DMC Newsletter 30-11-18

Many thanks to all those who came along and contributed to meet ups this week!  We have lots of sessions next week, come and join us:

Tuesday 4th Dec

DMC: Hybrid Technologies Meet-up

Where: Chelsea Makerspace​
Date: Tuesday 4th Dec
Time: 10.30 - 12.30
Meet up contacts: Nicola Rae
What: Each person is invited to bring an idea to discuss that hybridises technologies, engages participatively with communities and involves movement. We are also interested in working with the deaf community but any ideas should engage anyone. 

DMC at Tate Exchange 2019 Drop-in 1-to-1 Updates (General Drop-in)

Where: Camberwell Playground
Date: Tuesday 4th Dec
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Meet up contacts: Chris Follows
What: This is a chance to have an informal 1-to-1 chats and find out more and discuss the plans for the upcoming Tate Exchange 2019 events.

Wednesday 5th December

DMC: Machine Learning Meet-up - Introduction to Coding Workshop (continued) 

Where: Meeting in Chelsea canteen, moving to the maker space
Date: Wednesday 5th December
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Meet up contacts: Vishal Mistry​​ & Grzesiek Sedek
What: Getting to know the basics Processing and Arduino 

DMC: Machine Learning Meet-up - Conversations about AI/Machine Learning Meet-Up​

Where: Meeting in Chelsea canteen, moving to the maker space
Date: Wednesday 5th December
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Meet up contacts: Vishal Mistry​
What: 

  • Meeting to get to know each others practices a little better, share research and thoughts/ideas around AI

  • Plan future meet ups and start thinking about how we might work as an ‘incubator’ in the DMC

  • Would be great for people who share an interest in machine learning/AI

DMC at Tate Exchange 2019 Drop-in 1-to-1 Updates (General Drop-in)

Where: Chelsea MakerSpace
Date: Wednesday 5th December
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Meet up contacts: Chris Follows
What: This is a chance to have an informal 1-to-1 chats and find out more and discuss the plans for the upcoming Tate Exchange 2019 events.

Thursday 6th December

DMC: Immersive/Extended Reality Meet-up

Where: Chelsea Makerspace
Date: Thursday 5th December
Time: 5pm to 7pm
Meet up contacts: Kasia​ & Zoe
What: Pitching session with show case of our work/get to know each other - what are areas of our interest, ideas and group feedback, more about technology we can use and I guess, it's a continuation of previous meet up, but we will make it open, so new people can join the conversation and catch up. See Notes from DMC: Immersive Meeting 27th Nov 2018

DMC groups will start planning for Tate Exchange 2019 residency soon, the current DRAFT Tate Exchange DMC event info is below: 

Beta Society: with the Digital Maker Collective 
Tate Exchange, Tate Modern 4th – 10th March 2019

Join the Digital Maker Collective and our community partners to campaign for a Beta Society, help us to recalibrate our digital lives through citizen centered innovation.

The Beta Society event aims to explore socially engaged practice & social inclusion through a digital lens, provoking debate around the pervasive nature of digital technology and the positive & negative impacts on social inclusion. 

How can we use digital technology to better enable positive change for social mobility and greater accessibility to education and work? 

Themes explored include:

Emergent Futures:

  • Rapid movement and impact of digital technological change on our everyday lives and local communities.
  • Access, diversity and inequality in arts & creative education, creative sector and the tech industries. 

Hyperlocal Collaboration:

  • How do we create a neutral space that can avoid structured mandates and support true collaboration and social inclusion?
  • What challenges are there for local communities in moving into and/or representing itself in a different location, environment & context like Tate Exchange and University of the Arts London.
  • Borderless Movement, how can we explore virtual movement and collaboration through immersive experimentation & collaboration? 

What to start a meet up?

Please come along to any DMC drop-in sessions so we can help you plan or contact Chris Follows c.follows@arts.ac.uk.

Chris Follows
Camberwell Playground 
Modular Building
1 Wilson Road
London
SE5 8LU

- No need to enter main building,
- Turn left towards the large wooden building

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