AV Festival

The AV Festival is the UK’s largest international festival of electronic art, and features new media art, film, music, and games. As with festivals such as Ars Electronica, ISEA and DEAF, it is considered to be a new media art festival

The bi-annual festival takes place in the cities of Newcastle/Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the North east of England. The 2006 festival took place in March and went for ten days across three major north coast towns of the UK with events starting at 10am and going till 2am. The 2006 and 2008 Festivals were directed by Honor Harger and produced by Fiona Fitzpatrick (2006) and Michelle Hirschhorn (2008). Tom Cullen directed all technical aspects of the show. The 2010 festival was directed by Rebecca Shatwell.

Themes

Since 2006, each festival has had a theme that loosely organizes the events. Festivals have had the following themes:

Events

Each festival invites and commissions new works from international artists and features world premieres. In 2006 the theme of Life brought a bunch of international digital artists with works such as:

See also

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