Knots in our heads
Concept Maps are ‘graphical tools for organising and representing knowledge’ They were developed by Joseph D Novak at Cornell University to help students visualise how their new learning could be assimilated with their existing ‘cognitive structure’. Sowa places them within the context of knowledge visualisation diagrams, alongside Semantic nets and Mind Maps. When making a concept map, concepts represent...
Hello Chici
This is my first blog post, as part of the Child Computer Interaction at the Chici Lab in the University of central Lancaster. There aren’t many other artists at the ChiCI Lab, so thought I’d spend this first post explaining why I’m doing an Mres in this subject area and not in digital art. For...
Liverpool Processing Meetup
We have started hosting a meetup at our base the Ranch for people interested in using Processing, the programming environment designed for artists and visual thinkers. I’ve put off learning Processing properly for years, but having recently got excited by casual ambient games such as Osmos, Processings’ capacity to export to Android, I have...
Pier Head Time Warp
The Pier Head Time Warp was an interactive video event by Re-Dock at the Museum of Liverpool on Saturday the 15th Oct. We were asked by the Museum of Liverpool to run an activity that would get people working creatively with archive video, so we invented a time machine. This time machine was in reality,...
3D Thought Shapes
I am working with a group of young people at Weatherhead high school, on a project exploring what our thoughts might look like if we could see them all around us. The group have been sculpting 3D models representing different breeds of ideas, memories and emotions using Blender.
Thought Balloons
I am working with a group of young people at Weatherhead high school, on a project exploring what our thoughts might look like, if we could see them all around us. This week has been a good opportunity to revisit the Balloonascope, which is a 3D graphing tool made up of Balloons, weights and pulleys....
What Shape Are Ideas?
I am working with Fact & a group of young people at Weatherhead high school, on a project exploring what our thoughts might look like if we could see them all around us. So far the group have investigated ways to make connections between words and shapes, and then created different breeds of shapes to...
Read, Write, Re-Imagine
In the last week before Christmas John, Sophie Bower and I, delivered a new course in Hume Manchester called ‘Read, Write, Re-imagine’ . The course focused on developing the facilitation skills of creative new media practitioners, so that they would be able to deliver top quality creative new media activities in Schools across the North...
Restrictions 2
This blog post continues on from the last posts theme of ‘Restrictions Make Us More Creative’ looking at ways that people can be enabled to teach themselves to program, exploring limited sub-sets of commands within StarLogo TNG… So, I’ve spent the past year working with young and old people, helping them explore the programming of...
Restrictions 1
Revisiting the Canal& Map. The idea that ‘Restrictions make us more Creative’ will probably ring true to anyone who has seen what George Lucas did with a budget of millions, once he was able to ‘fully realise’ his original vision for the Star Wars Saga. I’m not suggesting an absolute rule here, but this is...
Games V’s Films
I am currently working with Fact, on a Computer Game Design project with a group of young people at St Francis of Assisi School, Liverpool. The group have spent the past five weeks developing their creative programming skills using a variety of problem solving activities, and they have now started to create their final games....
Balloonascope
John and Neil were out on the road a couple of times last month sharing their BALLOONASCOPE. First up, on October 22nd, was an invite to Newcastle University’s CULTURE LAB, celebrating their re-launch and showing off a diverse cacophony of hi-tech (and not so hi-tech!) works and facilities to a VIP audience. Highlights included motion...
