An Evening of TV – playlist publishing
Ben Dalton 24th September 2014I’ve been thinking about assembling playlists as an editorial process, and an attempt to turn interactive, lean-forward, web video in…
Video of Constellations: Offline Communication Experiments
Neil Winterburn, Victoria Bradbury 23rd September 2014The Final Install: Reflections
Victoria Bradbury 22nd September 2014The Final Install A week’s work culminated in a collaborative installation called Constellations: Offline Communication Experiments. My part of the final piece…
The Barrow Woodwose
Ben Dalton 22nd September 2014In The Golden Bough, the wild man, or woodwose, character reoccurs many times: At Goepfritz in Lower Austria, two men…
Animation prototype of an offline communication system
Neil Winterburn 22nd September 2014I felt inspired by Sam’s off the cuff stop frame animations, so I thought I’d make some some of my…
Can we stay longer?
Lalya Gaye 21st September 2014When you’re about to spend a whole week with a big group of strangers in closed quarters, you get a little…
Creative Exchange in Digital Media Labs
Ben Dalton 21st September 2014Over the last two years I have been part of an ongoing investigation into forms of ‘creative exchange’, that is,…
TIDAL demo
Alex Mclean, Sam Meech 19th September 2014Alex Mclean gives an introduction to his TIDAL live coding software, used for creating music https://github.com/yaxu http://yaxu.org/tidal/
Domestic Military Wilderness
Ben Dalton 19th September 2014Many of the costumes in wild man traditions are built from elements at the edge of the wilderness. Furs and…
Swimmin
Victoria Bradbury 19th September 2014Yesterday we went swimming in a nearby lake and had a lovely picnic… then stayed at the house until the…
Final day at the lab — Sorry, it’s been a while, I’ve been absorbed…
Neil Winterburn 19th September 2014When Victoria and I were coming up with our anthropologists from the future performance, we both got really into the…
Knitting RGB
Sam Meech 19th September 2014I managed to develop an isadora patch to track cells on a punchcard and translate them to RGB values as…
Day 4 what to do..
Emily Briselden-Waters 19th September 2014Time to work out what i want to produce from my time here at digital media labs… I want it…
Day3 Chazzer shops!
Emily Briselden-Waters 19th September 2014Today was charity shop day, one of my favourite pass times- we were given a brief to find some technology/…
Washing machines – watching and listening
Alex Mclean 18th September 2014Some fragments of documentation .. Ben has some nice documentation from our experiments with salad spinning things, since then we’ve been trying…
Music makers
Sam Meech 18th September 2014two fantastic hacked jamming sessions from Wednesday using DMX triggered lights in a snare drum and breadboard guitars
Performing performativity
Ben Dalton 17th September 2014In an attempt to explore how the ‘performativity’ of identity is made explicit or actively designed, I’ve been developing ‘wild…
Knitting Drumming Lighting Programming Nuclear Submarine
Lalya Gaye 17th September 2014Knitting machines. Pixels of yarn, afropean wax patterns. Broken snare, piezo, desk lamp and Clavia Nord in the dark. DIY…
It’s a bit like cooking isn’t it?
Ben Dalton 16th September 2014… you put things in and see what comes out. Potential ingredients from charity shops in Barrow: yellow salad dryer…
Day 3 – Nuclear Subs and Charity Shops
Laura Pullig 16th September 2014We walked across to the edge of barrow this morning, passing a nuclear sub. We were then paired up to…
Invisibility Cloaks and Arrows
Victoria Bradbury 16th September 2014Today started off with twisting my ankle on a run that lasted about 10 minutes before I tripped on a…
Why didn’y you tell me that my invisibility cloak wasn’t working?
Neil Winterburn 16th September 2014So today we went for a walk to see the BAE side of Barrow and the view to the island….
Charra tat hack
Sam Meech 16th September 2014The cognitive wheels are well and truly oiled with an activity to develop a project idea using only things purchased…
Charity Shop Challenge
Aaron Nielsen 16th September 2014We’ve spent a tenner at the charity shops and now it’s of to produce something.
Candyshop
Lalya Gaye 15th September 2014I’m might focus on build something with gears and motors all week. Or chromatic paint and oF? No wait, mechanical drum machines for live coding…
Washing machines
Alex Mclean 15th September 2014After a great + diverse day of everyone’s fine talks and activities, rather than drinking beer I’ve got waylaid watching washing…
Thoughts taking form, minds melting
Sam Meech 15th September 2014A first day of having our minds melted by an intense introduction to many ideas and different practices. Here is…
Aspen Magazine and Bittorrent
Ben Dalton 15th September 2014I talked today a little about some of the projects I have worked on, before discussing the idea of bundle…
Presentations, Introductions and So Many Ideas
Victoria Bradbury 15th September 2014Today we presented our own work and practice, ideas, and shared skills. An image isn’t included of Sam Meech’s presentation in which,…
Day 2 Digital media labs
Emily Briselden-Waters 15th September 2014Day 2 of the lab- a day of presentations and workshops, I really enjoyed seeing everyones practice- very interesting and…
Day 2 – Artist Presentations and Walkabout
Mark Pilkington 15th September 2014Hello World, awoke early, ultimate breakfast, chatted frantically about computer music. We all took a nice stroll through the town…
Slime Thoughts workshop activity
Neil Winterburn 15th September 2014Really interesting day, thanks for your presentations everyone! Really excited by the variety of practices and approaches. There are a…
Day two
Alex Mclean 15th September 2014First full day of talks and activities, with lingering thoughts of threads and gears.. How to connect them through patterns and repetition,…
Day 1 of Digital LabResidency
Emily Briselden-Waters 15th September 2014Just arrived at the Octopus head quarters in Barrow in furnace. Excited to meet everyone, collaborate and experiment with making…
Hello Matthew, I’m Neil & I’m from York. (Applause)
Neil Winterburn 14th September 2014Hello Digital Media Labs, Hello Everyone, I’m Neil & I’m from York. (Applause) Initial thoughts, we have a really intereseting…
Digital media lab day 1
Laura Pullig 14th September 2014I arrived in time to have a quick look around the park before heading to Octopus. Looking forward to getting…
Arrival and Preperation
Aaron Nielsen 14th September 2014Arrived and settling in. Tea has been consumed and preparation for emergencies covered. Onwards…
Bandstand Publishing
Ben Dalton 14th September 2014I cycled through the park to Piel View House the home of Octopus, and to the 2014 Digital Media Labs,…
Day 1 – Arrival at Octopus Residency, Barrow-in-Furness
Mark Pilkington 14th September 2014Looking forward to the week ahead at Piel View House, located in the middle of Barrow-in-Furness public park. The old…
