PROJECTED LIGHT & COLOUR: EARLY VISUAL MUSIC, COLOUR ORGANS & LIGHT SHOWS - Cindy Keefer (Centre for Visual Music -USA) From the first known colour organ experiments in the 1700s, to Oskar Fischinger's multiple projector light shows of the mid 1920s, through to some legendary 1960s light shows; key examples of visual music's long, rich but little known history will be explored in this talk.  Presented by Cindy Keefer from the LA based Center for Visual Music and illustrated by slides and rare film footage, the talk contextualises colour organs and light shows as precursors to modern VJ and audiovisual culture...                               MORE INFO >>

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND: ARTISTIC EXPLORATIONS IN SYNAESTHESIA - Dr Jamie Ward, Samantha Moore & Simon Ings
Artists have long been fascinated by synaesthesia: where one sense reaches into the realm of another. Some, like Kandinsky and Scriabin, thought this suprasensory state spiritual. But how does synaesthesia relate to artistic endeavour and aesthetic appreciation? Navigating these realms and separating science from myth are synaesthesia researcher Dr Jamie Ward, filmmaker Samantha Moore and science writer Simon Ings...                                                                                                                                  MORE INFO >>

PETER GREENAWAY: HAVE WE SEEN ANY CINEMA YET?
Outrageous and controversial, director Peter Greenaway is one of cinema's great antagonists.  Here he'll challenge the 'tyrannies' of cinema as we know it. Disquieted by the inability of the cinema that exists to provide the potential excitements of a 21st Century, Greenaway questions established modes of production and consumption in cinema and provokes us to consider the tyrannical power of the frame, the actor, the script, of celebrity and even the camera itself...                                                                   MORE INFO >>

SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS PRESENTATION - screening and talk
Over the past few years Semiconductor's Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt have created an arresting stream of sound films, music videos, live cinema performances and multimedia installations that explore the new terrain they find deep within the cracks between the visual and the auditory.  In this session the artists present a selection of their works and talk about their influences, inspirations and processes, followed by an audience Q&A.                                                                                               MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST...