About
Gateshead Car Park by Draco2008, on Flickr
In 2008, the Gateshead Trinity Centre, incorporating the controversial ‘Get Carter’ car park, will be demolished.
For 40 years it has dominated the town centre of Gateshead; the vision of its architect Owen Luder having never been fully realised.
The aim of this site is to host and facilitate the production of creative work based around the cultural impact of this building and its demolition.
The project is open to all - including writers, photographers, designers, programmers and multimedia artists - to submit work. A Flickr group has been set up for the project and photographers are asked to upload images under a Creative Commons (CC) license, forming a pool of images that can be shared, remixed and reused as long as the conditions set by the license are met.
Some examples of work you might want produce are: a piece of writing illustrated with CC licensed imagery, a web-based artwork coded using the Flickr API, or an audio/visual piece about the building. This site will host and permanently archive the work, and FTP accounts will be available for contributors to build and test their work.
More details and a form for registering your interest will be published very soon. In the meantime, send email to: info@getcarpark.org