Programme (in chronological order)

A Machine To See With

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Star in your own heist movie as Blast Theory puts you in the thick of the action. Simply register your mobile phone number online, and wait. Your phone rings. The action begins.

Lighthouse is delighted to team up with Blast Theory — Brighton’s internationally renowned digital artists — to stage the English premiere of A Machine to See With.

Have you ever wanted to rob a bank? Following a sell-out season at Sundance Film Festival, A Machine To See With now comes to Brighton. Blending secret missions and high adrenalin, you are in an interactive heist movie playing the lead. Sign up online with your mobile number. On the day, you receive a call, arrive at your allotted street corner and receive instructions. From hiding money to meeting up with a partner in crime, it’s up to you to deal with a bank robbery and its aftermath.

Dates: 01-03, 05, 08-10, 13-17, 22-24 September.

Organised by Blast Theory and Lighthouse, with support from Brighton Dome.

For more information and tickets: http://www.brightondome.org/

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Longhill Reporters Group

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Lighthouse has developed a programme of education activity that introduces young people to inspiring ways of using digital technology as part of Brighton Digital Festival. The programme is delivered throughout September.

Longhill High School is developing a press team for the school, and will be making the Brighton Digital Festival their first campaign. Students from the school will be using different formats to capture and comment on the Digital Festival, using blogging, photos, video and social media to take a snapshot of the festival over September.

Culture 24 will be publishing some of the students work as guest reporters, showcasing the students’ writing and images.

For more information visit: http://www.culture24.org.uk

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Pure Flow 2.0 by Katy Connor

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Brighton arts organization, Permanent Gallery are presenting two artist’s projects during the festival. Pure Flow 2.0 by artist, Katy Connor is a large-scale projection in the Permanent Gallery window and a smartphone app, both launched for the first time at Brighton Digital Festival. The projection reveals invisible data-streams running between a Global Positioning System [GPS] device and multiple satellites that triangulate its position. Live, moving imagery is generated from fluctuations in this data, revealing the noise in the signal, the system’s instability. As a Smartphone App Pure Flow 2.0 enables the user to directly touch these signals, creating visual and sonic patterns that respond to their environment and movement in space.

Pure Flow 2.0 is supported by Arts Council England and University of Lincoln. Made in collaboration with Dr Duncan Rowland.

For more information: http://www.permanentgallery.com

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Solar Systems by Semiconductor

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Solar Systems is Semiconductor’s first major exhibition in the South East for four years. Three moving image installations explore the mechanics of observing the Sun, from the vantage point of the Earth to our orbit in outer space. The works, Black Rain, Heliocentric, and Out of the Light, are emblematic of the artists’ ongoing investigation of the natural world, which has resulted in major works on astronomy (Brilliant Noise, 2006), and geology (Worlds in the Making, 2011). Their unique approach has won them fellowships and residencies in significant scientific locations such as NASA’s Space Sciences Lab, the Galapagos Islands and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Exhibition Preview: Friday 2 September, 6-8pm

Solar Systems is curated by Lighthouse in partnership with Phoenix Brighton.

For more information: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/semiconductor.htm
http://www.phoenixbrighton.org

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Async Meetup: JavaScript Jungle

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Async is a JavaScript meetup group that gets together twice a month to grapple with the latest developments in JavaScript and related technologies. Many of its sessions focus on specifics like developing mobile web apps or running JavaScript on the server, while others are more open and collaborative. Each Async session is followed by an evening social.

For the Festival, Async will be building a collaborative art project, the “JavaScript Jungle”. There’ll be an introduction to drawing in the browser (with Canvas and SVG), following by group/individual programming. Everyone’s creations will hook into a single canvas, to be exhibited online.

For more information: http://asyncjs.com/jungle/

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Making Space

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As part of its Making Space programme (details at fabrica.org.uk) Fabrica is opening up its gallery space to recent graduates from Brighton’s MA Digital Media course to explore new ideas.

Resonance is a digital art collective whose artists recently graduated from the Digital Media Arts MA at University of Brighton. They will be working in Fabrica over two weeks during Brighton’s Digital Festival to create and test an interactive work, which will be shown at this year’s White Night Festival and will follow its theme of Utopia. People will be invited during two of the days to visit the gallery to test, interact and contribute to the artwork in progress.

For more information:http://www.resonancearts.co.uk/

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Stored in a Bank Vault | Time’s Up

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Cordoned off – permission to enter? Even to snoop? Who was here? Should I be here? Is someone here? Where did they go? What were they doing? Will they return? What do they want? Just follow the lines? Just follow the plan? What is it at the end of the tunnel? Is it just about the money? Is it about money at all?

What is stored in a bank vault?

Time’s Up’s latest physical narrative Stored in a Bank Vault explores the tools and motivations of bank heists, secret tunnels, ancient cultures, magical powers and the interconnectedness of the global financial system with everything else.

Stored in a Bank Vault has been commissioned by Lighthouse as part of Brighton Digital Festival.

Preview: 22 September, 6-8pm at Lighthouse with mystery tours to the opening between these times (Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ).

PARN (Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives) is a pan-European project, developed and implemented through FoAM, Lighthouse, Blast Theory and Time’s Up.

Stored in a Bank Vault has been supported by the Culture Programme (2007 – 2013) of the European Union, Arts Council England, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, Culture Linz AT and OOE Kultur.

For more information visit: www.lighthouse.org.uk

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Creative JavaScript and HTML5 workshop

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Over the last few months, creative coder extraordinaire Seb Lee-Delisle has been inspiring a whole new audience in the art of creative coding with JavaScript and HTML5. And after his sell-out tour of the US, he’s coming home to Brighton!

Learn how to draw, animate, and create truly interactive content, including advanced mouse interactions, pixel manipulation, image blending, physics, 3D and games.

For more information: it http://seb.ly/training

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TeachMeet Brighton

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Digital Education Brighton is coordinating TeachMeet Brighton for everyone involved in education including early years, primary, secondary, FE and beyond to share how digital can deliver within an education framework.

Part of the exciting “unconference” movement, TeachMeets provide ideal opportunities for teachers, tutors, and everyone interested in effective education to share ideas and insights into teaching and what works in practice.

At TeachMeet Brighton you can:
- Give a 7 minute presentation to share how you’re using digital to engage students and support learning.
- Give a 2 minute presentation to highlight one activity or product that enhances teaching practice.
- Be an audience participant: ask questions and be digitally inspired by other educational professionals!

For more information: http://teachmeet.pbworks.com

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Data is Nature

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Join us for a night of audio-visual delights and surprises to close the first Brighton Digital Festival. The festival goes out with a bang, a buzz and an eye-popping array of performances to dazzle the senses.

Lighthouse is curating a brilliant line-up of audio-visual performers, including including stunning performances by audiovisual artists, Quayola & Mira Calix, and Paul Prudence, who together will show how digital technology can help us see nature in entirely new ways.

For more information and tickets: http://www.brightondome.org/events/Data-is-Nature/4456

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UXCampBrighton

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A one day ‘unconference’ for anyone involved or interested in user experience design, interaction design, information architecture or usability.

The event will allow people to share and learn in an open environment. Every attendees contributes by running a 25 minute session and all are treated equally. It could be it a talk, demo or discussion. No headliners, no product pitches, just a friendly (if intense) event focused on sharing and socialising as well as learning new stuff.

It is free to attend and tickets will go quickly, so check us out on Twitter @UXCampBrightonor our website for the latest information.

For more information: http://www.uxcampbrighton.org

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