Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema and The NewBridge Project launch month-long art exhibition and radio broadcast exploring remix culture in the digital age
Artists and curators Will Strong and Rosanna Skett Reuse Aloud: Fri 1 – Sun 31 March 2013
Free exhibition & live events at The NewBridge Project Space 16 New Bridge St West, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Broadcast 24 hours a day on basic.fm
Tune in online at www.basic.fm
On Friday 1 March, Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema and The NewBridge Project are launching Reuse Aloud, a month-long exhibition and radio broadcast throughout March 2013 featuring work from national and international artists, musicians and writers. The exhibition will be hosted in The NewBridge Project Space on New Bridge Street West, and broadcast on Tyneside Cinema’s online radio station basic.fm as part of its digital arts programme, Pixel Palace.
Reuse Aloud is curated by artists Will Strong and Rosanna Skett and will examine the art of using old and existing compositions to make something new, and ask questions about originality in the digital age. It will do this through an ambitious schedule of live and pre-recorded work with contributions from artists and musicians from across the globe, including critically acclaimed artists Frank Nora, Eduardo Navas and Natalia Skobeeva, DJs and mashup pioneers Z-trip and Girl Talk, and award-winning Canadian rap artist Baba Brinkman.
Throughout March a radio booth installed in the NewBridge Project Space will broadcast 24 hours a day on basic.fm. Reuse Aloud will open to the public at 5pm on Friday 1 March with a preview event featuring new work from artists Andy Ingamells, Jess Rose and Joe Pochciol. The exhibition space will be open to the public Monday-Friday, 12noon–6pm throughout March and will culminate in a live 24-hour broadcast marathon starting at 6pm, Friday 29 March and running until 6pm, Saturday 30 March.
Dominic Smith, Pixel Palace Manager at Tyneside Cinema said, “Basic.fm is Pixel Palace’s online radio style broadcast for artists and creative people to share their work, ideas and passions. It is really exciting to host Reuse Aloud on basic.fm while the station is sited in the NewBridge Project Space. This will be the first time we all get together in a real space to play and experiment with the crossovers between art in a gallery space and art that can be shared online.”
Will Strong, artist and director at The NewBridge Project said, “Since the boom of the Internet in the mid-1990s, culture has been revolutionised by the ready availability of ideas and inspiration on a global scale instantly. Reuse Aloud will question titles such as author and owner, in a time accelerated by open-source information sharing.”
Admission to the Reuse Aloud exhibition and live event programme at The NewBridge Project Space is free (no booking required), and will be broadcast online on basic.fm throughout March. Tune in at www.basic.fm or via the free iPhone and Android apps.
The Reuse Aloud exhibition and broadcast schedule is available now at www.basic.fm and www.thenewbridgeproject.com.
