takeaway festival opening night tuesday 19th may 2009

May 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · art, london, portfolio

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working with Neil and Simeon, building a giant collaborative art touch screen thing. It involves lasers, loads of wood, and cameras, and it’s been a nightmare to build so far. I have almost cut all my fingers off numerous times and accidentally shot myself in the eyes with high power infra-red lasers.

This is all for the Takeaway Festival – a fusion of technology, music and art – happening at the Dana Centre, SW London over a couple of weeks starting Tuesday the 19th May. It’s without a doubt the nerdiest thing I have ever been a part of, but it feels good.

I would love if it you came down to the Tuesday opening night (they have beer), or if you can’t make it, you can see our installation anytime after that for a couple of weeks. See the details below.

Here’s a picture of us prototyping the device.

Takeaway Festival Schedule

The Festival opens Tuesday May 19th with our first day of workshops and our Opening Evening 7.00-9.30

The Exhibits and Interactives are open from Tuesday May 19th until Saturday May 30th
Entrance is Free
Exhibition finishes on Saturday May 30th 15:00
Please note: The exhibition is also open on Monday 25th May (Bank Holiday)

Opening times: Monday to Friday 10:00 – 17:00
Saturday 23rd May 12:00 – 17:00
Saturday 30th May 12:00 – 15:00

For workshops and evening events you will need to book in advance so please call 020 7942 4040 or e-mail tickets@danacentre.org.uk

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Gems // May 22, 2009 at 9:08 pm

Well worth reading:

http://www.howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com/
Jotta.com // May 26, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Electric jellyfish and robotic choirs…jotta get’s it all on film at the Dana centre’s DIY media festival http://tiny.cc/KtotF

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Oddyseus's bed

After Oddyseus finally comes home after 19 years and kills all the bad guys, his wife Penelope still won’t let herself believe it’s him. In her final ‘test’ she asks someone to move his bed outside the room, to which Oddyseus retorts:

“Wife, I am much displeased at what you have just been saying. Who has been taking my bed from the place in which I left it? He must have found it a hard task, no matter how skilled a workman he was, unless some god came and helped him to shift it. There is no man living, however strong and in his prime, who could move it from its place, for it is a marvellous curiosity which I made with my very own hands. There was a young olive growing within the precincts of the house, in full vigour, and about as thick as a bearing-post. I built my room round this with strong walls of stone and a roof to cover them, and I made the doors strong and well-fitting. Then I cut off the top boughs of the olive tree and left the stump standing. This I dressed roughly from the root upwards and then worked with carpenter’s tools well and skilfully, straightening my work by drawing a line on the wood, and making it into a bed-prop. I then bored a hole down the middle, and made it the centre-post of my bed, at which I worked till I had finished it, inlaying it with gold and silver; after this I stretched a hide of crimson leather from one side of it to the other. So you see I know all about it, and I desire to learn whether it is still there, or whether any one has been removing it by cutting down the olive tree at its roots.”

Pretty sick bed! One day I will build a bed like this.

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