Events


    Portable Radio Ghana

    David Kwaku Celestin David is an entrepreneur from Ghana, he studied Electrical Engineering at the Textiary Institution and as a result he builds FM transmitters. The following interview was conducted by email and uncovers how he goes about doing this along with some of the problems he is faced with as an African Inventor. Hi David Where or how did you learn the skills to build your radio transmitters? >>I didnt attend any specific… Read More...

    Posted on Dec 30.09 to Events, News   

    Switch Presents… Dialogue .5 @ The Attic, Bristol. 26th Nov

    New Music/Media Event Dialogue returns this month to The Attic in Bristol on the 26th of November from 7.00pm - £4/3 Concs Entry.

    www.switchdialogue.co.uk

    This special event takes a cross platform approach where interactive installation sits beside live performance and audio-visual screen based work, thus creating a dialogue between these practices. The Attic is tailored to the unique requirements of the event, using multiple projection screens and sound systems, providing the… Read More...

    Posted on Nov 24.09 to Events   

    Karman Cube @ Ffotogallery: Vision On

    Hi All, Thanks to all that attended The Karman Cube opening at Ffotogallery, and to Matthew Lovett for a great lecture and introduction. Some really interesting debate was drawn out of the presented ideas and some documentation of this will be up on Switchboard soon so that anyone else that would like to voice their opinions on emerging trends in the consumption, production and distribution of music can post here and… Read More...

    Posted on Nov 12.09 to Events, Gallery, Learn, News   

    Hearing Things: New Media & Sound @ Ffotogallery

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    Hearing Things 11 - 14 November

    The web has unleashed a proliferation of tools, templates, sounds, specifications, designs and declarations to shape what the future of music could or should sound like. Music is being refashioned by a generation of hackers, circuit benders, programmers and composers who are no longer content to simply rip, mix and burn, but who… Read More...

    Posted on Nov 03.09 to Events, Gallery, Learn   

    Seeing Things: Data Visualisation @ Ffotogallery

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    Seeing Things 4 - 7 November

    Infosthetics, Infographics – a new area for the next generation of artists? At the intersection of art and algorithm, data visualisation schematically abstracts information, suggesting new interpretations and often exposing complex and unexpected patterns and correlations. While the practice of visually representing information is arguably the foundation of all design, for artists and… Read More...

    Posted on Nov 03.09 to Events, Gallery, Learn   

    Sound Pit

    Sound Pit When Luigi Russolo wrote the Futurist manifesto ‘The Art of Noises’ in 1913, he was describing a sea change in the way in which we listen to the world around us. The industrial revolution had brought a new world of sound to our ears – one in which we could “distinguish a thousand different noises”. Today, in the information age of the 21st century, as Russolo foresaw, we can… Read More...

    Posted on Nov 03.09 to Events   

    Maker Faire Wales 09

    Maker Faire Wales 09 Along the lines of Makers and Hackers, Folksy, Craft Mafia, Howduino, Oomlout and other get-together events for technical doers, Maker Faire Wales is an event for DIY enthusiasts with a taste for the technical. Heres a short video we made with each of the participants: [vimeo 7237471 380] Heres some clips courtesy of Robert Andrews Individuals and collectives came together to demonstrate their homebrew technical concoctions that were showcased through… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 27.09 to Events   

    Matt Jackson – Max/MSP Tutorials

    Max/MSP Tutorials As part of May you Live in Interesting Times, Switchboard has commissioned Matt Jackson to produce a number of Max/MSP tutorials. To find out more information on ‘Max/MSP’ please visit the site here Heres a short description taken from the site: Max users are people who want to do things that go beyond the limitations of normal software. Max is a visual programming language -- you connect objects together with… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 27.09 to Events, Learn   

    The People Speak / Who Wants to Be…?

    The People Speak present... Who Wants to Be...? is inspired by the ‘ask the audience’ feature of the popular TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. In asking the audience to set the questions, provide the answers and decide what the rules are, Who Wants to Be…? gives people an insight into the possibilities of their collective imagination… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 26.09 to Events   

    Shadow Puppet Workshop

    As part of May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology Cardiff, Chapter is delighted to host the first exhibition in the newly refurbished gallery. The selected artist is LA based Eddo Stern and to coincide with his exhibition, the Festival is excited to host a family-friendly shadow puppet workshop, where children can cut out and make their very own fantastical shadow puppet creatures! Heres a short story… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 25.09 to Events   

    Film Pit

    Film Pit This Film Pit explores whether anyone can now make and show a film. As with all traditional medium, digital technology has brought about significant changes, for instance to traditional production hierarchies, single narratives to interactive and participatory, and the power held by distribution giants to self and mass distribution. This Film Pit explores the current impact on film making and will begin with brief spotlights from the panel on… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 24.09 to Events   

    Eddo Stern – Chapter Gallery

    Eddo Stern is an internationally renowned American/Israeli artist at the forefront of experimental work. His practice incorporates video game modification, machinima and installation and explores new modes of narrative and documentary, technology and history, and cross-cultural representation in film, computer games, and on the internet. This is his first solo exhibition in the UK. [vimeo 7218452 380 ] Eddo is exhibiting a range of his acclaimed kinetic shadow… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 23.09 to Events, Gallery   

    Ghana Think Tank – Ffotogallery

    Ghana Think Tank - a collective of international think tanks - have been commissioned by the MYLiIT Festival to set out to solve the problems of Wales. Here's a short video from their gallery preview at Ffotogallery, Penarth. [vimeo 7222759 380] In a series of characteristically playful social interventions, a solution generated in one context is applied elsewhere, often on the other side of the globe. Drop boxes… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 23.09 to Events, Gallery   

    Alfred Sirleaf’s – Daily Talk

    Daily Talk Alfred Sirleaf is the Director of Daily Talk, a news kiosk in the centre of Liberia, Monrovia in West Africa. He collects and reads local newspapers daily, and uses his mobile phone as the major form of communication between him and his estimated 10,000 daily readers, to update the public on the latest big stories in the city - chalked up on a series of blackboards. Here's a clip… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 23.09 to Events   

    4iP Interview

    4iP is a significant new investment initiative from Channel 4 which aims to reinvent public service media in the digital age. Channel 4, working with a range of co-investment partners, has up to £50m to invest in great ideas for web, mobile and games platforms which will improve people¹s lives. Those ideas can come from individuals, partnerships, small and medium companies and social enterprises from a range of creative and… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 22.09 to Events, Links, News   

    Maker Faire Africa

    Maker Faire Africa, a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention. A quick interview conducted by Jamie Thomas of Switchboard, with Emeka Okafor of TED Africa, and Maker Faire Africa at Chapter Arts, Cardiff over May You Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology 09 [vimeo 7204302 380 ] Maker Faire Africa - Website [youtube p3X2VMkB2wM 380 ]… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 22.09 to Events, Links   

    Chris Young – Live @ Chapter

    Chris Young has been specially selected by Switchboard to make a Live performance recording at Chapter Arts Center as part of the May you Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology 09. Chris is a composer who specializes in beautiful, looped vocal arrangements that exploit the basic technology that he employs. Using only a loop pedal and selected field recordings, he coaxes the listener into a world of structured harmonies… Read More...

    Posted on Oct 21.09 to Events, Live   

    Game Pit

    For decades, artists have represented the values and behavioural patterns of contemporary society by employing new forms of knowledge and content. So how are they utilising the immersive landscape of gaming to expose new commentaries? And how are they addressing the rising discourse between real and virtual worlds in a meaningful way? Game Pit @ MYLiIT
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    Posted on Oct 15.09 to Events   

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