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...
SYNTAX: Coding for Writers
At the end of June Mercy will deliver a new iteration of “Syntax: Coding for Writers” in the form of a two-day intensive skills-based workshop, which will be presented as part of FACT’s Open Curate It programme. SYNTAX was originally devised in 2011 by John O’Shea and Nathan Jones as a framework for writers and...
Experiments in Time
At the last outing for a small cinema, there was a lovely selection of short films, one in particular Luminaris, got me thinking about trying some stop motion, which I’ve never really done seriously, just tinkered with. This film inspired me to look at it from the perspective of travelling light, so I’ve been waiting...
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,...
Let’s go fly a kite…
Its been over a year since we started work on the Mapping Memory project, investigating peoples' experiences of Liverpool in the 1950's 60's and 70's. We were given a new perspective on our work by John Quirk, a former electrical engineer and avid kite photographer.
Swan Pedalo Broadcasts At FON
On Wednesday night I travelled from Liverpool to Barrow with John O’Shea and Dave Lynch to help set up and run a radio station on a pedalo. Our home became Lanternhouse in Ulverston and our base of operations was Barrow Park’s Piel House, which constantly buzzed with music and activity. We were joined by fellow Liverpool artists...
SYNTAX (Mark 1)
SYNTAX: A speculative 1-day workshop, looking to explore how poet/writers and coder/artists can bring their skills together to make new experimental work. or Coders and Poets Unite! This initiative was a collaboration between Re-Dock and Literary Arts Collective Mercy, prompted by conversations between John O’Shea and Nathan Jones about the potential for overlaps and interesting discourse...
Simple (BIG) Interface
A couple of weeks ago I took part in DIY Music Day at the World Museum, Liverpool. The event was organised by Ross Dalziel of Sound Network, as part of a series of events called How Why DIY? which aimed to open up technology to a wider audience. This event explored ways in which people...
InProcessing / outOfProcessing
Last week I was kindly invited to speak about my work with Isadora at an event in Manchester called ‘inProcessing’, run by Cybersonica (http://inprocessing.cybersonica.org). It was held at MadLab (http://madlab.org.uk) – a volunteer run arts space in the Northern Quarter that provides basic workshop and tech facilities to digital arts activities. InProcessing is an...
Foregrounding Context
Cultural Heritage Network workshop and presentation: The process of collectively mapping and modelling, memories and ideas forms a core strand of Re-Docks methodology, and, over the past few months we have been contributing to a series of discussions relating to landscapes, memories and cultural practices, co-ordinated by Liverpool University. A workshop in February aimed to...
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....
Dance and Technology
On Monday I made a presentation at the conference on the use of Technology in Children’s Dance Theatre, held at FACT in Liverpool. I talked about my role as a digital designer for a children’s dance show called ‘A Different Tune’, which is currently touring, as well as giving people an insight into Isadora, a...
