DATA Event 49.0

When: Saturday 22 October, 16.00
Location: Darklight Festval, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock, Barrow Street
Cost: Free for Darklight tickets holders

MARTIAL GEOFFRE-ROULAND
Martial Geoffre-Rouland is a digital artist, interactive developer based in Lyon ( France ). His previous works are mainly focused on interactive scenography, and installations. Combining large scale structures with home made software on live stage, he catches the audience attention with immersive and sound reactive visuals.

He started a collaboration with Superscript and Creators Project in early 2011 to create and produce projects like Light Invaders or Modular Ship.  

Some selected stage installations : 2011 / 2010 : Nuits Sonores ( Lyon ) 2011 : N.A.M.E Festival ( Lille ) 2011 : Danger ( artist ), stage visuals for his tour  

Portfolio : http://www.164-prod.com
Modular Ship : http://vimeo.com/25858246
Light Invaders : creativeapplications.net
Creators Project profile  : thecreatorsproject.com
Danger New Live at Gaité Lyrique ( Paris ) : http://vimeo.com/23213096

 
NORA O’ MURCHÚ: THE HACK OF CURATING
My practice of curating is exercised outside the traditional confines of the museum and gallery and is largely influenced by DIY and open source processes. By blurring the lines between hacking and curation, my approach is to engage audiences through participatory platforms. In my curatorial work, I place an emphasis on building communities and providing structures to support them.

In this talk, I will describe a number of my curatorial experiments and how practices prevalent in the open source communities are influencing curatorial paradigms in visual arts.

Bio: Nora O Murchú is a curator and researcher. Her PhD research looks at open source methods and the visual arts, and how as a curator and facilitator of projects can implement an open source methodology into her practice.

She is the founder and director of Tweak – an interactive digital festival, which is a platform for digital arts in Ireland. She is currently a research fellow at the Interaction Research Studio in Goldsmiths University.

Tweak Festival

September 28, 2011 | Filed Under Events | Comments Off 

Data Workshop 16.0

DIY LIGHT GRAFFITI WORKSHOP by Recyclism (aka Benjamin Gaulon)

When: Saturday 22 October, 14.00
Location: Darklight Festval, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock, Barrow Street
Cost: Free for Darklight tickets holders

Learn how to create a simple Light Painting Software with Max/Msp and build your own Light Spray Can by creating a simple circuit using a battery, LED and push button.

You will learn how to create a software that mixes real time video and a light painting layer. All values, over a selected brightness level, are stored and drawn over the real time video. The drawing is refreshed over a defined period of time.
The final results will be presented in an interactive installation, where the public of Darklight will be invited to play with the various light graffiti tools made by the participants.

Benjamin Gaulon is a researcher, artist and has a broad experience of acting as art consultant, public and conference speaker and art college lecturer. His work focuses on planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society. He has previously released work under the name “recyclism”.

Since 2005 he has been leading workshops and giving lectures in Europe and US about e-waste and hardware Hacking / Recycling. Workshop participants explore the potential of obsolete technologies in a creative way and find new strategies for e-waste recycling.

www.recyclism.com

September 26, 2011 | Filed Under Workshops | Comments Off