The bold and daring Shooting Live Artists Commissions fuse audacious leading live art with digital media. Converging the avant-garde and the mainstream to bring radical work and ideas to broad audiences. These seminal and significant new media art works will be receive their international launch at b.tv 2001 festival in Sheffield on November 30.

Shooting live artists 2001 are:
Can You See Me Now by Blast Theory.
Domestic by Desperate Optimists.
The Institute of Failure Studies by Tim Etchells (Forced entertainment, Sheffield) and Matthew Goulish (Goat Island, Chicago ).
Life without Soap by Lisa Wesley.
Escape Mechanism by Lisa Watts and Brian Mcclave.
Bar Flies by George Chakravarthi.

Profiles of the artists and the works in progress will be on the BBC Arts site at www.bbc.co.uk/shootinglive from 26 November. The 2001 shooting live artists will be discussing their work in compelling interviews with leading critics and curators at the festival.

For more information, full b.tv2001 programme and booking contact b.tv:

0114 225 4615/6.
Or email bastard@theculturecompany.co.uk\

http://www.convergence-arts.com