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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, f...
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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, film, education and art worlds, exploring how technologies like augmented reality, 3D printing, and pervasive gaming are changing our understanding of the world.
ALICE TAYLOR
Alice Taylor has been a pivotal figure within the UK digital media scene for over a decade, described by Next Generation Magazine as one of the game industry's 100 Most Influential Women. In 2011, she co-founded Makielab, a new kind of company, that uses 3D printers to develop network-aware, customisable toys and games that talk to each other.
Before Makielab, Alice was Commissioning Editor for Education at Channel 4, where she commissioned many innovative games and media projects for teens and tweens, including The Curfew and the BAFTA award-winning Bow Street Runner. She also writes a games-centric blog called Wonderland.
TALK SYNOPSIS
Over 95% of the western world's toys are made in the far East, shipped round the globe, mostly made from unbiodegradeable, unrecyclable plastic that will inevitably end up in landfill. McDonald's is the world's largest toy manufacturer and distributor. Mattel have been making Barbie packaging from virgin rainforest. This reality is broken. Can technology help change it? Will things get worse? Or better?
Alice will reflect on trends and observations from the border between games and play, physical goods and virtual goods, Big Corp versus the factory of one.
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk
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lighthouse296 uploaded a new video
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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, f...
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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, film, education and art worlds, exploring how technologies like augmented reality, 3D printing, and pervasive gaming are changing our understanding of the world.
Time's Up
Time's Up is an internationally renowned media lab run by artists. It was founded in 1996 and is based in Linz, Austria. Time's Up's interactive installations investigate the ways in which people interact with their physical surroundings, discovering, learning and communicating as they do. Their work has been shown internationally at festivals around the world including at Ars Electronica, Microwave Festival in Hong Kong, and Adelaide Festival.
Talk Synopsis
Time's Up will give a talk on the theme of 'playing for good', exploring the role of playfulness and game-play within their practice. Anthropologists, psychologists and interior designers remind us that our lived-in worlds tell more about ourselves than we often care to realise, with these subconscious constructions abutting onto our chosen design, subverting and amplifying it. Building stories told through the remnants of characters, the detritus of those who just slipped out, is the goal that Time's Up are setting themselves. Drawing on their new work, Stored in a Bank Vault, showing during Brighton Digital Festival, they report from the front line.
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk
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lighthouse296 uploaded a new video
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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, f...
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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, film, education and art worlds, exploring how technologies like augmented reality, 3D printing, and pervasive gaming are changing our understanding of the world.
Adrian Hon
Adrian Hon is co-founder and CEO of Six to Start, who specialise in game-like stories and story-like games for the web, mobile and real world. Clients have included Disney, the BBC, Channel 4 and Penguin. Six to Start has won multiple awards including Best of Show at SXSW.
Adrian also writes about technology for The Telegraph, is writing a Kickstarter-funded book and blog called A History of the Future in 100 Objects. He co-organises the Hive Mind Challenge and is the founder of Transmedia London.
Talk Synopsis
Taking inspiration from everything from board games to Wikipedia and World of Warcraft, Adrian will explore how games can foster collaboration and co-ordination between individuals. Looking both online and in the real world, his specific interest and focus is games that bring people together to work towards a common goal, requiring them to talk to one another to solve problems, manage situations or divide up resources.
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk
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lighthouse296 uploaded a new video
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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, f...
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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, film, education and art worlds, exploring how technologies like augmented reality, 3D printing, and pervasive gaming are changing our understanding of the world.
Tassos Stevens:
Tassos Stevens is an ex-psychologist, artist and wrangler, and co-director of Agency of Coney. Coney is a collective agency making live interactive cross platform play for people wherever they are, following principles of adventure, loveliness and curiosity. Coney have worked with the National Theatre, the Science Museum, and Tate Britain. They have collaborated with digital indie Somethin Else on broadcast projects such as Nightmare High and the award-winning SuperMe, both made for Channel 4 Education.
In 2010, Tassos dreamt up the world of Papa Sangre, a highly innovative game made for iPhones, rendered entirely in sound.
Talk Synopsis:
Tassos' presentation is entitled Really Playing Something. How can games, or better still play - by definition a 'what if' mode of reality - possibly have any impact on 'what is' in the real world? It's not as easy as it looks. Charting some of the approaches that Coney has made and tracing his own perennial scepticism, Tassos will examine the kinds of relationships between people that might empower and inspire more to play, and ask why anyone might bother getting involved in the first place.
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk
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lighthouse296 uploaded a new video
(4 months ago)
Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, f...
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Lighthouse Presents
IMPROVING REALITY - 23 September 2011 - Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
A series of inspiring talks by thinkers from the technology, film, education and art worlds, exploring how technologies like augmented reality, 3D printing, and pervasive gaming are changing our understanding of the world.
Matt Adams
Matt Adams is one of the founding members of Blast Theory. Based in Brighton, Blast Theory have been at the cutting edge of art and technology for over twenty years, creating ground-breaking performances, installations, games and interactive artworks. Renowned for pioneering the use of new technologies within performance contexts, Blast Theory has developed cross-platform works for BBC Fictionlab, Channel 4 and BBC Interactive. Matt is also a Visiting Professor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Talk Synopsis
Matt will present Blast Theory's latest hit project, A Machine To See With, a 'locative cinema' experience for pedestrians and their mobile phones. Blending secret missions and high adrenalin, A Machine to See With puts players in an interactive heist movie playing the lead role. It takes part on the streets and is played through phones and the player's imagination. From hiding money to meeting up with a partner in crime, it's up to you to deal with a bank robbery and its aftermath. After proving a hit at Sundance Film Festival, the English premiere of A Machine To See With is running throughout September as part of Brighton Digital Festival.
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk
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