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    Creative agency puts best foot forward

    Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:00 AM PDT

    2nd Nov 2011 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ Integrated marketing communications agency Lesniak Swann has won a lucrative design and programming contract for a global, multi-language footwear site. After a three-way pitch...

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    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:34 PM PDT


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    Tyler School of Art at University of Lincoln

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:08 PM PDT

    American Painter and academic at Tyler School of Art Daniel Dallmann will be with us here at the Lincoln School of Art and Design for this coming week through to Thursday November 3rd.

    Daniel will be hanging an exhibition of his work in the Greestone Gallery and there will be an opening on the evening of Thursday 3 November. This is an excellent chance to meet Daniel and discuss his work.

    The opening starts at Greestone at 7.00pm through to 9.00pm.

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    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:31 AM PDT

    New website post: : Notes from the Chair 1/11/11 http://t.co/64P4tJp9

    New website post: : Regional Review from Labour’s Shadow Culture Minister http://t.co/J68d51m6

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:29 AM PDT

    New website post: : Regional Review from Labour's Shadow Culture Minister http://t.co/J68d51m6

    New website post: : The Arts & Saving Taxpayers Money http://t.co/2WNzDzea

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:28 AM PDT

    New website post: : The Arts & Saving Taxpayers Money http://t.co/2WNzDzea

    New website post: : ixia's Public Art Survey 2011 http://t.co/NRplMZrA

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:27 AM PDT

    New website post: : ixia's Public Art Survey 2011 http://t.co/NRplMZrA

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    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:26 AM PDT

    New website post: : Arts Council England Strategic Funding Launch http://t.co/TEbz8ru6

    tpwestmidlands: ART IN A COLD CLIMATE - November 9 http://t.co/isi07fUr #tpwm #tpn

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 08:43 AM PDT

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    tpwestmidlands: ART IN A COLD CLIMATE - November 9 http://t.co/qZfXTRiU Conference-Developing the Ecology for Art Schools in the West Midlands Book NOW!

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:49 AM PDT

    tpwestmidlands: ART IN A COLD CLIMATE - November 9 http://t.co/qZfXTRiU Conference-Developing the Ecology for Art Schools in the West Midlands Book NOW!

    ART IN A COLD CLIMATE - November 9

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:45 AM PDT

     



     

    A Turning Point West Midlands event in partnership with Birmingham City University and the University of Warwick

    Wednesday 9 November

    10 am – 3.30pm

    Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry

     

    This conference is for artists and academics who teach in art schools, their students and alumni and other cultural brokers in the region. 

     

    Tickets cost £5 for individuals & concessions/£10 when paid by an institution and are available from Warwick Arts Centre Box Office, Telephone 02476 524 524 or visitwww.warwickartscentre.co.uk to book online.

     

    Developing the Ecology of the Art Schools in the West Midlands

    It is widely predicted that the period following the economic crisis of 2008 will be a 'lost decade' with no economic growth and a consequent absence of opportunities for a generation to initiate their careers. At a time when Universities are undergoing huge changes, this day conference, facilitated by Turning Point West Midlands, explores what is needed to place the region's art schools at the centre of a dynamic, sustainable cultural ecology.

     

    Speakers include Lynda Morris of EASTInternational, Colin Greenslade of the Royal Scottish Academy, artist Hadrian Pigott, and artist-academics based in the region including Mona Casey, and Professor Antonia Payne.

     

    A minibus shuttle will be available at Coventry Station at 9.30am to bring people to and from the University of Warwick campus from Coventry station at the beginning and the end of the conference. For further travel directions visit, www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/visit/getting-here

     See exhibitions, film and live programme at 

    www.warwickartscentre.co.uk                                  
    See art collection at 
    www.warwick.ac.uk/go/art

    Current exhibitions:

    1 October - 10 December 2011

    Mel Brimfield - This is Performance Art

    Dickinson and McCarthy - Greenwich Degree Zero

    Tom Hunter - Unheralded Stories

     

    Working with Vulnerable Adults &amp; their Personal Budgets

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:47 AM PDT

    Working with Vulnerable Adults & their Personal Budgets
    Thursday 19th January 2012
    This briefing is for those from the arts, sports and leisure sector who work with vulnerable adults (older people, people with mental health...

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    A taste of great drama at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:50 AM PDT

    THERE'S another chance to tuck into some top drama in Coventry this week as the popular A Play, A Pie And A Pint season continues.

    Guest Blog – Three creative, inspirational makers you should know about

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 10:14 AM PDT

    The author (2nd from left at back) with Tim Hunkin (3rd from right) and members of Nottingham Hackspace at Tim Hunkin's workshop Suffolk October 2011

    Having heroes is healthy, heroes are to be emulated and not passively adored. We should choose to live our lives as we imagine our heroes would. I want to tell you a little about three heroes who have been a great inspiration to me in the last few years and I hope they will inspire you too.

    Adam Savage

    Savage is best known as the co-host of Discoveries "Mythbusters" to which since 2003 he has brought a humour and vigour making it a highly entertaining show. For those who might dismiss the show as being a whoopy, dumbed down explosion-fest, I'd ask you to consider the techniques, thought, maths, rigour and time that goes into the builds for small scale testing. A particularly memorable maker moment for me is the episode called "Lead Balloon" which as you might image involves a balloon made out of lead.

