Leave No Trace » Events

Digital Activities

Caru — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:56:58 +0000

We are currently trying to come up with some ideas for the digital activities that will be taking place during Digital Summer and as part of the Leave No Trace exhibition. We already have quite a bit of software so I’m working around finding new ways to use it, or at least new themes.

Having said that there are two new toys we are researching, CrazyTalk6 with which you can make your own characters talk and make facial expressions. And Arduino, which the website describes as

‘Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It’s an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.’

We are also currently experimenting with a new ‘Things To Do’ page on the museum website, to try and get people using the website and get them a bit more involved with what’s happening at the museum. We like to try and keep the activities themed to the exhibitions that will be on at the Museum during the workshops, so for digital summer we have ‘Spot On for 25 years’ celebrating 25 years of Emma Bridgewater and ‘…and a five legged donkey’ celebrating 100 years of the Contemporary Art Society. We have put up activities for both of these on the museum website ‘Things To Do’ page. They are not strictly speaking ‘digital’ activities, but they will have a digital outcome eventually as we are going to display all contributions on the website.

Way to go

Alec — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:43:04 +0000

It was a great meeting again at the School of Art last night. Like the previous session, I was impressed and excited by the enthusiasm shown by everyone there. It’s great to be part of a project where people are so keen to take part and develop something new. I’m really looking forward to seeing the proposals when they’re submitted.

Perhaps this could be the start of a new way for the museum and art gallery to work with local artists, keeping in touch more closely with what’s going on in the area and discussing ways to improve the activities and events at the museum to encourage more people to take part in different ways.

Ideas Before Their Time

Alec — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:38:04 +0000

Here’s the first of those links I promised: the Ideas Before Their Time Symposium in London on 3rd February. I really want to go. There’s a long list of speakers in different sessions:

computer art and cybernetics
computer art and time
computer art and space
computer art and output
computer art and technocultures

Starting the following day is the two-day conference at the V&A on Decoding the Digital. Bonnie Mitchell, one of the speakers at the symposium, will also be talking in Brighton on 2nd February on Interactive Art Environments and Experimental Animation. There’s suddenly so much going on – it’s a shame it’s all down south. Or do you know of things away from the capital?