So this is what a hybrid Art School - Tech World Production Studio looks like..... Massive thanks to the Digital Maker Collective and all the amazing #Uni2Unicorns collaborators, in delivering the most fantastic week-long event the at Tate Exchange, 3-8 March 2020.
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Images: Alex Wojcik, Tate Photographer Sat 7th March 2020
Members of the Digital Maker Collective #artsdmc (names listed below) created a Deep Fake & Surveillance group and met regularly over a number of months.
The DMC created some amazing interactive art works, installations and interventions for @tateexchange #uni2unicorns event March 2020.
These Images by Tate photographer Alex Wojcik show the DMC Welcome to HappyLand team in action on the Saturday 7th March 2020.
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The Digital Maker Collective #artsdmc in collaboration with @artsxr explored the future of new immersive arts, where we invited the @Tate public to visit Britain’s national Penitentiary, 1816 to 1890, and how we experience, time, absence & empathy using virtual reality.
The DMC in collaboration with @matterlurgy_studio and @artsxr @thieledesign asked the public to step into a VR artwork that visualises the composition of air and pollution particles or just hang out with art students as they explore the future immersive art studio.
Immersive art studio: DMC Chelsea College of Arts students invited visitors to explore the future immersive art studio. Emma Caro, Leah Simmons and Christina Nteventzi
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It was such a fantastic buzz & experience for the @nationaltheatre to join us @tateexchange #artsDMC #uni2unicorns event 3-8 March 2020. Images by Tate photographer, Alex Wojcik capture The National Theatre in action @tate 7th March 2020, supported by @wimbledonual Students.
The National Theatre: All Kinds of Limbo location based immersive experience offered Tate event visitors an insight into live performance and the craft of theatrical staging converge with immersive technologies. Composer Raffy Bushman brings a communal audience into a new kind of theatrical space. The National Theatre's All Kinds of Limbo is an engagement of a musical performance starring Nubiya Brandon, who sings a musical narration of her life in limbo that spans the genres of reggae, grime, classical, and calypso.
The event partnership with The National Theatre came through our ongoing collaboration with @dimensionstudio Specialise in creating volumetric humans and avatas. Nubiya’s performance was volumetrically captured by Dimension studios, who have been collaborating with Wimbledon College of Arts. This production showcased the very latest example of performance and immersive technologies.
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For the second year running the Digital Maker Collective #artsdmc has collaborated with the Child Rights International Network (CRIN) @crin_stagram who are an amazing, positive and productive key partner to work with. CRIN were introduced to us by one of the members of DMC who now works for them. Maria @blurbnation who also works for CRIN, Maria has provided a valuable creative connection between our organisations, and has been a driving force for enabling our collaboration and developing workshops and activities.
This model highlights an interesting approach for exploring UAL & DMC future collaborations. CRIN have subsequently gone on to work with more UAL/DMC graduates and offered artists in residence opportunities, which is a fantastic. CRIN co-created some amazing interactive art works, installations and interventions for @tateexchange #Uni2Unicorns event March 2020, see details below.
Images by Tate photographer: Alex Wojcik show the CRIN team in action on the Saturday 7th March 2020. #FutureCities and The Power of Imagination CRIN partnered with @designwithco and @greenlaborg to explore how we could change our relationship with nature to protect the planet by designing farming cities of the future.
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The Problem with #Surveillance and #FacialRecognition CRIN, @privacyinternational , Big Brother Watch discussed new and emerging threats to our human rights through surveillance - particularly facial recognition, and learn the tactics to exercise your rights and protect your data. #Ethical use of Children's Data CRIN, @defenddigitalme_uk @opendatainstitute and the Young Coders Meet-Up explored what kind of #data is being collected on children, how we can ensure it is handled more ethically and equip children with tools to defend their human rights.
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Students from Wimbledon College of Arts, Performance School set up a live Immersive Production Studio @tateexchange #Uni2Unicorns event March 2020, sharing work in processes, pre production immersive performance animatics, storyboards and models as well as early VR prototypes.
Images by @Tate photographer, Alex Wojcik show the WCA students in action on the Saturday 7th March 2020. The public were invited to meet students whilst they worked and learn about the performance school experimentation with immersive performance production. Students shared work in progress and experience of collaborating with dimension, a world-leading volumetric and 3D capture studio, based in Wimbledon, London.
Read more about the Collaboration between Dimension and Wimbledon College of Arts - https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/wimbledon-college-of-arts/stories/tate-exchange
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The PlayLa.bZ team GenieMo, DIY Multi-dimensional & Motion Arts Tinkering. 2k public visitors were invited to explore spatial computing, augmented reality through new open source experiments and the future of DIY holographic production. Images also include guest artist Shaun @prickimage 'Projected Augmented Reality' #WALKABOUTProjection.
Its been an absolute pleasure to collaborate with the DIY Multi-dimensional Motion Arts Globe with meridians Free open-source for social good alpha Busts in silhouette PlayLa.bZ team. Trippy Hippy, Freek Pixels!
The collaboration came about, thanks to one of the Digital Maker Collective (DMC) long time member, the amazing Terry Quinn. A year or more ago Terry started exploring volumetric video (a technique that captures a three-dimensional space, such as a location or performance) with a small team including Lee Robinson and Grzesiek Sadek and others. Terry continues to share this R&D with the DMC and reached out to Ravensbourne University and the PlayLa.bZ team to commission and support the development of a open source DIY immersive volumetric capture system, for spatial computing collaboration. This R&D contine to impact on the formal curriculum.
Young Coders MeetUp
Young Coders MeetUp (YCM) curated an Open Ideas space at UAL's Uni to Unicorns events, celebrating the creative powers of the tech industries and exploring where the art world meets the tech world.
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Throughout 3-8 March UAL: Creative Computing Institute’s activation Digital Forest, an immersive environment transforming tangible objects and surroundings into portals for playful interaction, engaged 2k public visitors. MSc Creative Computing student’s invited the @tate public to explore CCI work in progress, and participate in live-coding sessions to co-create art alongside them.
It was a fab week and was really great for #artsdmc & @wimbledonual staff, students & alumni also resident throughout the week to get to know CCI students.
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