Job opportunity at Kaleider!
Kaleider needs an exceptional Producer with the skill, tenacity and passion to produce Kaleider, it’s productions and the work the company commissions.
It is a full time, permanent position, £30k – £34k dependent on experience.
All the details are available on their website.
Kaleider is a production studio based in Exeter U.K. They bring people together to make extraordinary live experiences, products and services. They make their own work, produce work, commission new work and provide support for artists to develop, push boundaries and take risks with their ideas.
Kaleider hosts a number of Resident artists, researchers, scientists, creative technologists and young people and Kaleider Residents are able to use Kaleider as a co-location base to work from. But Residents are not limited to being Exeter based and they make up the core of Kaleider’s broader network of people, groups, and businesses with differing backgrounds but with a shared desire to turn and face some of the world’s great challenges.
Often the work that comes out of Kaleider is playable, and tries to interrupt people in their everyday contexts. Kaleider is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (2015-18) and is funded by Exeter City Council.
Sustainable Energy is Super! Poster project with Exeter College design students
Chloe Uden from Regen SW has been working with Exeter College students to get fresh perspectives on how sustainable energy is super!
“The ‘Sustainable Energy is Super’ poster design project was a fantastic experience for the Foundation Diploma Graphics students on so many levels. Firstly, the students had the opportunity to work on a “live” project for a real client. This provided the students with design industry experience as they were able to take a detailed brief, and working to a strict deadline, present their initial ideas and later their final outcomes to the client.”
“It enabled the students to learn more about various sustainable energy sources. We know that the sustainable energy sector will grow over the coming years and will provide work opportunities for these students, so it is really important that they are comfortable with the language and thinking which will emerge in our transition to a smart, low carbon economy”
“At Exeter School of Art (part of Exeter College), we are very keen to work with local businesses and organisations to provide industry experience for students in order to prepare them for future employment. This project project really fulfilled that initiative.” Nigel Lowe, Programme Manager for FDA Graphic Communication
Students were set the following brief:
Sustainable energy is SUPER!
We would like you to make a poster which shows a sustainable energy superhero.
There is no bigger challenge for society than climate change and no more important response than a rapid shift to clean energy. Such a dramatic shift in our energy system has big impacts on people: on their bills; in the way they use energy; and on their landscape. There is no path to a clean energy system that does not include the active participation of communities and the public.
Artists have played an important role in every cultural change, helping to draw us in, focusing our attention, inviting us to spend time with new ideas and allowing us to respond both meaningfully, constructively and creatively. Creative practitioners have a key role in enabling people to engage with the complex and challenging implications of climate change and clean energy.
“Over the past 200 years non-renewable energy resources have helped to bring about great advancements. But their consumption has also brought great blight upon the health of the planet and her inhabitants, and our easy access to them is soon running out. But change is just around the corner…
Right now is a great time to help contribute to this change. The more we can increase public awareness and acceptance of renewable energy and local applications, the more direct our path will be to a truly sustainable planet” Land Art Generator Initiative
“So how does creativity inspire us to act? Well, creativity has proved a powerful tool for seducing, provoking and persuading us to drive 4x4s, buy into the latest fashion trends and drink water that comes from the other side of the world. If creative communications have persuaded us to consume in a way that impacts our planet for the worse, then it can be used to inspire us to try out things that have a more positive impact on the environment.” Do The Green Thing
The brief:
- Choose an elemental force OR renewable energy technology
- Create an artwork according to the submission specifications
- Submit your artwork :
Tell us your name and your contact details
- Tell us which sustainable energy resource or technology you have chosen.
- The artwork should be 1110 x 1505 pixels (portrait).
- Supply us with a JPEG for web – a .jpeg or .png of your poster design at 72ppi. This is for our website, our newsletter, our social channels and online press.
- Supply is with a PDF for print – a .pdf of your poster design at 300ppi (if possible). This is for our any events we exhibit at.
- Give us a short quote about your poster
Questions that may help you develop the sustainable energy superhero persona:
You have chosen an elemental force: Solar (heat), Solar (light), Solar (photosynthesis), Lunar (tidal), Wind, Wave, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Biogas (landfill), Biofuel, Waste, Kinetic, Gravity, Algae
- Write as many words as you can think of that you associate with this energy
- Where do you feel this energy source?
- How does it affect you?
- What does this energy source do? How does it affect its surroundings?
- How do we harness electricity from that elemental force?
- Do you have any personal associations with this energy source or energy harnessing technology?
- What if you could affect stuff in this way?
- What would your back story be? How did you get these powers, what was it like?
- What would your superhero name be?
- What would you wear?
- What would you do for the benefit of humanity with these powers?
- What would threaten you?
- How would you disguise/protect yourself?
