CuratorSpace are producing an exhibition as part of Leeds Digital Festival this year to showcase screen-based artists to digital and tech communities.

Screen-based artists are invited to submit their work to be featured on the big screen at Platform, Leeds, UK during Leeds Digital Festival which will run from 16th - 27th April 2018. 

Screen-based works will be played sequentially on a continuous loop and maximum video duration should be 6 minutes. The venue is accessible from the street so works will be available for passersby to view as well as people taking part in the digital festival and visiting Platform. 

Videos will be presented in a horizontal format.

Due to the nature of the space, work will be shown without sound. Subtitles are acceptable if appropriate to the work.  

Screen dimensions are 3840 x 2160 pixels.

Featured artists will be promoted through the CuratorSpace platform and networks, as well as to to tech and digital businesses through Leeds Digital Festival. All enquiries will be forwarded to artists.

We have invited a selection panel who specialise in screen based works. 

Emma Bolland

Emma Bolland is an artist and writer based in Sheffield, who works across writing, film, and performance.

She uses strategies of expanded screenwriting and live film narration to position script development as performance. Last year she presented at the International Screenwriting Research Network Conference: Fact and Fiction, Truth and the Real in New Zealand, and has performed film and text works at symposia including Moving Performances (University of Oxford), Future Imperfect / Imperfect Cinema (University of Plymouth), and A Feminist Space (University of Leeds). Later this year she will be presenting and performing at Critical Reinventions (University of East Anglia), and at Miss Read in Berlin.

She has published widely. Her auto-fictive essay ‘Manus’, which uses experimental writing to examine modes of screen violence is included in On Violence (2018), described by Chris Kraus (author of I Love Dick (1997), televised by Amazon Studios in 2017) as ‘a brilliant and timely anthology’. Later this year her essay and script ‘The Iris Opens / The Iris Closes’ will be published by the Journal of Film and Adaptation in Film and Performance.

https://emmabolland.com

Ilaria Vecchi

Ilaria is an experienced filmmaker who worked on a few independent documentaries and collaborated with some international broadcast companies. For several years, she worked for the LampedusaInFestival as Production Manager and in her spare time, she wrote some articles on immigration in the Mediterranean Sea. 

Her work was exhibited at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, and more recently she has worked on some short documentaries for the Horniman Museum of London. She is completing her PhD in Media and Religious studies and a member of the iRIS Centre (International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling).

https://vimeo.com/ilariagisellavecchi

http://ilariavecchi.wixsite.com/filmmaker

Gorm Lai

Gorm Lai is a Leeds-based, veteran indie game developer and freelance programmer, who has worked on several BAFTA awarded titles. He is a great community enthusiast, and is the co-founder of the Nordic and Global Game Jams. The Global Game Jam has been recorded into Guinness Book of World Records, and has more participating countries than the Winter Olympics.

https://gormlai.me

John Slemensek

John Slemensek is a self taught filmmaker and a big believer in the 'yes man' principle. He is the director of Studio Bokehgo, a socially engaged film, photography, and publicity studio, as well as director of marketing for British Dodgeball, the recognised national federation for the sport of dodgeball in Britain and Ireland.

Throughout his eclectic work he maintains a remit of shining a spotlight on the ethical, creative and inspiring.

He believes in the social responsibility we all carry as storytellers, as well as participants to stories.

https://www.bokehgo.com

Nat Wilkins

Nat Wilkins is a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Northeast England. 

His work is primarily about social landscapes in a rural context. Nat sees photography, both moving and still, as an inherently powerful tools in the weaving of narrative and adopts these inherent strengths, together with a meaningful depth of research of his subjects, in to the stories he creates.

Projects range from anthropological documentaries of rural tradition to extended photo essays on non-conformity in rural life. His work has been exhibited widely and films screened at the Tyneside Cinema, Sunderland University and for the Northern Correspondent magazine.

Nat also works on participatory art projects and runs the video production company Canny Productions.

http://www.natwilkins.co.uk

https://www.cannyproductions.com

Launch Event

There will be a launch event as part of Leeds Digital Festival which will include the launch of the new tech hub at Platform. This will take place on the evening of Monday 16th April. 

Leeds Digital Festival 

Leeds Digital Festival is the North's largest digital festival, which will take place this year from 16th - 27th April 2018. Last year's festival saw 115 events. Events already booked in include the return of Festival favourites FinTech North and Code in the Dark, as well as events based around data, healthtech, sports tech and startups.

https://leedsdigitalfestival.org

Venue

Platform is a new tech and business hub which aims to showcase the work and talent of digital media artists on an LCD media wall in the building’s reception area.

The 120,000 sq ft 13-storey Platform building launched in November 2017 and is where the new three-floor Leeds tech incubator is located. Providing workspace for more than 1,000 people, it will enable entrepreneurs, tech start-ups and second stage businesses to thrive in a like-minded community, to collaborate and generate new ideas and grow within the building.

Craig Burrow, Director of Leeds at Bruntwood, said: “Platform will have a focus on tech and creative businesses and the digital wall in the reception is a great way to showcase digital talent. Bruntwood is a long-term supporter of the arts so we're passionate about supporting existing and emerging talent across the region and we also think it will create a vibrant and thought-provoking arrival for our customers and visitors to the building.

“Working with Leeds BID and East Street Arts, Platform has already become a canvas for artists with Nomad Clan’s Athena Rising on the side of the building really helping the building to stand out and bring something extra to the local community.

“Bruntwood works to put original artwork into its buildings and has long standing relationships with regional educational establishments to provide students with space to display their work, as well as working with well-known established artists.”

https://bruntwood.co.uk/our-locations/leeds/platform