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- Acclaimed Burton-on-Trent Guitarist celebrates 10 years in the business
- New jobs created in 2012 as local firms launch and recruit in Harborough district
- Links Round-Up: Lights, Cameras, Action (and Poetry)
- Maxine Linnell
- Lincoln makes its debut at Kinetica Digital Arts Fair London
| Acclaimed Burton-on-Trent Guitarist celebrates 10 years in the business Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST 10th Feb 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Blue Yates is a professional Classical guitarist, performer and recording artist, specialising in Classical, Acoustic and Latin genres and this February marks the 10 year anniversary of his guitar tui... |
| New jobs created in 2012 as local firms launch and recruit in Harborough district Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST 10th Feb 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Despite the economic downturn, scores of local jobs have been saved and created, thanks to the Harborough Innovation Centre, which first opened its doors six months ago. The Centre, based at the entra... |
| Links Round-Up: Lights, Cameras, Action (and Poetry) Posted: 09 Feb 2012 10:55 PM PST  Blue and purple Robin by local Lee J Haywood, www.flickr.com/photos/leehaywood/4363956098 "There's light enough for what I've got to do." Unless you have been stuck in the Dark Ages, you probably know that tonight, Friday, 10 February, is Light Night in Nottingham. There are events, sights, and activities, indoors and out, all across Nottingham from early evening onward. To whet your appetite, you can re-read our posts from 2010 and 2011. If you want to plan your path to the light, there is a PDF brochure and website information. Many artistic efforts will be on display, here are three that caught my eye:
Now for the Cameras: the My World exhibition has just opened at Rufford Gallery – groups of young people used digital technology to create photos and videos about life in Notts, facilitated by the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies. And just as you could join in the Postcard Exhibition by making a postcard on the day, you can add your digital photo to a special map at Rufford when you visit. Opening Hours and a PDF with a few more details are is on the Rufford website. I hope that some of those involved in My World are also considering the theme Nottingham Welcomes the World, the theme of the Young Creative Awards for 2012. This is the fourth year of these awards.
The closing date for entries is 12.00pm Monday 26 March 2012. More details and the are on the website. Writing, of a thoughtful and helpful form, is an action if you review the draft Nottingham Economic Growth Plan. While it is a daunting 40 pages of facts, reasons and proposals, it does recognise the contribution the creative, digital, and cultural sectors make to Nottingham's prosperity. Does it go far enough? Is it too specific? or not specific enough? The City Council welcome comments, by 16 March, with more details on their website. Your comments are probably not going to be as dogmatic as Tony Weller's (in the Pickwick Papers, our last Dicken's quotation this week):
Fortunately for us, Dave Woods didn't take this instruction to heart. His Perambulatory Poems in Action are wandering up to Edwinstowe Library on 13 February and wandering back to Nottingham, the Friends Meeting House, on 25 February. John is one of our team of bloggers. He can be reached on john AT creativenottingham.com and followed on Twitter @johnwithbeard |
| Posted: 09 Feb 2012 12:36 AM PST |
| Lincoln makes its debut at Kinetica Digital Arts Fair London Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:05 AM PST  Staff, students and graduates from the University of Lincoln's BA (Hons) Interactive Design programme are currently exhibiting for the first time at this year's Kinetica Digital Art Fair from 8 to 12 February 2012. This renowned digital art fair is hosted annually by Kinetica Museum at Ambika P3 on Marylebone Road, London and brings together galleries, art organisations, curatorial groups and collectors from around the world who focus on kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology.  Highlights of work on display by Lincoln students will include "Ringstrument" (above), a modern day music box that uses a camera in-place of a stylus or CD laser. The creation of recent graduate Amanshah Andrew, otherwise known as Fu, Ringstrument has a turntable used in conjunction with a purpose built Flash interface that in turn triggers a pre-programmed set of sounds by reading a selection of spinning grids.Also on display will be "Freeze Frame" by Spanish graduate Joan Planas, originally from ERAM college of Audio Visual and Multimedia in Girona, which involves a sensor that detects the exact moment a raindrop creates a splash, and "Mindbending" by Interactive graduate and former fellow ERAM student John Revel, which is an art piece that explores the theme of mind over matter. Joan said: "With Freeze Frame a laser light was pointed at a Light Dependent Resistor so that it would read its maximum value. As soon as the drop cut the beam, the LDR would read a different value and that would trigger the picture." John says Mindbending is based on Mindflex™ a table top game that consists of a headset that reads brainwave activity. He said: "The objective of the game is to move a light foam ball around an obstacle course. When the player concentrates, the ball rises on a cushion of air, and when they relax the ball descends. Once we played around with it for a while we couldn't resist thinking ways to hack it. We came up with many ideas crazy involving electric shocks, moving radio controlled toy cars, shifting lights, screen based apps. After a lot of thinking we decided to create an art piece that illustrated the power and potential of the device and how mind can control matter (with the help of some electronics, of course)." Clive McCarthy, Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Interactive Design course, says that when he first visited Kinetica, he was blown away and immediately realised this was the place his students should be showing off their talents. "The course is very digital arts-based and so the event is a good fit for us – the perfect way for the students to start their final year degree shows," he said. Lincoln will be one of only four universities attending the art fair specialising in kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multidisciplinary new media art, science and technology. Its highly respected Interactive Design course has been responsible for producing alumni populating the very best creative studios within the major cities of the UK and Europe. Clive added: "Denis Kovac, head of Bunch Design in London, said there must be something special in that Lincoln water after asking me if I had any more students seeking employment." Clive will be joined at Kinetica by fellow course tutors Chris Dunne, Jim O'Leary, and Wayne Christian, as well as current and former students of the programme. They also have a loyal following within the London design world, many of whom will also be joining them during the 5 day show. And Interactive Design students are no strangers to national recognition and awards even during their studies. Last year for example, Amy Thornley helped cheer up commuters at various Tube stations with her winning animated film "Spreadsheet Invasion" in which space invaders attack a spreadsheet. The film was chosen as part of "Smile for London", an independent initiative bringing film, art and animation to platforms. [written by Thirzah Wildman, Press and Communications Manager, University of Lincoln]  |
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