Takeaway Festival: morning workshops

The Takeaway Festival of do-it-yourself media is a three-day extravaganza of talks, workshops, performances and exhibitions, returning for the second time to the Dana Centre.

The silent revolution goes on! Discover for yourselves how technology continues to quietly transform creative possibilities, social structures, communication networks and business opportunities. For further information about the Takeaway Festival go to: www.takeawayfestival.com

Get hands on with the workshops that will enable you to uncover the emerging technologies and software that are opening up new kinds of potential in art practice, design and communication.

Please note that the workshops below all run at the same time. When booking please specify which workshop you would like to attend. Workshops may be repeated at other times during the festival; please check timetables.

Workshops

Arduino Workshop
Discover more about Arduino, an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board and a development environment for writing software. It can be used to develop interactive objects and control a variety of lights, motors and other outputs.

Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino project and interactive designer for Prada, Whirlpool, V and A, Artemide, Persol and Adidas

Little SoundDJ Workshop
A workshop about making music with a Game Boy. Participants will find out how to use the software that is used to make Game Boy music, and get the chance to play around with it.

Gijs Gieskes, an industrial designer who creates instruments for use with video and audio performances

Creative Computing
Processing is an open-source programming language and development platform, which makes computer programming more accessible for people with little previous experience, especially those ‘visually minded’. Find out with David Muth how to use it and how it is being utilised by a large community of artists, musicians, architects, designers and researchers.

David Muth, London-based musician, programmer and artist

Web 2 for me and you
What can Web 2 do for you? And how can you take part? Find out more about the different ways to participate in the internet including how to use a hosted blog, how to use the web's social spaces, how sites like Flikr and Delicious work and for those with web space, how to install your own blogging software.

James Smith, artist, lecturer and experienced web application developer

In collaboration with Thames Valley University and the Arts Council England

This event is part of The Takeaway Festival 2007