The
Big Blip 05: a six day festival of creative arts, science
and technology. Exhibition 25 - 29 October midday - 6pm
at the Brighton Fringe Basement, Brighton; electronica night
at Union, Brighton 24 October, 2005; workshop at Lighthouse
Media Centre; workshop at Brighton Fringe Basement; speedDatingWebChallenge
at Brighton Fringe Basement on 28 October, 2005.
Follow
these links for more details about:
performers
exhibitors
workshops
speedDatingWebChallgenge
visitors' comments
The
Big Blip 05 was only possible through the generous support
of the following organizations: University of Sussex; University
of Brighton; Future Media; Lighthouse.
Paul
Granjon, who exhibited his Miniature
Robotic Birds installation and a special edit
of several of his films, as well as running a practical
robotics workshop with Bill Bigge, had this to say
about BB05:
It was my pleasure
to be invited to contribute to Big Blip 05, after
my first encounter with the dynamic and inventive
Blip agency earlier this year. Hosted in an industrial
basement, the event invited visitors to explore a
collection of interactive artworks. The main space
was occupied by several screen based pieces, the most
successful and engaging of which was an interactive
low table by Peter
Bennett, Sean Toru and Lisa Tutte-Scalli. The
audience could manipulate pucks emitting bright coloured
lights, thus triggering audio and video events projected
on the table top.
In the farther recesses of the space, Cube,
a mobile robot in a black cube shape followed visitors around
and impressed many young children, next to Magic
Mirror, a piece by Benedict Sheehan where glowing fireflies
appeared on top of the viewer's image in a normal looking
mirror. Bill Bigge's frantic
autonomous robot cars were running chaotic races on
a cardboard track nearby, and Alice Eldridge Self
Karaoke Pond provided a compelling audio track to the
whole area, evolving continuously with the visitor's contributions.
It is also in that bunker-like space that Bill Bigge
and myself ran a robotics
workshop for two days. Visitors walking by could
see 10 intensely engaged people surrounded by wires,
electronic components and soldering irons, busy assembling
small mobile robots that soon started crawling on
the tables, floor and even the metallic parts of the
ceiling. Big Blip 05 was a thoroughly enjoyable and
accessible experience, attended by a large and varied
audience. I am looking forward to working with Blip
again.
We
are looking forward to working with Paul again too
and are making arrangements to exhibit his Sexed
Robots at BB06 this autumn.
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Over 1800 people attended the Big Blip 05. We received
357 comments
about the event. The Big Blip festival 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 05.
We
would particularly like to thank: Arts Council England;
the University of Brighton; the University of Sussex;
overkill.me.uk;
futuremedia for sponsoring the festival; Lighthouse.
Special thanks to: Phil
Husbands (University of Sussex); Sue
Gollifer (University of Brighton); Garrett Monaghan;
Helen and Laura at Brighton
Fringe; and all of the 15 speakers, 14 performers
and 19 exhibitors who made it such a good event.
Thanks
to
James Fry and Andrea
Campos-Little for documenting the event again this year.
Many thanks to Paul Granjon, Paul Brown and Mark Pawlak
for allowing us to use some of their photographs on the
website.
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