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Archive Cut-N-Pasting

Lalya — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:11:34 +0000

This free event which took place at Newcastle City Library on 11th July 2015, invited visitors of all ages to create and share augmented paper stories by cut-n-pasting content from the Newcastle Library archive, using both digital tools and scissors, pen and glue. It consisted of a structured workshop in the morning and a drop-in in the afternoon.

The following week, people’s work was displayed throughout the library through QR code: people could access the archive cut-n-pastes that participants had made by using their a phone with a QR code reader app (free to download), and pointing at the symbol with it.

The cut-n-pastes are still available at the City Library’s Commons Are Forever Flickr album and through the QR codes below.

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Circuit Drawing

Lalya — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:37:32 +0000

‘Circuit Drawing’ was a day-long free drop-in workshop for families and young children, which took place at the Gateshead Central Library on 7th March 2015, as part of the event ‘Creative Makings’ .

Visitors could create their very own hand-drawn circuits and switches: Turn any pencil drawing on paper or folded cardboard into a simple electronic circuit that could control a computer game, light up or make sound.

Families and young children were encouraged to take part.

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Workshops at Skills to Shine

Lalya — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 22:31:02 +0000

Skills to Shine is a social enterprise based in North East England, that engages young people in fun and practical project-based learning to inspire them and provide them with knowledge and relevant skills to chose future career paths.

In 2014, Attaya Projects artists Teresa Almeida, Victoria Bradbury and Lalya Gaye were invited to contribute to the programme by delivering a series of educational classes across the North East of England. These were both after-school hands-on workshops and activities during the Skills to Shine Summer School.

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Thinking Digital Arts // Hack

Lalya — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 01:26:54 +0000

Decentralised. Redistributed. Networked. How do we move as hackers and makers in the physical and digital realms? Does the web cause us to work more globally, or does it underline the importance of the local? In what ways is decentralisation coming to the fore in global culture and how does this affect the way we think, work, and interact on and offline?

On Tuesday 20th May 2014, twenty-four artists, designers and hackers took over NewBridge Project Gallery and Maker Space Newcastle for a day to come together and create tangible reflections, comments, explorations and interpretations of the theme of ‘Decentralisation’. The day – which was a cross between a mini-residency and a hack lab – focused on collaboration and interdisciplinarity, with all ownership of the used materials and resulting work remaining with the teams. It was a hands-on opportunity to think, make, and create with others in a high energy, highly collaborative and creative environment, using innovative methods, processes and technologies.

This event was part of Thinking Digital Arts, the inaugural creative programme for Thinking Digital Conference 2014, curated by Suzy O’Hara from CRUMB.

Featured artists included: Richard Broderick, Cally Gatehouse, Clifford Hammett, Antoine Kik, Shelly Knotts, Dave Lynch, Nora O’Murchu, Martin Reiche, Colin Rennie, Stevie Ronnie, Alexandra Sofie Jönsson, Andrew Wilson and Cay Green.

Aimed primarily at creative practitioners with a background in digital art and design, programming, sculptural and performance practice, Thinking Digital Art // Hack brought together makers with a variety of skills sets. Project topics were proposed and led by invited artists and facilitated by the local hosts (digital media artists Lalya Gaye and Victoria Bradbury of Attaya Projects) and by experienced members of Maker Space Newcastle. In order to support the collaborations, a wide range of equipment and materials were also made available by Maker Space, Attaya Projects, House of Objects and NewBridge Project. At the end of the day, the hack ended with a free public exhibition at NewBridge Project, where the participants were given the option to present the results of the day and get external feedback.

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BAM! Sistahood – Visual Design Workshops

Lalya — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 00:18:01 +0000

BAM! Sistahood is a HLF-funded project at the Angelou Centre (a black-led women’s centre based in the Newcastle upon Tyne) that explores the contributions of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) women to the local cultural heritage of the North East of England, today and in the last 70 years.

Attaya contributed to the initial 6-months pilot project of BAM! Sistahood with a series of workshop sessions with groups of local BAMER women. The topic of the sessions was visual communication design, in order to help the participants design the project’s visual identity in a participatory manner.

Tag-teamed with sessions about prototyping delivered by Rachel Clarke from Culture Lab, these design-orientated hands-on sessions led by Lalya Gaye introduced the participants to visual communication principles such as identity design, channels and modes of communication and cultural meanings embedded into layout design.

A series of photos taken by Lalya during the sessions and at an Angelou Centre celebration event was featured in the exhibition ‘My Roots My Culture‘ at Northumbria University, in connection with International Women’s Day 2014. The exhibition showcased the work of the artists who took part in the pilot project.

The project has now moved forward to receive full funding after the success of the pilot.

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