TUNE IN TO FREQUENCY WHILE YOU SHOP
News release
25th October 2011
Visitors to Lincoln’s Waterside Shopping Centre can tune in to Frequency 2011 while they’re hitting the shops this week.
A computer-generated talking human head is being shown in the centre to encourage everyone to experience the city’s first Digital Culture Festival.
Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head is a 3D automated and animated head which reacts to audience interrogation: ask it a question and it will respond using real-time lip syncing, speech synthesis and facial expressions.
Stelarc (real name Stelios Arkadiou) is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focus on extending the capabilities of the human body.
The Prosthetic Head can be seen in the Waterside Shopping Centre until Saturday 29th October between 10am and 5pm.
Elsewhere festival goers can experience Wondermart, an interactive audio tour of a supermarket complete with headphones and a shopping trolley, and Kinesonic, a combination of interactive installations and live performances by Lincoln-based Jestival.
Wondermart by Silvia Mercuriali takes place at various times daily all this week – call 01522 837600 to book or call in at the Engline Shed box office to pick up your headphones.
Kinesonic can be seen at New Life Church on Newland on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th October from 1pm until 4pm (drop-in) and there’s a free performance on Saturday 29th October at 4pm. Book tickets at http://frequency2011.eventbrite.com
Frequency 2011 is part of the Igniting Ambition Festival 2011, a Cultural Olympiad programme in the East Midlands which invests in projects and people that take the London 2012 Games as their inspiration to create once-in-a-lifetime cultural opportunities for audiences and communities.
Igniting Ambition is funded by Legacy Trust UK, the European Regional Development Fund and the East Midlands Development Agency, with the support of Arts Council England and many others.
Legacy Trust UK is an independent charity set up to create a cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK and is also a principal funder of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival. The Trust is funded by a £40 million endowment from the Big Lottery Fund (£29m), Department for Culture Media and Sport (£6m) and Arts Council England (£5m).
For more information about Frequency 2011 visit www.frequency.org.uk, www.facebook.com/frequencyfestival or www.twitter.com/frequency_fest
Notes for Editors
Frequency 2011 is a partnership between University of Lincoln, The Collection, the Usher Gallery and Lincoln Drill Hall with Threshold Studios, an artist-led organisation supporting both emerging and established artists, taking the role of Festival Directors.
This event is part of the Lincolnshire Showcase. The Showcase is made up of 12 very special arts projects which will travel through the county and are at the heart of Lincolnshire’s contribution to the Connecting Communities events, part of the Igniting Ambition programme. The Showcase is part of the Cultural Olympiad, which began in 2008, four years to the day to the opening of the Olympics. Connecting Communities takes place in 2011 in Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.
The ERDF programme aims to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union by supporting regional economic development. For more information on ERDF funding generally, please visit www.erdf.communities.gov.uk
The University of Lincoln is instrumental in bringing the Festival of Digital Culture to the city, and many academics and students from its Art, Architecture and Design faculty and its Media, Humanities and Technology faculty are taking part as artists as well as being involved in the planning. The University is committed to promoting the arts and has been a key driver in raising the city’s cultural offering since the institution’s establishment in 2001, notably with its Lincoln Academy series, its degree shows, sponsorship of the Lincoln Book Festival and European Festival of Arts and the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, one of the largest theatres in the region.
Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives. It supports a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts. Great art inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves, and the world around us. In short, it makes life better. Between 2011 and 2015, Arts Council England will invest £1.4 billion of public money from government and a further £0.85 billion from the National Lottery to create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.
Lincolnshire County Council is a proud promoter of the county’s arts, culture and heritage. The authority manages many of Lincolnshire’s major cultural attractions, such as The Collection, Gainsborough Old Hall and Lincoln Castle, and also supports a number of initiatives across the county that help to increase access to the arts.
Lincolnshire One Venues (LOV) exists to bring people the very best in arts and culture by working together to support, sustain and develop the arts and arts venues across Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire One Venues are: Stamford Arts Centre (Stamford), the South Holland Centre (Spalding), the Guildhall Arts Centre (Grantham), The Hub: National Centre for Craft and Design (Sleaford), Lincoln Drill Hall, the Embassy Theatre (Skegness), the Terry O’ Toole Theatre (North Hykeham), The Collection (Lincoln), Trinity Arts Centre (Gainsborough), Riverhead Theatre (Louth) and LPAC (Lincoln).
The Frequency Associate Artists scheme has been funded by the Lincolnshire One programme which forms part of 21 national projects under the Arts Council England ‘Thrive’ programme that aims to strengthen the UK Arts sector and provide a unique opportunity for Arts organisations to develop, change and continuously improve.
For media enquiries please email press@frequency.org.uk or call
Jez Ashberry or Kate Strawson on 01522 528540
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