had a bit of a break from the group and left them to get on with things, see how far they would get.
As I joined a team of seven artists on the Glastonbury site this year to work on a arts council big screen commission. It was a great opportunity to get away from work for a few days and chit-chat with the fellow artists and the BBC big screen crew.
For me this was a great opportunity to experiment with large media screen technology. With the screens situated very centrally in a very public space at the meeting point and over 137,000 festival-goers as a potential audience was absolutely fantastic.
My work was shown both in the day and at night. But it was during the night, where for me, it really worked when it looked equally stunning from a distance as from close up. I felt the work really pulsed, throbbing with energy, surrounded by the noise of the music, and general hum of the crowds.
From a distance it loomed out against the night sky as smoke drifted around the screen. I could see it from all over the place, looming large amongst the haze and smoke of Glastonbury. It was large, bright, pulsing with energy and was great to watch.
in talking to the BBC Big Screen crew it made me realise that these screens are going up around the country and being used for more then just big TV’s. It has got me interested in possible uses community groups could make of the big screens.
