alt_wilderness
Venue: Newark Works • BA2 3DZ
Opening night: 6pm until late • Fri 24 May 2024
Open 11am - 6pm daily • 25 May to 8 June 2024
Fully accessible, for full details see map : fringeartsbath.co.uk/map
Envision a kaleidoscope of projected artworks seamlessly harmonising with sound and technology. A dream-like space that allows audiences to engage with art through an optimistic futurist lens that encourages a democratisation of creative expression and experience.
A challenge to formality, rigidity and the prescribed norms that govern society’s engagement with art and the gallery exhibition experience. An opportunity for work across all mediums to collide, contrast and coalesce. A space for audiences to encounter new work made by emerging artists with less than three years of professional experience.
The underlying theme? We encourage you to discover this during one of the events.
To be clear, we are guided by a commitment to responsible and ethical uses of technology. We dislike dominant and addictive tech products as much as you do. As such, this experience does not aim to use technology to replace the format of an in-person exhibition. Instead, it asks whether we can use technology in creative ways to encourage new modes of engagement with art.
Featuring three dedicated sessions for both adults and children to experience the work independently; opening night, children’s afternoon, adult’s chill out evening. As well as an ongoing looped exhibition experience throughout FaB Festival.
Image © Nigel Fryatt
Curated by Nigel Fryatt and Charlotte Godfrey
Nigel Fryatt (datarav3) is a generative artist, creative technologist and web developer based in Bath, UK. He uses code to create artworks and live visual experiences, and also collaborates with artists to realise their creative visions using technology. He is a resident at Bath Spa University’s centre for innovation “The Studio” and Creative Media Mentor at the university’s graduate studio residency “Emerge”. Nigel also co-creates The Arts Show Podcast. Insta @datarav3 / datarav3.art / twitter.com/datarav3
Charlotte Godfrey leads ‘Emerge’ as Studio Manager and Creative Producer. Emerge is based at Sion Hill in Bath and is a studio space focused on the early generation of economically sustainable creative practice, meaningful placemaking and a space for creative growth and collaboration for the whole community. Insta @emergeinbath / twitter.com/EMERGEinBath / twitter.com/GoddersMartin
alt_wilderness is also being supported by Dave Webb, a leading creative technologist and digital artist based in Bath. Dave is a resident at The Studio and also lectures at Bath Spa University. Insta @crispysmokedweb
