Global Multimedia Interface, Leicester Square, London

Call for projects

Take an LED screen the height of a 4-storey building….place it in
Leicester Square, in the heart of London, where 4 million people pass
through every month…. leave it running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
for an entire year - run it simultaneously on a live webcast to a
potential further audience of 180 million ….Now stand back and
watch…

…Welcome to the Global Multimedia Interface…

Built into the architecture of London's newest and most innovative
entertainment complex, 'Home', the GMI should be perceived as more of an
evolving artwork than an exhibition screen. Part architectural feature,
part communications forum; the largest and most dynamic permanent visual
interface yet established between cyberspace and the real world.

In the first year alone approximately eight thousand eight hundred and
sixty hours of screening time will be packaged into themed bundles; from
one minute animations to three hour movies.

The Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) is working in
collaboration with Big Beat - the people responsible for 'Home' - to
commission new work and to curate and programme a wide range of existing
work for the GMI.

We need your help in assembling material for the GMI.

I wondered therefore whether you may be able to recommend artists' work
that would benefit from exposure in this context? If you have a showreel
or showreels of recent single-channel material that we could view it
would help us enormously. We are particularly keen to create
opportunities for emerging artists and to ensure new commissioning
contexts for established artists, designers and image makers.

Please note that all of the work presented will be re-configured for the
screen format only with the consent of the artist or the artist's
representative.

If you would like further information on the project, or if you have
showreels and artists recommendations, please contact me.