[Nettime-bold] URBAN CYCLES_UK announcement

["galia" <galia@i-space.org>]

URBAN CYCLES_UK

interactive video installation in public space

venue: Library Walk, off St Peteršs Square, Manchester, UK
dates: Thursday 21 - Saturday 30 March
times: 8:30pm - midnight Free

http://www.idea.org.uk/urban/

Artists:

Krassimir Terziev, Petko Dourmana, Nikolay Chakarov, Maria Berova (BG)

Jen Southern, Anneke Pettican, Adele Myers, Jenna Collins, Steve Symons, Gary Peploe (UK)

Curator: Galina Dimitrova /Interspace/

 

Transforming a busy thorough-fare into another time and place, Urban Cycles invites the public to trigger, provoke, and creatively participate in the work of ten artists from Manchester and Sofia. Sensors responding to peoples' movements connect to multiple video projections along Library Walk, and the street becomes home to both usual and unusual events...A graffiti artist runs away at the sound of your approach; satellite surveillance makes you a global pawn, and children's street games invite you into simple play. Each day the work of a different artist will collaborate with the city's walking feet, animating the floorscape with surprising consequences.

Firstly shown at The National Palace of Culture, Sofia the second part of the project will take place in Manchester being a part of [inter:face] 02 Digital Summer Festival.

Urban Cycles_BG was nominated for the ZKM-SWR International Media Art Awards 2001.

A collaboration inititated by Inerspace Media Art Center, Sofia (Bulgaria) and artists from Manchester (UK), exploring the moving image, interactive new media technologies and pubic space.

Exhibition program:

21.03./Thursday Maria Berova "TRANSPOSITION"

22.03./Friday Jen Southern "SLIPPERY SURFACE"

23.03./Saturday Gary Peploe "LOOK BOTH WAYS"

24.03./Sunday Nikolay Chakarov "GHOST GAME"

25.03./Monday Jenna Collins "TRACK"

26.03./Tuesday Steve Symons "VIRAL SYNTHESIA"

27.03./Wednesday Adele Myers "PASSAGE"

28.03./Thursday Krassimir Terziev "FOR REAL"

29.03./Friday Anneke Pettican "THE TRESPASS OF HER GESTURE"

30.03./Saturday Petko Dourama "DIP"

for Project Descriptions see: <http://www.idea.org.uk/urban/projectsuk.html>

With the kind support of :
DIGITAL SUMMER [inter:face], Manchester City Council Arts and Libraries, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Huddersfield, Visiting Arts, The British Council, Bulgaria and IDEA.

http://www.idea.org.uk/urban/

http://www.digitalsummer.org

http://www.i-space.org