DE07

DESIGN EVENT - DE07 11-28 October 2007
Newcastle Gateshead, UK
CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS + COMPETITION

'How Do We Want To Live?'
Design Event is an annual UK festival showcasing cutting edge work from designers across all disciplines. Design Event's next edition - DE07 - takes place in Newcastle, Gateshead from 11-28 October 2007, and film & new media curators Cinefeel are currently putting together a video programme for screening at the Baltic Contemporary Arts Centre. Cinefeel are inviting filmmakers and animators to send in work which has something to say on the subject of this year's DE07 theme of 'How do we want to live?'. From the work screened in the programme, the organisers and festival partners will choose an overall winner who'll receive a £500 cash prize and the winning piece will be profiled on the site of DE07's media partner E-CR (the downloadable edition of Creative Review). DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: AUGUST 10th 2007

Please check out www.cinefeel.org for more information and to download a submission form. For further info about DE07, please visit: www.design-event.co.uk

The Trouble with the Weather

"The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response

Curatorial Statement - Jacqueline Bosscher,

Maria Miranda & Norie Neumark

“It was a dark and stormy night…” Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford

Stormy weather. Sultry conditions. A blindingly bright sun. From art and literature to popular culture, the weather has painted the background, a signal of the emotional climate or a portent of unsettling action to come. Meanwhile in the everyday, the weather has been background noise -- the stuff of banal exchange -- smoothing contact between strangers and friends. But no more." read all on CO²nscience : June 2007