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Move Fast and Break Things

blurry hack 4 culture imageI was asked to give a workshop at the Hack4Culture event on the 3rd and 4th March – This is the slideshare from the workshop,  I discussed the issues and themes that the images highlight.
I didn’t say it really over ran as a workshop, there was lots and lots of talk.
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Culture Hack day

Mobile app created at Edin Culture Hack
Image from James at tinnedfruit.com

I posted some time ago about Culture Hack Scotland and the work of Edinburgh Festivals Lab (do read it as this will make more sense). I  was hoping that some of that work with the arts organisations up there could be duplicated down here in Liverpool and that through my work with LARC I would be able contribute to setting it up. So to the business of this post. So on Wednesday 5th I was invited to attend a meeting organised by LARC at FACT with a presentation coming from Rohan Gunatillake from Edinburgh Festival’s Lab which was very similar to this slideshare attached.

 

This image is taken from James at tinnedfruit.com and is the image of the app that he created for Edinburgh Book Festival during the culture hack day in Edinburgh. They went on to commission him to improve his prototype.

 

 

 

 

 

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Read the new How to guides

The AmbITion project for those of you that don’t know was set up in the North West to find ways of educating arts organisations in using new tools and techniques to deal with the demand of the consumer to access arts organisations content. It has done this in a variety of ways and extremely successfully, in fact so successful have they been, that they became a England wide project and now the Scottish Arts Council have also asked them to work with their arts organizations.

One of AmbITon’s first seminars was at an event I organized in Preston in 2006, and through my day job I have been lucky to enough to work with the AmbITion team over the last four years.

Have a look at these brilliantly simple How to guides recently published by the AmbITion team.

New publications are online! Roger Tomlinson helps us think about how to Syndicate Data using RSS and XML and How To Implement Digital Projects and Develop Digital Policies; Adrian Slatcher considers How To Be accessible; CJ Lyon teaches us about how to collect and share User Generated Content on your website; Chi-chi Ekweozor teaches us how to fundraise online using social media and how to get started blogging; Pam Henderson makes some great suggestions for how to recruit staff for digital developments; and our content partners Own-IT’s latest IP Guide to the Digital/New Media Industries is also available.
Please download and share these resources: they really are fascinating, insightful, and brilliant!

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Destroy PowerPoint : Whatsonstage – Edinburgh 2009

It’s good to see the Gaffer as I call him is getting such a agood review for his one man show in Edinburgh

It’s safe to say that the title of Destroy PowerPoint is distinctly misleading. As David Gaffney confesses at the beginning, he might have started off thinking PowerPoint was a little evil, but in the end, he came to see the presentation software as something that liberates creativity. In this respect, the play is more a celebration of the possibilities of PowerPoint than a call to arms for us to storm the offices of Microsoft and banish it forever. An exercise in storytelling, Destroy PowerPoint is made up of a collection of short stories all centring around a PowerPoint presentation. There are stories of vengeance, of love, of the mind-numbing routine of office life. Some are more compelling than others, though in ‘Kicking the Whale’, Gaffney’s conceit reaches its peak as a disenchanted employee uses PowerPoint to break free. There’s something oddly beautiful about the PowerPoint presentations Gaffney uses to illustrate his tales.  In ‘King of PowerPoint’, which acts as something of an homage to office communication through the years, there’s a distinct romance to the smudged felt-tip acetates which flash across the screen.

via Destroy PowerPoint : Whatsonstage – Edinburgh 2009.