Crafted in partnership with Gaudeamus, Screen Dive is a growing platform dedicated to exhibit, share and celebrate playful sound-based works from all around the globe.
Driven by community, Screen Dive is an ever evolving virtual playground where composers, hackers, game designers and aficionados encounter their kin.
Screen Dive's online gallery offers 25 works that are available to everyone, everywhere, anytime and for free, and archives live performances, festivals, sponsorships, labs, workshops, interviews and gatherings. Made possible with the support of Simuleringsfonds Digitale Cultuur Screen Dive will continue excitedly to reach new depths alongside all of our partners.
You're welcome to exprience the different works and curated routes go here; link. Check out our online streaming events and live workshops and performances here; link. If you have a playful idea and would like to collaborate with us go here link or email us: screendive@gaudeamus.nl.
We are busy creating a community where new and surprising experiments in sound and the digital space can grow, in a fun and accessible way, and reach curious audiences. We don't shy away from what has not yet been done and from what seems impossible. We believe that sound, gameplay and code can convey thought-provoking messages, create and reinforce trends of change.
Screen Dive was created at the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, when live music events were canceled and it seemed that all musicians and music-loving audiences will have to watch YouTube forever.
We wanted to create a stage, a land that sewed all that creativity that was forced to quarantine for an indefinite period. A place where it will always be possible to experience music and art together with other people from around the world, no matter what happens.
Since then, Screen Dave has commissioned, supported and published 25 works of makers from around the world, exhibited our own play-stations at the Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht, alongside a live embodiment of works from the digital space: Liberation Through Hearing (link) as a live performance with the participation of the audience and refract me, deflect you (link) installation. In the digital space we hosted a VR workshop led by Amy Brandon about her work Boundary link.
In December 21' we loaned works for the Zer01ne festival in Jerusalem, as well as a live streaming conversation and interviews with the makers of the works: Brief Gaze of the Infinite Maze, Chloroquine Pop-ups, Boundary and S++.
Whats next?
On May 21, in De Nijverheid, Utrecht, we will host be a day of workshops by the makers of FAKE NEWS, STAY TUNES and Social Distortion. You can already sign-up here (link coming) In September 22', we will be there live again at the Gaudeamus Festival with workshops, performances, game stations and what not! Sign up for our newsletter here (link coming) for more updates and now, go play
