Circulate and Emergency Exit Arts presents Remembering the Future
Digital artists create impressions of future communities in urban spaces
Digital Art by Hellicar & Lewis
London spaces, 7 to 30 August 2015
Throughout August, TV screens that respond to audience interaction will appear in town squares and centres across London, presenting to the public visions of what their communities like look in the future. Digital artists Hellicar & Lewis have been working with six groups of 13-21 year olds to create visions of what their areas might look like in the coming decades, and with cutting edge motion capture technology place passersby into the futuristic world. Pop up performances from Emergency Exit Arts’ Street Arts Academy will teach passers how to use the technology to give their ‘reflection’ fun futuristic outfits and or change the landscape in a fully responsive experience.
Hellicar & Lewis is a craft, design and technology studio working across brands such as Nike and Nissan and venues such as Victoria & Albert Museum and the Roundhouse. The studio, based in East London, works in commercial, fine art and therapeutic contexts nationally and internationally.
Emergency Exit Arts’ Street Arts Academy (SAA) works with young people across the UK to make creative interventions in public spaces. Combining Visual and Performing Arts, SAA works with 13-21 year olds from across London, the UK and Europe to make unexpected art moments/events/performances/installations happen in the spaces in which they live, learn, work and play.
Digital artist Joel Gethin Lewis described the project as “combining the analogue (creative drawing) and the digital (real time skeleton tracking) to create an experience that allows members of the public to see future reflections of themselves as imagined by the youth of London."
Circulate is London's flagship outdoor touring network of theatres and arts organisations, funded for three years by ACE Strategic Touring and supported by the Mayor of London. It builds on the success of London 2012's cultural festival, which saw hundreds of thousands of Londoners enjoying an unprecedented variety of cultural activity across the capital. As well as Remembering the Future, Circulate have been working with French visual artist Olivier Grossetête to producer The People’s Tower, bringing communities together to build bespoke, giant towers made only of tape and cardboard.
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Listings information
The screens are free to use and will be on from 6am to midnight
7 – 9 Aug Enfield Town Centre
In association with Millfield Theatre
Enfield, Greater London EN2 6TR
Performance on Saturday 8th August
For times please check www.millfieldtheatre.co.uk
12 – 15 Aug Deptford Lounge, the Albany
In association with the Albany
9 Giffin Street, Deptford SE8 4RJ
Performance on Saturday 15th August
For times please check www.thealbany.org.uk
21 – 23 Aug St Ann’s Shopping Centre
In association with Harrow Arts Centre
Harrow, Middlesex HA1 1AR
Performance on Saturday 22nd August
For times please check www.harrowarts.com
27 – 30 Aug artsdepot
5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley, London N12 0GA
Performance on Thursday 27th August
For times please check www.artsdepot.co.uk
Additional installation in 2016:
19 – 21 Feb Tara Arts
356 Garratt Lane, London SW18 4ES
www.tara-arts.com
Supported by Arts Council England