Takeaway Festival: From the ground up
Thursday
10 May 2007
18:30 - 22:00
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
This series of short talks and presentations will look at how activities and communities are being changed by emerging technology. How are the normal hierarchies of creativity challenged by a cultural landscape increasingly defined by technologies?
Following the presentations there will be a performance in the d.cafe.
Karel Dudesek, Ravensbourne College Narrative Environments
All environments tell stories. Narratives are implicit in the materials, structures, images, signs, sequences and uses of a space whether physical or virtual. This talk looks at how we read contested stories and do we write our own stories into a space? Tricia Austin, Course Director, MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design We-make-money-not-art.com
People are doing art with technology, whether they define themselves as hackers, amateurs or ‘new media artists’. Why should the traditional art world pay attention to their work? And why should we? Regine Debatty, writer and blogger on new media The SCORE! Project
SCORE! (Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges) is an EU-funded network project that supports the UN's 10 Year Framework of Programs on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). It runs between 2005 and 2008, and involves 29 institutions in the EU and beyond. Sophie Emmert, The SCORE! Project, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research theirwork: an online map
theirwork is a living community map-making project, which by its nature rejects a top-down system of classification, or taxonomy, and adopts instead a ‘folksonomic’ approach. This talk looks at the ‘slow’ development of the project. Emmet Connolly, Irish interaction designer, and Dominica Williamson, freelance designer and artist, developers of theirwork Social Tapestries
Proboscis uses practices of public authoring as developed throughout Urban Tapestries and Social Tapestries projects. The presentation will provide an outline of the scavenging concept and discuss how it has been applied to a recent project, Snout. Giles Lane, co-director and founder of Proboscis Art and Autonomy - the DrawBots
This talk will describe DrawBots - an interdisciplinary research programme that uses evolutionary and adaptive systems technology to make a robot that exhibits creative behaviour. It will outline the historical background and methods used as well as some of the preliminary results. Paul Brown, artist and writer, currently working on the DrawBots Project Before and After Cybernetic Serendipity
Once, the world of machines belonged to artists who painted and sculpted them. But this is not the end of the story. With the advent of computers, those who had never put pencil to paper started making art. Jasia Reichardt, writer on art and exhibition organiser In collaboration with Thames Valley University and the Arts Council England
Talks
IntroductionKarel Dudesek, Ravensbourne College Narrative Environments
All environments tell stories. Narratives are implicit in the materials, structures, images, signs, sequences and uses of a space whether physical or virtual. This talk looks at how we read contested stories and do we write our own stories into a space? Tricia Austin, Course Director, MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design We-make-money-not-art.com
People are doing art with technology, whether they define themselves as hackers, amateurs or ‘new media artists’. Why should the traditional art world pay attention to their work? And why should we? Regine Debatty, writer and blogger on new media The SCORE! Project
SCORE! (Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges) is an EU-funded network project that supports the UN's 10 Year Framework of Programs on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). It runs between 2005 and 2008, and involves 29 institutions in the EU and beyond. Sophie Emmert, The SCORE! Project, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research theirwork: an online map
theirwork is a living community map-making project, which by its nature rejects a top-down system of classification, or taxonomy, and adopts instead a ‘folksonomic’ approach. This talk looks at the ‘slow’ development of the project. Emmet Connolly, Irish interaction designer, and Dominica Williamson, freelance designer and artist, developers of theirwork Social Tapestries
Proboscis uses practices of public authoring as developed throughout Urban Tapestries and Social Tapestries projects. The presentation will provide an outline of the scavenging concept and discuss how it has been applied to a recent project, Snout. Giles Lane, co-director and founder of Proboscis Art and Autonomy - the DrawBots
This talk will describe DrawBots - an interdisciplinary research programme that uses evolutionary and adaptive systems technology to make a robot that exhibits creative behaviour. It will outline the historical background and methods used as well as some of the preliminary results. Paul Brown, artist and writer, currently working on the DrawBots Project Before and After Cybernetic Serendipity
Once, the world of machines belonged to artists who painted and sculpted them. But this is not the end of the story. With the advent of computers, those who had never put pencil to paper started making art. Jasia Reichardt, writer on art and exhibition organiser In collaboration with Thames Valley University and the Arts Council England