Locative Media discussion from my trip down to meet Bristol’s Pervasive Media Studio Director, Clare Reddington who talks about the Studio’s exciting relationship between artists, technologists and academic institutions. PM Studio’s resident artist, Duncan Speakman talks about technology that knows where you are,  interaction with public spaces around us and his work creating urban “subtlemobs”.

More Info:

www.pmstudio.co.uk
www.duncanspeakman.net

This episode was originally broadcast on Soundart Radio 102.5FM, July 2010.

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Booking for our events and courses running during October to December opens on 19th August via the South Hill Park Box Office. All of our regular creative software training courses run during the evenings, with our incredibly popular “Claymation” for young people during the October Half Term and the final part of our “New Possibilities In Print” season.

Digital Developments is the major part of our Autumn series of weekend workshops and events that focus on sonic arts and creative technology with both an artistic and technical view.

We are bringing together a selection of skilled artists and makers to deliver this season which taps a vein of DIY electronics and mobile media to extract it’s creative flow.

Each of the weekends seek to combine creative play with solid technical information and demonstration of potential.

For visitors travelling from further distance, we have a discounted hotel accommodation offer with Waterloo Hotel, Crowthorne. Ask for details from the South Hill Park Box Office when you book your place.

Events in this year’s Digital Developments season:

• Saturday 2nd October: Sound:Site – Sonic Art Festival
• Saturday/Sunday 9th & 10th October: Field Recording & Creative Radio
• Saturday/Sunday 30th & 31st October: Electronics for Artists
• Saturday/Sunday 6th & 7th November: GPS & Locative Media
• Saturday 20th November: Theremin Day
• Sunday 21st November: DIY Contact Mic Recording
• Saturday/Sunday 27th & 28th November: Experimental Digital Printmaking

Download a PDF of the October-December 2010 workshop and event season: SHP Digital Oct-Dec (PDF)

Full Screen Flash
Date: Sunday 12th and 19th September 2010
Time: 11.00-5.00pm
Price: £102.00, £98.00, £99.00 (conc)
Tutor: Martin Franklin

Two day practical introduction to Adobe Flash CS3 aimed at the creation of a full screen animated audio and video presentation. The course will cover animation essentials, streaming audio and video, delivering your project for desktop and download.

About the Tutor
Martin is Digital Media Manager at South Hill Park, freelance artist and multimedia designer. He began designing for the web with hand built HTML sites in 1996 and now works as a producer and multimedia author. He graduated from London College of Music & Media with an MA in Computer Arts in 2003.
Web: www.codetrip.net

Animation: Rotoscoping
Date: Sat. 11th September 2010
Time: 11.00-5.00pm
Price: £52.00, £49.00 (memb), £50.00 (conc)
Tutor: Gemma Burditt

Combine hand drawn graphics and video, with a fantastic animation technique that let’s you trace or digitally paint over the frames of a section of moving video image, as used in the films Peter Pan, Yellow Submarine, A Scanner Darkly.

About the Tutor
Gemma grew up in Somerset and moved to London to study Theatre crafts and Puppet Theatre in 1999 at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She went on to study Animation direction for 2 Years at the National Film and Television School where she has experimented with many techniques and performance styles. She has produced work for the Electric Proms with Warp Films and the BBC, and recently created an Art Break Stint for MTV.

Digital Photography & Imaging
Date: Wed 22 Sept–Wed 18 November
Time: 1.00-3.00pm
(Half Term break 27th October)
£136.00 / Conc. £133.00 / Memb. £132.00
Tutor: Jo Andreae

An ongoing daylight course taking you step by step to understanding more about the functions on your digital camera, taking eye catching photographs and manipulating your images on the computer. Combining four weeks of practical photography and four weeks of Adobe Photoshop tuition. Course applicable to both SLR and compact camera users.

About the Tutor:
Jo became a freelance photographer 10 years ago after a 12 year career in business in the UK and abroad. As a creative photographer, form and structure are very important in her work with angle, light and perspective being used as the key to achieving impact. She also enjoys experimenting with print materials and pushing the boundaries of photography. In 2001 Jo obtained Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society.

Web: www.oneworldonecamera.co.uk

Adobe Photoshop
Date: Mon 27 Sept-Mon 22 Nov.
Time: 7.30-9.30pm
£136, Conc £133, Members £132
Tutor: Kate Legg

An introductory course for beginners to give you the basics of using the tools and techniques necessary to crop, copy, retouch and collage photos and develop graphic images using Adobe Photoshop CS.

Tues. 28 Sept-Tues. 16 November
Time: 7.30–9.30pm
Price: £136.00 / Conc £133.00 / Members £132.00
Tutor: Martin Franklin

A practical course to take you through the steps and techniques for constructing a creative website using Dreamweaver CS3. Topics will include site planning, basic HTML, design issues, CSS, image optimizing, site management and web hosting.

About the Tutor
Martin is Digital Media Manager at South Hill Park, freelance artist and multimedia designer. He began designing for the web with hand built HTML sites in 1996 and now works as a producer and multimedia author. He graduated from London College of Music & Media with an MA in Computer Arts in 2003.
Web: www.codetrip.net

Sound:Site
Date: Saturday 2nd October
Time: 10.00-5.30pm
Tickets: £26.00 / £18.00 (students/membs)

Talks and demonstrations exploring the Internet as a context for making and showing artwork, for sharing sounds, bringing communities together, and curating sonic experiences. Sound:Site brings together a set of exciting projects from in and around the Sound Art community, framing contemporary practice and emerging online/offline possibilities.

Featuring:
Chris Clark, British Library “UK Sound Map”
Patrick McGinley “Framework” (Resonance FM)
Paul Whitty “Sound Diaries”
Felicity Ford “The Domestic Soundscape”
9 x 5 Micro-Presentations
Kathy Hinde & Ed Holroyd, Twitter meets bird spotting, with “Twitchr”

Performance: 7.00pm
Framework 250 Remixed
Live sonic performance from artists who feature on “Framework 250″ the recent definitive CD collection of phonography-based work, with Patrick McGinley, Simon Whetham, Jonathan Coleclough.

Follow the development blog of the event at: soundandsite.wordpress.com
See images of the event and run up on the Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/soundandsite

Sound:Site is on Twitter: twitter.com/soundandsite

This event is generously supported by Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University - http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/saru

Field Recording & Creative Radio
Date: Sat-Sun. 9th & 10th October
Time: 11.00-6.00pm
Price: £110.00 / £107.00(mem) / £108.00 (conc)
Tutor: Patrick McGinley

Artist and broadcaster, Patrick McGinley leads this weekend to introduce concepts of deep environmental listening through an exploration of our immediate surroundings and a series of sound-hunting forays and listening sessions. Explore composition for radio as a creative medium, and work towards the production of a final work to be broadcast as part of Framework Radio’s Afield series. Participants should bring recording equipment.

About the Tutor:
Patrick McGinley (aka murmer) is an American born sound and performance artist who has lived and worked in europe since 1996. from 1996 until 1998 he lived in paris, where he studied theatre, and began his sound experiments in the context of those studies. moving to london in 1998, he began a collection of found sounds and found objects that would become the basis of all his work. he has composed works for several theatre performances, including the works of his own company, as well as performing live soundworks for others. in 2002 he co-founded framework, an organisation that produces a weekly radio show on london’s resonance104.4fm. his work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognisable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one’s own breath.
Web: www.frameworkradio.net