Contemporary public art practice has become an audience less affair with application based works directed purely at those that fund them, while the artists and funding bodies are locked in dialogues of mutual gratification the public are the ultimate losers. The creation of alternative platforms for interaction and discussion must subvert these well established pathways and deliver their content to a wider general public.

This year’s festival uses a range of alternative medias outside of conventional art practice to deliver content in ways that are easily accessible and relevant to our attending audience.

Live events will merge in this cross media remix. Using the town and the numusic festival as its palette, this year’s nuart festival feeds its street, visual and nu media events into a multi layered broadcast. Internet radio will merge the sound and the 20th century avant guard conferences with nuartist presentations and workshops alongside numusic concerts and interviews. nuTV streams live acts from the numusic stages online and to your mobile phone, while text messages from the public create narratives in visuals by nuart Vj’s.

Calls for walls in stavanger has born fruit with 9 locations in and around town being painted by some of the worlds great street painters. Open to the public these street works will be filmed edited and fed back onto the numusic stages as visual backdrop for numusic acts.

In this way alternative medias broadcasting subversive content are made available to those sidelined by a lexicon of fine art nonsense.