AV Festival

The AV Festival is the UK’s largest international festival of electronic art, and features new media art, film, music, and games. As with festivals such as Ars Electronica, ISEA and DEAF, it is considered to be a new media art festival

The bi-annual festival takes place in the cities of Newcastle/Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the North east of England. The latest festival took place in March 2006 with the theme of Life. It went for ten days across three major north coast towns of the UK with events starting at 10am and going till 2am. The 2006 Festival was directed by Honor Harger and managed by Fiona Fitzpatrick. Tom Cullen directed all technical aspects of the show.

Events

Each festival invites and commissions new works from international artists and features world premieres. In 2006 the theme of Life brought a panopoly of international digital arts talent with works such as:

* "Celestial Radio" by Neil Bromwich & Zoe Walker,
* "Spine" by Gina Czarnecki (new commission & World Premiere),
* "Wonderland" by Claire Davies (World Premiere),
* "System C" by Marius Watz (UK premiere),
* "datamatics" by Ryoji Ikeda (new commission & World premiere),
* "Who Am I?" by UMAMi, Preamptive, Retina Glitch & Grainy Collective (new commission & World Premiere),
* "RoboticMusic" by Suguru Goto (UK premiere),
* "What I Know About Stem Cells" by Richard Fenwick (new commission & World premiere),
* "Marching Plague" by The Critical Art Ensemble (World premiere),
* "The Autotelematic Spider Bots" by Ken Rinaldo & Matt Howard (new commission & World premiere),
* "Autoinducer Ph-1 (cross cultural chemistry)" The Phumox Project: Andy Gracie and Brian Lee Yung Rowe (new commission & World premiere),
* "Swell" by Anthony McCall (new commission & World premiere),
* "The Remains of Disembodied Cuisine" by Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr (UK Premiere),
* "Artificial Worlds V.3.0" by Richard Fenwick (new commission & World Premiere),

ee also

*New media art
*New Media art festivals
*Electronic art