[node-l] 4th Takeaway Festival of DIY Media, May 19-21 Dana Centre, Science Museum, London

[Richard Colson]

Hi everyone

I hope to see some of you at this year's festival at the Dana Centre

Please see details below

All the best

Richard Colson

Director, Takeaway Festival of DIY Media

Reader, Art and Digital Media Practice

Thames Valley University

 

The Takeaway Festival of DIY Media

www.danacentre.org.uk <http://www.danacentre.org.uk/>  

 

Control a robot with a travel card, have 30 singers at your beck and
call from a piano keyboard and contribute sounds to a live musical
performance. Just some of the reasons to visit the Takeaway Festival of
Do-It-Yourself Media free and back at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre
for its fourth year.

 

A jellyfish becomes an instrument that responds to touch. A robot reads
a travel card and then creates a unique movement to interpret it.
Changing the position of levers allows the sounds of three cities from
across the world to be heard simultaneously.  The 4th Takeaway Festival
of Do-It-Yourself Media opens on Tuesday 19 May with a celebration of
orchestrated metallic sounds and brings together international artists
working with the technologies that are part of everyday life.

 

The Takeaway Festival is developed in a partnership between the Science
Museum’s Dana Centre and Thames Valley University with the support of an
Arts Council Grants for the Arts award and features the Bulb Collective,
Marcus Lyall Studio and Ger Ger. A combination of performances,
workshops, talks and an exhibition, the two week event is an
unparalleled opportunity to experience the work of 30 artists from the
US and Europe at the cutting edge of their practice.

 

The festival is a chance to not only interact with exciting work but to
learn how to do it yourself too. In a series of free workshops visitors
can find out how to create iPhone applications, zines, video for the web
and interactive objects. Truly DIY!

 

The series of talks, performance and workshops run from 19 to 21 May.
The exhibition runs from 19 to 30 May. 

 

 

Visitor Information

 

Takeaway Festival of DIY Media

 

19 – 30 May 2009

Science Museum’s Dana Centre 165 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7 5HD UK

Nearest tube: Gloucester Road

 

Events are free and open to anyone aged 18 and over

To attend a workshop, please come to the Dana Centre at least one hour
before the start time to sign up.

 

Attendance is free but you must pre-book by visiting:
www.danacentre.org.uk <http://www.danacentre.org.uk/>  

 

Workshops, Talks and Performances

 

Tuesday 19 May

Workshops 11:00 – 16:30

Turn up, sign up and get in the know with the Takeaway Festival’s free
workshops. This year’s workshops cover iPhone app creation, Arduinos,
encoding Flash videos for the web and creating zines using TextPattern.

 

Tuesday 19 May

Performance 20:30 – 21:30

Raw Metal by Bulb Collective

 

Wednesday 20 May

Next Generation Collaboration 19:00 – 21:30

Come and exchange ideas in the first of the Takeaway Festival’s themed
evenings. Hear from key thinkers, creatives and practitioners who are
rethinking the future of knowledge and how it grows and alters and how
best to share it.

Gary Stewart, INIVA The Owl Project, Leo Ryan (Macmillan Social Media)

 

Wednesday 20 May

Performance 20:30 – 21:30

Sensory Response Systems, by Ryan Jordan and Pitch Control by the Marcus
Lyall Studio 

 

Thursday 21 May

Workshops 11:00 – 16:30 

Turn up, sign up and get in the know with the Takeaway Festival’s free
workshop days. This year’s workshops will cover iPhone app creation,
Arduinos, encoding Flash videos for the web and creating zines using
TextPattern.

 

Thursday 21 May

Knowledge Unlimited 19:00 – 21:30

Come and exchange ideas in the second of the Takeaway Festival’s themed
evenings. Hear from key thinkers, creatives and practitioners who are
reshaping the way we work together to solve creative problems.

Karel Dudesek (Takeaway China), Paula Roush(South Bank University),
Brian Degger (Transitlab),Alex Mclean (Dorkbot London)

 

Thursday 21 May

Performance 20:30 – 21:30

Slub

 

Interactives and Exhibits

 

Wednesday 20 – Saturday 30 May

Monday  - Friday 10:00 - 17:00, Saturday 23 May 12:00 – 17:00 and
Saturday 30 May 12:00 – 15:00

Come and explore this two-week exhibition of originally conceived
projects that look to RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and the
DIY music ethos for their cues. Expect eerie floating choirs and
RFID-card-triggered robotics as we open our doors to projects which pull
apart and reconnect media and technology in unexpected ways

 

Artists and Installations include:

 

Marcus Lyall (UK): Pitch Control

Take a seat, limber up your fingers and play away as keyboard notes are
replaced by recorded singing whilst the heads of 30 different singers
are projected in the room to form a virtual choir. 

 

Alex Zivanovic (UK): RFID gesture-generating robot

Swipe a commonly used RFID card and the robot will produce a graceful
performance unique to your information. 

 

Yoon Chung Han (USA): Jellyfish musical instrument

Create your own sound composition over four octaves with Jellyfish, the
interactive sound installation. 

 

Ryan Jordan (UK): Sensory Response Systems 

Sensory Response Systems is an exploration of audiovisual performance
using an array of sensors responsive to physical movements. It also
looks at reshaping and replicating the body through the use of fabric,
textiles and technology. 

 

Ger Ger, with Jakob Kort (Germany/Austria): SOUND NOMADS 

The constant search for noises, sounds and rhythms is at the heart of
SOUND NOMADS’ approach to creating ephemeral - interactive sensor based
- playgrounds. 

 

Neil Mendoza, Anthony Goh, Simeon Rose (UK): RFID art 

Swipe your transport card or other RFID-based object and you will be
invited to recreate a famous piece of art. The unique nature of the RFID
tag will assign an area of the artwork which will flash up on screen.
Use your hands to draw your version and feed into the collaborative
work. 

 

Bart Koppe (Netherlands): Mixing Cities 

Mixing Cities brings together, in real time, the sounds of several
cities in an audiovisual installation. By choosing and switching between
the cities you can make your own journey between the cities and get a
different experience of distances and space. 

 

Martin Howse (UK/Germany): Local Resonance Amplifier

Reacting to changes in electromagnetic emissions and signals, the Local
Resonance Amplifier acts as a parasitic device revealing the hidden
interactions between communications technology, power lines, biological
phenomena and geological properties.