[Af_List] Fwd: [Ada_list] AV Festival 08 - Broadcast - first call for proposals

Thu Sep 27 01:20:34 PDT 2007

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> From: Honor Harger <honor at va.com.au>
> Date: September 27, 2007 7:07:04 PM GMT+12:00
> To: ada_list at list.waikato.ac.nz
> Subject: [Ada_list] AV Festival 08 - Broadcast - first call for  
> proposals
>
> Dear Ada,
>
> I hope this email finds you all well and enjoying
> the Southern march towards Spring.
>
> Please find below the first announcement for AV
> Festival 08 in the North East of England.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 be 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. It
> will explore transmission, the airwaves, spectrum
> ecology and the enduring appeal of the
> electromagnetic wave.
>
> The first call for proposals 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/
> http://www.avfest.co.uk/subscribe/
>
>
> _________________________
>
> 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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