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London Calling 6 May 10
Got an Awesome idea? Would a grand help kick it off?
Fiddian is delighted to be a founding trustee of the Awesome Foundation’s London Chapter launched today. The Awesome micro funding concept is soooo.... simple, no strings, no contracts. The ten trustees put a £100 a month into the fund, folk submit a 2,500 character proposal, the best 10 make diddy presentations at our monthly event, the winner walks with £1,000, huzzah! Oh it’s $1,000 in the USofA you lucky luverly Lundoners! There are just two rules about the submitted idea: 1.It’s awesome 2.The money has a meaningful impact on its realisation All we ask is that winners come back to the event sometime and tell how their project went. No idea is too small.
MASH goes Virtually Real 4 Cybersonica @ iDesign09 21 September 09
For iDesign, the digi day of the London Design Festival, Soda are providing a couple of instances of MASH to provide a social media mood-wall around the event.
Curated by Cybersonica the Virtually Real show showcases interactive artworks, technology showcases and demonstrations. Alongside Soda will be Squid Soup, The Sancho Plan, VisionLabz, Kinetica Museum, Monome (i want one, please!), MOTH, SHOWStudio, Jason Bruges, Lichtfaktor etc etc Check iDesign09 for more info. Tweet #idesign09 and Flickr tag relevant images idesign09 Come and say hi to Fiddian if your coming along.
Liverpool gets MASHed 10 June 09
Fiddian is taking the latest version of Soda’s MASH to the fantastic b.TWEEN 09 Interactive Media Forum at FACT in Liverpool. MASH is Soda’s RSS-aggregating, montage-generating, ever-changing, painterly-mash-up- making, ‘givin’-cool’ system for screens, large or small.
MASH can be readily branded and customised to suit a range of purposes: permanent public screens, corporate installations or for shows and events
The b.TWEEN 09 MASH picks up feeds from Twitter (a #btween09 search and bTWEEN boss, @Katzy‘s witty words) and Flickr uploads ( tagged btween09)
The dynamic collage will be projected in b.TWEEN 09’s networking space. Contact fiddian (at) soda.co.uk for more info.
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. A custom MASH variant displays the resultant illustrated narratives on the huge 360 screen in Shanghai Science Museum’s car park. Tag urban images with ‘earts08’ at Flickr.com and creat texts at bTWEENScapes, go on you know you wanna!
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.
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.
Soda Rocks (or Pops) Cannes 23 April 07
Alex and Fiddian went to Cannes last week for the Content360 pitching competition at MipTV and won the Children’s Content category. They pitched ‘Rock or Pop’ a fast paced online game comprising a series of user generated multimedia ‘this or that’ mini games. The prize is a development contract with the BBC with the aim to find a way to make ‘Rock or Pop’ work across CBeebies and CBBC. Rock...........or Pop!
Quickfire Fiddian 30 March 07
Fiddian presented at Quickfire last night on how Soda interfaces with many facets of the ‘Creative Industries’. Run by Katz Kiely, Quickfire uses a punchy 14 slide, 30 secs per slide format which is challenging for presenters but makes for an incredibly informative energetic event. Amongst the inspiring speakers were Charles Cecil MD of games co Revolution, Richard Adams Digital Strategy Director at Chemistry and Matt Hanson from Swarm of Angels the fab ‘crowdsourced’ film production project. Funded by London Westside the evening was an entertaining discourse on how the creative industries are evolving and boundaries blurring.
‘Wave’ to Dublin 17 January 07
Fiddian and Soda with artist Siobhan Hapaska have just unveiled ‘Wave’, a large sculptural low resolution screen for Dublin’s newly revamped Ilac Shopping Centre. The ‘portrait’ format screen is made up of 64 vertical Aluminium 5.5 meter extrusions each containing 96 four LED clusters thus making a huge, super bright 96 x 64 pixel screen. The extrusions are arranged in a wave form so at a distance and face on it appears as an ordinary screen but from the side appears as an abstract light sculpture.
The launch video content for ‘Wave’ reflects the Ilac’s environment and much of it was produced with Dublin school children. In the next phase we hope to use some of Soda’s skills and experience with computer vision generative art software to enable the Ilac’s audience to interact in real time with the screen.
Soda also produced custom playout and administration software that enables control of the screens content over the internet. Technographic did a fantastic job, as ever, with the screen’s production and it has been a real pleasure working with the Ilac’s architects Benoy.