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Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session 02-11-17 (CHELSEA)

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What: Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session: Arts Work of the Future

This Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session aims to help kick off some projects & collaborations based on the work to date (see attached image)

If you would like to propose a meet-up discussion, workshop or activity around a specific interest/theme as part of this session please email c.follows@arts.ac.uk asap.

We also welcome newcomers As well as introduce & inform new people who are interested in getting involved in Tate Exchange 2018.

When: Thursday 2nd November (drop-in between 2 & 5pm)

Where: Chelsea CG01 MakerSpace

Access & Address - For those who do not have UAL ID please call me/Chris on 07703887845 and let me know you are there, we can meet in the main canteen, Atterbury Street entrance.

Chelsea Collaborative MakerSpace CG01
Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip Street (use Atterbury Street entrance)
London SW1P 4JU
Find us: http://www.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/about/find-us/

Questions, contact: Chris Follows, Digital Learning Manager, University of the Arts London, Camberwell, Chelsea & Wimbledon (CCW), Mobile: 07703887845 Mobex: 3447 Twitter: @CCWDigital Instagram: CCWDigital

Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session 07-11-17 (CAMBERWELL)

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What: Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session: Arts Work of the Future - See Tate Exchange Planning info.docx (148.31 KB)

This Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session aims to help kick off some projects & collaborations based on the work to date (see below image) If you would like to propose a meet-up discussion, workshop or activity around a specific interest/theme as part of this session please email c.follows@arts.ac.uk asap. We also welcome newcomers As well as introduce & inform new people who are interested in getting involved in Tate Exchange 2018.

When: Tuesday 7th November (drop-in between 2 & 5pm)

Where: Camberwell Collaborative MakerSpace (near new canteen & workshops)

Access & Address - For those who do not have UAL ID please call me/Chris on 07703887845 and let me know you are there, we can meet in the main entrance.

Camberwell College of Arts 45 - 65 Peckham Road London, SE5 8UF http://www.arts.ac.uk/camberwell/about/find-us/

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Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session: 10-11-17 (CHELSEA)

admin — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:38:00 +0000

What: Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session: Arts Work of the Future

This Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session aims to help kick off some projects & collaborations based on the work to date (see attached image)

If you would like to propose a meet-up discussion, workshop or activity around a specific interest/theme as part of this session please email c.follows@arts.ac.uk asap.

We also welcome newcomers As well as introduce & inform new people who are interested in getting involved in Tate Exchange 2018.

When: Friday 10th November (drop-in between 2 & 5pm)

Where: Chelsea CG01 MakerSpace

Access & Address - For those who do not have UAL ID please call me/Chris on 07703887845 and let me know you are there, we can meet in the main canteen, Atterbury Street entrance.

Chelsea Collaborative MakerSpace CG01
Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip Street (use Atterbury Street entrance)
London SW1P 4JU
Find us: http://www.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/about/find-us/

Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session: 15-11-17 (WIMBLEDON)

admin — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:27:03 +0000

What: Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session: Arts Work of the Future

This Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session aims to help kick off some projects & collaborations based on the work to date (see attached image)

If you would like to propose a meet-up discussion, workshop or activity around a specific interest/theme as part of this session please email c.follows@arts.ac.uk asap.

We also welcome newcomers As well as introduce & inform new people who are interested in getting involved in Tate Exchange 2018.

When: Wednesday 15th November (drop-in between 1pm to 3pm)

Where: Wimbledon College of Arts MakerSpace (near canteen & workshops)

Access & Address - For those who do not have UAL ID please call me/Chris on 07703887845 and let me know you are there, we can meet in the main entrance.

Wimbledon College of Arts, Merton Hall Road London SW19 3QA - http://www.arts.ac.uk/wimbledon/about/find-us/

Video & Images from Digital Making Art School Tate Exchange 8th Feb 2017

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Images from Digital Maker Collective Tate Exchange Event 8th Feb 2017

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On 8th Feb 2017 between 12 & 6pm University of the Arts London (UAL) Digital Maker Collective performed the 1st of 4 'Digital Making Art School' events at Tate Exchange, below are a selection of images from the day, alongside feedback/overview of the day from Tate's perspective, click on the links to projects to see more images from the day for that session:

See all images from events which took place on the 8th Feb - 22nd Feb - 8th March - 22nd March

Video below by Abigail Fletcher:

We were really pleased to see so many UAL staff, students, alumni and guests take part and help set up and deliver the event (image of the UAL digital maker team below). It was also great to see so many staff & students from UAL who came along and got involved for the first time. Images by Abigail Fletcher (AF) and Chris Follows (CF)

Image above by AF: Wimbledon College of Arts Print & Time Based Media staff & student interactive performance Gesamt

It was a busy day and a popular event, 581 visitors between 12pm & 6pm.

