Programme (in chronological order)

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/

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Longhill Reporters Group

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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.

Longhill High School is developing a press team for the school, and will be making the Brighton Digital Festival their first campaign. Students from the school will be using different formats to capture and comment on the Digital Festival, using blogging, photos, video and social media to take a snapshot of the festival over September.

Culture 24 will be publishing some of the students work as guest reporters, showcasing the students’ writing and images.

For more information visit: http://www.culture24.org.uk

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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

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dConstruct

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dConstruct is an annual, internationally renowned conference that gathers many of the brightest minds in the design community to explore big issues in the digital world. This year, speakers including Kevin Slavin, Don Norman, Stephanie Rieger and Matthew Sheret explore how we can bridge the gap between physical and digital product design.

For more information: http://2011.dconstruct.org/

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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

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Geek Film Night: Inception

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Duke of York’s presents a season of late night Geek Films to coincide with the Brighton Digital Festival. The season features four films in which technology goes terribly wrong.

The first screening is Inception (2010), Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending exploration of the dream world. In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page

For more information and tickets: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Duke_Of_Yorks/

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Play! Mini Maker Faire After-show Party

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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.

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The Caroline of Brunswick’s hugely popular sci-fi quiz goes digital this month to coincide with the Brighton Digital Festival! Expect rounds will be on Tron, artificial intelligence in sci-fi, computer sounds, and online gaming! And as always, there are bonus points available to any teams who turn up in fancy dress and/or with appropriate props.

For more information: www.carolineofbrunswick.co.uk

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Update 2011

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Update is an affordable one-day conference exploring the hottest topics in mobile design and development. Curated by user experience designer and developer Aral Balkan, Update features inspiring talks from top names from the worlds of iOS, web, and user experience including Brendan Dawes, Jeremy Keith, Sarah Parmenter, Matt Gemmell, Jeff LaMarche, and Cennydd Bowles. Their inspirational keynote sessions are punctuated by lively geek ninja battles debating platforms and technologies, and the conference day itself is followed by two days of hands-on workshops on topics ranging from iOS design to HTML5 for mobile. Update’s special guest this year is Ronald Wayne. He founded Apple alongside Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, created the first Apple logo, and wrote the manual for the first Apple computer. He then gave up his 10% share in Apple for just $2,300. If he’d kept it, it would be worth over $30 billion today and would make him one of the world’s 15 richest people.

For more information: http://updateconf.com/

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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/

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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

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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


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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

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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

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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

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Hacks/Hackers Brighton

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A get together for journalists (hacks), developers (hackers) and designers to share information and ideas.

Following the hugely successful Hacks/Hackers meet-ups in the US, London and around the world, this event, which is part of the Brighton Digital Festival, will see the launch of Hacks/Hackers Brighton, drawing on the wealth of talent in and around the city.

Organised by Journalism.co.uk, the event will include talks and demos from hacks and hackers.

We’re thinking of looking at using open APIs for journalism, but this event will be shaped by suggestions from those planning to attend.

Any journalist, developer or designer is welcome to come along but please register beforehand on the Hacks/Hackers page of Journalism.co.uk.

For more information: http://www.journalism.co.uk/hacks-and-hackers/s299/

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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Geek Film Night: TRON (1982)

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Duke of York’s presents a season of late night Geek Films to coincide with the Brighton Digital Festival. The season features four films in which technology goes terribly wrong.

The second in the season is TRON (1982), the original trapped-in-a-computer classic. A hacker is abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

Director: Steven Lisberger
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner and David Warner

For more information and tickets: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Duke_Of_Yorks/

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Popcorn Comedy

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Popcorn Comedy is a comedy show created by Jon Petrie and Holly Walsh in January 2009. It presents some of the strongest, sharpest and funniest videos online. The show also features the country’s best comedians as they showcase their own short comedy films. Live comedy from Joe Lycett and Tom Webb. Here are some nice things people have said about us…

“The first truly successful interactive live stand-up show.” BBC Comedy
“A genuine community feel.” The Guardian
“A cult hit…always a corker.” Time Out
As featured on ‘The Culture Show’ BBC2

Only £5 for delegates with discount code
Discount Code : digitalpoppy

For tickets please visit: http://tiny.cc/h8lm6
For more information visit: http://www.popcorncomedy.com

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Flash-Lit Fiction: a slam & other experiments

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An evening of short shorts, flash writing and digital technologies. At the heart of the event is a 300-word flash fiction slam competition and an online Twitter story competition, with competitors battling it out for fame and glory. The night is brought to you by the makers of Grit Lit (http://www.gritlit.org), Story Studios (http://www.storystudio.co.uk/about.html). Judging panels include our fine selves (Tim, Tara & Amy), Richard Hearn from Paragraph Planet (http://www.paragraphplanet.com) and Myriad Editions (http://www.myriadeditions.com/). 

