EVOLUTION 2009

This year’s Evolution programme brings together highlights of contemporary experimental video, film and sound media art from an international selection of artists. It is the eighth year of the festival.

Participating and curating institutions:

Lux is an agency for artists! moving image based in London, which holds the largest collection of artists! film and video in Europe.

The Projection Gallery is a London based artists’ collective of fine artists in film and video, including a nominee for the 2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize

Huddersfield based BASE (assoc Blink), associated artists’ group, bring an evening of show-and-tell with their cross-disciplinary, multi-platform work, which has created original and effective combinations of science, film, mobile phones, realworld games, RFID, Bluetooth, performance, theatre, literature, new media technologies, interactive architecture, community and public art.

Commissioned by Chinese Arts Centre. Funded by Arts Council England, London with the support of Film London Artists! Moving Image Network.

Chaired by Deborah Chan from the North West Media Arts Network, with Layla Bloom curator at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Kwong Lee director/curator at Castlefield Gallery Manchester, Moira Innes director/curator at Leeds Met Gallery, Bill Howard the director of the London based artists group The Projection Gallery.

EVOLUTION 2009
Kuratoren: Lucy Dusgate, Deborah Chan, Layla Bloom, Bill Howard, Kwong Lee, Moira Innes

Künstler: George Barber, Matthias Müller, Luke Fowler, Semiconductor , Ursula Mayer, Simon Martin, Emily Wardill, Sheena MacRae, Günter Puller, Linda Persson, Suki Chan, Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Alia Syed, Bärbel Neubauer, Roz Mortimer