I watched Stephan Harding's Animate Earth film last night. For those unfamiliar with Stephan and his work, he is the resident ecologist at Schumacher College in Totnes and is a highly inspirational and engaging expert on Gaia Theory and ecological thinking. I've attended a number of his talks whilst at the college and this film does a great job of capturing his enthusiasm and knowledge on the subject.

In the film he presents many o..

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Derby QUAD are running an interesting programme of digital arts events at the moment. v,01 was launched tonight with the opening of an exhibition of interactive artworks which runs for a week. There will also be workshops, demonstrations and talks over the coming week. More information can be found at the website here. I've popped a few pictures from the launch event on my Flickr page.

I attended a very interesting lecture by Eduardo Kac on Tuesday evening at the Royal College of Art. He was talking about the life and work of Brazillian-based artist Waldemar Cordeiro. Cordeiro was born in 1925 and died in 1973, and in his relatively short life worked in many creati..

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On Friday we had the first public sharing of the The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diva at Curve. A good-sized audience saw Carol Leeming perform part of the script with multimedia elements supporting.

The three-sreen stage set worked well and Sally's video and Andy's lighting looked great. There are certainly plenty of areas where we can improve the synchronisation between the performance and the visuals, but feedback was very good and we are happy with progress so far.

The first complet..

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On the 13th and 14th January Phoenix Square hosted the Max For Users Convention. Local news agency Citizen's Eye were in attendance and filmed some great interviews with attendees, speakers and exhibitors. I've produced a playlist of their videos at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ACF01A1BAA40586.

You can also watch them on your iPhone via the Citizen's Eye iPhone app. You'll find this on Apple App Store by searching for "Citizen's Eye".

Limbo is a project by artist Simon Faithfull. Using a custom iPhone app created by Cuttlefish, Simon is able to create drawings on his phone and upload them to the internet. Subscribers can then view the drawings on a website or via a specially-created iPhone app.

Recently Cuttlefish updated the viewer app to include extra features, such as comments, and added a new Limbo Lite app to the iOS store that allows you to view Simon's artworks for free on your iPhone (the full Limbo app is available fo..

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Friday 13th January saw saw the latest Interact Live event at The Interact Gallery, Fabrika in Leicester. A good sized audience was treated to an exhibition of interactive artworks in the upstairs gallery and live music downstairs.

The artwork on display included Jackie Calderwood's "Colour Chords", Sean Clark's "Memory Mirror", Lee Scott's "Laser Harp", Craig Clarke's "Simaesthesia", Honest Dave's "Bath Time" and Stuart Smith and Mike Gatt's "Sound Tree".

Music was provided by ASMO, Fortra..

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The "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diva" project has been under conceptual development for a while now, but it is now starting to move in to the production stages. Based around a narrative developed by Carol Leeming, it will involve a performance at Curve in the summer and an installation at Phoenix Square in the autumn. More information about the project can be found on my website.

Dropsketch has been updated to fully support iOS5. Sorry about the delay in doing it - but I've been quite busy over the past month. Get ready for more updates to the app in the new year, with sketch 'replies' and Tweeting planned. You can get Dropsketch from the App Store for free.

The Shine project that I was involved in over the summer now has a new website at http://www.shine-northamptonshire.com. You'll find lots of pictures, videos and audio from the events, plus background on who was involved in the project.