused on Newcastle & Gateshead. Highlights include:
- Broadcast Yourself - Various artists
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/broadcast_yourself
This international group exhibition, co-curated
by Sarah Cook and Kathy Rae Huffman, includes a
selection of TV, video installation and web-based
works which demonstrate how artists have
successfully challenged the dominant culture of
television since the 1960s. The exhibition
includes artists who have taken TV technology and
turned it into a performance space, a cultural
forum, and an interactive media platform, as well
as projects which document how artists are now
using the Internet to broadcast themselves.
The single channel video broadcast on television
by Stan Douglas, Chris Burden, and Ian Breakwell
(his landmark diaries made for the launch of
Channel4 twenty-fix years ago) will be
experienced through the recreation of a period
living room for watching TV. Also included are:
Bill Viola's 'Reverse Television: Portraits of
Viewers' (1983/4); 'Piazza Virtuale' by Van Gogh
TV (1992); 'Hole in Space' (1980) by Kit
Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz; 'KhirkeeYaan'
(2006) by Shaina Anand and many other works.
Visitors to the exhibition will also be able to
make and stream their own celebrity-style
television interviews in the gallery with the
restaging of the online web project MakeTV (2006)
by artist group Active Ingredient (Rachel Jacobs
and Matt Watkins)
- Yokomono by the Staalplaat Soundsystem
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/staalplaat
Yokomono is one of the best known projects of
Staalplaat Soundsystem founded by Geert-Jan
Hobijn and Carsten Stabenow. Four cars called
'vinyl killers' will run round specially made
vinyl records. Each one is effectively a record
player, fitted with a wireless FM transmitter
which sends signals to stacks of radios piled up
in Newcastle's alt.gallery.
- Bairdcast: A History of Machine Translation -
Yuko Mohri (exhibition, commission)
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/bairdcast-media
Japanese media artist Yuko Mohri, has created a
new installation for AV Festival 08 inspired by
the work of TV pioneer John Logie Baird. The
installation at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
reflects Yuko Mohri's take on old and new
television technologies.
- 3 radio stations, - AV Festival on NE1FM,
Resonance FM at mima & Soundscape FM
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/onair
AV Festival 08 has three radio stations all
broadcasting on FM. If you live in
NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland or Middlesbrough
you'll be able to tune in any time 24 hours a day
from 28 February - 8 March. These special radio
stations will be broadcasting radio art, news,
music, live concerts and special programmes from
across the festival to your radio.
- the AV Festival 08 Opening Gala, featuring John Cage's Variations VII
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/opening-gala
On BALTIC's Level 1, as part of AV Festival 08's
opening gala, one of John Cage's most noted
performances is to be recreated for the first
time in the UK. The original Variations VII took
place at 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering in New
York, in 1966. Cage intended the work to
transform the building into a broadcast space.
Alongside, radios and televisions collecting
sounds, there were 10 phone lines connected to
city locations. Photoelectric cells triggered
different sound sources off and on as the
performers moved around. The aim, said Cage, was
to "go fishing" for sounds. AV Festival 08 are
staging an entirely new version of the work,
performed by an exceptional ensemble - Atau
Tanaka, Matt Wand, and Newcastle duo
:zoviet*france:
After Variations VII, Staalplaat Soundsystem will
delight visitors by orchestrating a wireless
symphony with a performance version of Yokomono.
- Music & Machines VIII - AV Festival 08 conference
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/music-and-machines
This international two day conference will
present different ways that artists and musicians
engage with radio and broadcast technologies.
Douglas Kahn, Brandan LaBelle (Norway/USA),
Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan), Marko Peljhan (Slovenia),
Sneha Solanki (UK), Laura Kuhn (USA), Julie
Martin (USA) and others all feature on Day 1.
Atau Tanaka (UK/Japan/USA), Heidi Grundmann
(Austria), Andreas Broeckmann (Germany), Tao G.
Vrhovec Sambolec (Slovenia) and others, all
feature on Day 2.
- Radiophonia - by Broadcast, Dick Mills ( BBC
Radiophonic Workshop), Jean-Jacques Perrey et al
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/radiophonia
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the BBC
Radiophonic Workshop, original workshop member
Dick Mills will give an illustrated talk about
their work. Radiophonia also includes an
appearance by the legendary Jean-Jacques Perrey,
whose inventive work since the 1950s firmly
placed electronic music within popular culture
and influenced a generation. + a radiophonic DJ
set by the UK band Broadcast and a live
performance by electronic artist Brian Duffy in
collaboration with a participation group from The
Sage Gateshead.
- Waygood's Amateur Radio Rally
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/radio-rally
A radio rally in the Grainger Market, Newcastle,
in collaboration with Waygood Gallery which has
created a new Arts Amateur Radio Club to explore
the creative possibilities of the medium.
- Reality Soundtrack by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/reality-soundtrack
Reality Soundtrack by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec is
a moving sound intervention in public spaces. 25
or more participants equipped with small radio
receivers walk together through the city, all
transmitting the same electronic composition,
broadcasted from a radio station. The goal of the
intervention is to transpose an actual situation
in public space onto a plane of fictionality. The
sound intervention alters the mode of perception
of a random passer-by listener. That which a
listener sees becomes a fiction and support for
that which he or she hears.
