[spectre] AV Festival 08 - Broadcast - first call for proposals

Honor Harger honor at va.com.au
Wed Sep 26 18:30:35 CEST 2007


Dear Spectres,

I hope this email finds you all well.

Please find below the first announcement for AV 
Festival 08 in the North East of England.

As some of you know, the AV Festival is a 
biennial international festival of electronic 
arts, featuring visual art, music and moving 
image. The next festival will take place in 
February and March 2008, and will examine the 
changing face of broadcasting in the light of the 
increasing move towards digitisation across 
Europe and beyond. Many of you on Spectre have 
created work, or written about this issue, at 
various times, and I'd be very interested to know 
what your thoughts on this topic are.

With that in mind, I wanted to draw your 
attention to our first call for proposals and our 
sneak preview announcement below.  The first call 
is for a new sound-based commission (fee UK£5000) 
<http://www.avfestival.co.uk/opportunities>.
Very soon we'll also be calling for artists to 
help us create radio stations across the North 
East region and to work on several other 
commissions.

I hope this is of interest to some of you and 
that you'll consider responding to either this 
call, or our subsequent ones.

Sincere apologies for cross-posting!

Very best wishes

Honor Harger
Director,
AV Festival
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
Subscribe to our mailing list: http://www.avfest.co.uk/subscribe/




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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

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 the 
first 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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