Press Release – Attaya Projects

Dynamix Live – 2017

Lalya — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:07:54 +0000

Dynamix Live returns to Dynamix Skatepark for 2017!

Dynamix Live is an innovative live digital media arts piece that launched on 1st May 2016 and is relaunching for this winter/spring season. The piece consists of a dynamic projection of the activities which take place at Dynamix onto its building’s façade, turning it inside out. High-definition live and recorded footage of skateboarders, BMX riders, scooterers, wall-trampolinists, motocross riders and aerial circus artists, captured by action cameras and mobile phone, is edited live by a VJ into a stylised single stream video and projected in real time and large scale onto the building – thereby revealing the usually hidden activities happening inside and behind the 40 000sqft warehouse, and transforming them into a cinematic experience for the audience.

This project also serves as an opportunity to share Dynamix’s plans to further develop the Albany Road site they are based on as a Village of Health, Well-being, Creativity and Innovation, and Social Enterprise. This includes the creation of co-working and incubator spaces, as well as accelerator and other support programmes for Sport and Health tech, and tech for good companies. This collaboration with Attaya Projects is an example of the kind of benefits brought by diverse sectors and practitioners cohabiting on the site: sharing skills, creating new products and outcomes, and breeding innovation.

SCHEDULE

Dynamix Live will happen on three evenings during winter 2017, featuring invited VJ / live video editors, and with playbacks during other nights (detailed programme to be announced HERE).

Event dates:
26th February 2017
26th March 2017
23rd April 2017

Remote audiences can also experience the piece live through an online broadcast – link provided HERE.

The public is welcome from 8pm onwards, with the performance starting at 8.30pm and ending at 10pm.

Skaters and other athletes wishing to be featured during the performance get a free use of the skatepark from 8-10pm!

Free entry!

LOCATION

Dynamix Skate Park, Junction of Albany Rd and A184 (Felling by-pass), Gateshead, NE8 3AT

CONTACT INFO

For more information about the piece, please contact Lalya Gaye < lalya @ attayaprojects . com > or < info @ dynamixcic . org > for info about the events or venue.

COVERAGE

“Dynamix Live brings the inside out at a Gateshead skatepark” – We Are Tech North – 08.03.17

PARTNERSHIP

Dynamix Live is a collaboration between Dynamix Skatepark (run by Dynamix Extreme CIC) in Gateshead and the Newcastle-based digital media art practice Attaya Projects – featuring a series of filmmakers including Alessandro Pascale and Nico Amalfitano. The project is funded by Tech North, with support from ISIS Arts.

Dynamix Extreme CIC is a social enterprise that transforms disused spaces for and with communities. They have created the centre for wheeled sports and performing arts Dynamix Skatepark, located in Gateshead – the only one of its kind in the North of England – featuring facilities for indoor skateboarding, BMX, scootering, inline and quad-skating, aerial circus and trampoline circus skills training and outdoor motocross and 4×4 driving tracks.

Attaya Projects is a collaborative practice founded and run by artist and designer Lalya Gaye, which specialises in public space digital art installations, digital innovation and community engagement.

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Dynamix Live

Lalya — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:30:27 +0000

LIVE STREAM HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GH7r8MLYU

Dynamix Live is an innovative live digital media arts piece that will launch at Dynamix Skatepark in Gateshead on 1st May 2016. The piece consists of a dynamic projection of the activities which take place at Dynamix onto its building’s façade, turning it inside out. High-definition live and recorded footage of skateboarders, BMX riders, scooterers, wall-trampolinists, motocross riders and aerial circus artists, captured by action cameras and a drone, is edited live by a VJ into a stylised single stream video and projected in real time and large scale onto the building – thereby revealing the usually hidden activities happening inside and behind the 40 000sqft warehouse, and transforming them into a cinematic experience for the audience.

