Threshold is an artists-led organisation. We’re a company limited by guarantee run by Digital and Moving Image Artists and Producers who use Creative Media for Social Change. We share information, networks and skills to develop the region’s emerging and established arts professionals to engage with Digital and Moving Image technologies.
2011 marks the beginning of a new era for us. Over the next four years we are embarking on a series of adventures into the Digital Unknown, seeking out the emerging technologies and using them to create art in digital and hybrid forms. We’ll be developing new Professional Development and Commissioning Programmes too, taking art to a 21st century audience who know the internet inside out and exploring the new challenges for art production, distribution and exchange.
Established in 1998, Threshold is supported by the local authority and the Arts Council to create innovative new work and assist them to develop the region’s arts ecology. We want to see a Professional Media and Arts Industry that truly represents our diverse society. Some of our work does this by using Production opportunities to empower communities and inspire the next generation to action.
Threshold’s Young Creatives programme inspires young people to be ambitious by offering rare opportunities to work with professional digital and media artists from similar backgrounds to themselves to create high quality art. Our post-project support signposts the way to further opportunities in creativity, training, education and employment.
Cultural and Strategic Partnerships
Uzma is always looking for ways to tell the world how brilliant we are and seeking out the heart in everything we do. You can usually find her at the forefront of developments, making our case and leading with passion and determination. Uzma is a Producer, and the main motivator in the team. She rarely makes tea – but when she does, its right, and its gooood!
Artists and Creative Portfolio
Barry is the resident ‘Artiste’. As a Writer, Director, Artist and Producer for more years than some of us have been alive his career spans Music Promos, Art Installations, Jazz Zen Origami and Avant Garde Publications to name a few pieces in the jigsaw. His work has been shown from Las Vegas to Latvia, from the ICA to the belly of a Stockholm ship. (We didn’t have enough space for the full list). He spends a lot of time convincing the rest of the team that his off-the-wall ideas are feasible, and mostly he’s right. Mostly. Barry is the main creative lead and a full time beard wearer.
Programme Development
Sam’s main ethos: “A cup of tea will make it seem better ” and ‘Keep spare release forms everywhere’. This is probably why she has an incredible ability to keep her cool in the midst of chaos and make a joke whilst she’s there – usually terrible. She’s developed, led, delivered, evaluated, edited, filmed, assisted and more while she’s been here. So we let her stay.
Online Strategy and Marketing
Kristy Diaz is a Massive Tweeter. She is the latest member of the team, bringing her indie street cred geek chic to the party to remind us daily of how wonderful it once was to be young. Her razorsharp mind is all over this worldwide web malarkey, which is just as well, ‘cos the rest of us have no clue.
