Maker Takeover
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The Bury St Edmunds Maker Takeover is a FREE day-into-evening event perfect for creative businesses, innovators, tech people, artists and those interested in finding out about leading-edge technologies.
It will introduce new perspectives, tech tools and possibilities through our programme of performances, talks and workshops. Explore the work of extraordinary makers, games designers, builders of custom controllers, virtual reality sculptors alongside artist innovation projects.
As day merges into evening come and check out our VR Gallery in the bar, play some of your favourite retro games and get immersed in eclectic live audio visual performances.
Collusion events are informal, conversational and cutting edge - aimed at showing off the region’s rich talent across art and technology. They are perfect for meeting interesting people, finding new creative & business partners and exchanging ideas: BE in_collusion.
THE PROGRAMME:
2 - 5pm MAKER FAIR, TALKS & WORKSHOPS, and MENTORING SESSIONS
- explore our fair showcasing work from a range of artists, makers and partners including Katy Marshall with Detect & Inject, Line Wobbler demo, Game Anglia & Lost Words, Fritz the talking robot, Liam Taylor still image sonification, Emily Godden and Suffolk Libraries Micro:bit session, Rojo Artists, StartEast, Signpost 2 Grow, and more.
- book free for an informal demo of Mr. Underwood and Graham Dunning's Mammoth Beat Organ >> https://www.meetup.com/in_collusion-Bury-St-Edmunds-arts-technology-meetup/events/255829089/
- book a free spot on one of our amazing 90-minute workshops >>
CLIP - circuit bending: https://www.meetup.com/in_collusion-Bury-St-Edmunds-arts-technology-meetup/events/255581035/
VR workflow: https://www.meetup.com/in_collusion-Bury-St-Edmunds-arts-technology-meetup/events/255581048/ - book a free 30 minute mentoring session with an industry expert >> https://www.meetup.com/in_collusion-Bury-St-Edmunds-arts-technology-meetup/events/255605911/
5 - 7pm VR GALLERY, RETRO GAMES + DELICIOUS STREETFOOD
6 - 9pm LIVE AUDIO VISUAL PERFORMANCES
Experience performances from the CLIP sound art collective, digital music producer Loraine James, VJs and exponents of the regional art noise scene.
More programme details to be released here soon!
Supported by Arts Council England (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (http://cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk/), Arm (https://www.arm.com/), and Cambridge Consultants (https://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/home)