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ACE/BBC SPACE PIONEERS ANNOUNCED
22.02.2012 / News / 0 Comments
53 get ‘license to experiment’
The Arts Council has announced the 53 winners of commissions for its experimental digital arts service, organised with the BBC and the British Film Institute.
The commissions will appear through the summer, from May 11 until October, via computers, smartphones, tablets and connected television.
Alan Davey, chief executive of ACE, said the new service, Space, would give arts and culture organisations the chance to experiment and engage with audiences in a completely new environment.
They include an online museum based on the actual home studio of the late John Peel, the BBC DJ, with access to his own archive; a programme which allows audiences to discover the roles of individual orchestras instruments in a partnership with the Science Museum; live streaming of previously lost Alfred Hitchcock films; a GPS-enabled virtual tour of the 1950s Nottingham of author Alan Sillitoe; and visualisation of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King using the latest gaming technology.
“The Space is one of our most significant interventions in recent years” Davey said. “The Space will stimulate a dramatic step change in skills development, creative leaning and collaboration. It will inspire a great generosity of spirit among the participating organisations, with each of them committed to documenting and sharing the journey they all are taking together.”
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