Make a fun spiral drawing robot out of an old floppy drive and arduino! Here is the instructable.
We’ve put together 50 kits for TEDxYork attendees! Click here for the instructions. more info on other workshops can be found on my learning-to-learn.org.uk site.
The Jam Jar Collective were at Maker Faire UK this weekend. We had a bigger stand than last year where we were showing off FriiSpray and a few other projects we’re working on. We were kept very busy by a crowd of young artists wanting to try FriiSpray out. Here is the wonderful artwork they...
I’ve been to a few Howduino events since Adrian McEwen and Thom Shannon started organising + running them and always thought it would be good to get one happening in Leeds. So I nudged them and said we could help out with the organising, funding and arranging. What? Howduino is a free Arduino based event...
I’ve linked up with the jam jar collective in Leeds. They have independently developed a virtual graffiti tool called Friispray. Last weekend I went up to Leeds for a mini residency to develop the software and hardware further. It was great working with Stuart, and we managed to come up with a way to track...
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Mar 31, 2010 • The Jam Jar Collective are now artists in residence at the incredible Temple Works site in Leeds. We first worked on site in 2009 and created a large scale light and sound installation ‘Bloom’ in the large main warehouse space as part of Leeds’ Light Night. There is a video of the series of installations including...
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Mar 16, 2010 • Commissioned by Lumen to design a week long light installation for the launch of Candle House in the centre of Leeds next to the train station. Candle House is 23 storey cylindrical building designed by Carey Jones. The building was named after the candle and tallow packing warehouses that used to reside on this...
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Mar 12, 2010 • We have been commissioned Benedict Phillips to create barometer that controls a 4 storey light installation for the new NHS LIFT centre in Hull. Working with our good friend OomLout, were going to use ardunio technology to connect a weather station sensor to light tape strips situated around the outside of the building. The light...
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Nov 21, 2009 • The Horse in Motion is a reworking of Edweard Muybridges 1887 image through mobile projection performace. The performance frees the horse from over a hundred years of being screen static to once again be set in motion. Throughout the performance, the screen or canvas is the constructed from the passing architecture or urban spaces where...
On the 4th of September Stuart went along to Budapest for the first annual meeting of the Platform 11+ theatre project, working as a partner to Pilot Theatre – a York theatre company that is based in York’s Theatre Royal. Budapest was our first time working closely with Pilot Theatre and it is a massive...
Our City our Music is a geo-located music video album spread across hidden spaces in Leeds. To see these videos you have to travel to the spaces with a GPS device, then you can download each of videos in the spaces they were recorded. I worked with Ben Halsall to make a video for the...
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May 10, 2009 • Commissioned by Dauntless to create a audio visual piano for a temporary installation. First prototype was tested at a recent club event with video samples of ‘Big’ – giving people a chance to remix the film with their feet.
