‘rbn_esc’ is a project fusing cinema and live experimental visuals. presenting a series of character scenarios, it invites the audience to construct narrative and cultural critique: rbn_esc >> urban escape. it is also a vj project of some development, with its premiere as a silent 'vj film' accompanying four tet in front of thousands at the big chill festival back in 2004. since then the clip library has been worked over in a soho sound house, a soundtrack selected and resequenced, and the means to perform a refined, multichannel audio-visual whole developed. the resulting 45 minute performance work rbn_esc___av is a prominent example of what 'live cinema' can be.

*spark is an audio-visual producer and performer, the alter-ego of toby harris with an eye for the graphic. recent projects have seen *spark as a vj at motor shows around the world, harnessing user generated content to shift the focus from cars those buying them, and coding up a text-messaging, graffiti-writing, story telling installation to see what happens when you put it in a bar full of script writers. spanning art, design and engineering, toby is interested in anything that uses media to make people interact or think in unexpected ways.

toby*spark links

• www.flxer.net/tobyspark
• sparkav.co.uk