Crowds drifted in throughout the day, students came to find their college or friends but also other visitors, many adults visitors who knew someone displaying their work, some heard about the event online and others walking by the space wanted to know what it was all about. ‘It was jolly good fun.’

Image above by AF: Members of the event are keen to stress all their work is individual-led but they are a collective which ignores hierarchy or levels of experience (one adult student explained she was only in her first year).

Image above by CF: ‘This is mostly about communication and sharing, collective text,’ mentioned one of the members. ‘It’s about cross-semination. This is where I find my ideas, where I can discover, for example, what Wimbledon are doing, and how to integrate some of their work into mine.’

Image above by AF: Machine-Mind

When I mentioned it all looked a bit like a fair I was corrected: ‘a fair with a purpose.’

‘The most important thing to me is meeting like minded people, although it's also useful to access equipment that I wouldn't otherwise.’

‘This is a participant-driven workshop space which will allow any member of the Collective to propose & deliver workshops on the day.’

Below Robot Hacking with the Crumble by Femi age 11 teaching UAL staff & students

Brilliant blog post and images of the event on the 8th Feb at Tate Modern Tate Exchange by Femi here - https://hackerfemo.com/2017/02/15/digital-makers-collective-tate-exchang...

There were dancing robots, sensors, circular systems, microcomputers and biofeedback devices to create interactive objects and digital interactions. (Image above by CF)

JaXon - Bad Robot (Image above by AF)

Above & below: An open studio - Bio Feedback, Raspberry Pi, Arduino & EEG and Activating Sonic Sensing through Bones (Image above by CF)

Artificial creatures and utopian or dystopian worlds created with green screens, students acting out and reciting on a microphone spontaneous, very loud, poetry (which visitors could create using cut-out words), faces painted like warriors with green paint, making parts of their faces disappear on screen. (Image above by AF)

There were hacked objects, sensors, fibre-optics, lenses. Discussions were around how information can be transferred between electronic, non-electronic, analogue and low-tech devices (one using bananas). (Image above by AF)

There is also a symposium on virtual realities which was full all day. (Image above by AF)

Above Image by AF - Virtual Reality Symposia: Virtual Histories

Walking Student Led Crits

Above Image by AF - Wonder Wall - Student-led Crit

Informal discussion space organised by Joey and Saskia (Freyron Collective)

Above Image by AF Tate Exchange Discussions and Talks

Above Image by AF Online listening platforms with Rounded Radio

Below image by AF Soft Circuits in the Switch House

Tate staff noticed that the majority of visitors to the floor today were school children (all ages) (Image below by CF)

Below team of staff & students preparing for school collaboration workshops on 22nd Feb see Collaboration between Hill Mead Primary School in Brixton, Digital Maker Collective members & CYLAND artist/engineers from St Petersburg

A teacher arrived around 1pm with around 18 students (GCSE age), she was unsure if they were allowed to enter the space. Adeola brought them in, explained what was going on and let them know the space is for them. Another group 16 students from the same school arrived shortly after. (Image by AF)

Image above by Nicola Rae

Both groups spent approx. 35 minutes in the space – dancing with robots, playing with the VR (only a couple retreated to the sofas).

Robot Hacking with the Crumble by Femi age 11 (Image by AF)

Tate staff spoke to two older ladies who dropped-into Tate for the afternoon on a walk along the river, they were coming down the stairs from the viewing platform and spotted Tate Exchange.

Ubernism’ Part 1 (Image by AF)

They were blown away by our programme, telling Tate staff that London needs more places like Tate Exchange because London is a place where people don’t talk to each other. They said that Tate Exchange should be the face for London!

Image above VR demo space with VR Explorers and Virtual Meets Reality

End of the day comment card: ‘Very cool space. Very interesting! Thank you!’ (Image by AF)

We were really pleased to be visited by the Director of Tate Modern Frances Morris and the Tate Council and their reaction to the event was fantastic, lots of really positive & encouraging remarks. Frances and members of Tate Council spent a lot of time walking around the event and talk to the Collective. (Image by AF)

Director of Tate Modern Frances Morris and the Tate Council being welcomed by Chris Follows into the Digital Maker Collective opening event. (Image by AF)

See you all on the 22nd Feb !

