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Dennis Hopkins Lumen The programme of events, exhibitions and public projections for the third Evolution take their inspiration from the city and firmly positions Evolution as a catalyst for media arts against the backdrop of the Leeds International Film Festival. Programmed by Lumen in partnership with the Festival this year's Evolution strand has developed in exciting new directions using new venues and public, city spaces marking itself as Leeds' first and only celebration of the electronic and convergent arts. Evolution aims to consider the future formal possibilities of the moving image and negotiate a critical understanding of what the digital moving image has been, can be and could be. The programme stretches from pioneers to unknowns and spans overlooked venues and city spaces to provoke thought and promote an inclusive approach to public audiences. Screenings in Millennium Square, City Square and Harvey Nichols as part of the Public programme underline Evolution's commitment to finding new ways of presenting the electronic image and new audiences for the Festival. Exhibitions of artists work recognise the overlap of gallery and cinema whilst offering a broader understanding of the human role embedded in the cinematic experience. Evolution's ultimate aim is to engage and inspire using these new approaches and recognise that our audio-visual environment is evolving and our complex relationship inextricably bound up within it. The programme culminates in a one day conference at the Odeon which brings together leading edge creative thinkers to set new agendas, concepts and questions exposing a broader local and regional creative community to critical debates and issues that concern them. Presented by a selection of leading UK and international speakers the conference will showcase pioneering, avant-garde approaches to film and technology examining the deeper meanings and processes behind their success. By placing a strong emphasis on creative and conceptual approaches to interdisciplinary practice the conference will offer a platform for discourse on subjects including architecture, mobile technologies, digital cinema, and gaming. The impending closure of the Odeon signals a change in audiences, technology and the venues for their interaction. The Odeon's alternative function as a conference venue neatly addresses some of the key questions and themes raised throughout Evolution and quietly reveals the inspiration behind its development. In presenting this programme Lumen would like to acknowledge the unrecognised pioneer of the moving image Louis Le Prince and his foresight and imagination in the development of the twin technologies of moving-image recording and projection in Leeds at a time when the world was content with shadow puppets, flick-books and magic lanterns. |
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