Remembering Acme studio with Richard Wilson and more… Inside Out Festival 2014 unveils first line up
This week The Culture Capital Exchange announced the first tranche of events to form part of this year’s Inside Out Festival. Returning this October with a characteristically sagacious and diverse mix of debates, performances, walks, talks, symposiums, screenings, and exhibitions, … Continue reading
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Putting the heart back into abandoned buildings in downtown Bogota + other stories…
From a champion of the arts and community theatre in abandoned buildings in downtown Bogota, to the creator of UAE’s first Arabic and English graphic design studio, thirteen pioneering entrepreneurs have been selected from ten different countries around the world … Continue reading
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It IS #TimeToAct but what do we do?
It was just a week ago, on a warm East London afternoon, Emma Fulu, lead researcher Medical Research Council SA addressed this very question to a packed room at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict fringe, to … Continue reading
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“Mysterious, gothic and gritty”
Clare Reddington, Exec Producer, Playable City Award describes Shadowing, the winner of the 2014 £30,000 international Playable City Award, to get Bristol residents dancing with shadows This week the Watershed in Bristol unveiled the 2014 winner of the £30,000 international … Continue reading
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It’s like building sandcastles on the beach
On 3rd July 2014 the Barbican is going to be opening its doors to a Digital Revolution, an immersive exhibition of art, design, film, music and videogames. Deep in the heart of the revolution, down in the Barbican’s darkened Pit … Continue reading
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Playable City Award Shortlist Announced
The second international £30,000 Playable City Award was launched by Watershed (www.watershed.co.uk/playablecity) in February this year to invite artists, designers, architects, technologists and creative practitioners from all over the world to propose new ideas that will challenge the screen-based clichés … Continue reading
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Real world strategy game Run An Empire launches on Kickstarter
Strategy games like Civilisation, Risk and Clash of Clans lack a real life element, while solitary sports like jogging can seem boring and isolated. Experience design studio PAN, based in Shoreditch, London, wanted to create a game that combines strategic … Continue reading
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Objects Sandbox: cultural applications of the Internet of Things
According to recent ABI research, there will be over 30 billion devices all connected to the Internet by 2020. The phenomenon increasingly referred to as “the internet of things” will see a movement away from screens to objects for sharing … Continue reading
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London Winter Walks
Ever wondered where London’s first theatre was built? What it was like to live in the Jewish Ghetto of Victorian East London? What links a samosa to The Odeon in Whitechapel, and where King’s Cross really is? The Cultural Capital … Continue reading
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Reimagining the archive with London academics and creatives
Creativeworks London has awareded eight new collaborations between academics and SMEs £15,000 each as part of their fifth round of the ‘Creative Vouchers’ scheme to explore the theme of archiving. A newly established AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) network … Continue reading
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