Digital Art and Moving Image

Digital Broadway features digital art and moving image exhibitions on several different screens around the building. With the financial support of the Arts Council England, Digital Broadway is commissioning artists working with new media, digital film and video for the Glass Screen and Bar Screen. For more information about the submissions process please contact Matt Davenport m.davenport@broadway.org.uk


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Glass Screen
SUN 1 JUNE - THU 31 JULY (From dusk)
FRACTURED/DISTORTED LANDSCAPE
DAN TOMBS

Although referencing the idea of landscape the piece never appears linear, each rhythm and pattern is fractured and distorted creating a wild and frantic vista, both organic and digital, unnerving and disorientating to the viewer.
The work is made without the use of a lens, Dan takes obsolete twenty or thirty year old games consoles and other video hardware and 'hacks' or 'circuit bends' the internal circuits of the machines creating wild manifestations of colours and shapes often far removed the videogames they usually display.

Bar Screen
TUE 1 - THU 31 JULY (From 4pm)
FUN IN THE SUN
MACE

What Did You Do Last Summer?
A montage of summer sunshine, ice cream, caravan holidays and fun in the sun from the days before we worried about global warming and a holiday to Majorca cost £11! Look out for some real gems including Skegness in the 1930s and 60s and Mablethorpe in the 1920s. This compilation of archive film is brought to you by the Media Archive for Central England (MACE), the regional film archive for the Midlands.
www.macearchive.org.uk



Cinema Screen
TUE 29 JULY, 6.30PM
Manufactured Landscapes (U)
Documentary
Canada, 2006, 1hr 27mins

This award-winning documentary offers an amazing and alarming insight into the human and environmental costs of massive industrial expansion. Its focus is the work of artist Edward Burtynsky, who creates stunning images from the world's toxic industrial landscapes, and it follows him through China as he portrays the effects of the country's massive industrial revolution.
Normal ticket prices apply

Small Screens

TUE 1 - THU 31 JULY
CRITICAL MASS
VARIOUS ARTISTS COMMISSIONED BY THRESHOLD STUDIOS

Threshold Studios in Northampton are commissioning artists moving image work since 2003. Through Critical Mass seventeen shorts have been produced so far. Ranging from formal abstract experimentation to fractured narrative and poetic documentary this work has been screened from Beijing to Los Angeles, Moscow to Canberra, Nottingham to Northampton.

Threshold Studios' third DVD collection of artists' moving image works, Critical Mass:Kinetica, is due for release in July of this year. All three Critical Mass DVDs and a wide range of other art DVDs can be obtained via our Ebay shop (seller ID threshold-studios).

www.thresholdstudios.tv

We are featuring the best and latest videos from the project.

Chladni by Barry Hale
Space-time dynamics in Video Feedback.

Neon Aurora by Michael Shaw
Sculptural forms in virtual space created from converting a dancer's movements into data.

Talskiddy by Lee Hodges
Memories collide in a half remembered dream beneath the hillbrow of shadows.

Equilibrium by Steve Friendship & Simon Withers
From discord come new forms of harmony.

Lacus Temporis by Bret Battey

12,000 data points cluster, converge, disperse in the Lake of Time.

Luxa by Geoff Litherland
One brief moment of experience, a glimpse of autumn light, recaptured.

Sensorium by Owen Tooth & Ali Powers
Boundaries between Self and Environment blur into an epiphany of oneness with everything.

Chaos by Charles Stuart
An impressionist reworking of Nottingham's Goose Fair.

Fire in the Eye by Disinformation
Raw film stock painted with live electricity.

Coalescence by Tim Bassford
A synaesthetic love story.