- Autechre with SND & Rob Hall
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/autechre
Autechre bring angular machine music to the
masses, celebrating their new album Quaristice
(Warp). This unfeasibly popular duo take the
sounds of Todd Terry, Mantronik and Kraftwerk,
jam them through corrupted hardware, and bring
Cage and Stockhausen to the dancefloor. In the
dark. Also in attendance will be Sheffield's
clicks n' cuts funk duo SND and Rob Hall of
Gescom and Manchester's legendary Skam label.
- Desert Island TV
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/events/desert-island
Listeners to BBC Radio 4 will be familiar with
the iconic show Desert Island Discs, which asks
well- known personalities to choose the songs
which have been the soundtrack to their lives.
In this twist on the broadcast classic, we have
asked two very special guests along.
We're delighted to announce that North East
broadcasting legend Paddy MacDee who talked his
way to the top of the radio tree many years ago
and is currently riding on the crest of an
airwave with his popular late night show on BBC
Radio Newcastle will be under the spotlight as he
is interviewed about the television programmes
that have shaped his life.
___ AV Festival 08: programme
The full programme can be downloaded or viewed
online: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme
Forthcoming commissions & premieres include:
- A Marriage of Shadows - by Michael Edgerton (concert, world premiere)
- Aeriology - by Joyce Hinterding (exhibition, UK Premiere)
- Atlas of Electromagnetic Space - (installation, co-commission)
- Deep Play - Harun Farocki (exhibition, UK Premiere)
- Now Hear This - Marcus Coates, Zoe Irvine &
People Like Us (outdoor sound works, commissions)
- War of the Worlds - directed by Joanna Read
(theatrical performance, commission)
- Scatter! - by Marko Peljhan (performance, commission)
- Whispering in the Leaves - Chris Watson
(installation & performance, co-commission)
- AV:ISIONs Club & lounge nights - various dates
- Disinformation & Strange Attractor - in National Grid - 5 March
- Prepared Radios - Ryota Kuwakubo
- Slow TV - Various artists
- Artists' Talks by José Luis de Vicente & Irma
Vilà, Chris Watson, Yuko Mohri & others
- At the Top of the Game: Jimmy McGovern - a talk
by the celebrated television writer
- Northern Screenwriters Conference 2008 - a
conference for screenwriters - 4 - 5 March
- The Television Will Not Be Revolutionised - a
2-day debate on broadcasting featuring Bill
Thompson and others - 6 - 7 March
Download the full programme online: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme
___AV Festival 08: tickets
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/tickets
Tickets to all AV Festival events are on sale
from the AV Festival Box Office at the Tyneside
Cinema.
Phone: +44 191 232 8289
Email: [log in to unmask]
** Tickets are already selling out for major
events so book now if you wish to attend **
___AV Festival 08: organisation
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/about
AV Festival 08 is organised by Audio Visual Arts
North East and forms part of NewcastleGateshead's
world-class festivals and events programme
managed by culture10, based at NewcastleGateshead
Initiative.
___AV Festival 08: supporters
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/supporters
Arts Council England, North East, Newcastle City
Council, Gateshead Council, ONE NorthEast,
Middlesbrough Council, Sunderland City Council,
Tyneside Cinema, Northern Film & Media, UK Film
Council, European Regional Development Fund, V.
Event Supporters: Anime projects, Castle Keep,
Digista, The Leverhulme Trust, MAP, Media Routes,
Ormiston Wires, PRS Foundation, Triple Echo.
AV has developed close working relationships with
some of the region's key cultural organisations.
Our partners include alt.gallery, BALTIC, Centre
for LIFE, Centre for Excellence In Teaching and
Learning Music and Inclusivity (Newcastle
University), Cineworld, Cornerhouse, CRUMB,
CultureLab (Newcastle University), Design Centre
(University of Sunderland), Discovery Museum,
forma, IDI (University of Teesside), ISIS,
Locus+, mima, Media Centre (University of
Sunderland), Mobile Cinema, National Glass
Centre, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art,
NE1 FM, No-Fi, NOVAK, Northern Screenwriters
Conference, Reg Vardy Gallery, Resonance FM,
/slab, Star & Shadow Cinema, Sunderland Museum &
Winter Gardens, The Hatton Gallery, The Sage
Gateshead, Tyne & Wear Museums, Waygood,
Multistorey, White Hot Communications,
Velcrobelly & Evolve.
___AV Festival 08: contacts
For more information contact:
AV Festival
c/o Tyneside Cinema at Gateshead Old Town Hall
West Street
Gateshead
NE8 1HE
UK
Tel: +44 (0)191 2328289, ext 112
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
The AV Festival is run by Audio Visual Arts North
East. A Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered
in England No 06141603. Registered Charity Number
1120368. Registered Office: c/- Tyneside Cinema
at the Old Town Hall, Gateshead, West Street,
Gateshead, NE8 1HE, UK
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