    Mythbusters is filmed at M5 Industries in San Francisco, California. M5, the workshop of co-host and special effects artist Jamie Hyneman, is a workshop kitted out with almost everything you could need to build almost anything at all and it's not a great leap of the imagination to see that the Nottingham Hackspace has the same aspirations and asthetic.

    Adam's work on the show is well documented. His skills as a professional (and hobbyist) prop maker, sculptor and artist are not so well known. From the age of 15 he has spent many hours trying to recreate Deckard's blaster the gun prop from the film "Blade Runner". Which he documented in great detail on "The Replica Props Forum". He built a full scale model of R2D2 as well as sculpting a replica of "The Maltese Falcon" which formed the basis of his excellent talk on obsession that can be seen on Fora.tv. Adam makes the very valid point that making something isn't really about finishing it, it's about the act of making it.

    Adam has written for Make Magazine on several occasions and has recently started to perform stand-up as well as fronting a stage show with Wil Wheaton (yes from Star Trek) called w00tstock. I have heard that Adam intends to do more public speaking and teaching, specifically sculpture at a local college in California. He would of course always be welcome to speak at Hackspace.

    Limor Fried

    MIT graduate and New Yorker Fried is an engineer and business women who should be emulated. Self styled as Lady Ada after the first programmer Lady Ada Lovelace, Limor runs a successful web based educational electronics company from a low rent office in an empty block in New York's financial district (they were going cheap after the credit crunch).

    Fried's company Ada Fruit Industries sells their kits online (http://www.adafruit.com/) but also shares all the information you'd need to copy and make that kit for yourself. Just like Open-Source Software, Ada Fruit are pioneering Open Source Hardware. By sharing her electronics work on a Creative Commons Licence she no longer cares that her work might be ripped off by a corporate giants. This strategy has benefited Ada Fruit Industries who provide an excellent service. Limor was named "Most Influential Woman in Technology" this year as well as being featured on the cover of Wired Magazine in the USA

    Tim Hunkin

    You have probably seen some of Tim Hunkin's work, his career has been prolific and has included architectural sized bonfires, a variety of mechanical clocks including the water clock on the Holland & Barrett shop in Covent Garden, mechanical collecting boxes, interactive museum exhibits and cartoons (until 1987 he drew "The Rudiments of Wisdom" in The Observer.) He's responsible for the flying pigs and sheep used by Pink Flloyd on tour, which was parodied in The Simpsons as well as for his arcade machines at Southwold pier in Suffolk.

    We've been lucky to host a talk by Tim at the Nottingham Hackspace in August 2011. Tim spoke enthusiastically and animatedly about the "Under the Pier Show" a rather Pythonesk collection of arcade machines and simulators Tim has adapted in cunning and amusing ways. Hackers were lucky enough to be included on a trip there run by "Engagement Party" a Nottingham based artist's group I would encourage anyone to visit the pier it's well worth the journey and Southwold is a lovely town (with a brewery tour too!)

    Tim's approach to making is very pragmatic, when discussing welding I said I'd not tried it yet, as I'd not been trained, Tim laughed "it's like a glue gun for metal". On a trip to his workshop he simply handed me a plasma cutter nozzle (a high voltage metal cutting tool) and encouraged me to get on with it, no health and safety briefing or risk assessment needed!

    I think in common with all prolific and successful makers, Tim isn't afraid of failure. After-all if you aren't making mistakes, you aren't making anything. He has a wicked sense of humour and I think he finds messing things up a great joke. In his workshop there were about 8 small angle grinders, when asked why he had so many he explained "you can't have to many, they are so useful to cut apart messed up welding!" He also has a great optimism in reflection of the great projects he has worked on, even when eventual and inevitably they fold and reach their end.

    Hunkin is best known for his television work from the late 80s "The Secret Life of Machines" which you are encouraged to download or watch on You Tube. The secret life is the best primer I know into learning how to understanding the way things work short of taking them apart yourself (do that too!).

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    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:31 AM PDT

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    artsdevuk: New website post: : Regional Review from Labour’s Shadow Culture Minister http://t.co/J68d51m6

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:29 AM PDT

    artsdevuk: New website post: : Regional Review from Labour's Shadow Culture Minister http://t.co/J68d51m6

    artsdevuk: New website post: : The Arts & Saving Taxpayers Money http://t.co/2WNzDzea

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:28 AM PDT

    artsdevuk: New website post: : The Arts & Saving Taxpayers Money http://t.co/2WNzDzea

    artsdevuk: New website post: : ixia's Public Art Survey 2011 http://t.co/NRplMZrA

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:27 AM PDT

    artsdevuk: New website post: : ixia's Public Art Survey 2011 http://t.co/NRplMZrA

    artsdevuk: New website post: : Arts Council England Strategic Funding Launch http://t.co/TEbz8ru6

    Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:26 AM PDT

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    Posted by Creative Midlands at 11/02/2011 11:04:00 am
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