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Winter North Atlantic Press Shots
A quick update here – just wanted to share some press shots we did recently for Winter North Atlantic, a band making super layered electronic music with just a touch of western thrown in for good measure, whom we are very proud to be involved with. We live-projected some of the visuals we have been working on for the forthcoming Brass Festival 2011 opening event, followed by the spate of festival gigs across across the summer. The shots we all taken in the beautiful High Bridge gallery spaces, using only the ambient light the projections afforded and came up with some pretty interesting results. Check out WNA’s Soundcloud here.
Imi Maufe
Imi Maufe is an artist and maker of fine prints, currently based in Bergen, Norway. We had the pleasure of designing Imi’s catalogue when she was artist in residence at VARC (Visual Arts in Rural Communities) and the sheer volume of cross-disciplinary projects she produced in twelve months was astounding. From pie-making competition attire, to polaroids documenting the changing seasons of set locations, from pain-stakingly hand printed maps illustrating wildlife across the Tarset valley, to a day of Norwegian music and culture curated for the local communities, Imi’s approach was thorough, inclusive and always delivered with an unique, unexpected take on her surroundings and the connections she perceived between each piece. The catalogue became a 210 mm x 230 mm calendar of her activity, with a chronology charting both daily and cumulative progress throughout the residency.
Prolific doesn’t really cover it.
Fast-forward a year or two and we were delighted to help Imi produce a new website built on the superb Indexhibit CMS. This time, it had to include project information and a vast archive of images for Residencies, Exhibitions, Workshops, Interactions and Print Making amongst others. The solution was to create a very simple, clear layout to give the images precedence, and the application of two different styles for displaying galleries so that users didnt have to scroll too much where there was a large volume of photos.
Were really pleased with the end result, and Imi continues to be characteristically busy, so heres to another few years and another few hundred pieces of exciting work going into the online archives!
Check out the site and get in touch to buy some beautiful prints at www.imimaufe.com
Flow
Flow is the North East’s commission as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, a project envisaged by our good friend Mr Ed Carter of Modular, and realised in collaboration with Owl Project and Amenity Space. Scheduled for completion in 2012, this enormous undertaking of architecture meeting art, mechanics and digital technologies will culminate in a floating platform incorporating a traditionally built waterwheel, all moored on the Tyne opposite Baltic square.
The self-powered structure will generate energy from the tidal forces of the river to drive a series of ‘water-organs’, meticulous pieces of engineered automaton which create a sonic and visual response proportionate to the natural activity of the river. The instruments also measure environmental factors including temperature and salinity to create an ever-shifting organic profile of the Tyne.
Just to be absolutely clear, we have nothing to do with this project at all, other than thinking its a fantastic piece of work which the North East is being blessed with (and getting excited by the prospect of the visual design one of our aesthetic heroes Mr Joe Gilmore aka Qubik will bestow upon the public in good time). Follow the development blog here (built by the ever talented Andrew Waters of band-X Media)and let the chaps know what an inspiring job they are doing.