Sandbox Official Website
June 18, 2008
Moved in at last
January 11, 2008
Sandbox has now occupied the top floor of the Media factory at UClan!!. Its been a long time coming but both the creative facilitation space and the R & D area are fully operational. If you would like to drop by send through an email!!
MELD
January 11, 2008
the residential workshop developing seven new project ideas with teams of journalists and interactive media practioners was a great success. During the week of December the 10th seven projects groups went through an intensive workshop at Sandbox,. The final ideas were pitched to Haymarket, Sky and Johnstones Press, for more info see http://meldonline.org/meldblogs/
Sandbox to deliver Insight Out programme
October 2, 2007
Sandbox will be working with Creative Lancashire to deliver NESTA’s Insight Out programme. We will be recruiting North West participants shortly via the NESTA website (www.nesta.org.uk/programmes/insight_out) where you can complete an online application form and submit examples from your portfolio or your CV. Successful first stage applicants will be invited to attend a free open workshop event in Manchester on 06 or 07 November where you will have a taster of the programme and a chance to meet the trainers. The second stage selection of Insight Out participants will be made at this event who will then be invited to present their business idea in more detail.
Meld and Sandbox work together
October 2, 2007
MELD: Calling Pioneering Journos and Interaction Designers – Launch Events 10 +15 October
MELD is a world first ideas development project; generating ideas by melding the skills of Northern Journalists and Interactive Designers
20 of the North’s best hacks and geeks will be selected to attend a (paid) ideas generation and development workshop
Developed ideas will be pitched to major industry players with the power to turn ideas into reality
The project will be launched (and our industry partners revealed) at two launch events:
Selfridges MOET Bar, Manchester 10th October 6-9pm
http://www.selfridges.com
The Boutique Bar, Leeds 15th October 6-9pm
http://www.boutique-leeds.co.uk
Join us for networking, brainstorming, cocktails and nibbles
If you know people you think should know about this, feel free to spread the word
For information or to book a place, phone 0114 221 0589 or mail info@just-b.com
Places are extremely limited- first come first served!
Meld is brought to you by the department of Journalism and Sandbox at Uclan with Just-b. It is supported by Northern Edge and the Northern Way
http://www.meldonline.org/
PicNic 07 and the meetings of the media labs
October 2, 2007
PicNic 07 was a good event with some excellent speakers. On the Tuesday we joined other Media Labs in a closed session, on the function, future and direction of media labs. On the Wednesday we each gave a presentation on our work. This initial meeting was beneficial for all and we are sure we will see further meetings, discussions and collaborations.
A good conference with plenty of highlights. Check the Picnic site for a total rundown. Worth a visit next year. Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Microsoft gave an impresive display of some new software during the conference. labs.live.com/photosynth.
http://weblogart.blogspot.com/2007/09/most-re-known-media-labs.html
Siggraph 2007
August 17, 2007
Our visit to Siggraph this year was our first. The conference had a great deal of interesting papers, Digital Art exhibition, Emerging Technology Exhibition, numerous events. It is as we imagined probably the best computer graphics conference in the world. Later this year they are having Siggraph Asia. This year the Conference was in San Diego. Although it may appear expensive on the face of it, we can only recommend that if you have an interest in Computer Graphics you must go!
audience research
August 17, 2007
Sandbox are working with HP research labs and BBC innovation in carrying out research into audience behaviour and BBC Big Screens. We started today in Birmingham and Bradford and examined how people are enaging with one of our interactive games. The Red nose game we initially developed for Red Nose Day. In this iteration Bradford audiences are playing against Birmingham audiences. This will inform a body of research that looks at social interaction, gaming and Big Screen technologies.
Sandbox working with media artist Chris Meigh Andrews
July 27, 2007
Following on from “Interwoven Motion”, a NESTA funded project to develop a prototype self-powered outdoor video installation in Grizedale Forest in 2004, Chris has been commissioned to produce an ambient responsive outdoor video installation on the Monument in the City of London by Julian Harrap Architects. Chris is developing this new work in collaboration with Sandbox, with funding from the City of London Surveyors.
The installation will provide a live stream of real-time video images 24 hours a day with the potential be shown either sequentially or in combination and accessed on a dedicated web site and as a “live” image-sequence via a video display on an information node adjacent to the Monument at ground level.
A special camera array will provide a 360-degree panoramic view from the top of the Monument. Changes to the video stream image display will be controlled via a dedicated computer system with interfaces and software to vary the rate of image switching (from one image to the next in a continuous cycle) and/or to provide a complete panorama within a single frame. These image variations will be made in response to changes in the ambient conditions of the surrounding environment such as wind velocity and direction and average temperature.
Harris Museum and Sandbox working together
July 26, 2007
The Harris Museum & Art Gallery in partnership with Sandbox beat off stiff competition from museums and galleries across the UK to reach the final ten, and is the only north-west organisation to be short listed.
The Art Fund announced it was committing £5 million to a new initiative aimed at developing the collections of international contemporary art in UK regional museums and galleries in April this year.
Alex Walker, Head of Arts & Heritage at Preston City Council said; ‘This is fantastic news for the Harris Museum & Art Gallery and the city. It is a new and unique funding scheme. If successful we will be able to take a huge step collecting international contemporary art, something that we have been aiming to do at the museum for some time.’
