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A Machine To See With

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Star in your own heist movie as Blast Theory puts you in the thick of the action. Simply register your mobile phone number online, and wait. Your phone rings. The action begins.

Lighthouse is delighted to team up with Blast Theory — Brighton’s internationally renowned digital artists — to stage the English premiere of A Machine to See With.

Have you ever wanted to rob a bank? Following a sell-out season at Sundance Film Festival, A Machine To See With now comes to Brighton. Blending secret missions and high adrenalin, you are in an interactive heist movie playing the lead. Sign up online with your mobile number. On the day, you receive a call, arrive at your allotted street corner and receive instructions. From hiding money to meeting up with a partner in crime, it’s up to you to deal with a bank robbery and its aftermath.

Dates: 01-03, 05, 08-10, 13-17, 22-24 September.

Organised by Blast Theory and Lighthouse, with support from Brighton Dome.

For more information and tickets: http://www.brightondome.org/

Pure Flow 2.0 by Katy Connor

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Brighton arts organization, Permanent Gallery are presenting two artist’s projects during the festival. Pure Flow 2.0 by artist, Katy Connor is a large-scale projection in the Permanent Gallery window and a smartphone app, both launched for the first time at Brighton Digital Festival. The projection reveals invisible data-streams running between a Global Positioning System [GPS] device and multiple satellites that triangulate its position. Live, moving imagery is generated from fluctuations in this data, revealing the noise in the signal, the system’s instability. As a Smartphone App Pure Flow 2.0 enables the user to directly touch these signals, creating visual and sonic patterns that respond to their environment and movement in space.

Pure Flow 2.0 is supported by Arts Council England and University of Lincoln. Made in collaboration with Dr Duncan Rowland.

For more information: http://www.permanentgallery.com

Solar Systems by Semiconductor

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Solar Systems is Semiconductor’s first major exhibition in the South East for four years. Three moving image installations explore the mechanics of observing the Sun, from the vantage point of the Earth to our orbit in outer space. The works, Black Rain, Heliocentric, and Out of the Light, are emblematic of the artists’ ongoing investigation of the natural world, which has resulted in major works on astronomy (Brilliant Noise, 2006), and geology (Worlds in the Making, 2011). Their unique approach has won them fellowships and residencies in significant scientific locations such as NASA’s Space Sciences Lab, the Galapagos Islands and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Exhibition Preview: Friday 2 September, 6-8pm

Solar Systems is curated by Lighthouse in partnership with Phoenix Brighton.

For more information: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/semiconductor.htm
http://www.phoenixbrighton.org

Brave New World

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As part of the Brighton Digital Festival, Fabrica is holding a series of three discussion evenings during September. Each with a different theme they will add up to an in-depth look at how social media and the digital space is changing the arts landscape. From artists taking their first steps and learning how to manage their online reputation, to those using the digital space to make work and invite creative participation, to the forces that will reshape arts organisations, challenging elitism and encouraging a diversity of voices into the arts.

Built into each session will be the opportunity to take part in the discussion. There are no experts here – speakers will be those working in this area including artists – we are all still learning and will continue to learn how to negotiate this new, exciting and ever-changing landscape. There will be the opportunity to spend some time networking after each event.

All events are free but booking is recommended – please contact office@fabrica.org.uk or call 01273 778646

For more information: fabrica.org.uk

ISEA Future Forum

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The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) has its international headquarters at the University of Brighton. An annual nomadic event,hosted in different cities, ISEA is one of most established electronic art events and has been running since 1988. At ISEA2011 in Istanbul (Sept 14-21), the ISEA International Foundation will be holding an ISEA Future Forum to discuss current directions and discuss the future of ISEA with delegates.

Join ISEA Director Sue Gollifer and ISEA Chair Julianne Pierce (Blast Theory) at this informal Brighton gathering to
kick-off discussions about the future of ISEA.

This event coincides with the Semiconductor Exhibition showing in the main Phoenix Brighton and which will be on view during the event.

For more information: www.isea-web.org

Semiconductor – Meet the artists

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To coincide with their exhibition, Solar Systems, Semiconductor will be doing a gallery talk at Phoenix about the Solar Systems exhibition, as well as previous work. Their unique approach has won them fellowships and residencies in significant scientific locations such as NASA’s Space Sciences Lab, the Galapagos Islands and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. This is an opportunity to see and hear more about the ideas behind their work.

For more information: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/semiconductor.htm
http://www.phoenixbrighton.org

Making Space

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As part of its Making Space programme (details at fabrica.org.uk) Fabrica is opening up its gallery space to recent graduates from Brighton’s MA Digital Media course to explore new ideas.

Resonance is a digital art collective whose artists recently graduated from the Digital Media Arts MA at University of Brighton. They will be working in Fabrica over two weeks during Brighton’s Digital Festival to create and test an interactive work, which will be shown at this year’s White Night Festival and will follow its theme of Utopia. People will be invited during two of the days to visit the gallery to test, interact and contribute to the artwork in progress.

For more information:http://www.resonancearts.co.uk/

BANG & Persistent Peril Screening

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BANG & Persistent Peril present a special free screening of the latest cutting-edge digital moving image at the Lighthouse, Brighton.

