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Post Me_New ID 30 October 08
Fiddian’s off to talk Robotics and Avatars in Dresden at the International media art festival CYNETart_08. The Post Me_New ID forum will bring together interdisciplinary practitioners in art and technology to discuss in various formats, from keynotes to Quickfires, issues concerning contemporary and future forms of networked creations and multi-identities.
great e(ARTS08)Scapes 17 October 08
Fiddian is off to Shanghai to launch bTWEENScapes at eARTS08 a collaboration with Chinese artist take10. At bTWEENScapes, folk can write short texts which then summon a sequence of images uploaded to Flickr and tagged eARTS08. These subjective inputs interlink the repository of images building a semantic, but dislocated, visual journey. Tag urban images with ‘earts08’ at Flickr.com and creat texts at bTWEENScapes, go on you know you wanna!
Fiddian gets Neurotic 16 April 08
In Fiddian’s performance Neurotic, giant pogo-ing robots attend 3 punk gigs. Neurotic questions how learning develops through the empathetic responses of the brain. The robots’ own neural networks are modelled on so-called ‘mirror neurons’ in the brain which stimulate mimicry. Each robot is exposed to punk records that Fiddian collected as a youth. The intention is that the robots develop their neural connectivity through ‘listening’. See fiddian.com for more details
Newtoon research report 16 January 08
”Newtoon not only helped learners understand scientific concepts but also helped them experience the scientific design processes and develop their digital literacy.” - Newtoon research report (1mb pdf) via www.futurelab.org.uk/projects/newtoon.
Passing by 26 November 07
Soda friend and collaborator James Tindall brings us Passingby, a never ending video journey assembled from brief travel glimpses from around the world. Add your own clips via youTube or just sit back and enjoy.
Make way for play 8 October 07
On Friday 19th October I’ll be taking part in the 2007 Cinekid Festival, which is an annual Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children that is held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In the morning I’m promised to be providing brain-food for media/ICT creatives and in the afternoon I’ll make way for play.
Daintywalker returns in an all new Constructor 25 September 07
We’ve just launched the latest version of our award-winning Constructor application. Read more about it on the New Sodaplay blog.
Sodarace UK Tour 2007 - Final Leg - Manchester 8 September 07
We now begin the final leg of the Sodarace Uk Tour 2007, and what a few months it has been.
After starting at the Cheltenham Science Fair, then onto At-Bristol, over to Pontypridd for the ‘All over the shop’ exhibition week then up to Scotland for the MiEast of Scotland networking event, we now find ourselves starting an 8 week installation at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
Our time at Manchester will also integrate their 2 week Science festival in October which looks set to be a very busy and exciting few weeks.
If you have so far not managed to make it down to see Sodarace for any part of the tour then now is your chance to get to see it while it is still on the road.
Sodarace will finish at the Manchester Museum on the 4th November and begin it’s journey home to London.
Sodarace UK Tour 2007 - 4th Leg - Scotland 1 September 07
Well after our week over at ‘All over the shop’ Sodarace is about to make a long drive but short trip up to Perth, Scotland on the 7th September.
Sodarace will be part of a day long networking event supported by Perth and Kinross Education and Children’s Services. The event is the MiEast of Scotland: Technology and Moving Image Education; Let’s Create Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence and is being held at the Horsecross Exhibition Centre.
It looks set to be a very busy and fun day with Soda giving a an hour long talk on Sodarace to all the attendees and getting them all interactive with the kiosks…
After our short visit in Scotland, it’s down to Manchester for the final leg of the tour.....................watch this space!
Sodarace UK Tour 2007 - 3rd Leg - Wales 25 August 07
Sodarace is now on it’s 3rd Leg of the UK Tour 2007 and this time we are down in Pontypridd.
This time we are part of a week long exhibition called “All over the shop”, this is an exhibition of: installation film digital art painting.
The exhibition is set in a shopping precinct in Pontypridd where a run of empty shop’s have been turned into small galleries where featured artists will all show their work. ‘All over the shop’ is a collaboration between CF37 ART.net, Inga Burrows & Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council.
Sodarace UK Tour 2007 - 2nd Leg - Bristol 23 July 07
Sodarace today begins it’s 2nd Leg of the Uk Tour 2007 and this time we are in Bristol.
The exhibition will be running from today at At-Bristol , one of the UK’s most exciting hands-on science centres, until 23rd August 2007. The kiosk will be set up in the foyer of the beginning of At-Bristols tour section and we expect a large number of people in every day.
If you missed Sodarace at TheCheltenham Science Festival back at the beginning of June then here’s your chance to see it again down at At-Bristol.
See you there.
Irrepressible.info on Facebook 13 June 07
For its first anniversary we revisited Irrepressible.info and added a brand new news aggregator. Users can now read and submit censorship relevant news.
Amnesty’s pledge has received close to 70,000 signatures exceeding our original expectations by far and the “censored fragments” have become wide spread through the internet receiving millions of views every month.
And we are delighted to see the irrepressible.info API being put to good use on Facebook. Add the irrepressible.info app to your Facebook profile now and help spread the word!
Sodarace begins it’s UK Tour 2007 - Cheltenham 6 June 07
Today Sodarace begins the first leg of it’s UK Tour 2007....
From 6th - 10th June 2007 our newly built Sodarace kiosk will show the latest version of Sodarace @ the Cheltenham Science Festival.
Every year the Festival sells over 15,000 tickets. Since 2002 their free interactive science space – the Discover Zone has attracted over 100,000 people through the doors.
The time there promises to make a very exciting start of the tour with hundreds of people a day visiting and playing with the kiosks.
So come down and visit us if you happen to be in the area, it looks set to be a great few days, see you all there and we’ll keep you updated about the next legs of the Tour soon.
b.TWEEN Users as developers 17 May 07
Fiddian is leading a panel entitled ‘Users as developers’ at the UK’s biggest interactive media industry gathering b.TWEEN07 on June 15th. The panel will look at what strategies can be employed to meaningfully involve users in content and application development. Sodaplay, Newtoon and Animoodle will be Soda’s key exemplars. Come along, say hello and contribute to the debate. b.TWEEN07 is… Innovation, Information and Inspiration for Digital Entrepreneurs… Turning Creativity into Cash
Secret Moovl fan? 17 May 07
One of my countless automated internet spys recently noticed a brand new moovl blog on the interwebs. Soda is clueless as to who is running it, but whoever it is - they are doing a good job promoting our much loved Moovl.
Bets are on our publisher being the culprit - but nobody really knows. A mystery!