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New idents from tonight, as the BBC lets artists create their own for the channel, coinciding with a season on abstract art.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/08/bbc4-abstract-idents-new-shows-cassian-harrison
(Also I don't know why The Guardian insists on 'BBC4' but there you go)
New idents from tonight, as the BBC lets artists create their own for the channel, coinciding with a season on abstract art.
Quote:
BBC4 channel editor Cassian Harrison is just back from Copenhagen, where he has been checking up on the latest series of The Bridge, and is off to a read-through of a potential successor to The Thick of It. “New writers, quite bold and exciting,” is all he will say.
On Monday night he will do the unthinkable, dismantling his channel’s branding and handing the precious between-programme idents to a bunch of artists including Turner prize winner Laure Prouvost. The results, to coincide with a new season of programmes about abstract art, will be weird and wonderful, and even “laugh-out-loud funny”.
“Too often the BBC is seen – and sometimes it can behave – as a bit of a closed shop, a walled garden,” said Harrison. “It’s terrific to be able to get artists to do stuff directly for us in a really unmediated way.”
On Monday night he will do the unthinkable, dismantling his channel’s branding and handing the precious between-programme idents to a bunch of artists including Turner prize winner Laure Prouvost. The results, to coincide with a new season of programmes about abstract art, will be weird and wonderful, and even “laugh-out-loud funny”.
“Too often the BBC is seen – and sometimes it can behave – as a bit of a closed shop, a walled garden,” said Harrison. “It’s terrific to be able to get artists to do stuff directly for us in a really unmediated way.”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/08/bbc4-abstract-idents-new-shows-cassian-harrison
(Also I don't know why The Guardian insists on 'BBC4' but there you go)
