Tags: Creative Manifesto
Make||Sound 6th - 13th June 2015
Posted: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:58
Make||Sound is an eight-day festival taking place in Leicester's City Centre - at Highcross and Curve - that will be exploring the possibilities and intricacies of sound as an artform. The event runs from from Saturday 6th June until Saturday 13th June 2015 and will play host to musicians, sound designers and creative coders from around the UK and beyond.
Interact Labs will be running two drop-in workshops at the Highcross Shopping Centre as part of the event - on Saturday 6th and Thursday 11th - that will show participants how to generate sound and control lights with Arduino micro-controllers. Attendees will be able to add their creations to Sean Clark's "Colloquy of Jam Jars" installation that will be installed at Highcross throughout the week.
For more information visit the Make||Sound website at http://makefestival.uk. A gallery of pictures of the event will be hosted on Flickr. Feel free to add your own pictures to the group.
Creat-A-Con is Almost Here!
Posted: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:22
Creat-A-Con will be coming to Leicester on the 21st February at the Queens Building at De Montfort University. This free event aims to inspire young people in the key S.T.E.M. areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Interact Labs will be at the event demonstrating:
- The Edison robot and our robot arm
- The WaterColourBot drawing machine
- Scratch programming on the Raspberry Pi
- Our 3D printer
- DIY Virtual Reality headsets
Plus we will be making Arduino-powered interactive lights for use at the MyOptik Festival on the 28th February and testing the wireless video system we are making for the Image is the Servent event on the 27th February.
As if that isn't enough, we will also be showing the Creative Manifesto LED video wall.
Come and be creative with digital technology.
Creative Manifesto LED Video Wall
Posted: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:51
If you've visited the Lab over the past few months you will have noticed that its been somewhat 'busy'. The set-up for the Interact exhibition at LCB Depot in September was based there, same for Esther Rolinson's exhibition at Phoenix, the Affective Digital Histories video booth was there for a while and, most noticeably, Creative Manifesto have been using it to build their LED video screen.
Watching the Creative Manifesto project take shape has been fascinating. The group was successful in getting Arts Council funding to design and build a 24 panel video screen that could be use to showcase local artists' work. The screen was constructed using LED 'pixel strings', Fadecandy controllers and some cleverly modified plastic greenhouse panels. Members of Creative Manifesto have been using Interact Labs to make the screen - and also tapping in to our electronics and programming expertise.
The first outing of the screen was on Sunday night as part of the Light The Night festival in Leicester's Cultural Quarter. It was installed in the window of the Exchange Bar and looked amazing. The public was clearly impressed, with large crowds watching the animations on screen and taking photographs.
The screen will be installed at Exchange for a week or so, so there is plenty of time to go and have a look in the evenings. Pictures from the Light The Night event can be found here on Flickr. There is a video of the screen here on YouTube.
We will be publishing full construction details for the project on this website soon.
Creative Manifesto "Lights the Night" in Leicester
Posted: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:22
Tonight was the culmination of many months of work by Leicester arts group Creative Manifesto. "Light The Night" saw projection mapped video projections, specially produced lighting and the amazing "Pixel Pyros" show in the Cultural Quarter in Leicester. A huge crowd oo-ed and ahh-ed as they were treated to a truly spectacular evening. See our event page for pictures and a video of the Pixel Pyros show. Pixel Pyros was created by Seb Lee-Delisle. The CQBA and Phoenix were co-producers of the event.
Light the Night - Next Weekend!
Posted: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 22:00
The Creative Manifesto group (who meet every other Tuesday at Interact Labs) have been beavering away over the past few months on a great live multimedia project. "Light the Night" happens on 17th November in Leicester's Cultural Quarter. The event starts at 3:30pm with the highlight being projection mapped visuals designed by Creative Manifesto along Halford Street from 5pm. From what we've seen this is going to look amazing. There will also be a "virtual" pyrotechnics display from 5:30pm called "PixelPyros" as well as live music and specially produced lighting around the area. Follow the link for more information.
