Our new digital workshops for artists to help you learn how to use cameras, editing, sound, web, and projection for making and showing your work
Running through February and March in the evenings, for as little as £25 per person
Don’t miss out – payment secures your place – see our TRAINING website page for details
Our work from within the cultural sector continues to ensure professional high quality support for all your audio-visual equipment and project management needs. With festival season nearly upon us please remember that we can provide for all your audio-visual needs, and at much cheaper rates than commercial AV companies. We can also advise on artists’ film & media programmes and training.
Lumen are usually 50% cheaper than other AV equipment and technical service suppliers, and we operate right across the UK, and internationally.
Lovebytes – We Love Technology
Presenting the latest adventures in the creative use and misuse of emerging technology.
Ten informal presentations by pioneering artists, designers and technologists exploring the theme of digital craft.
12 February 2010, 10.30am – 4.30pm Electric works, Sheffield Digital Campus. S1 2BJ
Tickets £20 (includes refreshments and buffet lunch). We want to keep it cosy, so places are limited. Book now to avoid disappointment.
Find out more and register for tickets at: www.lovebytes.org.uk
Lumen have just secured funding for eight new commissions, learning workshops and lecture master classes. This exciting artistic programme of media art will be shown across the region in a series of large outdoor public screenings. We then plan to tour it across the UK and internationally
imove in Yorkshire are the main funder, with additional funding from Awards for All and Business Link
Many partners will be involved, initially names include the Hepworth Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds Met University, Leeds City Council, BBC Big Screen and East Street Arts
We are screening our 11 short HD films programme ‘Composure’ at Sheffield Institute of Arts from 21st January – 5th February 2010. The films were shot as a single lock-off shot by 13 artists, with the theme to explore composition and a move away from post production reliance.
Our thanks to Sheffield Hallam University
Location – Sheffield Institute of Arts, Furnival Building, 153 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 2NU
The Aesthetica Short Film Competition has just been launched! This award offers winners and runners-up a fantastic prize package, including:
Screenings of your film at: The National Media Museum (Bradford), Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival (London), Glasgow Film Festival and on the Aesthetica website. £500 first prize, £250 runner-up. 12 months membership with Shooting People. Collection of film books from Wallflower Press. Winner and 10 runners-up to be included on a DVD that will go to all Aesthetica readers.
Lumen have curated two spaces as part of Art in Unusual Spaces (www.artinunusualspaces.co.uk). These include international contemporary media art by film, animation and video artists from across the globe.
onedotzero - mardi gras still
The infamous onedotzero, Kerry Baldry, Sheena MacRae and Lumen bring together exciting experimental work to the entrance and first floor cinema spaces at the Merrion Shopping Centre – central Leeds by Morrisons, LS2 8NG, just down from the universities.
Launch event at 5pm on December 3rd
The media spaces run through December and into January 2010
Flyer: LumenShopEFlyer
See our Training page for the new full list of dates for our media art training workshops. These creative workshops aim to encourage experimentation in your art ideas and projects
Sunday 29 November 2009 – Artists’ film and video with tea and homemade cake. This time around, three films by Beatrice Gibson, Carl Brown and Gregory Kurcewicz.
A NECESSARY MUSIC (Beatrice Gibson, 2008, 28 min), BLUE MONET (Carl Brown, 2006, 55 min), INDEX (Gregory Kurcewicz, 2009, 10 min)
Hyde Park Picture House, Brudenell Road, Leeds, LS6. 1–3pm (open from 1pm for tea and cake films start a bit after) £5/4
Also – Leeds College of Art & Design are running free film theory lectures open to all. The first one is on November 26th, then December 17th. All starts at 5pm at the Vernon Lane Lecture Theatre LS2 8PH
onedotzero
Lumen are programming two media spaces in the Merrion Centre as part of the ‘Art in Unusual Spaces’
We have selected contemporary experiment work from leading filmmakers, artists and animators
Launch on Thursday December 3rd – time tbc
onedotzero – citystates 09 – this programme investigates how cities are changing, and in turn, how we are changing our cities. Includes d-fuse’s av odyssey that captured urban expansion across ten Asian cities. High quality cgi work from across the world
one minute shorts vol3 – Kerry Baldry’s collection of artists work gives a snapshot of some of the exciting work being produced with an eclectic range of techniques including stop frame, video, film, Super8 and 16mm, splitscreen, superimposition, animation, digital and live action
VIEW open submission – 22 artists from across the UK and as far as the USA. This collection shows experimental work from artists working in film to explore themes of memory, place and culture. With perspectives as diverse as pigeon keepers to NYC subways
Sheena MacRae – presents a collection of her films including the latest ‘Odessey’. Macrae’s work manipulates popular iconography in film and video through compression, exploring the modern fascination with speed, nostalgia, information and entertainment
Odyssey - Sheena MacRae
The project is coordinated by Leeds City Council with additional funding from the Arts Council of England