Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens

Trampoline, a new media art organisation based in Nottingham, UK, and Berlin, Germany, has been running showcase events, festivals*, conferences and other media art related projects for the last 10 years. With a close focus on the live aspect of media art, Trampoline has explored experimental artforms as well as innovative ways of exhibiting focussing on public, site-specific contexts.

Do Billboard’s Dream of Electric Screens? is Trampoline’s touring programme of moving image works, highlighting innovative approaches by artists from all over the world.Do Billboard’s Dream of Electric Screens? endeavours to uncover the possibilities of this new digital infrastructure for artistic production. With the overload of commerce and consumerism in our city centres, it is an important step to reclaim this space and question one’s relationship to our urban environment.

The programme is divided into two chapters, "The Citizen" and "These Four Walls". While "The Citizen" shows mainly cinematographic works reflecting upon the relationship between the individual and society as such, "These Four Walls" understands the screenin its two-dimensionality, as an electric canvas or simply a wall.

Curated by: Trampoline (Miles Chalcraft & Anette Schäfer)

This project is supported by Arts Council England, Three Cities Create and Connect and part-financed by The European Union

*Radiator Festival for New Technology Art

Opening: 03.04.08 > 7:30 pm

Please check Fed Square Screen Guide for exact dates and times

http://www.trampoline.org.uk 

http://www.trampoline-berlin.de*http://www.radiator-festival.org

Image credits:Adi Shniderman, Merav Ezer, (Israel), Air Condition, 2005, Nottingham Royal Centre, Photo: Karen Fraser; Suzanne Moxhay, GB, Hinterland, 2007; Image courtesy of Trampoline, for Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens