Sparking The Imagination 2010
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 - Sun, 13 Jun 2010
Venue: Phoenix
A weekend of amazing digital activities for children, families and even grown ups!
Sat 12 Jun - Sun 13 Jun, 9am - 5.30pm - All activities are FREE
Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media in association with the Spark Children's Arts Festival presents 'Sparking the Imagination', a weekend of amazing digital activities for children, families and even grown ups!
Body Paint
by Mehmet Atken
Screen 2
Splash, throw, drip and splatter virtual paint across a huge digital canvas in this highly engaging interactive artwork. Express yourself through bodily movement and play, and watch as beautiful, swirling, ever-changing abstract paintings instantly appear before your eyes. Play by yourself to create your own work of art, work together with other people, or splash your friends in a virtual paint fight!
Free All Monsters!
by Andrew Wilson
ETC Suites and across the Cultural Quarter
Search for invisible monsters living in the streets and buildings in and around the Cultural Quarter, then answer questions about the monsters to show your monster spotting skills. To help you in this quest you'll need a special piece of kit - the Magical Monstervision Machine and a Monster Spotter's Guide which can be collected from Phoenix Square. Every monster that you find was set free by somebody else, and when you've finished your search you return to Phoenix Square and set free some monsters of your own.
Please note: There are a limited number of handsets available and you may be asked to add your name to a waiting list at busy times.
www.fisharepeopletoo.blogs.com/1/2009/10/free-all-monsters.html
PORTABLE PIXEL PLAYGROUND
Screen Lounge Bar and Kitchen Terrace
Continuing our weekend extravaganza we present three more playful interactive activities for all the family. The Portable Pixel Playground is a collection of digital artworks designed to engage children in simple but highly enjoyable physical activity.
Glowing Pathfinder Bugs
by Squidsoup
Come and play with the recently discovered Glowing Pathfinder Bugs, a family of virtual creepy crawlies living in a sand pit. Dig a gulley in the sand and see the bugs walk along it, let them crawl up your hand and watch as the bugs transform into bigger bugs and even butterflies!
Cubed
by Giles Askham and Luke Hastilow
Cubed is a set of hand-held game cubes which re-invent traditional games such as Treasure Hunt and Hide and Seek. As you play and work together with others in each new game, watch the cubes pulse and glow as they communicate through infra-red technology.
Too Much of a Mouthful
by Andy Best and Merja Puustinen
Too Much of a Mouthful is an interactive bouncy castle sculpture. It looks a bit like a shark and a bit like an alien, and as you roll and climb around on top of it, sound is generated by sensors attached the sculpture, allowing you to create a musical soundscape with your own movement.
www.portablepixelplayground.org
The Portable Pixel Playground is a series of interactive artworks for children commissioned by leading digital arts organisation Folly, based in Lancaster.
