Company: Stinkdigital

Location: London, UK
Category: Creative Code
Type: Full Time

Description

We’re looking for a Junior Developer to join our team on a full-time basis in London. You will work alongside our creatives, developers, designers, producers, directors and animators to create immersive interactive experiences. This is a golden opportunity to do world class work with world class people.

You:
* live and breathe digital and have a strong knowledge of all the emergent trends and technologies in the interactive space.
* write structured object-oriented code and relish technical challenges.
* enjoy creating experiments, prototypes and toys and can show us some examples.
* have a keenly developed aesthetic sense and are comfortable spending time polishing visual effects.
* work well within a collaborative environment, and thrive on an exchange of ideas.

Must-haves:
* Strong foundation skills in ActionScript 3
* Competent with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
* Good knowledge of OOP and design patterns
* Experience with standard frameworks, libraries and API\’s
* Understanding of source control systems such as SVN and Git
* Familiarity with development environments such as FDT/IntelliJ/FlashDevelop/Flash Builder

Nice to haves:
* Any other programming languages
* Mobile development
* AIR apps
* 3D libraries such as Away3D
* Photoshop/After Effects/Video editing
* Experience working with digital video as source material
* Hardware (such as Arduino)
* Sound processing/editing

This position requires 0-3 years commercial experience (not more).
Music lovers, film geeks, video gamers, Internet nerds and whiskey drinkers will be welcomed with open arms.

How to apply:
Please email juniordev@stinkdigital.com.

Company: Seeper

Location: London, UK
Category: Coder
Type: Freelance

Description

Seeper, an arts and technology collective based in Haggerston, London, is looking for a talented and experienced iOS coder for a great project with an immediate start. The project is music based and is for a pioneering and influential UK record label.

Essential skills:
iOS – Must be able to demonstrate published projects
Objective-C/C++

Useful skills:
OpenFrameworks – Preferably on iOS
openGL ES
Max/MSP
Pure Data
libpd

We will need you to be on-site but can accommodate some remote working. You must be self-motivated and able to work under your own steam as well as under direction from the project\’s designer.

Check out our work at www.vimeo.com/seeper and call us on 020 7923 2483, or email hello@seeper.com with the title ‘iOS Coder from CAN’ with examples of your work and a CV. We shall be interviewing from 23rd January.

Company: FIELD.io

Location: London, United Kingdom
Category: Artist
Type: Freelance

Description

FIELD is a studio for digital art and generative design in London, creating bespoke artworks for screens, installations, and mobile platforms.

We are looking for 3D artists to support the production of our new non-linear film project.
We need experienced artists, generalists or specialists, who can work independently and with art-direction, and become part of our creative team.

- generalists or specialised artists and animators
- experience with SideFX Houdini preferred
- work in house or remotely
- flexible timings, part or full time
- overall timeframe January – March 2012, shorter engagement possible
- fee based on experience

If you’re interested we hope to hear from you asap with details about yourself, your skills and experience!

To apply, please send us your CV and portfolio via mail to: vera@field.io

‘Cell’, Initial concept design by James Alliban and Keiichi Matsuda. Photograph by Ghaasan Daghestani

“The idea that digital is something new and transformative is now quite old. So the question for most creatives is not about going digital – it’s about making it feel less digital, about making participation and interaction feel post-digital; making the tech less techy. We see this reflected back in the freshest creative and cultural work and Alpha-ville is probably where you see that most vividly in this country.” Tom Uglow, Director of Creative Labs at Google.

The 2011 edition of Alpha-ville Festival provides an online and live platform to explore, test and disseminate new ideas, emerging trends, collaborations and groundbreaking works. Running from 22-25 September in London, the programme presents social media and interactive art, open labs, meet-ups, talks, workshops and screenings alongside with live music, visual performances and parties.

Gathering artists, creative coders, new media technologists, designers, architects, professionals, musicians, researchers and academics, some of the key names are: Tom Uglow (Google Creative Labs), Marius Watz, Filip Visnjic (CreativeApplications.Net), Man Bartlett, Daito Manabe, Moritz Stefaner, Keiichi Matsuda, James Alliban, Pantha Du Prince, Jon Hopkins, Jacaszek and Kangding Ray.

This year’s programme addresses the transition from a digital to a post-digital culture, that looks beneath technology at how human behaviours such as collaboration, participation and interaction have redefined the creative practice and society itself, and at how the physical boundaries between reality and online are being blurred. 

Not to miss:  Alpha-ville Symposium: FROM DIGITAL TO POST-DIGITAL - Friday 23rd September – featuring:

Filip Visnjic – Architect, Lecturer and Founder of Creative Applications Network
Tom Uglow – Director of Creative Labs Europe, Google
Patrick Hussey – Digital Director at Arts & Business
Mortiz Stefaner – Information Designer
Martin Ahe – Business Development at Stiktu
Keiichi Matsuda, Designer and Film-maker
Bill Thompson – Technology Writer at BBC
Drew Hemment – Director & Founder of Future Everything
Katy Beale – Founder / Director at Caper

More details and to get your tickets available here: www.alpha-ville.co.uk

Teaser stills by Graphset

Open GDNM 2011 is both an exhibition and a workspace. A three day event featuring the UCA Epsom BA(Hons) Graphic Design: New Media graduate show and the undergraduate interim show. The event will host a series of open talks and workshops by design and media practitioners, theorists, staff, students and alumni. Work will be presented across; interface and interaction design, motion graphics, critical design, open culture, typography, virtual space, sound visualization, collaborative practice, graphic design, photography and digital film.

