Dear all,
The International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Culture Lab and Seven Stories would like to invite you to the 'openFrameworks museums and galleries hack lab', in Newcastle upon Tyne, 25-27 January 2010.
The purpose of the hack lab is to explore the use of the open source C++ programming environment openFrameworks for developing playful and novel digital interpretation for young people in museums and galleries. This event is part of a Collaborative Innovative Partnership (CIP) between Newcastle University and Seven Stories and is generously supported by One North East and Culture Lab.
The event will be facilitated by three pioneers in this area of digital media applications: Joel Gethin Lewis (London), Mehmet Atken (London) and Chris Sugrue (Madrid).
This is a FREE event with a limited number of places - THREE places have been set aside for members of the MCG list on first come-first served basis.
To reserve a place please contact Will Pearson ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
It would be great to see some of you in this event.
Please see below for details.
Best wishes,
Areti
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Dr. Areti Galani
International Centre for Cultural & Heritage Studies
Newcastle University
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/areti.galani
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openFrameworks museums and galleries hack lab - Newcastle University and Seven Stories, 25-27 January 2010
The 2009-10 Collaborative Innovation Partnership (CIP) between ICCHS (www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/icchs<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/icchs>) and Culture Lab (www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab>), at Newcastle University, and Seven Stories, The Centre for Children's Literature (www.sevenstories.org.uk<http://www.sevenstories.org.uk>), explores the development of innovative and playful digital media interactions and interpretations for young audiences in museums and galleries. We are interested in digital media installations/interventions that allow for embodied, open-ended interactions with objects, environments and people using open-source platforms and re-mixing existing materials.
As part of this project we will get together to explore openFrameworks and its applicability in developing digital interpretation for young people in museums and galleries.
Run by: Will Pearson (ICCHS and Seven Stories) and Joey Scully (Culture Lab)
Facilitated by: Joel Gethin Lewis (London), Mehmet Atken (London) and Chris Sugrue (Madrid)
To reserve a place please contact Will Pearson ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Overview:
The hack lab for Seven Stories/digital interpretation for young people in museums and galleries involves:
* The openFrameworks hack lab in Culture Lab, Spaces 4&5, at Newcastle University (25-27th January)
* Artists' talks in Seven Stories (27th January).
We will be developing in the open source C++ programming environment openFrameworks (see http://www.openframeworks.cc).
Participants will need to have downloaded and installed the FAT version of the openFrameworks package and compiled the examples. This workshop is not suitable for programming beginners, but those who grasp basic programmatic structures, maybe having used Processing or other languages.
Rationale:
We hope to run the workshop using Interactivos style 'live briefs' (see http://medialab-prado.es/interactivos), which invite the facilitators to consider the appropriate codebases, libraries and programming resources to address interaction design challenges appropriate to young visitors in museums and galleries. We are going to work on the 'foundations' that go into building the base for a fully working piece of interactive media.
We will be examining the core concepts of openFrameworks. Materials will be put on the openFrameworks wiki in the way of all workshops to be shared with the community. We expect to work with material from Seven Stories archive (tbc).
Attendance:
App. 26 workshop places
Provisional timetable:
Monday 25th January
1pm-6pm, Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Introduction to IDE, background to artists work and specialism.
Familiarity with system, core basics.
Tuesday 26th January
9am-6pm (or until whenever we need it!), Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Main day of workshop! Project briefs, collaboration, exploration, hacking.
Wednesday 27th January
9am-3pm, Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Continue project work against briefs.
5.30-7.30pm, Seven Stories, Ouseburn Valley
Artists' talks and tour of interactive installations. There will be an opportunity for any completed ideas to be shown to the audience.
Please book a place for this event on: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/527581009
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