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Emergent Game progress
Posted on 19 June 2008
For me, one of the most fascinating things featured in the NGA has been the Emergent Game. The levels of imagination, playfulness and collaboration that have been sustained throughout have been so impressive. Things in the land of the Lupens continued tonight with a tea party hosted by egorbeaver. I good time was had by all [...]
Animation - Digital Utopia or Chinese Whispers
Posted on 19 June 2008
Chinese Whispers and Digital Utopia were the twin themes that informed pieces of animation by three groups of students. The animators discussed themes and were aware of what the others were creating but otherwise worked individually, creating an opportunity for themes and messages to develop or get lost when the pieces were run together. In group one, [...]
Death of the Book?
Posted on 19 June 2008
I’ve already written about this in the post about Richard Charkin’s talk (’The Future of Publishing in the Digital Age’), but I wanted to write a bit more about it. If you’ll indulge me. There’s an article in last week’s Economist (I’m not the fastest of readers) about new technologies in publishing (’Unbound‘, Economist 7th June) [...]
Fashion Runway… Birmingham City University
Posted on 19 June 2008
Garments by Sunia Nar Jessica Sunshine at the Graduate Fashion Collection Having gone to the Gosta Green Campus to see the works on display by the graduating students of the Fashion Design department, I was surprised to see tht they had no clothes on display but mere illustrations of their designs. Where did the clothes disappear? I [...]
Pattern making made easy!
Posted on 18 June 2008
http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yuki/plushie/index-e.html This is an interesting website to see the latest technologies which are available in softoy making… these technologies can be easily adapted to create garments and jewellery which use fabric and pattern making techniques!
Wednesday’s Concert/My Own Work: Lemur vs. Turntables and more
Posted on 17 June 2008
Wednesday 18th June, 7:30 pm, Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire NGA presents: Composer’s Showcase Composition students of the Conservatoire showcase their works around the theme of technology in music. Works include: Louise Smart - Nuzzle for Soprano and Diffused Tape Genevieve Murphy - So You Need To See A Doctor for Soprano, Piano and Diffused Tape Laurence Hunt - Gate Cycle for [...]
Hidden Gems
Posted on 17 June 2008
The good thing about blogging for this festival – apart from giving me an excuse to take a couple of weeks off work – is that it has forced me to go and check out events I normally wouldn’t. Most notably the graduate show at Gosta Green, going down was almost an afterthought because of [...]
An Interview with Chris Hodson
Posted on 17 June 2008
I’ve escaped the distraction offered by the digital too one of the last bastions of F2F interaction, a magical place that boasts things the Internet is yet to give us; human contact, smells, atmosphere and delicious cold booze – all things I personally find necessary for the creative process. Perhaps it’s a little ironic than [...]
Graduate show at the School of Jewellery
Posted on 17 June 2008
Opening of the Graduate Show, School of Jewellery, Birmingham What a brilliant show! I was at the School of Jewellery opening of the exhibition put up by the graduating batch of BA students. The exhibition was professional; the products were diverse ranging from jewellery, silverware and other related objects. The materials used were a sundry of [...]
National Academy of Writing End of Year Show
Posted on 15 June 2008
I’ve already mentioned the plenary speech by Richard Charkin, in Thursday’s blog. This packed afternoon also saw readings from some of the students on the National Academy of Writing course, the BCU-based course for aspiring writers. Some of these readings, which also involved collaborations with other creative areas such as Tina Freeth’s work with illustrators [...]
