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/
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.’
Sandbox working with FACT
July 26, 2007
The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology are hosting the Video Positive retrospective from August 31st through to November 4th. We worked with two Belgium placements, Tobias and Pieter in developing a Video Jukebox. This will allow visitors to access archive material for viewing on individual terminals.
