BBC Public Space Broadcasting
Production

2004 - 2010

BBC Big Screen network UK-wide

Curator and Producer | BBC Big Screen Liverpool
Curator and Producer | BBC Big Screen Edinburgh

Delivered in partnership with the BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation, LOCOG: London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games 2012 and host cities/towns.

The BBC Big Screens, also known as the BBC Public Space Broadcasting Project, was at the time of operation the largest not-for-profit network of outdoor digital video screens anywhere in the world, tasked with an explicitly cultural and creative remit.

A collaboration between the BBC, LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games 2012), Phillips (initially, although other screen providers would join in the later stages), and 22 cities and towns across the UK.

Sites included Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Derry, Dover, Edinburgh, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Norwich, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Swansea, Swindon, Waltham Forest (London), and Woolwich (London), plus numerous temporary locations for touring presentation.

I joined the project as Big Screen Manager for Liverpool, facilitating both local/grassroots, national and international collaborations, later also managing the Big Screen Edinburgh. As a result of collaborative work exploring the unique conditions of outdoor screen presentation with the likes of FACT: Foundation for Creative Technology and ICDC: International Centre for Digital Content, Liverpool, I became the principal lead upon new artistic commissions and interactive digital content across the wider Big Screen network.

For this work I was awarded four London 2012 Inspire Awards championing cultural innovation, specifically for Glastonbury Village Screen, a school for live video art at the world’s biggest greenfield music festival (2010), Places of Public Resort, a giant, interactive video jukebox (2009), Unsilent Night, a networked broadcast of silent film and live scores (2009) and DaDaVisions, a series of short film commissions exploring disability representation (2009).

During this same period I produced the public art programme of the UK’s first Urban Screens conference, Urban Screens Manchester (2007), including world premieres by The Light Surgeons, A Wall is a Screen and the European premiere of MegaPhone direct from Times Square, New York.

See Curation for further curatorial examples of my work with the BBC Public Space Broadcasting Project.