[rohrpost] AV Festival 08 - Broadcast - first call for proposals
Niklas Roy
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:18:48 +0100
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Subject: AV Festival 08 - Broadcast - first call for proposals
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
Please find below the first announcement for AV Festival 08 in the North
East of England. Please forward to your lists & networks, as appropriate.
This doubles as our first call for proposals and a sneak preview
regarding the dates and theme of the festival, for our friends and
colleagues. A full announcement will be forthcoming in October.
Apologies for any cross postings!
Cheers,
Michelle
Michelle Hirschhorn
Consultant Producer, AV Festival 08
AV FESTIVAL 08 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
SNEAK PREVIEW & CALL FOR PROPOSALS
AV Festival 08
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, UK
First deadline for proposals: 15 October 2007
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/opportunities
AV Festival is an international festival of electronic arts, featuring
visual art, music and moving image. A biennial event, the festival takes
place in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the North
East of England. The next AV Festival will be held 28 February - 8 March
2008.
The theme of AV Festival 08 is Broadcast.
This October, the BBC begin to switch off analogue television signals in
the UK, paving the way for television to become entirely digital. At the
same time as this profound change in our experience of broadcasting
takes place, 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 will include internationally renowned artists,
filmmakers, researchers and musicians as well as emerging practitioners.
It will feature:
- New commissions of art, music and moving image
- Open Air: an outdoor programme of events
- Concerts & Performances
- Exhibitions in galleries and museums
- A moving image programme
- FM Radio Stations
- Club events and parties
- An industry debate
- Seminars, conferences and talks
- Workshops
We will be making a full announcement about the festival theme and some
aspects of the programme mid October.
___AV Festival 08: getting involved
AV Festival 08 is providing creative practitioners with an opportunity
to contribute ideas to the programme. In the next two months, we will
announce a series of opportunities for artists, musicians, filmmakers,
DJs, VJs, designers, theorists, technologists, scientists, philosophers
and others to contribute to the festival.
The first of these opportunities is a call for proposals for a
site-specific audio art commission at the Sunderland Museum & Winter
Gardens. The fee is GBP5000. If you have an idea for a new work which
responds to our theme and the context of the Winter Gardens, we would
like to hear about it. See below for more details.
In the coming weeks, we will also call for proposals from artists and
producers who want to get involved with our radio stations, filmmakers
who want to create a new work for the festival, and critics and
philosophers who want to contribute to our conferences.
___AV Festival 08: call for proposals
AV Festival will commission new work especially for the festival, as
well as present creative work which has already been produced.
We are now calling for proposals from artists or musicians for a new
site-specific audio artwork for the Sunderland Winter Gardens.
Experienced artists are invited to submit original ideas for a work that
responds to both the festival's theme and the unique environment of the
Winter Gardens.
The fee for this commission is GBP 5000.
Artists wishing to submit a proposal must download the brief for this
commission from the AV Festival website, read the guidelines and send a
proposal by email.
DEADLINE: 15 October 2007
DOWNLOAD BRIEF: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/opportunities/
EMAIL PROPOSALS TO: michelle at avfestival.co.uk
<mailto:michelle at avfestival.co.uk>
We will announce further calls for proposals for other parts of the
programme in the coming weeks. If you want to be kept informed of future
opportunities, please subscribe to our mailing list by filling up the
sign up box on http://www.avfestival.co.uk
___AV Festival 08: joining our team
Over the coming weeks, we will be inviting tenders from freelance
individuals, or companies, who want to get involved in the production of
AV Festival 08. We are now inviting tenders for thefirst of these
contracts: AV Festival Programme Manager, Middlesbrough. We are also
inviting proposals for several paid placements for exceptional young
people. There are more details about all these opportunities at:
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/opportunities
___AV Festival: the story so far
The AV Festival is run by an independent charitable company called Audio
Visual Arts North East.