More more information: http://flashlitfiction.eventbrite.com

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Flash on The Beach

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Flash on the Beach is a major international conference, and a highlight of Brighton’s digital culture calendar. It brings designers and developers together to share, educate and inspire. This year’s speakers include Joshua Davis and Ben Fry, who create stunning artworks using digital visual languages.

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

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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

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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/

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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

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CityCamp meetup

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Join the CityCamp Brighton network for their regular meetup, talking about current tech and social innovation projects in the city. This month’s meetup features a contribution from a senior city figure talking about the city’s social needs and public services, an update on the projects that came out of CityCamp Brighton in March, and news about CityForum (see launch event on 6 September).

For more information: http://citycampbtn.org

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Hackasaurus Workshop

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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.

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Hard Science? Sex, Science and Technology

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The Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network (BSSN) is a research network aimed at supporting research and researchers who work on issues of sexuality. 

The theme of the 5th Annual BSSN Conference is ‘Hard Science? Sex, Science and Technology’. It will take place on Thursday 15th September, Grand Parade Site, University of Brighton.

This is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at activists, academics, scholars, member of the LGBT community and community groups, students, documentary and film-makers, writers and artists. Presentations will cover a broad range of questions on research and practice around science, technology, queer, sex and sexuality.

Keynote speakers include:
- Mary L Gray, Indiana University.
- Campbell Ex, Filmmaker.
- Dr Stuart Lorimer and Christina Richards, Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic

For more information: http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/bssn/conf2011/

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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/

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Drupal Discovery Day

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With over half a million contributing developers in 200+ countries, Drupal powers over 2% of the web including such diverse sites as The White House, Economist.com, Examiner.com, Amnesty International, MTVuk, .net magazine and Data.gov.uk.

From a single-page blog to the world’s biggest sites, Drupal does it all with the same, scalable, open-source software.

Drupal’s flexibility along with 10,000+ modules and themes provides cost-effective websites that integrate with your designers and have the best user interface for your users.

Come along to The Lighthouse in Brighton on Friday 16th September and discover how Drupal can enable your company to embrace communities and harness the power of the social web to deliver real business value.

Join the Drupal revolution!

For more information: http://bad-ass.org.uk

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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

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Geek Film Night: Ghost in the Shell

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Duke of York’s presents a season of late night Geek Films to coincide with the Brighton Digital Festival. The season features four films in which technology goes terribly wrong.

The third film in the season is Ghost in the Shell (1995), one of the all-time classic manga films. A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Don’t miss this cyberpunk masterpiece on the on the big screen.

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi and Richard Epcar

For more information: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Duke_Of_Yorks/

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Lives at War

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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.

Lives at War is a game that has been developed in collaboration with designers Corporation Pop, students from Longhill High School and a group of older people from Brighton and Hove who were alive during World War 2.

Over the past year, as part of a wider education project called Past Present, students have been visiting Mass Observation Archive, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Whitehawk Air Raid Shelter and Lighthouse, doing video editing, collecting oral histories and undertaking research. Using this information, and working with older people, they have designed and made characters, stories and films that make up the Lives at War game. The game is based on a collection of films from Screen Archive South East, which is a partner in the project. These films from a collection called Films from the Home Front, have inspired the design and feel of the game as well as its characters and storyline. The game has been built and designed by Corporation Pop, incorporating the media created by young people.

Lives at War gives young people an opportunity to immerse themselves in a game environment that has films and information that are embedded in interactive objects, teaching young people about what it was like to live on the home front in World War 2.

The game will be launched with introductions and an opportunity to play the game and see some of the work developed by younger people, including films, drawings and oral histories.

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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

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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

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RSA/CityCamp

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How can technology be used for social good? Come to an evening of ideas and social innovation. Hear about the state of social innovation in the city, from local Royal Society of Arts Fellows, Royal Society of Arts Project staff and the CityCamp Brighton team. Bring your thoughts and proposals to a discuss-and-pitch evening in a friendly informal environment. The best ideas will be given support to apply for funding and expertise from the Royal Society of Arts Catalyst Fund and Skills Bank.