Open GDNM 2011 specifically encourages dialogue and practice. Several open projects will be completed over the three days including a collaborative (print on demand) book, a documentary film and a creative coding workshop run by our very own Processing society. These workshops and talks run by leading industry professionals, staff and students will cover; digital design, collaborative working, physical computing, digital culture, code and hardware, noise and sound.

CAN will be at the event with me giving a talk about the recent ‘workshop collaborative‘ held at OFFF in Barcelona earlier this week. You will also get a chance to see latest work by the MA Digital Media and Architecture students from University of Westminster where I teach.

You can sign up for the event(s) at http://show.gdnm.org

Dates: 17, 18 & 19 June 2011
CreativeApplications.Net talk is on Friday 17th at 4pm.

Venue:
Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London SE1 9PH

Further information: http://show.gdnm.org
University for the Creative Arts, Epsom.

Fortune Boat Workshop – Lao Jianhua, V&A Designer in Residence

The V&A and the Sackler Centre for arts education has just announced has a new opportunity, for a small group of designers/makers to have a studio at the V&A for six months commencing 1 July 2011.

Proposals are invited from UK based practitioners who wish to develop their practice and engage the public in participatory programming connected to the Museum’s collections and Power of Making Exhibition. Inspired by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Fab Labs and drawing on ideas about open source design, the Residents will facilitate access to making for the public inside the Museum.

The V&A is particularly looking for designers/makers with a background in 3-D art or design – from traditional to high tech making skills, experience in collaborative working and for whom engagement with the public is an integral part of their practice.

Selection Criteria:
Applicants should be dynamic, ambitious and inspiring – pushing forward the boundaries of perception about creative practice, and contribute their skills/techniques to the residency. We are looking for applicants who can adopt a range of different roles and who are keen to draw upon the resources of the V&A and to enter into a dialogue with the public

Bursary offered (£16,800) and studio space provided.

For more information and to apply go to www.vam.ac.uk/jobs

Closing date for applications: 20 March 2011

Interviews: 5 May

Ben Laposky, ’Oscillon 40′, 1952, Photograph of a computer-generated image
20.3 x 25.1 cm, Museum no. E.958-2008
Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Patric Prince

Roman Verostko, ‘Manchester Illuminated Universal Turing Machine, #1′, 1998. Museum no. E.944-2008

Mark Wilson, ‘e4708′, 2008. Museum no. E.535-2008. Given by the artist

To coincide with the Olympics in London in 2012, Watermans is pleased to announce a unique opportunity to present a series of groundbreaking installations exploring interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. Much New Media / Digital Art is increasingly aimed at interaction with the audience and artists are continuously exploring new ways of viewer participation.

This year long project proposes to showcase the work of distinguished artists from all continents, including a British artist, with an interest in projects concerned with ways of participation, interactivity or collaboration and consider the use or importance of technologies in their work. With this we are hoping to initiate and enable a series of discussions around the meaning, possibilities and issues around human interaction and engagement in New Media art and bring in responses from artists, academics, students, art professionals and visitors in the UK and internationally.

OPEN CALL:

Artists and art collectives from all countries working with new media and digital technologies are invited to submit proposals of existing or new projects. Interested artists can propose to show more than one installation or projects and we will welcome applications from individuals, art collectives or collaborations between artists.

We would like to invite artists to propose imaginative, ambitious and inspirational projects that will transform our understanding of art and the way it can be experienced. We will particularly focus on installations with an emphasis on participatory activity (interaction with the audience) in order to engage visitors in a creative, exploratory and inspirational journey prior to and during the Games.

Please send your proposals including:

● work(s) description

● CV(s) and artist statement

● supporting material with description (jpgs, urls, videos etc)

● list of technical requirements, equipment, materials required for the proposed work(s)

● contact details

Budget Each selected artist/art collective will receive a fixed fee of £3,500 to cover fees & project costs, installation and work transport. In addition, Watermans will cover travel and accommodation costs in London and will also provide technical assistance and exhibition promotion.

The deadline for receiving proposals is 24th February 2011.

Please send all application material to:

Irini Papadimitriou
Head of New Media Arts Development
Watermans
40 High Street Brentford,
London TW8 0DS
UK

email: irini@watermans.org.uk A judging panel will select the six projects which will be announced in March/April 2011. The exhibitions will run throughout 2012 (January – October) and the project will provide an opportunity

for presenting a series of innovative and interactive digital/new media art installations never before staged in London. With this project we hope to engage and challenge artists and audiences in new and unexpected ways.

