PROJECTION BOMBING a temporary installations in public spaces appearing and disappearing across the Beacon’s Festival/ 2013

PROJECTION BOMBING

PROJECTION BOMBING

Kaleidoscopic shapes on the hillsides, moving figures amongst the trees and bursts of colour and pattern in the landscape… this year’s Beacons Festival will feature a brand new addition to our creative programme in collaboration with Lumen. Emerging from the shadows as dusk falls, we’ll be featuring a wide and wonderful array of film, video and animation work created by local, national and international artists selected from our open call. Keep your eyes peeled for these pop-up projections, appearing and disappearing across the Beacon’s site throughout the festival weekend…

Lumen is an artistic audio visual collective working with everyone from the BBC to Welcome to Yorkshire. They specialise in complex, unconventional AV and temporary installations in public spaces.

Abi Sharp: Fairground Lights / Fireworks / Kaleidoscope / Planets

Abi Sharp is an animator who specialises in making abstract visuals inspired by a response to music. She is drawn to a tactile and lo-fi aesthetic, and her work often focuses on aspects of texture and shape, bright colours and fluidity.

Annabelle Craven-Jones: Presence of Mind (Imaging)

A looped projection of a scanner light moves across in endless repetition to induce a hypnotic-like trance. Acting as a light source in itself, it simultaneously draws its audience closer whilst scanning them and its environment.

Imogen Pring: Kaleidoscope / Disco Ball / Ferro / Ferrofluid Film / T & J Prism

Imogen Pring creates Super 8 film that is experimental, abstract, nostalgic and personal. It is film that can be experimented with at any stage, whether it be whilst filming, developing, or projecting. For Imogen Super 8 is not only about the aesthetically pleasing outcome, but also about the entire process of how the images are created.

Waterbaby: Persephone

Persephone, meaning ‘she who destroys the light’. Filmed like a series of moving portraits, Persephone representd the mortality of beauty through ‘memento mori’ symbols of death, from classical paintings such as candles, clocks, peacock feathers, flowers. As her beauty cannot last, it must die

Kai-Oi Jay Yung: Speed Dated / Trampoline

From London’s street cleaning vans to Nanjing Pagoda; Speed Dated mercilessly compounds eight hours of video footage into six minutes of symbol assault. Arcade language and everyday street signage become syntax and structure for the narrative. The result is a cut ‘n’ paste frenzy symptomatic of media-overload culture.

Kiranjit Kaur: Look / Movement / Exhibition

‘Look Movement Exhibition’ – a trilogy of short films – engages the viewer with outbursts of colour and weird movement.The starting point ‘Look’ is about existence and community. Filmed in North Punjab India behind the moving image are a collection of photographs which taken whilst in Belfast from the peace walls, and around Leeds, West Yorkshire.

s-ara: Video Game Mash-up

s-ara’s animations evolve through an experimental and explorative process of the visual culture of video games and the spread of popular gif files. That aesthetic choice reflects lo-fi quality and bug / glitch images of early computer machines.

Sebaldo: Flickering Papier Maché

Sebaldo is an animator, filmmaker and papier mache sculptor, based in London but hailing from nearby Skipton. For Beacons 2013 Sebaldo has been commissioned to create a series of brand new stop motion animations, bringing to life local characters through papier mache puppetry appearing around the festival site!

Soda_Jerk: Tap Hop The Popular Front

In Soda_Jerk’s video Tap Hop the past meets the future in a dance throw-down! By cutting together footage from the musical comedy ‘Pardon My Sarong’ (1942) and the TV series ‘Graffiti Rock’ (1986), a dance battle is staged between the pioneering 1980′s hip-hop crew the New York City Breakers and the seminal 1940′s tap group Tip Tap & Toe.

Tallie Renouf, Amy Bettinson and Chelsea Moore: Reality Suspended

Reality Suspended is a collective group showcasing the work of 3rd year Fine Art and Photography students from The Arts University Bournemouth with the approach to image making influenced by the theoretical notion of an audiences suspension of disbelief.

Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub: Isle of Lox / The Fruits Electric

Borrowing iconography from Greek mythology (Aphrodite’s birth from oceanic foam),the Christian bible (Eve and the forbidden apple) and Grimm’s fairy tales (Hänsel & Gretel), ‘The Fruits Electric’ is a audiovisual quest for the primordial origin of sound.

SHAKES: Glitch

Shakes’ work utilises the warmth, vivid colour and enigmatic character of analogue video through experimental synthesis techniques, with a sporadic glitch aesthetic portraying the idea of a “living” evolving signal.

Ronan Devlin: Afterimage

An afterimage is an optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one’s vision after exposure to the original image has ceased.

OneTenEleven Media: Geo Bomb

OneTenEleven Media is a digital design studio founded in 2008 by digital designer Antony Kitson. Specialising in digital design for print, web and motion graphics with a focus on delivering interactive experiences.

Green Tea Visions: I/A

I/A is an Interactive Audio-Visual Dance Performance, presented outdoors for the first time at this year’s Beacons for a truly unique visual experience.