Brighton Digital Festival announces six art works

Brighton Digital Festival has announced six new art works that will be exhibited across the city as part of its month-long celebration of digital culture.

The works have been made possible through the festival's arts and technology commissions, which were offered to artists for the first time this year.

As part of an expanded array of funding opportunities at the festival, the commissions support the development and exhibition of art works across Brighton and Hove.

In addition, the successful applicants will receive guidance and support from Laurence Hill, the festival's newly-appointed arts adviser.

Mr Hill said: 'The grassroots nature of Brighton Digital Festival is one of its unique features and the arts and tech commissions have given us the opportunity to augment the already excellent work coming out of the arts and digital communities in the city.

'The selected commissions will both challenge and engage, and alongside work commissioned by the city's galleries, I have no doubt they will add to the festival's growing reputation for digital art.

'I'm particularly thrilled that many of the commissions will be presented away from a traditional gallery setting in empty shops and public spaces. It's important to me and to the festival that we continue to introduce new audiences to digital art and this is an excellent way of doing so.'

Hidden Lines, by Oliver Hein

Venue: To be confirmed: disused shop in central Brighton

Dates: September 1-28

Times: After dark

Hidden Lines is a kinetic video and light installation by Oliver Hein that will bring new life to an unused space. From outside, passers-by will be able to look in and wonder at the unfolding narrative, bring their own reasoning and connections to it.

Revolution #10, by Joseph Young

Venue: Locations around the city

Dates: September 12 and13; 19 and 20

Times: 11am-5pm

Inspired by the audio collage Revolution #1 in which the Beatles sang 'You say you want a revolution, well you know, we all want to change the world', sound artist Joseph Young has devised Revolution #10. Over a couple of weekends in the city and online, Joseph is collecting answers to the following questions: If you became Prime Minister what is the first thing you'd say to the nation?; Does democracy matter? Complete the sentence: '˜We need a revolution because'¦'

The New Digital Archaeologists, by Henrik Nieratschker and Marcel Helmer

Venue: Brighton Media Centre

Dates: September 2-9

Times: Weekdays 10am-5.30pm; weekends 11am-6pm

In our increasingly digitally-mediated world, in which new technologies come and go in rapid succession, what will we leave behind for future historians and archaeologists? How will they be able to "read" our present?

Mind's Eye, by Mary Jane Edwards and Andy Franzkowiak

Venue: To be confirmed

Dates: September 13-28

Times: To be confirmed

This ambitious outdoor audio-visual piece taking place in one of Brighton's least-known areas brings art and science together and offers the audience an opportunity to explore and understand the solar system via the voices of those most familiar with it.

Undercurrent, by Natalie Kane and Coralie Gourguechon

Venue: 23 Brighton Square

Dates: September 8-28

Times: 10am-6pm

In Undercurrent, a new work by designer Coralie Gourguechon and artist/technologist Natalie Kane, a large installation of handmade paper electronic speakers is triggered to play sounds by the movement of people in the space.

Interstice by Alex Peckham

Venue: Brighton Media Centre

Dates: September 2-9

Times: Weekdays 10am-5.30pm; weekends 11am-6pm

Commissioned artist Alex Peckham will be showing his artwork Interstice at the Brighton Media Centre, together with an entirely-new piece designed as a response to this work. Interstice combines spatialised sound, dynamic lighting and traditional sculptural techniques to produce a subtly interactive installation which sonifies the human genome, creating a melody that would take centuries to play to its conclusion.

Final details are still being confirmed for some of these pieces, but full information is available if you visit: www.brightondigitalfestival.co.uk