22 February: Pop-up 2 – Deconstructing the Digital: Explore resistance, activism and risk taking through creativity and taking things apart

... cant make that then we're also at Tate 8th March and 22nd March.

8 March: Pop-up 3 – Digital Friction: Explore ways of subverting and confronting digital friction caused by technology overload

22 March: Pop-up 4 – Virtually Real Environments: Explore the boundaries of physical and virtual space, new worlds and spatial narratives

Image above by AF

Please send your images/videos of the event to c.follows@arts.ac.uk via Wetransfer with any additional information and photo credits.
We will use images & videos to promote the upcoming Tate events - http://digitalmakercollective.org/

About the Digital Maker Collective

The Digital Maker Collective are a group of artists, designers, staff and students from the University of the Arts London (UAL) who explore emerging digital technologies in arts, education, society and the creative industries.

The collective are supported by Digital Learning, Teaching & Enhancement at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, UAL.

Event: Digital New & The Familiar at Tate Exchange 8 Feb 2017

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Digital New and The Familiar
With the Digital Maker Collective University of the Arts London

Tate Modern, Tate Exchange Workshop | Free Entry
8 February 2017 at 12.00–18.00

Technology is rapidly transforming the way we live, learn, work and interact, but how do we reconcile digital unknowns with the everyday?

Help make sense of the digital mayhem. Join theUniversity of the Arts, Digital Maker Collective and guests in exploring related connections across digital projects, concepts and technologies through creativity, digital experiments, performances, interventions, and conversation. Through informal student-led critiques, debate and reflection on-site and online, create new work and ideas to take forward together. Read more here

Digital Making Art School, Space:

Collective Base Camp - Tech Cluster - Wonder Wall
Projects Space - Digital Detox

Collective Base Camp: 12.00 - 18.00
At the centre of the event will be a large participatory Digital Maker Base Camp, a space to develop agile and experimental projects led by members of the Collective. The camp will evolve and respond to themes, public interactions and our invited guest maker activities. Create new work and ideas to take forward together. Virtual Reality Virtual, mixed/augmented reality and virtual/real interventions VR Explorers Virtual Meets Reality Physical Computing Sensors, microcomputers and biofeedback devices to create interactive objects and digital interactions. Artificial creatures and utopian or dystopian worlds. Machine-Mind Bio Feedback Bio Feedback, Raspberry Pi, Arduino & EEG Activating Sonic Sensing through Bones Robotics JaXon - Bad Robot Robot Hacking with the Crumble by Femi age 11 Open Workshops This is a participant driven workshop space which will allow any member of the Collective to propose & deliver workshops on the day. The Collective will add workshops to the blackboard throughout the afternoon. Tech Pit Stop A space for general work in progress and experimentation for members of the Collective to prepare for workshops, test stuff out or fix things, please pop-in for a chat. Debate Tate Exchange Discussions and Talks
Tech Cluster: 12.00 - 14.30
Discussion & debate - Virtual Reality Symposia: Virtual Histories
Digital Detox: 12.00 - 18.00
A space to relax, meet and chat.
The Wonder Wall: 12.00 - 18.00
Wall for public interaction and mapping debate and conversations throughout the day. Led by informal student-led critiques, debate and reflection on-site and online, share ideas to take forward together. Wonder Wall - Student-led Crit Online listening platforms with Rounded Radio Soft Circuits in the Switch House
Project Space: 12.00 - 17.30
Course led projects Gesamt Ubernism’ Part 1

This event is programmed by Digital Maker Collective, a Tate Exchange Associate.

About the Digital Maker Collective

They are supported by Digital Learning, Teaching & Enhancement at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, UAL.

22 Feb: Deconstructing the Digital @TateExchange

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Download the Digital Maker Collective_leaflet_22:2_print.pdf (106.82 KB)

Explore resistance, activism and risk taking through creativity, taking things apart, experiments, performances, interventions, and conversation

22 February 2017 at 12.00–17.30

Drop-in and work alongside the Digital Maker Collective and guests in this pop up session.

