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Evolotion 2009 – May 13-16th
This year’s mini Evolution programme brings together highlights of contemporary experimental video, film and sound media art from an international selection of artists. It is the eighth year of the festival.

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LUX is an agency for artists! moving image based in London, which holds the largest collection of artists! film and video in Europe.

Lux One programme (70min) showcases the variety of work being made by contemporary British-based artists, with a selection of works from the LUX collection from the last two years. The films included are wildly different, encompassing playful and enigmatic uses. Sebastian Buerkner, Stephen Sutcliffe, Luke Fowler, Emily Richardson, Semiconductor, Stephen Claydon & Ducan Campbell

Lux Two programme (80min) shows films that involve a contemplative intensity: they focus their attention on a place or an object in such a way that it opens out, suddenly, onto other vistas. Ben Rivers, Ursula Mayer, Simon Martin, Emily Wardill, Graham Ellard/Stephen Johnstone & Rosalind Nashishibi/Lucy Skaer

GEORGE BARBER RETROSPECTIVE
A pioneer of British video art, once described in Art Monthly as “the Henry Ford of independent video”, George Barber was a founding member of ZG Magazine and a leading figure in the Scratch Video phenomenon of the 1980s. Narrative is at the centre of much of his work, whether deconstructing to find existential meaning in the margins of modern life.

A live SONIC ART PERFORMANCE evening – AVOID
Mark Fell (UK) Lee Gamble (UK) Marinos Koutsomichalis (GK) Theo Burt (UK) DJs M+C, Rian Treanor, Ed Martin.

Bookings via Jumbo records – 0113  245 5570

AVOID, curated by Leeds-based sound artist Joe Gilmore, presents an evening of sound art and computer music exploring the extremes of synthesis, abstraction and transformation.

Mark Fell
Mark works with new technologies, sound, image and interaction, bringing together interests in experimental electronic musics, contemporary art, philosophy and computer science.
http://www.markfell.com

Lee Gamble
Lee Gamble, a founding member of the UK-based Cyrk collective, explores abstraction through extreme sibilant frequencies and digital noise.
http://leegamble.blogspot.com

Theo Burt
Theo uses digital sound and video to document systems through live performance and installations. His work involves designing and building abstract computer systems then performing live audio and video ‘views’ of them.
http://www.theoburt.com

Marinos Koutsomichalis

Active in the fields of both electronic and acoustic music, Marinos is interested in creating self-evident sonic experiences.
http://www.marinoskoutsomichalis.com

Lee Gamble performance

The PROJECTION GALLERY is a London based artists’ collective of fine artists in film and video, including a nominee for the 2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize

Projection Gallery One programme (70min) featuring work from; Alex Mirutziu, Vishal Shah, Dawn Wooley, Sarah Andrew, Christopher Clarke, Andrew Thomas, Dave Farnham, Sheena MacRae, Esther Johnson, Lucy Pawlack, Janet Curley Cannon, Sheena MacRae & Sayshun Jay

Projection Gallery Two programme (70min) featuring work from; Anne Guest, Kelly Dearsley, Alice Bradshaw Neil Bryant, Benjamin Cooper, Fred Lindberg, Stuart Simpson, Linda Persson, Giles Ripley, Christoph Steger, Marianna/Daniel O!Reilly, Lyn Lowenstein, Gunter Puller

BARBEL NEUBAUER is one of Europe’s leading artists in animation and experimental films. Her practice spans handmade filmmaking techniques of painting and scratching directly on to celluloid through to digital 3D abstract animation.

This screening or her films includes her latest work – MONDLICHT (4:22) 1997, FEUERHAUS  (5:24) 1998, PASSAGE (8:02) 2003, FLOCKENSPIEL I (3:29) 2003, FLOCKENSPIEL II (7:24) 2003, FLOCKENSPIEL III (6:49) 2003, FLOCKENSPIEL IV (7:09) 2004, FRACTAL CYCLES excerpt (12:00) 2009, MORPHS OF PEGASUS excerpt (19:00) 2004-09

LILY MARKIEWICZ artist/curator shows a collection of artists’ short films around the theme of the Journey, offering different interpretations, narratives and contexts. Artists include Ruth Novaczek, Michael Mazière, Roz Mortimer, Matthias Müller, Judy Price and Alia Syed.

Huddersfield based BASE (assoc Blink), associated artists’ group, bring an evening of show-and-tell with their cross-disciplinary, multi-platform work, which has created original and effective combinations of science, film, mobile phones, realworld games, RFID, Bluetooth, performance, theatre, literature, new media technologies, interactive architecture, community and public art info

SUKI CHAN nominee Northern Art Prize 2008 will be showing her latest work Interval II. Her video installation amplifies the melancholic atmosphere of the image with a film that conjure a poignant mood of transience, of migrations, of time!s passing and life passing away.

Commissioned by Chinese Arts Centre. Funded by Arts Council England, London with the support of Film London Artists! Moving Image Network. Photography: Andrew Hunwick & Suki Chan Production assistants: Yuen Ching Yin, Xiao Wu, Ricky Sham , John Pugh Post-production: Andrew Hunwick Sound design: Erik Knive Skodvin

CURATORS’ PANEL DISCUSSION
An expert panel discuss media art exhibition Saturday 16th 1.30pm

Chaired by Deborah Chan from the North West Media Arts Network, with Layla Bloom curator at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Kwong Lee director/curator at Castlefield Gallery
Manchester, Moira Innes director/curator at Leeds Met Gallery, Bill Howard the director of the London based artists group The Projection Gallery.

TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS as part of our new year round training programme: Digital Projection for Exhibition, and Sound/sonic Art. Limited spaces.

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