Date:

28 February - 8 March

Venue:

Design Centre, University Of Sunderland

Time:

10:00 - 17:00

Cost:

Free

Prepared Radios, Ryota Kuwakubo

Japanese artist and designer Ryota Kuwakubo makes simple but thought-provoking items including jewellery and sculpture. For his AV Festival 08 exhibition he presents us with handmade radios adapted to filter out vowel sounds, transmitting just consonants. The result is unsettling and beguiling.

Ryota Kuwakubo can also be seen taking part as a guest curator on the national Japanese television programme Digital Stadium, which invites artists to submit digital artworks for assessment by top creative talents. Screenings at the Design Centre during the Festival (please check times on 3, 4, 5 and 8 March).