Cultural Sector Partner: FACT and Sound City
HE Partner: Liverpool Hope University

Fine Art, Film and Visual Cultures students at Liverpool Hope University learn from the experts at FACT and Sound City.

The FACT partnership and production residency has, since 2015, seen more than 125 Level C Fine Art students benefit from FACT’s Master classes in ground-breaking technology and new media. Creative Campus students benefited from the nine International Artist Talks and group critiques, offering distinctive curriculum enrichment for Liverpool Hope Students. This has provided students with an awareness of international contemporary practitioners working at the forefront of developments in technology and new media. Five Fine Art Graduates will have held successful Production Residencies at FACT. Residency holders have gone on to exhibit in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Cyprus Film Festival, Zabludowicz Collection, London and the 18th BJCEM European and Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists, Tirana, as well as taking up employment with Tate Liverpool and Liverpool Biennial. The upcoming residency holders are the founders of Root-ed magazine, already having launched their second publication during Light Night at Tate Liverpool.

Sound City Partnership. Fine Art students have been given the opportunity to put their skills into practice at one of Liverpool’s top music festivals. The second year students have been commissioned to design stage sets and projections for both small and large capacity venues at Sound City 2018, supported by a successful teaching and learning innovation award. Sound City 2018 took place at Liverpool Baltic Triangle and Cains Brewery on Saturday 5^th – Sunday 6^th April. Returning for its 11^th year, the festival celebrates music and arts from around the world, and will feature more than 250 bands and headliners across the weekend.

Contact: Prof Steve Davismoon

davisms@hope.ac.uk