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Creative Uses of Mobile Phones in the Arts and Social Sector – Northern Design Festival

Lalya — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:34:54 +0000

On 17th October, drop in at B&D Studios and play a game of 100 Things (there is a delicious prize for anyone who can’t take part), have a cup of tea and a chat with Andrew Wilson about using all sorts of personal mobile technology in the arts and social sector, and in all sorts of contexts from mental health to Augmented Reality games for family groups.

Andrew has been using mobile technology creatively since 2000, and he’s learned from a lot of mistakes along the way.

The previous record for 100 Things is 35, set in London. Can Newcastle beat that? Come along and take part!

This event is part of the Attaya Projects showcase at B&D Studios for the Northern Design Festival.

Time: 14.00 – 18.00, 17th October
Location: B&D Studios, 3rd Floor, Commercial Union House, Pilgrim Street, NE1 6QE Newcastle upon Tyne
Free of charge
Workshop outcome will be presented at the end of the day at 5.30pm
Instructions: here

Find out more about Andrew’s work at www.foldup.org

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Attaya Showcase at Northern Design Festival!

Lalya — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:00:52 +0000

We are having a showcase called A Cup of Attaya at B&D Studios in Newcastle, as part of the 2013 Northern Design Festival (this year’s theme is Create:Digital).

During ten days (from 10-19 October), we will inhabit the space of B&D Studios, redecorate it with interactive installations, demos of work-in-progress, and have a chill-out salon area where we’ll welcome visitors with a nice cup of West-African Attaya tea and traditional Swedish cookies (Why, you ask? Because they’re tasty! Yum yum yum).

The whole thing will start with an opening and website launch on 10th October at 17.30, followed by a workshop on the 12th at 11.00. Besides demos of on-going Attaya projects, the showcase will also include ‘artists spotlights’ on Attaya collaborators throughout the festival (exact dates and times for artist spotlights will follow shortly).

Some of the featured Attaya Projects artists who will be showing their work and inhabiting the space include:

Lalya Gaye (SWE/SN/ML/NCL)
Anya Kovalieva (BY/SWE/Gateshead)
Luke Hardisty (Bradford/NCL/London)
Victoria Bradbury (US/NCL)
Teresa Almeida (PT/NCL)
Jonathan West (Gateshead)
Bettina Nissen (DE/NCL)
Andrew Wilson (Huddersfield)
Kathryn Hodgkinson (NCL)

Join us for the launch and come hang out with us during the festival to have a look and a chat about what we do!

The opening party + website launch will take place on Thursday 10th October from 17.00
(closing time TBC. Tips: Globe Gallery will also have an opening for the festival straight afterwards, from 6 to 8pm. It will be great, don’t miss it!)

B&D Studios are located at Commercial Union House, 3rd Floor, Pilgrim Street, NE1 6QE Newcastle upon Tyne (across the street from Tyneside Cinema, upstairs from where Maplin used to be – yes that building that seems to float over the street). Many thanks to B&D Studios for hosting us!

Our opening hours are:
10 – 19 October
Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 10.00 – 19.30
Wed: 10.00 – 18.00
Sat: 12.00 – 17.00
Sun: closed.

More info about the workshop, artist spotlights and other activities coming soon on this blog.

See you there!

UPDATE (5.10.13): Updated the opening hours, as the showcase will be closed on Sundays.

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Shift Open Day

Lalya — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:19:20 +0000

Remember Shift, the internship programme for young creative we’re involved in? There was an open day the other day at Studio Precept the other day, and Attaya took part in it.

It was a great occasion to meet with prospective interns, catch up with other teachers and mentors and ravage the buffet. We also did portfolio crits and demos. Lalya’s demo showed how to use projection mapping techniques and draw with light on 3D objects (here, a japanese wooden 3D puzzle), using MadMapper. Great fun!

How Studio Precept looks like when the space is not having an open day!

Little projection mapping demo set-up

A prospective intern drawing with light on the object

Some light animation on a 3D puzzle using projection mapping

We’ll upload a little demo video of this one of these days.

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Shift Live No.1 – Kickstarting our Collaboration with Shift

Lalya — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:36:39 +0000

Lalya will soon start taking part in Shift, an internship programme for young creatives. She will be one of the expert mentors advising the interns and will be giving regular workshops about design for digital interactions in 3D physical space in general, and urban interaction design in particular.

Want to know more about it? Come to the Shift Live No.1 launch party for the programme, at Hoults Yard in Byker, Newcastle, on Thursday 28th March!

Lalya will be there to give a talk about her contribution to the programme, and there will also be live music from local band Static Soul!

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Pecha Kucha-Style Presentation at Design Network North

Lalya — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:04:11 +0000

Want to hear some exciting talks about design in the North East of England? Come to Design Network North‘s Rise & Design event, Pecha Kucha-style! This Friday morning, Northern Design Centre in Gateshead (next door to Gateshead College).

We’ll be there reminiscing about the good ol’ days of black and white Atari screens and presenting some of our on-going projects at Attaya. We are however not currently in a position to reveal whether or not there will be any tap-dancing or ukuleles involved.

Do come along!

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