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The inaugural e-Luminate Festival 2013 is an exciting visual display which showcases one of Cambridge’s most upwardly mobile sectors; Clean Technology. In a series of collaborations between Clean Technology innovators and visual artists will use light and installation art to demonstrate some of the extraordinary breakthroughs in this modern and environmentally-focussed industry.

Our PROGRAMME of events runs from the 20th – 24th of February 2013 and includes interactive light displays, workshops, talks and events to delight and educate all ages.

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What is Clean Technology?

Clean Technology or "Cleantech" is relatively new term and is used to describe companies that use innovative technology to create products and services that compete with traditional products on price and performance, while reducing our environmental impact.

The concept of Cleantech is all about resource efficiency and forward thinking in the 21st century; an idea that has gone from relative obscurity to headline news in the last decade as worldwide endeavours to tackle climate change, energy provision and waste management become the prime agenda.

These factors combine to make Cleantech an exciting growth area that will continue to attract increasing levels of attention and investment in the coming years and Cambridge is at the forefront of this ambition playing home to over 300 innovators.

With public interest in clean technologies steadily growing, the e-Luminate Festival hopes to educate and showcase some of the recent advances in technology, research methods and manufacturing which are all lowering the costs of environmentally sound technologies, bringing many into the economic mainstream.

Festival Programme Daily (But Best After Dark!)

The Greenhouse

Location: Senate House Lawn (hyperlink to map) Artist: Susie Olczak CleanTech Innovators: Polysolar and Enlight

Have you ever seen clear glass solar panels? In this beautiful and innovative showcase of art and technology, the lawns of Senate House will be transformed by the addition of a terribly clever, glowing greenhouse.

Sussex Street Colonnade

Location: Sussex Street Artist: Issam Kourbaj CleanTech Innovator: EnLight

Elevating the everyday into the extraordinary, award-winning artist Issam Kourbaj will use coloured LED lights to transform the space. CleanTech innovators, EnLight are specialists in public lighting control and will use their motion sensor technology to trigger the light display for pedestrians.

Cambridge University Eco Racing

Location: Grand Arcade

Sleek, futuristic and solar, CUER’s vehicles are built specifically to compete in the World’s EcoRacing event held in Australia. In a race which pushes CleanTech solar power to its limits; the car has to travel 2500 miles just on the sun’s energy! The racing car on display, Endeavour, was entered in the 2011 race and will be shown in the main hall.

Workshops, Lectures and Events

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Artist Collaborators

Susie Olczak

My work and research is influenced by minimalism, geometry, light, balance and architecture. It explores how the viewer experiences space, form and light. My installation work alters, highlights or creates space for the viewer to interact with. Inspired by the materials I use to make my sculptures and installations, I produce abstract photographs. Which become optical illusions or make space ambiguous and encourage the viewer to rethink the way they perceive. I use scale that is recognisable to the viewer, evoking architecture but to a smaller scale, so the space becomes more intimate. Material processes are important in my work. I believe that technical skill and quality is important alongside concept in a body of work. I explore materials such as perspex, steel, concrete and stone and combine them to change their perceived properties. My work has been shown around the UK, in Japan and Finland in galleries and the public realm. I have shown at the BBC in Scotland, Cambridge Institute of Astronomy and for Charles Saatchi at the Big Chill Festival.

Issam Kourbaj

Issam was born in the south of Syria and on moving from his city to Damascus, his ambition was to be a fine artist, but horizons changed, first toward architecture (in Leningrad) and then, in London, to theatre design, both of which disciplines continue to inform his working practice as a visual artist. He found his feet- and came to rest- in Cambridge from 1990; he is currently affiliated, as Lector in Art, to Christ’s College. Life as an artist has taken him from Azerbaijan to Mexico, and he has been rewarded with a succession of exhibitions, and by the reception of works into public collections, including that of the British Museum. Last autumn and winter he contributed to the exhibition Modern Syrian Art; this was the Museum’s contribution to Shubbak, London’s first-ever celebration of contemporary culture from across the Arab world. For the University’s 800th birthday Celebrations he designed the set for “Light Matters”, a contemporary dance piece presented in the Senate House, as well as a “transforming” portable set for “Let Newton Be!” a play about the founding father of modern physics, which toured university campuses in the UK and USA. As further contribution to the University’s eighth centenary celebrations, his “Cambridge Palimpsest”, a puzzle-box linking time and archaeology, was chosen for publication by the Cambridge University Press. As a working artist, Kourbaj is as fully at ease collaborating with astronomers, engineers and archaeologists as with dancers, poets and playwrights. For the last few years, he has drawn inspiration from the world of science, and was preoccupied with the properties of optics and light, and with the idea of the Camera Obscura.

Susan Shepherd

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Sponsors

Cambridge City Council

Partners

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Cambridge News

Press

Please contact Jules Abensour via email on marketing@e-luminatefestivals.co.uk

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[KimSJ]

Jules and I should have this finished by lunchtime Tuesday 5th.

[mattions]

This should be moved into the django template. @KimSJ is this happening?

[KimSJ]

Static content has been a little delayed by various political shenanigans. Still on my plate though. Will chase Jules tomorrow.

On 07/02/2013 16:22, Michele Mattioni wrote:

This should be moved into the django template. @KimSJ https://github.com/KimSJ is this happening?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/e-Luminate/eluminate_web/issues/68#issuecomment-13243632.

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[KimSJ]

I think I've mined this for all the goodness I can extract.

[jogwen]

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not any more :-)