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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

Mini Maker Faire

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Maker Faire — the sensationally popular fair for innovators, creators and inventors — is touching down in Brighton for the first time. Join this celebration of makers, crafters and inventors and interact with fascinating creations including home-spun robotics, garden shed inventions, synthesisers, circuit boards and the occasional fireball! Play with robots, learn to solder or make a musical instrument.

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

Play! Mini Maker Faire After-show Party

Thomas Truax with the Hornicator and Mother Superior

For one night only, The Brunswick will be hosting an evening of music incorporating one-off machines, built from remnants of the analogue and digital ages.

See Thomas Truax’ Mother Superior, an exquisite drum machine which uses a spinning bicycle wheel as a rhythm generator and Spacedog’s ventriloquial side-kick Hugo, an eerie robotic dummy head, rescued from the attic of a dead magician.

Hear Jane Bom-Bane as she sings at the harmonium in her intricate, mechanical hats and join in with the sawchestra as they create a live soundtrack to a classic silent film. There will be music throughout the evening, in the dedicated music room and breaking into the bar. Stay tuned for news of other acts.

BANG Digital Festival Meetup

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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.

As part of the Brighton Digital Festival the group is having an open meetup. Bring your sketches, bring your animations, bring your ideas from the past and present, bring yourselves. It’s an informal meetup so we can bounce ideas around and really get a feel for each other’s work and aspirations.

It’s the perfect chance to meet, learn and also to be a bit nosey and see what everyone else’s work is like.

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

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

CityForum launch

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Are you interested in the spaces where democracy and technology overlap? How can we use open data in ways that support debate? How can we find out what people in the city are saying? What is your top issue for discussion? Hear the latest news from experts in the field, and share and discuss the big issues you think the city’s politicians should be talking about. At this event the Democratic Society Brighton & Hove will be launching CityForum, an month-long democratic discussion programme for the city, online and offline.

For more information: http://brighton.demsoc.org


Brighton Digital Marketing Festival

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For digital marketers from all walks of life, the Brighton Digital Marketing Festival pulls together some of the greatest minds in digital marketing in a single day of interactive learning.

Organised by email and SMS marketing company Pure360, marketers will enjoy interactive workshops from Brighton agencies such as iCrossing, Nixon McInnes, Site Visibility & White Hat Media. They will also hear keynotes from the BBC, DC Storm and mobile innovators Zenith Media. No sitting in the same room all day, The BDMF will use multiple venues such as dynamic arts spaces Lighthouse, Fabrica and the renowned Brighton Dome.

With a capacity of 200 free tickets, we expect the places to go very quickly but fear not there’s a networking after party for all at the Fortune of War from 5pm.

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

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

Async Meetup: JavaScript Jungle

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Async is a JavaScript meetup group that gets together twice a month to grapple with the latest developments in JavaScript and related technologies. Many of its sessions focus on specifics like developing mobile web apps or running JavaScript on the server, while others are more open and collaborative. Each Async session is followed by an evening social.

For the Festival, Async will be building a collaborative art project, the “JavaScript Jungle”. There’ll be an introduction to drawing in the browser (with Canvas and SVG), following by group/individual programming. Everyone’s creations will hook into a single canvas, to be exhibited online.

For more information: http://asyncjs.com/jungle/

WriteClub Meet-up

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Brighton plays host to a variety of meet-ups which draw together some of the special-interest digital groups in Brighton. WriteClub is an open meet-up for all kinds of writers. Regularly gathering to discuss writing, reading, freelancing, getting published and everything else, WriteClub is a small, friendly, welcoming group. WriteClub is deeply informal, and only aims to give writers a place to meet other writers. Join us!

For more information: http://write-club.net

BrightonSEO

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BrightonSEO has grown from a few people gathering for beers in a pub to one of the UK’s most popular search marketing conferences. This one-day event brings together industry professionals from iCrossing, FHM, Leapfrogg and SiteVisibility to share advice for better performance in Google. The event’s aim has always been to highlight that the city is a hotbed for SEO talent, and provide a ‘Brightonian’ spin on the search marketing conference and networking event. When the last BrightonSEO event sold out in less than ninety minutes we knew we’d done a pretty good job building our reputation as one of the best search marketing events in the UK. The fact that it’s free and held on a Friday afternoon in Brighton doesn’t hurt either.

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

BarCampBrighton 6

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BarCampBrighton is an unconference: a conference created and organised by you, the participant. BarCampBrighton is focused on the web, digital art, design and technology.

The conference lasts for 48 hours, with the Saturday and Sunday broken down into eight or nine concurrent tracks of 30 minute sessions. Every attendee is expected to participate in some fashion for one 30 minute slot. You can give a talk or presentation, or show a film or some photographs. We’ve had people host boardgames, show work-in-progress, demonstrate experiments and run drawing classes: the choice is yours!

Encompassing topics such as the open and social web, mobile, games design, usability, user experience, interaction, design, programming and robotics, it is a community-run, free event for 200 people.

