Regional Festival of Science and the Arts 2008
Bringing science and the arts together in
Cornwall
Opening
Event
Bude
Castle
Heritage Centre – ‘Winter Light’
Members of the local community in Bude took part in an experimental film project to create an audio-visual installation with the help of lead artist Miguel Oliveros, which documented the colours and tones of light in the Bude area for the winter period, and the sounds that accompany them.
The resulting installation was revealed on Friday 7th March 2008 in the exhibition gallery at the castle, and marked the opening of the Cornwall Science and Arts Festival.
Miguel Oliveros, the lead artist, has a strong interest in the phenomena and science of light, as well as in film and installation based practices.
Bude itself has a particular affinity with light as it was here that Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793 – 1875) built his revolutionary house in Bude, which is now The Castle, on a raft of concrete on sand. As a great innovator he experimented widely. One of his inventions was the ‘Bude Light’ which lit the House of Commons for 60 years.