Chris Joseph Electronic writer and artist

Exhibition of Digital Cultural Content – IOCT, Leicester, 11am-3pm

You are invited to an Exhibition of Digital Cultural Content

at the IOCT – http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk

Thursday 29th July

Demonstrations running continuously from 11am-3pm

Nibbles and soft drinks provided

Exhibitor: Dr. Ken Tin-Kai Chen, Department of Digital Technology and Game Design, Shu-Te University, Taiwan (email: tkchen [at] acm.org )

Organizers: Nicholas Higgett and Gerardo Saucedo Faculty of Art and Design/IoCT, De Montfort University

1. Background

Recently, several exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects in digital art, history and museums, have been undertaken by Dr. Chen and his students which aim to design new digital cultural content including Chinese traditional puppetry and characters, virtual Romans in Leicester, digital archives and maps of historical buildings and mobile phone games. Please see attached for more information. Through innovative interaction models, they allow users to understand the story and history of culture and have the potential to preserve and increase access to our culture and tradition.

2. Aims

The purpose of this exhibition is to display these recent exhibitions and projects to researchers and students, to stimulate creativity in digital cultural content design by taking advantage of recent new interactive multimedia technologies. It is hoped that these exhibitions could open a channel for possible collaboration.

make-shift – HTTP Gallery, London, 22nd July, 7pm

make-shift – Thursday 22nd July 7pm
HTTP Gallery, Green Lanes, London

http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

You are invited to attend and actively contribute to a work in process sharing of make-shift – a networked performance about connectivity and consequences.

Helen Varley Jamieson (NZ/Europe) and Paula Crutchlow (UK) are artists from different performance backgrounds whose new collaboration, make-shift, explores meaningful ways of engaging in discussion across physical and digital networks. make-shift will be a salon-style event, taking place simultaneously in two domestic spaces (with one artist present in each space) and also online – more information about the project is at http://www.make-shift.net.

The process of making make-shift has begun with a two-week residency at Furtherfield.org, London, and in this presentation the artists would like to share some of their research and try out some ideas. You will be asked questions and invited to contribute your expertise, experience and opinions to this process. The artists are working in the spaces between disciplines and genres and are deliberately inviting people from a range fields to get a range of input. Your contribution to this will be very much valued.

You must RSVP (to brokers at make-shift.net) as the proximal audience is limited (there will also be the opportunity to participate online if you are not in London or can’t get to the event). Everyone who is attending is asked to collect their plastic rubbish over a 24 hour period and bring it to the presentation (please wash anything that had food in it!)

We also need two volunteers to prepare specific tasks before the event – please email brokers at make-shift.net if you would like to volunteer.

Introduction to Creative Commons licences and content sharing – Leicester, 14 July 2010

Amplified Leicester – Introduction to Creative Commons licences and content sharing with Joscelyn Upendran

Event Details: July 14th, 2010 from 10am to 12pm at Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Etc Suite 2/3 – http://www.phoenix.org.uk/

Event Description:

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organisation that provides free, easy to use legal tools and licences that give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple standardised way to pre-clear copyright to their creative works. CC licences let people easily change their copyright terms from the default of ?all rights reserved? to ?some rights reserved.? Some e.g. of use of CC licences: MIT; The Whitehouse; Yoko Ono; Gwen Stefani; OpenUniversity; Wikipedia; Flickr

Joscelyn Upendran is co-founder & CEO of lovle and is also involved in Creative Commons UK, as the Public Project Lead for CC- England & Wales which role involves raising awareness about Creative Commons. love is a learning and training software & services company. lovle?s web application enables individuals and organizations to quickly and easily discover and legally remix, repurpose and collate online learning content while keeping track of copyright licences. Lovle is involved in some closed pilots presently with a public launch scheduled for summer 2010. Prior to founding lovle, Joscelyn worked as a commercial lawyer in private practice for a number of years before she commenced a career in higher and further education, training lawyers, accountants and mangers.

No registration required, this event is free to attend. To find out more please visit http://www.amplifiedleicester.com

For more information please contact Ravinder Kaur at rav.kaur@dmu.ac.uk

Book to the Future – London, 15 July 2010, 6.30-11.30pm

http://twtvite.com/futurebookdrinks

Bar Chocolate
D’Arblay Street, Soho, London, W1F 8EN
London, United Kingdom

The first FutureBook digital drinks night ‘Book to The Future’ on 15th July in Soho, London. An informal night for everyone in digital publishing to connect in the real world, reflecting the broad spectrum of companies and people driving digital publishing. So the night is aimed at:

- people from all disciplines in publishing
- booksellers
- digital agencies
- social media experts/authors/agencies
- literary agents
- authors
- librarians
- game developers
- gadget/tablet companies
- digital distribution companies
- app developers
- mobile developers

Lively conversation with professionals from disciplines, sectors you may never meet professionally.

New Modes of Language-Driven Mediated Research – London 12 July 2010, 9-6pm

Date: 12 July 2010 , 09:00 to 18:00
Location: Rooms JG3002 and JG3003, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus
Fee: £25 full price/£15 students
From the Page to the Screen to Augmented Reality: New Modes of Language-Driven Technology-Mediated Research

The event will be followed by a drinks reception
Event convenor: Dr Maria Mencia

Roundtable workshop

In order to develop language-driven technology mediated collaborative research practice, we propose a preliminary roundtable workshop involving scholars, writers, theoreticians and creative practitioners from Kingston University and other European Universities to discuss the relevance of new technologies in the creation of language mediated practice. We invite the participation of researchers, in particular, those who have just begun to consider the implications and possible use of new technologies in their research practice, as well as international researchers who have migrated from more traditional print-based research practices to multimedial and interdisciplinary research methods that make use of computers, networks, and mobile technologies.