V& A / onedotzero TRANSMISSIONS. Absolutely heaving Friday night free event at the V & A. I’ve been to a few Friday late events there and they are always fabulous. This one no exception, even if they did run out of beer by 9pm. The brochure was a cleaver piece of graphic design where one side had a map and the other had descriptions of each work. If you held it up to the light both sides traced through to each other, with back-to-front numbers on one side reading through to the other. Nice!

My favourite work was outside in the courtyard by UVA, a giant LED 2001-esque block showing pulsing colours that were triggered by a camera on top as people moved close to it. It also triggered synced-up wonderful bass tones. The speakers were spread very far apart, thus enveloping you in sound as you approached the screen.



Also great, especially in the party context, was Jason Bruges' stunning Visual. A giant flat long table of moving LEDS changed colour as someone held up an object to the camera at the end. There were hoards of people gathered around this work wanting a turn.



D-Fuse’s Brilliant City film was great, visually stunning with great music, however, I would like to see it again in a cinema context. It was exhibited in the Chinese room with very bright lights so the projection screen was quite washed out and there were lots of people and bits of the exhibition in the way.

Tank TV’s Follow Me was a wandering tour with video projection. I didn’t really engage with the content but the method of delivery was clever. A women held a cereal box sized projector with speakers attached that she pointed all over the gallery. I guess there was a small DVD player or ipod in there too.



I couldn’t face the Q to chat with Airside’s alien.