SCHEDULE

The piece will launch on 1st May with live improv music from the “dorkestra” Phallictite, and will be featured at night time on a regular basis during an extended period of time, with live sessions featuring an invited VJ / live video editor followed by playbacks during the night (detailed programme to be announced HERE). Remote audiences can also experience the piece live through an online broadcast HERE.

The public on launch night is welcome from 8pm onwards, with the performance starting at 9pm and ending at 10pm.

Skaters and other athletes wishing to be featured during the performance get a free use of the skatepark from 8-10pm.

Free entry!

LOCATION

Dynamix Skate Park, Junction of Albany Rd and A184 (Felling by-pass), Gateshead, NE8 3AT

CONTACT INFO

For more information, please contact Lalya Gaye < lalya @ attayaprojects . com >

PARTNERSHIP

Dynamix Live is a collaboration between Dynamix Skatepark (run by Dynamix Extreme CIC) in Gateshead and the Newcastle-based digital media art practice Attaya Projects – featuring a series of filmmakers including Alessandro Pascale. The project is funded by Tech North, with support from ISIS Arts and Breeze Creatives.

Top photo by I Am Maxao, modified under ShareAdapt CC licence.

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Press Release – Newcastle’s Innovative Attaya Projects Is Among the Best of the North.

Lalya — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 07:38:21 +0000

Newcastle’s cutting-edge organisation Attaya Projects has been chosen for the 2015 Hannah Directory.

The Hannah Directory, now in its third year, highlights people and organisations doing great things in the north of England.

Attaya Projects has been chosen to represent Newcastle upon Tyne. Attaya Projects is a collaborative digital media arts practice that creates beautiful experiences for a variety of audiences through interactive art installations; and designs bespoke products for the creative industries and the public sector. Attaya also provides expert consulting in digital innovation and promotes local community empowerment through the creative use of open technology.

Each project is taken on by a tailored team of world-class experts. Their pool of collaborators is both local and international, as well as diverse and interdisciplinary: It is distributed across 4 continents, inclusive, and with expertise in areas such as community engagement, sound art, architecture, electronics, programming, video, photography, engineering, glass and textile.

Attaya’s clients include various festivals such as the Durham Brass Festival and Thinking Digital, as well as arts and community organisations, individual artists, schools, universities, and European Union programmes.

“I’m delighted that Attaya Projects are involved in Hannah Directory this year,” says Andrew Wilson, who co-ordinates the Directory. “Attaya Projects is currently involved with an exciting cutting-edge collaboration with Canadian sound-artist Jessica Thompson from Toronto who is doing an art residency at ISIS Arts in Newcastle. The project explores sonic notation, borderlines, social changes in urban areas and big data.”

Urban mapping artists Jessica Thompson, Lalya Gaye and Jessica Dolby reading the Hannah Directory in a café in Newcastle

The 2015 Directory features more than fifty people and organisations in Barrow-in-Furness, Calder Valley, Huddersfield, Halifax, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, North Tyneside, Ossett, Otley, Preston, Salford, Sheffield, Stockport, Wakefield, York as well as Newcastle upon Tyne.

It includes fun, fascinating and innovative activities in fields including the arts, music, business and social organisation, and celebrates the possibility of cooperation between people and places in England’s north for the common good.

Each organisation contributing to the 2015 Hannah Directory is having a small celebration to mark the launch. Attaya Projects will contribute with an open studio afternoon and as one of Newcastle’s pick-up location for the Directory.

“It’s great to be part of this year’s Directory,” said Lalya Gaye of Attaya Projects. “We think that the North of England is an exciting region to work and live in. The way that the Directory celebrates this and creates connections between people who love this region is brilliant and we’re very happy to be part of it.”

Notes

Hannah Directory is named after an inspirational figure from the north of England, Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956), a suffragette and rebel who tried to create ‘beauty in civic life’ in her work on public libraries, parks and gardens.

For more information or comment on Hannah Directory, contact directory organiser Andrew Wilson on andrew@foldup.org.

Website: hannahfestival.com
Twitter: @hannahfestival
Facebook: Hannah festival

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