Chris Joseph

Derby/ Leicester/ Nottingham

Do Billboards Dream Of Electric Screens?
Trampoline Lights up the Urban Screens as Three Cities Unite

As dusk falls over the East Midlands this weekend, the cities’ largest digital screens will play host to a moving canvas of films from regional and international artists.

Trampoline, the region’s innovative new media arts organisation, brings this first programme of artists’ shorts to the public screens of the East Midland’s three cities, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester, as part of Trampoline’s 10th anniversary celebration, to taking place on November 29th at Broadway Cinema.

These three programmes, ‘The Citizen,’ ‘These Four Walls’ and ‘The Thousand Yard Stare’ operate to either draw the viewer into micro narratives or delicately play with their audience’s experience of advertising.

Trampoline has chosen short films, submitted from all over the world, that explore our relationship with the moving image in the public realm. Subtle interventions become interactions with the influx of dynamic digital signage and advertising to our high streets and public spaces. Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens? endeavours to uncover the possibilities of this new digital infrastructure and how we perceive our developing surroundings. This is an opportunity to watch how cultural content can strengthen local identity and enrich city life.

Whether it’s a brief escape to hinterland or simply man’s best friend chomping on air, Do Billboard’s Dream of Electric Screens? will interact and enlighten as it lights up the three urban screens.

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Sue Thomas (Writer and Professor of New Media at De Montfort University)

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The Creativity Conversations are a weekly series of informal discussion sessions held at the IOCT that focusses on topics within the areas of creativity, innovation, and transdisciplinary work, running every Wednesday to the end of November from 17.30 to 18.30.

Entry is free, though you are recommend to reserve a place to avoid disappointment. To do this, simply go to

www.creativityconversation.co.uk

and click on ‘Schedule’. You can also find out more information about the speakers and forthcoming conversations.