The Big Blip 04: a two day festival of creative art, science and technology 10.30 pm - Midnight on both days at the Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton.

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speakers
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We had the following events at the Big Blip 04:

Friday 2pm - 4pm Worlds Apart?
Public forum on issues in art/science collaborations led by members of two current collaborative projects: Metamorphosis and There Does Not, In Fact, Appear To Be A Plan (that Blip co-ordinated as part of the Big Blip 04).

Panel: Garrett Monaghan (Chair and Head of Digital Arts, Lighthouse); Heather Barnett; Robert Whittle; Ivan Pope; Bill Bigge; Richard Brown.

Friday 7pm - 12pm Live Algorithmic Music
Demonstrations, discussions and performances.

Ron Chrisley (Chair)

Demonstrations: Tim Blackwell - The Swarm Music; Drew Gartland-Jones - Indago Sonus; Thor Magnusson - Ixi software.

Performances: Graham Holden - Decadnids; Bela Emerson and Stephen Wolff - Planetoids; Simon Longo - DITHERNOISE.

Saturday 11am Creative conflict and confusion in interdisciplinary collaboration

Speakers Jane Prophet and Mark D'Inverno

Saturday 2pm Interfacing with Evolution

Speaker John Frazer

Saturday 4pm Creating the unforseen, the unthought and the unknown

Speakers Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen

Saturday 7pm - 12pm Live performances

Ollie Bown (Icarus) and Tom Arthurs; Lady Inert; Laptop Jams and all the jammers who joined in; Nogales; Jeremy Radvan.

Friday and Saturday 10.30am - Midnight Generative Art Exhibition

Exhibitors
Sarah Angliss - Dubiofossil

Heather Barnett - Signal from the Noise

Bill Bigge - There does not, in fact, appear to be a plan

Jon Bird - Open Decks

Mike Blow - Stigmergy, Cat, There does not, in fact, appear to be a plan

Paul Brown - Chromos, Where's the Red Wedge

Richard Brown - Mimetic starfish

Caia - Pendulodic

Emma Churchill - Top marks

Ed Clive - There does not, in fact, appear to be a plan

Rachel Cohen - Chinese Whispers, Tiles

Hans Dehlinger - 800,000 Kosovan refugees

Alan Dorin - Meniscus

Anna Dumitriu - Guess

Rowena Easton - There does not, in fact, appear to be a plan

Alice Eldridge - Signal from the Noise

Theresa Gartland-Jones - Evolving Drawing

Ollie Glass - Pendulodic

Garvin Haslett - 4³ Ever, There does not, in fact, appear to be a plan

Interact Lab - Interactive skipping

Jon McCormack - Turbulence

Ryuichi Nambu - Urinal bag

Micheál O'Connell - Markov15

John Popadic - There does not, in fact, appear to be a plan

Antony Ribot - Interactive xlab

Benedict Sheehan - Pendulodic

Maria Verstappen and Erwin Driessens - Tuboid, Ima Traveller, Frankendael

Roman Verostko - Celaeno, Electra, Merope

Andy Webster - Open decks

Mateo Willis - Water series

Over 700 people attended the Big Blip 04. We were particularly pleased that the majority of our audience was from the general public and not connected to any of our supporting institutions, indicating that the Big Blip has mass appeal. We received over 100 feedback forms, all of which made positive comments about the event. However, the Big Blip is certainly a work in progress and we want to make the next event better, so please email us any comments you have about the Big Blip 04.

We would particularly like to thank: Arts Council England; the University of Brighton; the University of Sussex; and all of the 15 speakers, 14 performers and 32 exhibitors who made it such a good event. Special thanks to: Phil Husbands (University of Sussex); Sue Gollifer (University of Brighton); Garrett Monaghan (Lighthouse); Karen Cass (earshot); and Graham Rees, Gez Wilson and Colin Matthews at the Sallis Benney theatre.

Thanks to James Fry and Andrea Campos-Little for documenting the event.