About
Advances in technology accelerate and mean that high quality video, photographic and audio equipment is readily available to anyone for the creation, editing and viewing of images and sounds. Most of us have a digital camera or even a phone camera that will take pictures as well as video in our pockets. Anyone can document, re-edit and present their lives to the world through social networking sites and video streaming. Artists continue to employ time-based media as a means of producing their work and critically engaging with these developments. Others from different creative fields such as writing sometimes stray across the borders from the word-based to the image-based to develop and realise their ideas too.
BEAM brings together a diverse selection of works in progress by such artists and writers who are addressing the relevance and meaning of the photographic, moving and audio image in their practice.
BEAM is taking place during the second week of Oxford Artweeks 2008.