AV Festival has run two successful festivals thus far. The first was
held 18 - 22 November 2003 and consisted of over one hundred events
across three towns in two weeks. It included new a newly commissioned
film by The Light Surgeons which aired on BBC Television, screenings of
Matthew Barney's
Cremaster Cycle, a Mike Figgis film retrospective, a world premiere by
Peter Greenaway, new work by Richard Fenwick, performances by the
Cinematic Orchestra, DJ Food, Tina Frank and General Magic, onedotzero
screenings and a lively programme of workshops and lectures. The
archived AV Festival 03 website can be found at:
http://www.avfest.co.uk/03/new/index2.html
The second AV Festival - LifeLike took place in over 25 venues from 2-12
March 2006. Over 10 days, AV delivered over 90 events in 3 urban
centres. Curatorially, AV Festival 06 investigated life sciences. It
featured challenging new work by Michael Nyman, Neil Bromwich & Zoe
Walker, D-Fuse, Carsten Nicolai, and many others. It included 15
ambitious new commissions from artists, filmmakers and musicians such as
Ryoji Ikeda, Ken Rinaldo, Andy Gracie and Anthony McCall, Gina
Czarnecki, UMAMi, Time's Up, :zoviet*france:, Suguru Goto and others.
The archived AV Festival 06 website can be found at:
http://www.avfest.co.uk/06/
___AV Festival 08: supporters
AV Festival 08 is organised by Audio Visual Arts North East, an
independent charitable company.
AV Festival 08 forms part of NewcastleGateshead's world-class festivals
and events programme managed by culture10, based at NewcastleGateshead
Initiative.
AV Festival 08 is supported by 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.
___AV Festival 08: partnership network
AV Festival has developed close working relationships with some of the
region's key cultural organisations. Our past or current partners include:
- University of Teesside, Middlesbrough: http://www.tees.ac.uk
- Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle: http://www.tynecine.org
- Arts Development, Middlesbrough Council
- Arts Development, Sunderland City Council
- The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead : http://www.thesagegateshead.org/
- Forma, Newcastle: http://www.forma.org.uk
- Alt-Gallery, Newcastle: http://www.altgallery.org
- Discovery Museum, Newcastle: www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery
<http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery>
- Hatton Gallery, Newcastle: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton
- Centre for Life, Newcastle: http://www.life.org.uk
- NO-FI, Newcastle: http://www.no-fi.org.uk
- Isis Arts, Newcastle: http://www.isisarts.org.uk
- Codeworks: http://www.codeworks.net
- CultureLab: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/culturelab
<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/culturelab>
- Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle: http://www.sidecinema.com
- Polytechnic, Newcastle: http://ptechnic.org
- Name, Newcastle: http://www.name-site.com
- Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens:
- http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland
<http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland>
- National Glass Centre, Sunderland: http://www.nationalglasscentre.com
- Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Sunderland: http://www.ngca.co.uk
- Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland: http://www.regvardygallery.org/
- CRUMB, Sunderland: http://www.crumbweb.org
- /sLab, Sunderland: http://www.slab.uk.net/
- University of Sunderland: http://www.sunderland.ac.uk
- Washington Arts Centre, Sunderland
- mima, Middlesbrough: http://www.mima.uk.com
- Empire, Middlesbrough: http://www.theempire.co.uk
- Kino Cinema, Middlesbrough: http://www.tenfeettall.co.uk/kino
- Cleveland College of Art & Design, Middlesbrough: http://www.ccad.ac.uk
- UMAMi, Newcastle: http://www.umami.tv
- Dance City, Newcastle: http://www.dancecity.co.uk
<http://www.dancecity.co.uk>
- White Hot Communications, Newcastle: http://www.whitehotcomms.co.uk
- Velcrobelly, Newcastle: http://www.velcrobelly.co.uk
- Waygood Gallery, Newcastle: http://www.waygood.org
___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: info at avfestival.co.uk <mailto:info at avfestival.co.uk>
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/ <http://www.avfestival.co.uk/>
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/o Tyneside Cinema at Gateshead Old Town
Hall, West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HE, UK.
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