Paul Brown Talk @ Phoenix 11th June 2013
Mon 20th May, 2013
Phoenix Leicester will be playing host to pioneering Digital Artist Paul Brown on the 11th June. He will be giving a talk as part of the Computer Arts Society speaker series from 6:30pm. Entry will be free but you may want to book a place in advance via the Phoenix Box Office.
https://www.facebook.com/events/263015140508722/
Paul Brown is an artist and writer who has specialised in art, science & technology si..
IOCT Masters Showcase 2013
Fri 17th May, 2013
Today I visited the IOCT Masters showcase at De Montfort University in Leicester. This annual event provides the IOCT MA and MSc students with an opportunity to demonstrate their current ideas and work in progress.
This year's event was slightly smaller than last year's, but I think the range of projects on display was actually broader. The work included performance and installation artworks, video production, experiments in interactivity and music technology. The technologies used included progr..
CHI'2013 in Paris
Tue 7th May, 2013
I'm just back from the CHI'2013 conference in Paris where I was demonstrating the Transformations/ColourNet artworks as part of the Interactivity exhibition. The international conference presents the latest thinking and research in Human Computer Interaction and is the place to find out about the latest trends in computing.
The conference is so big that it is impossible to go to every sess..
Dynamo: A Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913-2013
Fri 3rd May, 2013
I went to an extraordinary exhibition today. "Dynamo: A Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913-2013" is a collection of artworks spanning the past 100 years that explores light, movement, perception, interaction, modernism and experimentation in art. It includes work by luminaries such as Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Anish Kapoor, Jean Tinguely, Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Hans Haacke and many more. It's on at the Grand Pa..
Leicester Pi User Group
Mon 22nd April, 2013
The Leicester Space Apps Challenge took place at the LCB Depot this weekend with over 40 people working in teams on a variety of problems set by NASA. I was very impressed with the level of involvement, and look forward to hearing more about the results of their activities.
I took the opportunity to do a presentation about my Etch-a-Pi project and gauge how much interest there might be in starting a Leicester Pi User Group. I'm pleased to say ..
Leicester Space Apps Challenge Hackaton
Sun 14th April, 2013
This weekend (Friday 19th - Sunday 21st April 2013) Leicester will be holding an event as part of NASA's International Space Apps Challenge programme. It takes the form of a 'hack-a-thon' in which people are invited to meet on on Friday evening and come up with ideas for how they can solve problems provided by NASA. The main event then happens on the Saturday and Sunday at the LCB Depot in Leicester where people work to implement some of th..
Extinction Event by Dave Griffiths
Fri 12th April, 2013
Extinction Event by Dave Griffiths opened at Phoenix in Leicester last night. The exhibition features a video and microfiche/microfilm works from the artist's Babel Fiche project in the Cube Gallery and film (quite literally) and video materials in the Cafe Bar.
The Babel Fiche video is the centrepiece of the exhibition and imag..
Antipodes by Layla Curtis
Sat 30th March, 2013
Cuttlefish have just finished the programming for Layla Curtis' latest project - Antipodes. The web-based artwork will be running for (at least) a year collecting images from pairs of webcams that Layla has found that are on the opposite sides of the world to each other. These 'antipodal webcams' provide a fascinating insight to the daily rhythms of the planet as it spins on its axis - and as the collection of images grows they will also begin to ..
Code Control at Phoenix Leicester
Sun 24th March, 2013
This weekend saw the Code Control Max/MSP users' conference at Phoenix in Leicester. The well-attended event involved talks, workshops, demos and three newly commissioned digital artworks.
it was a pretty packed programme and while I wasn't able to catch it all, a number of things jumped out at me and I made sure I got to see them. The first was the talk on Saturday by Sam Tarakajian from Cycling'74 about a new M..
Members' Exhibition at Two Queens
Sat 23rd March, 2013
I managed to catch the members' exhibition at Two Queens in Leicester this week, just before it finished.
Two Queens is an independent, artist-led gallery in Leicester's Cultural Quarter, located just a few minutes walk from Curve and Phoenix. Despite running on a low budget, and being wonderfully rough around the edges, it is starting to carve out its own niche in Leicester and an experimental and contemporary gallery that favours local artists and recent graduates. The latest member show was su..