Read more about the event on the Tate website Deconstructing the Digital

@tateexchange @CCWDigital #artsDMC #tateJAM

Collective Base Camp 12:00 - 17:30

At the centre of the event will be a large participatory Digital Maker Base Camp, a space to develop agile and experimental projects led by members of the Collective. The camp will evolve and respond to themes, public interactions and our invited guest maker activities, interventions, debates and performances.

Join a hive of interconnected digital maker experiments and create new work and ideas to take forward together:

Virtual Reality Projects (With VR Explorers)
Work alongside students as they explore VR in both spatial design and fine art practices
Open Maker Studio (Machine-Mind - Bio Feedback, Raspberry Pi, Arduino & EEG)
A space for general work in progress and experimentation, please pop-in for a chat. Explore anything from virtual, mixed/augmented reality and virtual/real interventions, to creating artificial creatures and utopian or dystopian worlds. Use sensors, microcomputers and biofeedback devices to create interactive objects & interactions.
Tech Workshop A participant driven workshop space where the Collective can propose & deliver workshops on the day (Robot Hacking with the Crumble by Femi age 11)
Debate & Critique Tate Exchange Series of Informal Discussions, Talks and Crits (Tate Exchange Discussions and Talks)
Online listening platforms Challenge and explore listening experiences (Online listening platforms with Rounded Radio)
Guest Collaboration 12:00 - 17:00

ELECTR“O”ACTIVE GRID: Get hands on making with coding Arduinos at most levels of ability, subverting pound shop toys and creating open source interactive projects that will populate the grid. A collaboration between CYLAND MediaArtsLab artist /engineers from St. Petersburg, UAL Digital Maker Collective members and Hill Mead Primary School in Brixton. ELECTR“O”ACTIVE GRID

London Connected Learning Centre and The Digital Maker Collective, Schools Collaboration: London Connected Learning Centre, part of Education Development Trust, supports schools to use digital technologies to enhance learning. The centre’s Digital Leader Programme supports young people who have taken on a role championing the creative use of digital technologies among their peers, teachers and community. See - Collaboration between Hill Mead Primary School in Brixton, Digital Maker

Alumni Project Space 12:00 - 17:00

Welcome to the world of Analogue systems. A creative, immersive and physical take on Adobe photoshop. This new and improved programme allows you to physically enter your soft’wear’ and grants you with the opportunity to make large-scale hand-made posters using analogue photoshop tools. Welcome to the world of Analogue systems

Tech Cluster 12:00 - 17:30

12:00 - 14:15 Virtual Reality Symposium, Virtual Economies: The future of work and play. Virtual Reality can lift us out of our seats and away from our screens – it immerses us in an active, participatory space that is networked and global. How will Virtual Reality shape the future for creative practice and practitioners in Art and Design? How will we work and what will we do to make money? What forms of entertainment will we spend it on? Does VR take us beyond materialism or is it the ultimate in total consumption? Virtual Reality Symposia 02

14:30 - 17:45 What Happens If We Push This? In the creative industries, technology is transforming the way we work and generate economic value. It has the potential to exploit or empower - so what kind of future do we want? Join subject experts, artists and designers to collectively make images and objects that create a vision of our futures. What Happens If We Push This?

Projects Space 12:00 - 17:00

Gesamt – a digital participatory opera Part 2: Take part in a digital participatory opera with Wimbledon College of Arts and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design via virtual and actual collaboration. Expect singing, talking, costumes, projections, social media, remote presence and digital characters. Gesamt

Virtual Reality (VR) Experiments (Virtual Meets Reality) - A space to experience & co-develop VR projects (some Tate related) together from scratch, come and join staff & students from MA Games Design, LCC and members of the collective as we embark on new collaborative VR projects together in this informal lab/studio style VR environment. Virtual Meets Reality

Wonder Wall 12:00 - 17:30

A space for public interaction and mapping debate and conversations throughout the day. Exchange your ideas in relaxed, intimate and informal discussion and explore related connections across digital projects, concepts and technologies through informal student-led critiques, debate and reflection. Wonder Wall - Student-led Crit

Digital Detox 12:00 - 17:30

A space to relax, meet and chat.

Digital Maker Live App

Keep up-to-date with the Digital Maker Collective with the Digital Maker Live App

Download our FREE UAL 'Digital Maker Live' App Join our meet-ups & events through live streams
Search ‘Digital Maker Live’ in iTunes or #GooglePlay

Video & Live Streaming

THIS EVENT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED: By entering this we will assume your consent to being filmed.

