[spectre] Do Billboards Dream Of Electric Screens? at Urban Screens Manchester

[Anette Schäfer]

Do Billboards Dream Of Electric Screens? at Urban Screens Manchester

Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th October
(See below for programme schedule)

Do Billboards Dream Of Electric Screens?

Trampoline brings an international programme of artists’ short films to
Urban Screens Manchester as part of Trampoline’s 10th anniversary
celebration taking place in November.

Trampoline has chosen 16 short films that explore our relationship with the
moving image in the public realm, subtle interventions that enter into
dialogue with the influx of dynamic digital signage and advertising to our
high streets and public spaces. 

The City, micro narrative and the Big Close Up are elements from film
culture now re-imagined in the first programme, “The Citizen” while “These
Four Walls” takes architecture and its relationship with the passers-by
experience of advertising hoardings as its central theme.

Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens? uncovers artistic possibilities of
this new digital infrastructure and alerts us to be aware of our developing
urban surroundings. 


 “Urban Screens Manchester: IT'S ABOUT CONTENT!

Urban Screens Manchester 07 explores the conditions for urban screens from a
multitude of perspectives, making it relevant to media specialists,
designers, artists, architects, urban planners, broadcasters and theorists.
 
The omnipresence of public displays such as LED, LCD, plasma screens, large
scale projections and media facades demands a critical reflection of their
impact on cities and on our perceptions of them. At the same time, they
offer new and exciting possibilities for artistic and non-commercial use as
well as for community development and play.
 
Urban Screens Manchester looks specifically at the creation of content,
commissioning / funding issues, curatorship and the architectural
possibilities of urban screens in the 21st century.”


Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens?

Programme 1 – The Citizen

Collectif Fact, CH, Circus
Oliver Husain, DE, Shrivel
Gob Squad, UK/DE, Relax and Shop
Miles Chalcraft, UK, Lisa and Jean
George Drivas, GR, Beta Test
Corine Stübi, CH, Glamourama
Adi Shniderman, Merav Ezer, ISR, Air Condition

Programme 2 - These Four Walls

Lizzie Hughes, UK, 134 Contrails
8gg, CN, Develop
Suzanne Moxhay, UK, Hinterland
Sean Capone / Supernature, USA, Drips (Color)
Kim Collmer, USA, Berlin Skin
Frank Abbott, UK, Beyond the Village of the Damned
CutUp, UK, Environment of Rapid Evolution
Martha Gorzycki, USA, Unfurling
Pat Lockley, UK, I Am Wall


Programme schedule

Thur 11th October
The Citizen / These Four Walls
Exchange Square, 10 – 11am
Cathedral Gardens, 3.30 - 4.30pm
All Saints Gardens, 10 – 11pm

Fri 12th October
Dynamic Screens in Live Media Art Poster Session with Anette Schäfer
Cinema 2, Corner House, 3pm

The Citizen / These Four Walls
Cathedral Gardens, 4 – 5pm

Sat 13th October
The Citizen / These Four Walls
Cathedral Gardens, 7 – 8pm

Sun 14th October
The Citizen / These Four Walls
Exchange Square, 3 – 4pm
Cathedral Gardens, 11 – 12pm
                        

Funded by:
• Three Cities Create and Connect European Regional Development Fund
(Part-Financed by the European Union) 
• Arts Council England
• Thanks to Derby Quad and Broadway Media Centre.

Notes:
• For full information on Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens? visit
www.trampoline.org.uk for listings and updates

• For more information on Urban Screens Manchester, visit
www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk

• Trampoline’s 10th anniversary celebration is taking place on November 29th
at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham

Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens? is a Trampoline Project in
partnership with Royal Centre Nottingham, Derby Big Screen, and Phoenix
Leicester. 

www.trampoline.org.uk
www.trampoline-berlin.de
www.radiator-festival.org