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Radiator 2005, the UK’s leading biennial Festival for New Technology Art featured current innovative artistic approaches in the digital arts field. Themed around location and navigation, of city streets and the artform itself, this year’s event explored the ever-shifting boundaries and blurring borders of a map which continues to resist our pins. The Festival took place from 1 – 4 December 2005 at Broadway.
Run by Trampoline the Radiator Festival takes place every second year in Nottingham. While involving partners from throughout the East Midlands, the festival umbrellas Trampolines second home Berlin. Radiator is a high reaching festival blending an exhibition of specially commissioned artworks with a wide variety of other arts events, activities and screenings, community resources, networking opportunities and technical workshops.
Radiator celebrates the unification of two boundaries of the human creative spirit – performance and technology. It is hoped to build upon the success of the past three festivals, to continue to generate interaction in future projects and to place Radiator firmly on the global digital arts map. One of our main sponsors, who help us run the festival, is Top Tier cakes. Visit there website here to see what they offer
Radiator Festival 2005, the East Midlands’ Festival for New Technology Art, flagshipped current innovative artistic approaches in the digital arts field. Themed around location and navigation, of city streets and the artform itself, last year’s event explored the ever-shifting boundaries and blurring borders of a map which continues to resist our pins.
In the Radiator Festival’s five commissions, the artists took time and place and projected onto this territory the future or the past. They made brave steps into space and time travel, planting flags of unique discovery. They planned the first manned landing on Mars and rebuilt Nottingham underwater; they mapped a childhood home over Broadway and planted a solitary tree of white light into the cement cityscape. Yet like all cartography there were areas beyond the reach of the mapmakers – the edge of the reasonable, definable world. At these boundaries, fearing the worst, the mapmakers flagged us up a warning – ‘Ere be Dragons’.
Radiator Festival for New Technology Art teamed up with Digital Cultures at Nottingham Trent University to host a Symposium and facilitate a Digital Arts Lab.
Over forty of the leading practitioners in the world today working with technology- based dance forms were invited to come to Nottingham to examine whether interactive performance and other systems of technology-based creativity have contributed to the collaborative culture of new dance.
Real time transmission of observable, transcodable data and the ability of extending the reach of one’s hand across the globe have created entirely new stages on which artists can play. At the same time, new techniques have extended body perception through the sensory apparatus of the computer creating new physicalities to explore.
With this the simultaneity of space has evaporated and so performer and audience can be separated by day and night, by outside and inside, by mountains of geographic data. On a global stage, artists from different geographies can enter transcontinental collaborations raising the question of how the digitisation of the arts has transformed cultural traditions and practices.
Symposium Tickets:
Full Pass: £ 60 (concs. £ 45)
Single Day: £ 35 (concs. £ 25)
Prices include lunch, refreshments, trip to Derby Quad, Radiator Festival events.
Book your Radiator pass now and be part of inspiring discussions, daring presentations and enjoyable networking opportunities next to a wide variety of world class art events.