AV Festival 06 is drawing to the close of its natural life. It has been a packed 10 days, with many highlights, including: 120 people watch the ghostly yet beautiful Celestial Radio mirror-tiled boat sail up the Tyne, 40 of whom simultaneously listen to the specially commissioned :zoviet*france: broadcast.
2000 people watch Suguru Goto’s robotic percussionists at The Sage Gateshead, and some of these get to compose their own robot music.
14 newly commissioned works are made for the festival and premiered.
21 world premieres and 4 UK premieres.
1000 people enjoy projections by VJs at the AV Closing Gala at the Empire, Middlesbrough.
A packed cinema watched the first screening of Blade Runner this millenia, as the late night screening sells out the Tyneside’s Classic cinema.
Thousands of people see Gina Czarnecki’s Spine, of dancers bodies projected onto Newcastle’s Civic Centre.
More than 150 people travel around the 4 exhibition openings at galleries across Sunderland.