Re: Fwd: Light Night Leeds 2015 - Call for artists' proposals

[Daniel Fligg]

How about we do a crazy oversized LED cub.... Oh, no, wait...

511 more uber cubes isn't going to stay in budget either :(

On 29 May 2015 15:12, "Matt Collins" <mrmatthe...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI

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From: Robinson, Abbe <Abbe.R...@leeds.gov.uk>
Date: Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:42 PM
Subject: Light Night Leeds 2015 - Call for artists' proposals
To: CDV Light Night <Light...@leeds.gov.uk>

Hello

 

We are pleased to announce that the 11th Light Night Leeds festival, supported by Arts Council England, will take place 6-11pm on Friday 9^th October 2015. 

 

Artists and arts organisations are invited to submit innovative and exciting proposals for the Light Night programme.  We are looking for high quality, visually engaging work across all art forms including light projections and installations, sculpture, visual arts, performance, music, theatre, dance and street entertainment.  2015 is the UNESCO International Year of Light, so we are asking artists to respond to the theme of light in a very broad sense, or artists can choose to respond to the city of Leeds in terms of its history, stories, people, and buildings, or imagine Leeds in the future. We are especially interested in interactive or participatory work, and events or activities which are accessible to families.

 

Light Night will commission up to 15 pieces of new work from established artists and each selected artist will receive a bursary of £500 plus up to £300 for materials.  The SHINE programme will support 5 new and emerging artists who will be eligible for a £350 bursary as well as a materials budget, additional support, training and mentoring.

 

So, if you have a bright idea for a Light Night project we want to hear from you!  The deadline for applications is 5pm on Tuesday 30^th June 2015.  For more information and to submit an application, please visit http://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/leeds-light-night-2015/210

 

Please feel free to get in touch with me if you would like to discuss your ideas before submitting, or if you have a project to offer Light Night which does not require any funding from the festival.

 

We are also looking to recruit a large number of volunteers to help us make Light Night a fantastic event.  Please pass on this link to anyone who might be interested in applying: http://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/light-night---volunteer-opportunities/240

 

Best regards,

 

 

Abbe Robinson

Senior Arts Project Officer

Arts Development

Leeds City Council

Tel: 0113 2475948 / 07891 270574

www.leeds.gov.uk

 

      

 

 

Arts Development - for the creative city of Leeds

 

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[Matt C]

I deleted this because it contained Abbe's email but I guess that's redundant now!

Any on ehave any ideas that do not involve crimping?

[Daniel F]

Yeah, sadly once something hits a mailing list there's no going back - even if you delete the archive it's already in 300 inboxes...

I'll shurrup until I have a more realistic idea... /me ponders the cost of EL wire...

[Stanto]

something nerf darts something something

[Matt C]

If anyone has an idea I'll happily help write the proposal and manage the project but don't think I'll have as much time to commit as last year :)

[Daniel F]

Moar mad ideas: Interactive mirror made from 450 rotating penguins...

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/06/penguins-mirror-daniel-rozin/

[Onlyhalfdone]

Wish I'd had time to finish my nerf gun... Enough said

[Onlyhalfdone]

How about 5000 glowing hex bug type robots crawling through tubes and stuff

[J C]

Well lights in tubes was one of the popular suggestions. Or why not finish the nerf guns?

On 12 Jun 2015 11:07 pm, "Onlyhalfdone" <onlyha...@gmail.com> wrote:

How about 5000 glowing hex bug type robots crawling through tubes and stuff

[Onlyhalfdone]

i don't have a lot of time at the moment. The nerf gun is practically there, just needs some dim tweaks to the mechanism and it will work perfectly. The darts are complete, they work fantastic and assembly is down to about 3 to 4 minutes per dart I've printed a sheet of card that you just glue all the components onto the template and just snap them off when assembled. I have all the components to make 1000 darts we'd need to buy some guns but for less then £300 to £400 we could get 10 guns and 2000 darts. We'd need some sort of arena and eye protection / face protection. But for not a lot of effort we could probably get something cobbled together... It won't be as impressive as the cube, but would be great fun to take part in it! Especially with a bit of smoke (I have a machine) maybe some lasers?

Tube idea is my favourite but the reality is it's going to cost several thousand pounds to buy the tubes and components and we haven't even considered how we will make it interactive and fun. I was hoping to make it to Halifax maker fair and see if Eureka needed some interactive light display made based out of our idea of tubes and moving balls glowing balls such as blood or electrical signals moving through the body and see if they would like to commission something that would then reside at Eureka. Given our time is donated for free the cost of the commission would be a fraction of what an organisation would charge. If anyone's in a position to discuss with Eureaka would be interesting.

Alternatively the cube was amazingly popular and stunning are they not interested in having it back or does it have to be something new? I don't see any reason why we wouldn't find a sponsor as we have it to demonstrate already.

Thoughts anyone?