Project with India

Recently, Reinhold Behringer has been invited to join the project "Voices from Gujarati and Yorkshire Rivers", and he just returned from a travel to Gujarat (India) where this project was conducted in partnership with the Sardar Patel University in Vallabh Vidyanagar. The aim of this project is to "create awareness of climate change with means of arts", and the specific focus was on "linking" rivers from two local regions in the global context: Yorkshire and Gujarat. The poject involved the organisation of workshops for painting, poetry, and translation. Reinhold's role was to provide technology: recording video, audio, and GPS tracks for creating later a multimedia experience. This resulting documentation is intended to be created by L3 students as part of their final project work. In the course of the project, artists created works based on their relation with rivers. The artefacts will be collected abd may be published in book form at a later time. A development blog highlights the progress and timeline of this project.

During this visit, links have been made to the following institutions:
Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar
Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmadabad
Inter-Human Education and Charitable Trust (IET), Surat.

Our Music, Our City won at B.TWEEN !

At B.TWEEN 08, a prize of £ 10,000 was awarded to our Ben Dalton and his team for their entry into the competition "Expoding Narratives", which was jointly organised by JustB and HP-Labs and called for project ideas for geo-referenced applications built on the MSCAPE platform for mobile phones and PDAs. Ben and his colleagues Ben Halsall and Megan Smith had developed a pitch of their project Our Music, Our City .

Congratulations to the team!

The "DoGoSee Project" at ICA

On 10.June 2008, Ben Dalton (Leeds Met, Innovation North), Megan Smith and Ben Halsall (Leeds Met, Faculty of Arts and Society) will present their project DoGoSee at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.

Their work is one of the five projects which had been shortlisted in the Exploding Narrative competition organised by b-tween to win a £10,000 prize grant for developing their concept into a product. The projects are around ideas for location-based games, stories or educational journeys, using software developed by HP Labs (MScape). The audience and a panel of experts, including Adam Gee (C4), Steve Moffett (Creative Partnerships) and Richard Hull (HP Labs), will give feedback.

See the final pitches and vote at the ICA on 19 and 20 June, or at b-tween.

More info on this project is in the blog Our City, Our Music.


Info re. the evening event on 10.June (starts at 7pm) at ICA is available from Emma Quinn emmaq@ica.org.uk
£5 / £4 Concessions / £3 ICA Members.
Advance booking advised.
Please call the ICA box office on 020 7390 3647 or visit the ICA web
site www.ica.org.uk

ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
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