2006

An opportunity to hear a selection of practitioners participating in the Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders exhibition talk about their work and discuss how digital technologies have enabled a convergence of disciplines, creative practice and production techniques.

The symposium is free, but booking is essential. To book, telephone 01524 388550 or email [email protected].

Venue: St. Martin's College, Lancaster Campus, Bowerham Road, Lancaster LA1 3JD, 01524 384384

Come and take part in the final event of f.city 2006. Via text messaging and video podcasts you can learn simple dance steps and receive tuition and instructions before the big day. We can’t give too much away, as there will be surprises for members of both the audience and those taking part. It’ll be a high kicking treasure hunt for all.

Venue: Dalton Square, Lancaster

You can access the videos via the podcasts and downloads page

Lancaster Relay combines the lonely image of a flashing lighthouse and the invisible communications networks that surround us. From the top of the Ashton Memorial, a light beams – in Morse code – driven by mobile phone text messages sent to it.

Venue: Ashton Memorial, Williamson Park, Lancaster, LA1 1UX, 01524 33318

still from Elephant’s Dream, dir. Bassam Kurdali

A free one day workshop on the use of Blender, an open source 3D graphics software package used for modelling, animation, post-production, interactive content creation and playback. This workshop is free, but booking is essential.

To book, telephone 01524 388550 or email [email protected]

Venue: St. Martin's College, Lancaster Campus, Bowerham Road, Lancaster LA1 3JD, 01524 384384

Presented in partnership with Fast-uk

<Bump…> draws attention to the presence of technology through a touchscreen interface in the city centre, linked to bright red sound modules in various locations. The touchscreen invites you to play apparently innocent computer games, but be warned, every sound you activate while playing has a presence in the real world.

Venue: The Edge Gallery, 22 King St, Lancaster, LA1 1JY, 01524 66029

Assa Ashuach, Lionel T. Dean, Naomi Kaempfer, Arik Levy & Dan Yeffet

Materialise are specialists in the field of Rapid Prototyping. They offer services to the industrial, medical and dental sectors but with their .MGX brand they have been making major waves in the design world with computer-manufactured designs for lighting and decorative objects.

Selected from an international open call, an evening of artists’ short films made using 3D graphic creation software or screened using 3D presentation technology.

Venue: The Gregson, 33 Moorgate, Lancaster, LA1 3PY, 01524 849959

Grow Your Own Media Lab is a trans-regional action research project that aims to investigate, improve and document a low cost, participatory, open source media lab model. folly is delivering a series of 5 FREE GYOML workshops throughout September-December at The Canteen Film Project, based in Northern Riviera in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The workshops will give participants the opportunity to work in a variety of computer-based artistic disciplines under the guidance of some of the best-known and well-respected artists working in the field.

The GYOML project is FREE to attend. For further information and to book your place click here or contact Jennifer Stoddart, programme assistant at [email protected] T: 01524 388550

Update: photographs from the event. Read more at http://www.p-tex.co.uk

p-tex is a lancaster based artist who uses multimedia technology to explore sound, incorporating sensors and live performance in response to the changing environment around him.

p-tex will be delivering GYOML in a field EVENT. p-tex proposes to research, create, perform and broadcast in real time over the internet, an experimental music installation, for the Grow Your Own Media Lab project.

The event will take place on 19th August 2006 in Heysham, with a web broadcast at 5.30pm and a performance at 7.30pm in the area known as the barrows - close to St. Peter's Chapel, the 8th Century ruin with rock-cut tombs, over looking the bay. Click here for the full story, including directions.

For this commission Nick Holme was investigating and assessing the various FOSS software that are available for live streaming, deciding on one method for the purpose of the research and producing a comprehensive guide on how to set up and use the software.  The guide and a set of case studies are attached.