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Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring.

 

Spring Fayre: Art, Science and Technology Activities For All Ages

Sat 24 March 11am-4pm

Winter Garden, Sheffield S1.

 

Our Spring Fayre was all about art and creativity in the digital age. With an extraordinary range of activities, workshops and events throughout the day at a number of landmark venues around the city centre, we want to inspire everyone to experience new art, and learn how to be more creative with the technology around them.

 

All events are FREE - some workshops have limited capacity, but you can sign up on the day on a first come first served basis. There's lots to see, so come early to the Winter Garden, pick up a schedule of events and a map, and start exploring!

 

*Calling digital makers, artists, scientists, designers, engineers and educationalists! - If you would like to get involved in exhibiting or helping with events at the Spring Fayre, for more information email info@lovebytes.org.uk.

 

Harmony. Explore the art of mathematics and make your own drawing using this bizarre and strange contraption. Harmony is a harmonograph, a mechanical apparatus that employs pendulums to create a geometric image. The drawings created typically are 'Lissajous curves', or related drawings of greater complexity.

 

"Walking past a blacksmiths one day, Pythagoras heard a familiar harmony in the ringing tones of the hammers at work inside. He discovered that the weights of the hammers were responsible for their relative notes. A hammer weighing half as much as another sounded a note twice as high."

 

Harmony - created and presented by Bird and Bee.

 

Placard Headphone Music Festival. Bring your own headphones and plug-in! Part of the Placard international network of headphone and internet streaming music events, this mini-music festival in the centre of the Winter Garden features quick fire performances by Sarah Angliss, Nice, John Moseley, Ron Wright, Yaxu, Ideoforms, Bile Laptop Ensemble, Deliberate + more TBC. Le Placard (meaning cupboard in French) began in a small apartment in Paris in 1998. It has since grown into an international streaming festival concept in cities across the world as part of festivals such as Mutek, Garage, Pixelache and now Lovebytes, thanks to Alex McLean (Yaxu) who has curated this programme. Bring your own headphones and plug-in from 11:00 to 12:40 and 13:40 to 15:20.

 

lurk.org/placard/

 

Micro/Macro Photography Workshop

Winter Garden

11:00-13:00 or 14:00-16:00

Age 6-11

Free. Places are limited, please book in advance

email: janet@lovebytes.org.uk

 

Led by Vicky Morris, a small band of children and parents will create their own imaginary worlds and tell tiny visual stories in the vastness of the Winter Garden. Come along and learn how to use your digital camera more creatively.

 

Bring your own camera, if you can (particularly if it has a good close up function/option) or share one of ours. Please make sure you arrive early, these workshops are always very popular.

 

Creative Computing Workshops

Become a digital maker not just a consumer, make your own games and digital art by learning how to programme computers. With Scratch it's quick easy and fun, it's like programming with Lego and it's a great introduction to the fundamental principles of coding. You can doodle to your heart's content, add sounds, make buttons that do things and animate your drawings and photos. This is an open drop-in workshop with creative programmers on hand to help. If you are already using scratch bring your work along, we'd love to see what you've made.

 

The Winter Garden provides the hub for activities happening in venues around the city centre, come to our information desk to pick-up the latest schedule of timed activities or click here to download a PDF.

 

ALSO ON SATURDAY 24 MARCH 11:00-16:00

 

AT THE UPPER CHAPEL

 

Drop-in to the Upper Chapel to discover the bizarre sounds of Cod, Haddock and Pollock!

 

Jana Winderen is one of the world's foremost field recording artists. She will be talking about her work in the Upper Chapel at 3pm 24 March. ADMISSION IS FREE.

 

Jana's sound artwork Spawning Ground will be open from 11:00-16:00. Set in one of Sheffield's hidden architectural gems, this sound installation explores the acoustic activity of subaquatic environments.

 

Find out more about Spawning Ground here.

 

AT THE CENTRAL LIBRARY

 

Unquiet The library will be buzzing with free activities including interactive sound installations, secret film screenings, impromptu performances and creative technology workshops.

 

Find out more about Unquiet here.

 

The Spring Fayre is a Lovebytes event made possible with the support of many people.

 

Special thanks to:

South Sheffield City Learning Centre, Anorak Magazine, Alex McLean, Ryan Patrick Morley (Bird & Bee), Access Space, Deirdre Pashley (City Centre Management, Sheffield City Council)

 

Volunteers coordinator: Karen Sherwood (Cupola Gallery)

 

Technical production: Richard Bolam, CVC.

 

 

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Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring

A Festival of Art, Science and Technology

22-24 March

Sheffield UK

 

www.lovebytes.org.uk

 

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