UDBTV

presented by Mike Heynes and Kedron Parker

Dates: Ongoing

Location: 115 Taranaki Street

Wellington, in your wildest dreams!

It’s crazy times and our future needs solutions. We want to hear your new ideas, from practical to fantastical!

Kia Ora, we are Mike and Kedron, and along with our sidekick Lorenzo, we are Ubd TV.

Inspired by the Urban Dream Brokerage theme of "Let's Get Wellington Dreaming" we are looking to spark new conversations about what is possible for our future, and how we can enhance and strengthen the Mauri of Wellington City.

We can captured messages on our 90’s retro video equipment with funky flair, and giv short clips which you can use as you choose.

During June and July, we held workshops in a makeshift studio, where we can work with you or your group to find creative ways to get your message across.

Our low-fi approach is not only fun, but a great reminder of what can be done with existing technology. Sometimes it's good to REFUSE TO UPGRADE!

Mike Heynes is a Wellington based video artist with an ongoing interest in obsolete technology and pre-digital special effects. His experimentally animated videos have been screened at festivals in Sydney, Berlin, Oberhausen, and Rotterdam, and in art galleries and music venues around Aotearoa. Mike completed his PhD in Fine Arts at Massey University in 2021, his exegesis Video Activism in the Shadow of Wellywood offers a Situationist critique of the surrounding movie industry. Show reel here

Kedron Parker is a multimedia and social practice artist in Wellington. She created the city’s first sound-based public artwork Kumutoto Stream, the stormwater/stream installation The Wet Index with Bruce McNaught (ubd project #32), and is a co-founder and ongoing contributor to the Inanga Love Park art and restoration project at lower Korokoro Stream. Experiential and social practice works include the sound installation Sanctuary for Aratoi Museum, Hello Pigeons with Adam Ben-Dror for the Performance Arcade, Rock 'n Roll Marae for the Auckland Festival of Photography, and the poster series Getting To Know You - Socially Distanced Portraits in the Time of Covid, with philosopher Dr. Sondra Bacharach for Parking Day and the Wellington Sculpture Trust.