For more information: http://barcampbrighton.org

Digital Open Studios Week

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Wired Sussex has got together with many of Brighton’s digital agencies to organise a week when they will open their studios to the world. Agencies participating in Digital Open Studios Week will fling open their doors to potential employees, interested freelancers, and would-be and actual clients alike.  There’s nothing like seeing behind the curtain to help demystify what digital agencies actually do, where they do it, who does what and how teams actually work together. For agencies, it offers a chance to show off where, how and with whom they go about their day-to-day business.  There will be talks, workshops and plenty of opportunity for a bit of old-fashioned nosing.  Interested agencies should get in touch with Wired Sussex to find out how to take part; interested viewers can make sure they are kept up-to-date once viewing appointments are open.

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

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/

Aral Balkan Speaking at Longhill High School and Varndean School

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Lighthouse has developed a programme of education activity that introduces young people to inspiring ways of using digital technology as part of Brighton Digital Festival. The programme is delivered throughout September.

Aral Balkan will be visiting schools to give inspiring talks to young people about the opportunities that are available using new mobile technologies, digital design and interaction software. This will be mixed with demonstrations of building and developing experiences for mobile devices, such as iPhones, and how new technologies are changing the way we experience life.

Aral is a designer, developer, author, teacher, entrepreneur, and performer; a Renaissance Geek with a passion for designing user experiences and a desire to make the world a better place through technology and oratory.

Aral has organised the conference Update – The Human Touch: iOS and Beyond on the 05 September. For more information: http://updateconf.com

Hackasaurus Workshop

  • Sep 15, 16
  • Longhill High School and Varndean School
  • Education, Free
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Lighthouse has developed a programme of education activity that introduces young people to inspiring ways of using digital technology as part of Brighton Digital Festival. The programme is delivered throughout September.

Hackasaurus will be visiting Longhill High School and Varndean School, giving young people an introduction on how to ‘hack’ the web. Students will be shown how to edit the code on a website and change the way it looks using the Hackasuarus tools.

Hackasaurus is a project run by the Mozilla Foundation to help teach young people about the open web and how to collaboratively build cool stuff for it.

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/

Digital Coast

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With a confident and growing digital sector in Brighton, the city’s digital future seems assured. Brighton’s reputation as a cultural hotspot means employers can reach out to a university educated global talent pool to expand capacity. But where does this leave local young people facing increased barriers to higher or further education and employment?

By bringing together employers, sector development agencies, educators and others with an interest in ensuring Brighton produces the talent that can keep the digital sector strong, Digital Coast will explore the need for a joined up approach to getting Brighton young people into Brighton digital jobs. Starting with a case study about Create Jobs in East London, we will ask if there is a need to ensure local young people get increased access to local jobs or should the digital sector be left to its own devices?

For more information:
http://equal-angle.posterous.com/digital-coast.
To book your place email: digitalcoast@equalangle.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

THE LAUGHING GEEK

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Lowest common denominator comedy is old news. Greatest common factor comedy is in. Geeks get guffaws at this new comedy night, so who better to headline than Infinite Monkey Cage star ROBIN INCE, fresh from performing not one, not two, but three brand new science-based shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The writer and star of Radio 4′s It is Rocket Science!, HELEN KEEN will be coming along to talk about robots, space and the future, combining factually-accurate engineering knowledge with tremendous joke-telling talent.

Also featuring MATT GREEN, whose current show Too Much Information asks, “In this fast–moving world of distractions and diversions, how can we stay focused on what’s important? Were things simpler in the past or were people just stupider?”.

More great acts to be confirmed – keep an eye on the website for details!

For more information: http://www.carolineofbrunswick.co.uk/science.html

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

The Brighton QR Treasure Hunt

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Rise to the digital challenge and crack the clues in code. Working with local artists and businesses, the Brighton QR Treasure Hunt offers an interactive experience of the city that is both factual and entertaining. Your team of 2 to 6 people will go in search of clues embedded in QR codes, hidden around the city centre, with prizes for the winning team. Whether you bring your mates, colleagues, kids or your Gran, one team member will need to come armed with a smartphone. The hunt will last approximately 2 hours which includes a briefing session to help download the necessary app. There are morning and afternoon slots available to book and the profits will be donated to charity. 

For more information: http://qrtreasurehunt.co.uk/

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

How to fund and protect your digital projects

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ACUMEDIA – How to fund and legally protect your work.

What? ACUMEDIA presents an evening featuring Future Copyright, WeFund and ACUMEN MEDIA LAW in an open discussion about the myths and truths of funding and protecting your work.

The evening is an opportunity to network with the cream of Brighton’s creative talent and industry professionals. Following the panel there will be a chance to catch a live performance from a handful of local artists who will use the Future Copyright iPhone app to record and protect their songs.

Following the discussion the bar will host a Radio Reverb gig from
8.30pm featuring some great local bands.

Why? Brighton is one of the major creative hubs of the UK, so it makes artistic and business sense to bring them all together! It’s also a great opportunity to learn from inspirational and informative speakers and enjoy performances from great local talent.

For more information: http://futurecopyright.tumblr.com/