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
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
Matthew Olden - I Am The Mighty Jungulator software
I Am The Mighty Jungulator produce their music and visuals with their own proprietory software. The audio is processed by the I Am The Mighty Jungulator application, the visuals by its sister program Derek and Norma olden. A hybrid of both these pieces of software has been developed in association with Futurelab, forming the core of an audio visual performance… Read More...
Posted on Nov 04.09 to Links, News
Ffotogallery presents
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Sensing Things 18 - 21 November
Digital communication technologies collapse physical distance between people. How can we use the intimacy enabled by digital technology to explore and enhance relationships, both old and new?
Exhibition: 18 - 21 November
Kiel Long - The Static Organ
http://thestaticorgan.wordpress.com
Kiel Long is an artist working with audiovisual media focusing on new ways of aesthetic engagement of… Read More...
Posted on Nov 03.09 to Events, Gallery, Learn
Ffotogallery presents
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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
Ffotogallery presents
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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
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
New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation.
This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.
Here's a short interview with Director of the film Iva Gormley, Conducted at May You Live in Interesting Times
Ivo Gormley Interview: Us Now
Us Now is a documentary film
Posted on Oct 24.09 to Events, Featured Screenings
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.
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Eddo is exhibiting a range of his acclaimed kinetic shadow… Read More...
Posted on Oct 23.09 to Events, Gallery
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
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, 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
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Maker Faire Africa - Website
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Posted on Oct 22.09 to Events, Links
The Chamfered Corner has been specially selected by Switchboard to Record a Live performance at Chapter Arts Center as part of the May you Live in Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology 09, Vision On and Switchboard.
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Here is the recording we made at Chapter on the 21st October 09
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The Chamfered Corner - Live @ Switchboard, MYliIT - 22/10/09
Posted on Oct 21.09 to Events, Live
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
