Radical Networks

Vivid Projects kicked off 2015 with RADICAL NETWORKS, a programme of aesthetic disruption and questioning of the moving image, ethics and digital legacies.
RADICAL NETWORKS took a subcultural perspective, seeking out and introducing practices and tendencies from emerging communities of artists, makers and collectives. We invested in R+D with university and third sector partners to seed inter-disciplinary research across neurological and bio-sciences, alongside commissioning live labs and events to action research evolving issues of orphan works and copyleft, reinterpretation and remixing. The programme seeded risk-taking creative research for the company and a collaborative cohort of artists and producers. We were delighted to welcome back Associate Creative Producers Antonio Roberts and Ian Sergeant in formal roles throughout 2015/16. Antonio worked with artists in Birmingham and Chicago to develop live networked events and digital commissions from archival resources, whilst Ian commenced a major research project examining the ethics and legacy of post-houmous digital works.
RADICAL NETWORKS was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council.