Past Events

Thursday, 6th December, 7-10.30pm
The Pavilion, University of Westminster, New Cavendish Street campus, London W1W 6UW
Cost: £5 - booking now at http://xmaslecture.eventbrite.com
Nearest tube: Goodge Street, Warren Street

MARTYN WARE: A JOURNEY THROUGH SOUND

Martyn is best known as a seminal eighties pop icon and co-founder of The Human League and Heaven 17. As record producer and artist, he has contributed to recordings totalling over fifty million sales worldwide. More recently through the Illustrious Company - http://www.illustriouscompany.co.uk - his recent creative venture with Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure - and his current Arts Council supported art project, the Future Of Sound http://www.futureofsound.org, Martyn has developed a reputation as a convergent media ‘Svengali’ - working with and showcasing some of the latest developments in immersive media and emergent technologies.

Special SMARTlab Guests:  

Daria Dorosh New York artist/scholar Daria Dorosh, presenting Patternwoman with soundtrack by Ian Epps with vocals by Galen Brandt, Vox Stream soundtrack by Clilly Castiglia (from the Playing Field), and The Changing Room, with music by Wolfram Tones: based on NKS Rule 30... see http://dariadorosh.com
Gayil Nalls World Sensorium scent sculpture by New York artist/scholar GayilNalls also on show/smell… see http://www.worldsensorium.com/
Chris Hales Chris Hales' latest song-activated interactive movie... see smartlab.uk.com http://www.smartlab.uk.com/2projects/kinoautomat.htm
Fiddian Warman Fiddian Warman's latest Soda sound/robots (Sodaplay)... see sodaplay.com http://www.sodaplay.com
NESTA fellows digital image and sound work in progress... see smartlab.uk.com//4people/nesta/index.htm http://smartlab.uk.com//4people/nesta/index.htm

And More!!!

Following the lecture there will be a drinks reception and social networking/audiovisual lounge with a surround sound DJ set from Martyn and guests utilising The Illustrious Compay's 3D Audioscape facility. The SMARTlab Pirate Ship/Dance Club in Second Life will also be open for virtual clubbing...

SMARTclub real & virtual dancing in Second Life
hostessed by Wandering Fictions on the Island of Kriti: SRURL: http://tinyurl.com/277tox

About The Xmas Lecture

This will be the seventh Cybersalon/NMK Xmas Lecture, hosted this year in partnership with the SMARTlab. The lecture was established in 2001 as an opportunity for leading members of the UK new media industry to talk freely about their work and speculate about how media and communications technologies are interacting and impacting on society, economics, politics and culture. Lectures are attended by a mixture of new media professionals, academics, students, journalists and an interested general public.

This year's Xmas Lecture is supported by Sky, SMARTlab, MAGIC (SMARTlab core funders NESTA & Microsoft CSR).

Monday 15-19th of October: PhD Seminar at SMARTlab

Leading lights of performance, new media and technology innovation and gaming all on campus for an intensive blast! Special international guests add speakers include Jacquelyn Ford Morie (ICT.USC), Ruth Gibson (IGLOO), Bob Stein (the Night Kitchen), Jason Roks (The Real News), Tom Donaldson (PENCIL), Susan Kozel (MESH), Chris Hales, Esther McCallum-Stewart & Moderators Lizbeth Goodman and Leslie Hill (Curious). Contributions by the Interactive Institute Sweden, BBC R&D, Norway Fablab et al.

Daily feeds to Youtube... watch this space: www.smartlab.uk.com

Games Week Events from SMARTlab and the MAGIC Multimedia & Games Innovation Centre at UEL
ALL EVENTS FREE & Open to the Public - RSVP to save a place! All in the MAGIC studio at SMARTlab, directions below, unless otherwise stated.

Friday 19th of October 2007

Memory Stairs, an installation by Jackie Morie, opens in Matrix East Research Lab, UEL 2pm-6pm

Monday 22nd of October

10am-4pm: Second Life (by Linden Labs) & Olive (by Forterra) Masterclasses by the Masters

6pm- late: Games Week Launch Party

The GLAM Academy (Games, Life, and Media, Ltd.) sets sail on board the HMS President: featuring welcome by co-hosts Lizbeth Goodman (SMARTlab), Perperim Rama (4M Group), Lucy Hooberman (BBC) & Sara de Freitas (SGI), with keynote on 'Memory Stairs: A Walk through the recent milestones in Virtual Environments and Serious Play', by Jaquelyn Ford Morie (ICT/SMARTlab). Pascal Wattiaux (Disruptive Play) & Kristina Nyzell (Lego Serious Play/Disruptive Play) presenting on Lego Serious Play, and an interactive Science Cities Musical Mystery Jam performed live and online in Linden Lab's Second Life, Forterra's Olive, & Vast Park - hosted by the masters David Burden and Ron Edwards, with Celine Llewellyn-Jones and the SMARTlab/MAGIC teams. Music jam/SMARTclub night til late with Mystery Musical Tour guests!

Tuesday 23rd October

10am-1:30pm LEGO Serious Play Masterclass

2:30pm - 5:30pm: MAGICbox Games for the Games workshops:

two participatory sessions running in parallel, co-sponsored by SMARTlab, MAGIC, Simlab and the South East Media Network:

Guerilla Gal Games Networking

a chance to meet and put your ideas to our team of esteemed international mentors for one-to-one sessions. Sign up in advance at the website or come along and take pot luck! Mentors Lizbeth Goodman, Kristina Nyzell, Suzanne Stein, Gina Fegan, Clilly Castiglia, Leslie Hill, Susan Kozel, Sara de Freitas, Jaquelyn Ford Morie, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, et. al. (bios on our web site).

Half hour slots available with:
Lizbeth Goodman, Kristina Nyzell, Suzanne Stein, Clilly Castiglia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Susan Kozel, Camille Baker, Jacki Morie. Lucy Hooberman,  Rachel Lasebikan

RSVP: Stanislava Mislanova <stany@UEL-Exchange.uel.ac.uk>

and in Parallel

Live and Online Games workshop for people with disabilities: see how the streets of East London can be linked up for co-opetition gaming by women in wheelchairs: participants Blair Wing, Nohmy Harrison & Sapna Ramnani moving in real space with interactive play back in the studio. Sessions moderated by Celine Llewellyn-Jones & Joanne Harrison.

Wednesday 24th October

MAGICbox workshop - Games for the Games: 10am-5pm workshop on making musical instruments out of recycled materials (for live and online jamming) - led by Toby Borland, with Jane Wheeler and the Live Ed Project - all welcome, but this workshop is particularly suitable for young people interested in music!

10am - 5pm : Making the virtual tangible: directions towards home 3D printing

Why would you wish to make your own objects?
Would you know how to visualize them?
If they already existed, would it be cheaper than buying them?
How would you go about designing them and does anybody (apart from those hired to do so) actually do this?
Is it possible to create objects out of thin air?
Do people really print out objects they find in video games?

Discover answers and get involved with the home-built machines that are evolving (daily) and reproducing to meet this challenge; machines which make their own parts and which can print out nearly any conceivable object. Find out why they have not yet taken over the planet and prepare to design and create an object relevant to you.

11am-3pm
Half hour slots available with:
Lizbeth Goodman, Leslie Hill, Kristina Nyzell, Suzanne Stein, Clilly Castiglia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Susan Kozel, Camille Baker, Jacki Morie, Lucy Hooberman, Joanne Harrison.

Sponsored by the London Borough of Newham/LDA & NewVic with SMARTlab & SGI.