geekFest 2006 | a one-day festival of digital and live art
curated by piCOt featured local, national and international artists

"ten artists present an inner intensity ‘eye of the tiger’ belonging in a beach hut.
piCOt presents the obsessive assemblages, rotations, heart beats and transmissions of liam birtles, boredomresearch, dave brown, paula brown, tiago gambogi, GilbertandGrape, Mr Helium and the Holy Gliders, interim - ben trill and esther yarnold, dj jez, mark leahy, lomoMoon, multicoloured green, maddy pethick, squidsoup and gillian wylde on the sandy shores of branksome dene and chine with moments of un-tech art, channels of desire and rock interaction.
‘general electrical engineering knowledge’ held together by plastic bags, electrical heart beats and too-small-to-see waves."
Helen Pritchard and Esther Yarnold 2006

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geekFest was produced in partnership with dorchester arts centre and interim, and was supported by:

ALIAS, the Arts Council England initiative
borough of poole arts development unit
wave, arts education agency
dorset county council
fda interactive media at the arts institute at bournemouth
lighthouse, poole's centre for the arts

special thanks to:
Simon Poulter, PVA
Sharon Hayden, Dorchester Arts Centre
Stephen Hooper
Jim Potter
Alex Barrett
Lamart, Dorchester
The Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester