Inhabiting the Hack

Inhabiting the Hack

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03 Nov 2015
ODI Summit Creative Labs

Creative Labs took place at the Open Data Institute (ODI) Summit in London, showcasing the diversity of open, digital arts and performance. It brought together a wide range of people in a room full of installations, demos, hacking, and headphone performances, with people from the ODI summit able to drift in and out through the day, to listen, observe, and take part. Here’s a taste of what went on:

Chris Kiefer and Alice Eldrige spent the day hacking some electronics and code, to make small microcontrollers listen to the environment and communicate to each other with sound.

Andrew Wilson took the opportunity to do some research within the lab and ODI summit, exploring the processes by which open data might create socially valuable outcomes, reflecting on the Who owns my neighbourhood? open data project he did with Kirklees Council in 2010. You can find his notes on github.

Joanne Armitage demonstrated Enclosed, which “… explores the directionality of sound through an augmented tactile experience. A fixed media audio file is spatialised in real-time. A haptic grid of 16 motors attached to a chair renders the tactile element, producing vibrations that follow the trajectory of the accompanying sound.”

Tom Mudd demonstrated CONTROL, “an interactive installation exploring the relationships between artists, music, and digital musical systems. It brings together the work of a wide range of artists and musicians into a single dial that the delegates could come and interact with.”

The Digital Media Labs team (Benedict Philips, Glenn Boulter and David Lynch) noted that “… ODI creative lab turned out to be a great opportunity for digital media labs to exhibit their touring exhibition which presents artists activities and information about the experience and process of the labs. The team took the opportunity to talk to many people engaged in creative and digital industries, spreading the word about their approach to creative professional development for creative practitioners from a diversity of practices who engage with digital technologies in their practice. They were extremely encouraged by the level of enquiry shown by the conference delegates and entered into some useful and often passionate debates about the importance of free space to imagine new ideas and processes. It’s was also a great opportunity to spread the word about their first book ‘digital media labs 2014’ soon to be followed by a second book about the 2015 digital media labs, coming summer 2016.”

Those involved with the creative lab included:

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