Resources that may give you some inspiration:
- power-culture.com
- http://www.energy-reality.org/art/#work
- http://dothegreenthing.com/
- http://www.greenpatriotposters.org/posters/
- https://www.regensw.co.uk/arts-and-energy/
What we will do with your artwork:
- We will add some context: why sustainable energy is important
- We will share your poster through all our channels to our subscribers at our events and in our publications.
Responses from students were:
“I wanted to take a more adult approach to the super powers of renewable energy; to appeal to first time buyers.” Matt Bell – Instagram: thyearofgrey
“I wanted to make my project interactive and engage people with the idea of renewable energy” Meg Thomas
“This project really opened my eyes to renewable energy, now I’m excited I have designed something that will open other people’s eyes!” Robert Owens
“I was informed about global warming by the end of this project” Elliot Peckham
“I was surprised about how much I enjoyed and learnt on this project, allowing me to learn about renewable energies and create a piece that reflected this.” Liam Mead
“I really enjoyed this brief as it gave me the opportunity to express my interest in green energy through illustrative means” Callum Goddard
“This was a project I was expecting to really struggle with. However I’m very happy with the way it turned out. I hope it really spreads the word.” George Thomas
“I was rather overwhelmed by the brief at the start, but once we all understood more about renewable energy, I found it really interesting and enjoyable to relate to” Ollie Slee
“This project was a lot of fun and researching that renewable energy is actually affordable was eye opening for me” Calum May
“I had a lot of fun on this project and learnt a lot about the different types of renewable energy” Ben Vizor http://www.behance.net/benvizor
“The focus on Superheroes initially seemed daunting, but this project actually meant I had to visualise and interpret energy in a way I never had before.” Harrison Pidgeon
Next steps:
- A prize will be awarded to the winning poster
- Students will submit their designs to http://www.dothegreenthing.com
- We will share the files with community energy groups and the Regen SW network
- We will explore options to display the works around Exeter City Centre
Energyscapes: a seventeenth-century city
The energy provided by wind and water was essential to all members of local communities in the past. Everyone had an interest and a shared responsibility to ensure that watermills and windmills were maintained. This image is an early prospect of the City of Exeter, published in 1617 in the sixth volume of Civitates orbis terrarum by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. It depicts the network of watermills located beyond the city walls, in celebration perhaps of the technical control of nature achieved by altering the flow of the water through the landscape. In other words it represents an early ‘energyscape’ bringing power and sustenance to the early modern city. Images like this are important for inviting us to ponder today the long history of renewable energy sources in the landscape, and to consider how concerns about energy security faced communities in the past just as they do today.
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Art gives renewable energy to our actions
It’s a bright fluttery day in Exeter. I’m in a meadow watching the fresh-faced artist Helen Morse Palmer with a mallet knocking the stem of a red windmill into the ground. 1500 of these mills catch gusts of a breeze like prayer wheels.
Tck tck tck tck tck tck
There is a wow factor to this installation that’s been created with children from 5 schools in Exeter. You can see it from vistas all across the city and up close, there is a friendly, celebratory air that reminds me of childhood trips to the beach.
Surrounded, as it is, by redbrick 1930s council houses, it certainly adds something delightful to the location, and it has become a landmark moment in my memory.
15 years has past, and my recollection of that enchanting day is fairly strong, unusually bright in the fog of other events and experiences. Perhaps this is one of art’s most potent impacts.
What leaps out for me in my memory is the red, I recall the mills like giant poppies. I still have a sense of the wooden stems and plastic blades standing at waist height and my wandering, grass underfoot to the heart of the swirl of them and looking out at the city that is still new to me.
I noticed the wind; a mostly invisible force and source of much of the beauty in this piece. Here, in my present place in time, I often hear people say that ‘one of the reasons we as a society don’t value or even understand the role of energy in our lives is because we can’t see it’. There, the me in the past can clearly see the subtle, volatile and impetuous character of the wind as it tickles past. I can see humanity’s ingenuity and playfulness and I can see the awesome power of a community working together to create something beautiful.
“Encounters with art can make a lasting mark in memory. They evolve in the mind and resolve into meaning. It seems to me that many actions in life have a root in that which has meaning to the person. The memory of a work of art, piece of music or act of theatre, can continue to give us energy and impetus long after the event. Perhaps art is a source of renewable energy for the soul”
Time has past, tck tck tck tck tck,
I set up an arts and energy programme in 2013; moved to action no doubt by memories like this one. 10 years working in the sustainable energy industry and I know that art engages my heart and mind far more effectively than any report dressed up as it may be in emotive, press-worthy language.
My hope is that our communities and artists can find ways to work together to harness the power of beauty in our transition to a low carbon future. I hope that our arts and energy programme will help to share these arts products further afield and maybe there will be more landmark moments for more of us on our difficult journey.
And you?
- What are your first memories of energy?
- What works of art have left an indelible mark?
- Have any of these experiences inspired you to do something?
