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10 Tips on live streaming art events on the internet
During our 6 years working in the digital arts and engagement area we have toyed around with using live video streaming from events. This has mainly been as a response to the challenges of getting people interested and involved in the arts. We’ve witnessed the evolution of the social web which brings along with it [...]
Reflection on first weekend of Spode residency
In the first weekend of the Spodeoeuvre residency we initially started to use the field recordings only, however we started to mix them with some traditional methods of electronic music such as piano, synths and a few beats. The field recordings have such a unique quality and contain some powerful narrative from Alan who is [...]
Return of the circuit bent wizard
Back from the wilderness known as the far east our long term circuit bending friend Dan is back. Here’s a message from the polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride (bakelight) eating fiend: I am probably mostly known as Danny Rave, although I prefer to perform under the name of Uncle Normal. I have always enjoyed playing with battery powered kiddies [...]
iPad VGA out
Well at bITjAM towers we’re still trying out the iPad for all things live and geeky. We’ve had 2 live iPad only (well with korg kaoss pad and audio only) performances which was brilliant and went down great with folk. There’s a number of iPad friendly audio apps we’ve used and we’ll blog about them [...]
Rewiring the State
We’re currently working with our buddies at B arts (and other loveable geeks) and hope to offer support for young code developers in the Stoke on Trent area via the rewired state project. We hope to work with some Jedi younglins and hack some of the Government datatsets freely available. At present we have the [...]
Updates
Hi folks here’s an update on what the bITjAM are getting involved in. We are currently finalising a months worth (4 weekends worth) of workshops/R and D sessions for August based within the SHOP, empty shops project to be based in Stoke town, SOT. We plan to experiment with animating the spaces around the town [...]
R and D, science and art
Had a fantastic meeting recently and we’re one step closer to finding regular spaces to run various forms of bITjAM’s! The focus will be on developing collaborations with dance performances, illustrators, other sound artists even opportunities to explore the space where science meets art! More on this as we get the news… Carl