Video installation at Leeds University by Hui-Hsuan Hsu, assisted by Lumen Arts

Job Description
AV Technician
Lumen Arts

Overview

Lumen requires a highly motivated Audio-Visual Technician to support our Autumn / Winter 2015 events calendar. The AV Technician will be highly organised, reliable with a background of working with projection, projection-mapping, audio, gallery installation & live events.

Tenure: Temporary contract from October 1st to December 31st 2015, with a view to a permanent contract for 2016.

Start date: October 1st 2015.

Salary: £20,748 pro-rata.

Hours: 30 hours per week. Hours are flexible as required to fulfil the tasks of the post, including weekend and evening work. Additional hours may be required for which overtime is payable.

Deadline for applications is 5pm, September 1st 2015.

To apply please send a covering letter and CV to info@lumen-arts.co.uk

Roles

– Technical co-ordination of technician work and large-scale projects where Lumen is responsible for installation / de-rig of equipment

– Technical co-ordination of Lumen’s own events, including (but not limited to) projections (including outdoor), exhibitions, festivals, screenings, talks, performances

– Arrange delivery and collection of equipment from hire clients as required

– Support the development, administration and delivery of artistic and technical projects

– Support the day-to-day equipment hire from Lumen’s AV resource, including checking out and return of equipment

– Deal with customer enquiries and develop enquiries into a deliverable project plan

– Help promote and develop Lumen’s creative technical and Audio Visual resource

Person Specification

– Proven track record and/or relevant qualification in the operation of audio-visual equipment for installation, exhibition, performance and presentation

– Working knowledge of a wide-range of audio-visual equipment and software

– A passion for film/moving image/sonic artwork

– Good understanding of arts presentation, with excellent production standards.

– Clear understanding of heath and safety issues relating to technical equipment, event structures and related hazards

– Experience of working on own initiative, and prioritising workloads effectively

– Exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail

– Ability to work under pressure, and meet tight deadlines

– Ability and willingness to operate heavy equipment, and a clear understanding of associated health and safety issues

– Excellent people management skills, including managing staff, volunteers, technicians and other sub-contractors

– Highly motivated, and committed to delivering projects to the highest possible standards

– Flexible, and willing to work outside of office hours when required

– A highly personable and client-centric approach

– Full, clean, UK Driving Licence

Location

Lumen is currently based in offices in Holbeck, Leeds. This role will be predominately be based out of the office delivering events, mainly within Leeds.

Occasional travel may be necessary for this role. Candidates should be willing to travel regionally and nationally as required.

Contact

If you have any queries regarding this job description, please contact James Islip / 0113 2469850 / james@lumen-arts.co.uk

Lumen are very proud to support ‘Follies of Youth’ – a new exhibition presented by Pavilion at The Hepworth Wakefield. The show is open from April 2nd until May 31st and there is an opening event on Thursday 16th of April. See Pavilion’s website for details.

Lumen have provided audio-visual equipment for the show, including one of our brand new DLP 7,000 lumen 1080i projectors.

‘Follies of Youth’ features work by Ruth Lyons, Giles Bailey and Amelia Crouch.

Recon Festival & Lumen presents:

18th & 19th of September 2014

Victoria Gardens (outside Leeds Art Gallery), 8pm, free event

 

If Architecture is frozen music, imagine what would happen in a thaw – Matt Dixon

Frozen Music uses the realtime scanning of performers brains to melt and morph the architecture of Leeds Art Gallery symbiotically linked to a live improvised score by Chris Sharkey and Christophe De Bezenac.

Amorphous Orchestra have teamed up with a neurologist and International Jazz musicians to create a series of live architectural projection mapping experiments to see what happens when artists, architects, musicians and special guests  imagine architecture as frozen music in a thaw.

Set to live score performed by Chris Sharkey and Christophe de Bezenac fusing written and improvised elements, acoustic and electronic sounds and, at it’s core, specially designed software allows the spontaneous electrical brain activity to interact with the music and visuals in real time via an EEG headset.  The piece will explore ideas of structure and the chaos arising from an architectural thaw.

The performer’s will be forced to coordinate or combat the effects of the chaotic stream of EEG information created by the stimulation of simultaneously playing and witnessing the visual; alongside other factors usually ‘unseen’ such as emotions, nervousness, excitement, stress and body temperature.

These factors mirror the unseen structure in architecture, concrete, girders, heat, wooden beams and miles of lethal electrical wire bringing life to the building.

“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” Goethe