The video will be recorded and stored by the UAL.
Live streams will be available open to public viewing online https://estream.arts.ac.uk/
Video documentation will be used for promotion purposes of the UAL Digital Maker Collective
Edited recordings of the live streams will be posted openly online on UAL https://process.arts.ac.uk/ platform

This event is programmed by Digital Maker Collective, a Tate Exchange Associate.

About the Digital Maker Collective

They are supported by Digital Learning, Teaching & Enhancement at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, UAL.

http://digitalmakercollective.org
@tateexchange @CCWDigital #artsDMC #tateJAM

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Digital Friction at Tate Exchange 8 March 12-17:00

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Digital Friction With Digital Maker Collective, University of the Arts London

Subvert and confront digital friction caused by technology overload, through creativity, experiments, performances, interventions, and conversation - 8 March 2017 at 12.00–17.30

Technology is rapidly transforming the way we live, learn, work and interact, how do we turn digital overload into a positive & creative force? Read more about the event on the Tate website Digital Friction

Download Event info Flyer for 8 March

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01-02-17 Tate Planning Day (Priority final planning for 8 Feb)

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Tate Exchange Digital Making Art School event planning DAY (Drop in or get involved all day)

When: Weds 1st Feb 2017 (divided into sections so members could drop-in) 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm

Where: The Tate Taylor Digital Studio in the Tate Britain

What: Priority final planning meeting for all those involved in the 8 Feb workshop at Tate (& those preparing for 22nd Feb)

Sessions:

We will be using the morning session to offer development & sharing sessions for those taking part in Tate events, its an opportunity to explain & develop ideas and build a larger project team. We will run a number of activities along side each other, this is help us understand better how we will work together on one floor at the Tate Exchange in terms of space & sound levels.

10am to 1pm - Please let c.follows@arts.ac.uk know if you would like to present or demo your idea (essential for the people involved in the 8th)
2pm to 4pm - FINAL updates and plan for 8th Feb session (must try and attend please if you are part of the 8th event) whole group conversation

4pm to 4:30pm - Breakout informal planning in group discussions

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Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session 02-11-17 (CHELSEA)

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Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session: 10-11-17 (CHELSEA)

Tate Exchange 2018 'Drop In' project development session: 15-11-17 (WIMBLEDON)

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About the Digital Maker Collective

Event: Digital New & The Familiar at Tate Exchange 8 Feb 2017

Digital New and The Familiar With the Digital Maker Collective University of the Arts London

Tate Modern, Tate Exchange Workshop | Free Entry 8 February 2017 at 12.00–18.00

Technology is rapidly transforming the way we live, learn, work and interact, but how do we reconcile digital unknowns with the everyday?

Digital Making Art School, Space:

Collective Base Camp - Tech Cluster - Wonder Wall Projects Space - Digital Detox

Collective Base Camp: 12.00 - 18.00

Virtual Reality

Physical Computing

Bio Feedback

Robotics

Open Workshops

Tech Pit Stop

Debate

Tech Cluster: 12.00 - 14.30

Digital Detox: 12.00 - 18.00

The Wonder Wall: 12.00 - 18.00

Project Space: 12.00 - 17.30

About the Digital Maker Collective

22 Feb: Deconstructing the Digital @TateExchange

Explore resistance, activism and risk taking through creativity, taking things apart, experiments, performances, interventions, and conversation

Collective Base Camp 12:00 - 17:30

Guest Collaboration 12:00 - 17:00

Alumni Project Space 12:00 - 17:00

Tech Cluster 12:00 - 17:30

Projects Space 12:00 - 17:00

Wonder Wall 12:00 - 17:30

Digital Detox 12:00 - 17:30

Digital Maker Live App

Video & Live Streaming

This event is programmed by Digital Maker Collective, a Tate Exchange Associate.

About the Digital Maker Collective

Digital Friction at Tate Exchange 8 March 12-17:00

Digital Friction With Digital Maker Collective, University of the Arts London

Subvert and confront digital friction caused by technology overload, through creativity, experiments, performances, interventions, and conversation - 8 March 2017 at 12.00–17.30

01-02-17 Tate Planning Day (Priority final planning for 8 Feb)

Digital New and The Familiar
With the Digital Maker Collective University of the Arts London

Tate Modern, Tate Exchange Workshop | Free Entry
8 February 2017 at 12.00–18.00

Collective Base Camp - Tech Cluster - Wonder Wall
Projects Space - Digital Detox