For more information: http://citycampbtn.org/

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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

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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

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WP-Brighton

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Want to improve your web presence? WP-Brighton is a special event in the Brighton Digital Festival calendar, aimed at creating profitable connections between businesses and web professionals.

The event will focus on the ability of WordPress (aka WP) to power dynamic and cost-effective web, social and mobile media communications. Much more than a blogging platform, WordPress has fast become an essential tool for many of the world’s best known brands.

Expect a host of guest speakers from Brighton’s flourishing digital industry, who will share practical tips, tricks and advice – on everything from functionality and design to copywriting and strategy – which you can implement immediately into your company’s online activities. As well as enabling businesses to improve their web presence for clients, WP-Brighton will also provide a forum for digital professionals to come together, collaborate and inspire one another.

For more information: http://www.wp-brighton.org.uk

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Geek Film Night: The Terminator

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Duke of York’s presents a season of late night Geek Films to coincide with the Brighton Digital Festival. The season features four films in which technology goes terribly wrong.

The last film in the season is The Terminator (1984), Cameron’s original vision of a world where man fights machines. A human-looking, apparently unstoppable cyborg is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor…

Director: James Cameron
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn

For more information: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Duke_Of_Yorks/

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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/

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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

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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

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Pecha-Kucha Night Brighton Vol 13

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Pecha-Kucha Night Brighton, as part of Brighton Digital Festival, is exploring how creative makers, designers and artists are using digital technology to inform, inspire and create their work.

Presentations have been invited from practitioners working in different creative backgrounds who use digital technology, from designers and artists to theatre practitioners and filmmakers. Expect an inspirational evening of presentations that will show the breadth of inspirational creative practice possible using digital media.

Pecha-Kucha gives people the opportunity to raise exciting, creative and sometimes controversial ideas, using the Pecha-Kucha style, which is fun and fast-paced. The unique format of Pecha-Kucha gives each presenter six minutes and 40 seconds to share 20 visual images each held for 20 seconds on a screen, keeping the event dynamic and fluid.

For more information : www.pecha-kucha.org/night/brighton/

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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/

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Digital Business Brighton

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The phenomenal growth of social networking has transformed the way people and companies communicate and do business. Clients and customers are speaking to each other constantly and as business people we need to be engaging and building better relationships if we want to be part of their future.

Digital Business Brighton is an innovative and informative day of hands-on workshops, seminars and presentations bringing together some of the most knowledgeable and forward-thinking social media speakers and practitioners in the UK.

Digital Business Brighton is a multi-venue event covering every area of social networking for business, from Facebook to Foursquare, Twitter to Google+ and lots more.  

Stop playing safe and start being remarkable. Develop your digital mindset at Brighton’s premier digital business conference.

For more information: www.digitalbusinessbrighton.co.uk

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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/

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Creative JavaScript and HTML5 workshop

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Over the last few months, creative coder extraordinaire Seb Lee-Delisle has been inspiring a whole new audience in the art of creative coding with JavaScript and HTML5. And after his sell-out tour of the US, he’s coming home to Brighton!

Learn how to draw, animate, and create truly interactive content, including advanced mouse interactions, pixel manipulation, image blending, physics, 3D and games.

For more information: it http://seb.ly/training

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TeachMeet Brighton

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Digital Education Brighton is coordinating TeachMeet Brighton for everyone involved in education including early years, primary, secondary, FE and beyond to share how digital can deliver within an education framework.

Part of the exciting “unconference” movement, TeachMeets provide ideal opportunities for teachers, tutors, and everyone interested in effective education to share ideas and insights into teaching and what works in practice.

At TeachMeet Brighton you can:
- Give a 7 minute presentation to share how you’re using digital to engage students and support learning.
- Give a 2 minute presentation to highlight one activity or product that enhances teaching practice.
- Be an audience participant: ask questions and be digitally inspired by other educational professionals!

For more information: http://teachmeet.pbworks.com

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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

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UXCampBrighton

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A one day ‘unconference’ for anyone involved or interested in user experience design, interaction design, information architecture or usability.

The event will allow people to share and learn in an open environment. Every attendees contributes by running a 25 minute session and all are treated equally. It could be it a talk, demo or discussion. No headliners, no product pitches, just a friendly (if intense) event focused on sharing and socialising as well as learning new stuff.

It is free to attend and tickets will go quickly, so check us out on Twitter @UXCampBrightonor our website for the latest information.

For more information: http://www.uxcampbrighton.org

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