Core Facts
Cultural commissioners, curators and commentators from around the UK are taking part in a one day symposium, "Clicks or Mortar?", at the
Tyneside Cinema to examine the future for film and the visual arts in the digital age.
They will be defining the challenges posed by the following questions:
• How important are buildings in the digital world?
• Who programmes cultural spaces in an on-demand, online world?
• Are tomorrow’s pleasures solitary ones?
• How will people find and experience culture tomorrow?
Acclaimed director and cinematic artist
Peter Greenaway will give the keynote lecture at 12.15.
Speakers include Adrian Friedli,
Arts Council England, Eddi Berg,
BFI, Peter Buckingham,
UK Film Council, John McGrath, National Theatre Wales, Lucy Wurstlin,
4iP, Matthew Postgate
BBC, Maurice Suckling,
Mustard Corporation and Matthew Peacock,
Streetwise Opera.
The symposium is sold out but you can follow the proceedings live during the event at:
www.thepixelpalace.org/tv Twitter Hashtag: #clicksormortar
Quotes
Mark Dobson, chief executive of
Tyneside Cinema:
“The Tyneside has had a hugely successful first year following its major refurbishment. We have our sights firmly on the future and are looking to keep this fabulous building relevant for audiences in the digital age. Dixon Scott, the founder of the cinema, saw the potential of the new media, news reels, in the 1930s. It’s our turn now to realise the potential of the digital media.”
Bill Thompson, co-curator,
Pixel Palace:
“Digital projection is turning cinemas into spaces that can support every sort of screen-based creative work, extending their usefulness far beyond simply showing films. In the future they may be transformed from ‘picture palaces’ into ‘pixel palaces’. “During the days surrounding the conference, the Tyneside Cinema will host games players, interactive performance artists and moving image makers, supporting new forms of film storytelling and, most significantly, engaging audiences who may well be turning from passive consumers of culture into active participants in its creation.”
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