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Coming up: Heavy Objects at If Wet… 23 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the If Wet… HQ at Callow End in Worcestershire, If Wet… being a fabulous monthly salon of sonic explorations, the like of which you’ve almost certainly never s...
Ride: Hardware, Software and Wetware testing 23 Aug 2013 | 03:03 am
Last week I had the opportunity to join some friends on part of a cycling tour in Wales. The tracks from the cycling I did. (Click through for a larger version.) I wasn’t able to make all of it, but...
Young Rewired Art 23 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
I recently spent a week as a mentor/lead artist on the Young Rewired Art programme, a parallel project to Young Rewired State. YRA took 10 young artists with varying practices (poets, actors, writers...
Invisible #4: smooth moves and scribbles 27 Jul 2013 | 03:41 am
Today was our last day of Inkvisible playtesting. Having decided to move away from the L.A.S.E.R Tag software to a motion-tracking based system, it turns out we still stayed with the Graffiti Research...
Garmin support my upcoming project ‘Ride’ 24 Jul 2013 | 02:12 pm
Following on from the recent conversation I had with Garmin‘s Laura Tomei at the Fermynwoods event Art + Satellites, I’m very pleased to be able to announce that they’re supporting my upcoming project...
Art + Satellites 24 Jul 2013 | 01:31 pm
On the 2nd of July I took part in an ‘in conversation with…’ style event for Fermynwoods Contemporary Art: Art + Satellites. My conversation partner was Laura Tomei from Garmin (the GPS device folks)....
Mobile Fun Factory 14 Jul 2013 | 10:47 pm
So we (Garry Bulmer, David Checkley, Rachel Sutton, Kim Wall and I) eventually finished building a Mobile Fun Factory for The Public in West Bromwich. Designed as a mobile unit that is interactive in...
Inkvisible #3: Associations, assumptions and frustrations 14 Jul 2013 | 08:56 pm
Having previously decided on our location and homed in on some of the aspects of interaction that we wanted to encourage during a planned final even, our aim for last Friday was to set up in situ and ...
GPS Orchestra workshop at The Public 24 Jun 2013 | 06:04 pm
As part of the Many & Varied programme at The Public over the summer, I’m running another of my GPS Orchestra workshops. Again limited to 10 people, but this time supported by Arts Council and runnin...
Inkvisible #2: Provocations 24 Jun 2013 | 02:02 am
Last week we had our second playtesting day for the Inkvisible project. (Here’s the write-up of the first one.) This time I was at BMAG with Dr Gretchen Larsen, our King’s College academic. With or w...