Free New Media Art show in Brighton for one afternoon only
12-6pm on 23rd July 2006
@ CAB - 3 Morley St, Brighton (click here for the map)
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PeteCube
PETECUBE is a research project investigating the integration of touch with both sound and vision.
The focus is on musical instruments, as they provide an excellent platform for experimentation. The result is a range of musical instruments that explore different modalities of interaction.
PETECUBE is a modular system for exploring the role of touch in musical instruments.
Each petecube has a different combination of sensors and actuators that are used in real-time to generate sound, image and haptic feedback.
Current audio/visual equipment has very minimal tactile feedback. Acoustic instruments however have a very rich tactile palette. It is this variety of touch sensations that will be brought into the digital realm with this project.
The 'PETE' of 'PETECUBE' stands for ‘Personal Electronic Touch Experience’
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Flow Chart Adventure
‘Flow Chart Adventure’ is part of the Start a Story project. Start a Story is a website with the aim of encouraging people to start stories.
The internet has seen many collaborative projects. Start a Story differs in that it doesn’t focus on one idea; it has an aim, which is to encourage collaboration and creativity. It does this by presenting a number of different projects that you can participate in.
Many of the projects are open to anyone who’s interested such as the ‘flow chart adventure’. Contributions have come from all over the world from Argentina to Taiwan. With a diverse mix of people participating the results have not only been enjoyable for the people who contributed but also to a wider audience. Any ‘flow chart adventure’ stories contributed will be put onto the Start a Story website.
Start a Story was created by John Harrison who also set up whatwhat.co.uk with his twin brother. He is currently studying an MA in Sequential Design at Brighton University.
If you’d like more information please visit the website: www.startastory.com
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Cherry Heart
Deadzilla purvey a brand of sleazy disco metal that demanded a new approach to promo-making.
The video took its cue from the lyrics and imagined a scenario of unrequited love over the internet. It was deliberately shot to resemble webcam footage from a period of months, then edited together and released virally over the internet as a genuine webcam.
It was also disseminated to mobile phones during the Brighton International Arts Festival. This guerilla action is the first ever use of 'bluejacking' (sending content to strangers' phones using bluetooth) as a marketing tool. People were alerted to the phenomenon by the 'Are You Discoverable?' signs posted around the Festival, but the risqué content and the public's prurience turned this deliberately engineered promotion into a self-sustaining event.
450 people were successfully bluejacked over a Festival weekend, all of whom could have passed it on ad infinitum. To date, the Cherry Heart site has received 5,000 hits. 1,600 people have downloaded the video and it is now to be seen in hundreds of shared folders on networks such as Soulseek and Emule.
Cherry Heart now has a life of her own.
Director Steve Glashier