The screening focuses on creative digital animation and contemporary character work, so come along and chat to Brighton’s animation community.

BANG is the Brighton Animators Network Group, a group set up, and run by, people with a passion for all things animated. Anyone with an interest in animation, at any level, can become a member of BANG, which includes meet-ups and collaborations as well as an active online social network dedicated to animation.

For more information: http://brightonanimators.ning.com/

Photo Fringe Online Focus

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Open to everyone everywhere, Brighton Photo Fringe Online Focus is an online platform for photographers, lens-based artists, curators and audiences to participate in an experiment with exhibition curation. The community of participants and visitors to the Online Focus website will be able to upload images, make selections from uploaded images, create groupings and themes, and build their own online exhibitions that contribute to a collectively curated exhibition. The Online Focus will grow and evolve over the next 12-months with the resulting collectively-curated exhibition being part of the Brighton Photo Fringe festival in 2012. Throughout the 12-months individual photographers will be selected by guest curators and awarded solo exhibition pods in the Fringe Focus space during the 2012 Brighton Photo Fringe festival.

Brighton Photo Fringe is supported by University of Sussex, School of Media Film and Music, Brighton and Hove City Council and the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Brighton Photo Fringe Online Focus is a partnership project with Metro Imaging, London.

For more information: www.photofringe.org

Improving Reality

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Improving Reality is a conference curated by Lighthouse that explores how digital artists and designers are radically re-engineering our world.

Thinkers and makers from the technology, film, education and art worlds will explore how the current generation of makers is not only attempting to augment reality, but go one step further, and actually improve reality.

It features artists, Julian Oliver, Blast Theory and Agency of Coney, gaming guru and founder of Makieworld, Alice Taylor, filmmaker and founder of A Swarm of Angels, Matt Hanson, user experience designer, Aral Balkan, and more …

For more information: http://is.gd/reality

Stored in a Bank Vault | Time’s Up

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Cordoned off – permission to enter? Even to snoop? Who was here? Should I be here? Is someone here? Where did they go? What were they doing? Will they return? What do they want? Just follow the lines? Just follow the plan? What is it at the end of the tunnel? Is it just about the money? Is it about money at all?

What is stored in a bank vault?

Time’s Up’s latest physical narrative Stored in a Bank Vault explores the tools and motivations of bank heists, secret tunnels, ancient cultures, magical powers and the interconnectedness of the global financial system with everything else.

Stored in a Bank Vault has been commissioned by Lighthouse as part of Brighton Digital Festival.

Preview: 22 September, 6-8pm at Lighthouse with mystery tours to the opening between these times (Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ).

PARN (Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives) is a pan-European project, developed and implemented through FoAM, Lighthouse, Blast Theory and Time’s Up.

Stored in a Bank Vault has been supported by the Culture Programme (2007 – 2013) of the European Union, Arts Council England, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, Culture Linz AT and OOE Kultur.

For more information visit: www.lighthouse.org.uk

FAR by Wayne McGregor | Random Dance

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Wayne McGregor | Random Dance is a ground-breaking dance company, led by the internationally acclaimed choreographer Wayne McGregor ‘one of the most celebrated and sought-after choreographers of his generation’ (New York Times). Combining cutting-edge digital technology with live choreography, their all-embracing approach has led to a string of truly unique works. FAR is no exception.

Danced by an ensemble of ten incredible performers, FAR is set to a haunting score by critically acclaimed composer, Ben Frost. Staged in a mesmerizing environment of shadow and light, object and film – created by award-winning digital design collective Random iNternational – it combines cutting-edge digital design with dynamic choreography forged from a radical cognitive research process.

For more information: Brighton Dome and Random iNternational

Insight: Digital Dimensions

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Illustrated talk and discussion. John Clive has been using computers to create images since the early eighties, and he soon realized that digital was not just a new set of tools for creating artworks but a new medium – with its own aesthetic. Just as the discoveries of optics changed the perception and portrayal of reality in the 16th and 17th centuries so digital technology offers new dimensions of artistic expression for the 20th and 21st. John will present his personal view on the opportunities and challenges the new medium presents to visual artists.

26 September 6pm (doors open 5:30 for drinks).

For more information and tickets : info@phoenixbrighton.org

Digihub

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Digihub is a co working environment for artists who generally spend time with computing devices, and would like to share a space with others. If you use the network, sound, music, words, programming, social sculpting, hacking, genetics, or other digitally mediated means for art – digihub can offer a co working environment for you.

Digihub had a test run, alpha release, during May. On September the beta version will be launched in a more permanent settings. Since this launch happens to be during Brighton Digital Festival, digihub will:
1. Initiate crit-sessions & discussions that reflect upon specific festival events, and
2. Produce other digitally related events as part of digihub’s permanent program.

For more information: http://digihub.org.uk/

Data is Nature

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Join us for a night of audio-visual delights and surprises to close the first Brighton Digital Festival. The festival goes out with a bang, a buzz and an eye-popping array of performances to dazzle the senses.

Lighthouse is curating a brilliant line-up of audio-visual performers, including including stunning performances by audiovisual artists, Quayola & Mira Calix, and Paul Prudence, who together will show how digital technology can help us see nature in entirely new ways.

For more information and tickets: http://www.brightondome.org/events/Data-is-Nature/4456