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Sodarace forum discovers Wikipedia 28 March 06
The Sodarace Forum have just discovered Wikipedia and are doing a good job at co-ordinating their creation of a Sodaplay page. Very promising in light of forthcoming Sodaplay 2.0 aspirations for a community of content and context creators.
Customisations 16 February 06
When talking about playforge modules last year, we had an idea that XML-based ui definitions might be helpful. Some of us had had some experience with XUL/Mozilla - and saw the power. We thought initially, maybe we take some sort of existing framework and integrate it. However the more we’ve looked the more we come to believe that our requirements are slightly different to most of the XUL-like options out there.
Lister Light Project 25 January 06
This is an iterative project working with students and teachers from Lister Community School in East London funded by Creative Partnerships London East and NESTA. The project is a micro example of how the school are trying out new ways of working by creating cross-curricula space within the timetable for thematic creative projects that are specific to various subjects, in the case of the Light Project, art, science and ICT.
The project is the focus of a research group at London Southbank University who are evaluating this project as part of a wider consideration of how the school as a whole becomes a more creative environment and community.
Annotations 3 December 05
Currently in the playforge development we’re using annotations to help with specifying “persistence” (really serialisation&marshalling, but it’s always within the context of saving and loading) and ”bindings” (hooking up XML-specified UIs to the execution of java code during runtime). Some people might well ask (especially those who have read around the issues about “Annotation Hell” or “Annotation Overkill”) why use annotations for this at all, why not just use method-naming standards and normal java introspection?
Bindings 3 December 05
Have started to make it possible to make a ui described in one or more xml files to be connected (bound) to code in a (java) application. There are two kinds of relationship currently envisaged:
- simple callbacks representing a one-way execution of code from the ui
for example, code that is invoked when a button is pressed - variables representing a two-way relationship of code to the ui
for example, a slider that not only controls some feature of the application (e.g. the gravity slider in constructor), but might itself respond ("listen") to changes in the application, as in the selected slider in the constructor application is indicated simultateously in both the main simulation window and in the sinewave window on the left. In a new version of the constructor application there might be sliders (or even just numeric editors) that can control the position (x and y values) of the selected mass and also reflect changes in its position.
Damascus and London get together 13 August 05
At www.nahnou-together.org young people in Damascus and London are getting to know each other through visual art. British Council and Tate Britain are running a project for teenagers to collaboratively explore their cultural identities. Soda has enabled this exploration through the use of a shared blog and is producing a generative artwork to showcase the teenagers work for a show opening at Tate Britain on June 5th 2006.
Flight Club 1 July 05
Flight club is an elegant gliding simulator written in Java by Dan Burton. Dan is my brother and collaborated on several Soda projects, most notably Sodarace.net. The previous version of the soda.co.uk site featured a copy of Flight Club and we continue to receive many visitors seeking to sour amongst Dan’s polygon clouds.
Visionary web site 13 June 05
Soda has launched the VisionLondon web site for Creative Partnerships London East. It is part of the FriendShip Week celebrations for London‘s Olympic bid. The web site is a showcase for schools in London to present art works created with professional artists and to enable them to share their hopes and dreams about the future of London.
Ed V Zach 27 May 05
This Friday I’ll be talking about the origins of Ed V Zach* during a panel discussion at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
*now updated with video at Digitally Yours, Turku, Finland, March 2007.
sodaconstructor Wrocs 13 May 05
David talks about things such as utilising sodaconstructor creatures to make music and playing rock classics on customised motorbike engines, a collaborative effort with Christopher Lum aka Xper.Xr, at the Wroclaw Media Arts Biennale, Poland.
OFFF to Sunny Spain 13 May 05
Moovl is being shown at the OFFF festival in Barcelona from 12th to 14th May. Ed will be giving at talk on 12th May at 12.30pm. We hope to see you there.
Leading the Way 13 March 05
Soda have created a new game about leadership for the Learning and Access section of the Churchill Museum web site. Take a Walk in Winston Churchill’s Shoes to find out what kind of leader you are.
Lounging Around 13 February 05
Soda are the featured artist at the Medialounge in Huddersfield. ‘Sodaplay Transfigured’ will be showing from 3 February until the 8 April 2005. This version specially created for the gallery enables users to create and add their own models to the projected work. Fiddian and Ed will be giving a talk at the gallery on 10th February at 7pm.
BETT on it 13 January 05
Soda are proud to be part of the NESTA Futurelab Innovations stand at BETT, the education technology show at Olympia. Registration is free for the four day exhibition and you will be able to meet members of Soda and see demonstrations of Moovl.
Free speech 13 December 04
Continuing the series of talks in the ICA Digital Studio Matt Gould, Director of Learning will talk about ‘Learning through Creativity’ on Thursday 2nd December. Fiddian Warman, Managing Director, will talk about ‘Art Practice in a Small Company’ on Thursday 9th December. Both talks start at 6.30pm and are free with admission.