Guest speakers: Artist talks - Art and Energy
Saturday 6 – Sunday 14 March
AV Festival 10 is the biennial festival of electronic arts, taking place from 5-14 March across NewcastleGateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland. In conjunction with The Learning Revolution, AV Festival 10 presents a series of FREE artist talks. The theme of AV Festival 10 is energy, which is explored from a cultural, scientific, technological and environmental perspective. Find out more about AV Festival 10 by visiting www.avfestival.co.uk.
AV Festival 10: Felix Hess – From Science To Sensitivity
Saturday 6 March, 10.30-11.30am
From BBC TV’s Tomorrow’s World and the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, to research into the aerodynamics of boomerangs, the Dutch artist and physicist Felix Hess talks about his incredible career and in particular his work as an artist from the 1980s onwards, building small electronic machines that communicate by sound, movement and the air.
Entry: FREE. Booking required.
Image: Moving Sound Creatures with Felix Hess. Photo © John Stoel, Haren, 1987.
AV Festival 10: Lilane Lijn – Future Memory
Sunday 7 March, 10.30-11.45am
Liliane Lijn is recognised as an early pioneer of science in art and is currently the artist in residence at Narec (New and Renewable Energy Centre) with Inspire Northumberland. She discusses her work with new technologies from the 1960s onwards, and screens the world premiere of her new single-screen video INNER SPACE OUTER SPACE (2010).
Entry: FREE. Booking required.
Still from INNER SPACE OUTER SPACE, 2010. Courtesy of Liliane Lijn.
AV Festival 10: Owl Project and Amenity Space
Saturday 13 March, 10.30-11.30am
Owl Project and Amenity Space will discuss their ambitious new project FLOW, the North East winner of the Artists taking the lead commission, one of the major projects for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. FLOW is an environmentally sustainable floating waterwheel for the River Tyne, which responds to changes in the river, including temperature, speed and salinity.
Entry: FREE. Booking required.
Owl Project and Amenity Space, FLOW, 2009. Courtesy the artists.
AV Festival 10: Graham Harwood – Coal Fired Computers
Sunday 14 March, 10.30-11.30am
Graham Harwood will discuss his new work Coal Fired Computers and the crisis of power in a modern globalised economy. Closely associated with the formation of social software and software art, he received the Tate’s first online commission and won the 2009 Transmediale Festival award for his social telephony work Tantalum Memorial, a memorial to the Coltan Wars in the Congo.
Entry: FREE. Booking required.
YoHa, After Coal Face, 2009. Courtesy the artists.