In conjunction with the exhibitions, and in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London, we are planning to run a series of seminars related to the exhibitions, a mentoring scheme for students as well as generate online activity with a website dedicated to the project and the use of social media such as blogs, feeds etc to engage wider audiences in the project and enable critical debate. Online visitors will be able to follow the development of each exhibition as well as the artists’ work from their studio on its way to the gallery in London. Information about the seminars and mentoring scheme will be announced soon.

The project aims to:

● bring together artists from around the globe and the UK to present work in a series of exhibitions that will form a dialogue between the artists and the audiences

● explore and question audience engagement, participation and accessibility in new media and digital art

● engage students and academics in a series of debates throughout the project and in the development and presentation of the exhibitions

● involve other organisations and individuals in the process with partnerships and collaborations

● showcase innovative and experimental New Media, Digital art works and bring togetheraudiences in engaging and participatory projects

● promote London as a major cultural capital

● invite people to take part in the cultural activities and promote and incorporate the Cultural Olympiad themes and values ‘inspiration, participation and creativity’

● encourage participation from communities across London, visitors and young people

● bring visitors to West London

ABOUT WATERMANS

Watermans is a world-class cultural organisation in West London that sits at the nexus of production and consumption in the arts. Our gallery is one of the UK’s leading venues for Digital and New Media Arts with a long history of expertise and commitment in presenting innovative work as well as supporting emerging and established artists working with new technologies. http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions.aspx

Pioneering festival onedotzero_adventures in motion returns this year to London’s BFI Southbank from 10 – 14 November 2010, presenting the most exciting international moving image work, from the offbeat to the radical, aiming to push the boundaries of creativity, innovation and technological wonder.

With the event, Filip Visnjic of CreativeApplications.Net will chair the screening/talk titled “code warriors” to take place on Fri 12 Nov at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London.

Creatives are increasingly using computer code as a raw material to create fluid and self-perpetuating moving image work. This brand-new programme showcases the most ambitious personal experiments and imaginative examples of generative films from a cutting-edge community demonstrating a completely alternative way of working and realising their creative visions. Filip Visnjic [Creative Applications Net] will lead a talk with artists whose work features in the programme.

Fri 12 Nov | 15:50 | NFT3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, Southbank, London SE1 8XT Buy Tickets

followed by:

Protein Forum is a series of events that bring together interesting people to talk about interesting ideas in the world of science, technology and design. Following the success of their recent transatlantic London and New York forums, Protein have got together some of London’s finest practitioners of data visualisation [aka info-graphics] to showcase some of their work and share their learning. Special guests include David McCandless, author of ‘Information is Beautiful’; Andrew Shoben the founder of greyworld; the creative lead of Ultraknowledge, Dave Bowker; and Peter Crnokrak, the design practice of Luxury of Protest.

In addition, other screenings and talks are running from Wednesday to Sunday with many other events taking place. The full programme is available for download here.

Other interesting events:

Quayola Installation “Topologies” – BFI Gallery, FREE

‘Topologies’ A bespoke multi-screen installation, featuring a brand new installment of the ongoing Strata series, by regular festival contributor and artistQuayola. Following on from Quayola’s previous ‘Strata’ series, ‘Topologies’ details pre-modernist paintings which re-emerge from their centenary stillness, evolving into complex and mutable formations. Las Meninas [D. Velazquez, 1656] and Immacolata Concezione [G. Tiepolo, 1767] become topographic maps, linear pathways and structures which pulsate, diverging from the origin to produce a living abstract landscape. Topologies renews an interest in the calculative, generative and arrhythmical qualities, which lie dormant behind the details of a masterpiece… organically transforming a recognisable reality into a colour-saturated, calculated fabrication.
Sound by Matthias Kispert.

antivj: eyjafjallajokull BFI Gallery, FREE

Inspired by the icelandic volcano, which wreaked travel havoc across europe earlier this year, antivj present the latest incarnation of their audiovisual mapping project for the first time in London, painted directly onto a large wall, a wireframed scenery is slowly revealed by gentle light effects. The audience’s sense are progressively challenged as optical illusions question their perception of space.

Hellicar & Lewis and Todd Vanderlin: Feedback – BFI Southbank Foyer, FREE

Feedback is an interactive installation, which aims to encourage playful performance from members of the public. Using the familiar form of a mirror, the installation uses cutting-edge computer vision techniques to allow users to remix their bodies in real time and display them on a large scale at BFI Southbank.

Dark Fibre: Holotronica x Musion extravaganza

The BFI’s quarterly audiovisual club teams up again with onedotzero and Musion Technology, the world leader in 3D holographic projection, to present an exclusive one-off and FREE night of AV performance. Join us as we explore the space where moving image and music meet and play: expect eye-popping visuals [literally], rumbling basslines and a late night! Confirmed line-up of artists include the latest project from Stuart Warren-Hill, Holotronica as well as AV artists D-Fuse, VJ/illustrator Shantell Martin and electronic DJ/Producer 10SUI.

about onedotzero

onedotzero is an international moving image and digital arts organisation which commissions, showcases and promotes innovation across all aspects of moving image, digital and interactive arts. The organisation, founded in 1996, is known for representing a diverse array of artistic endeavour via the annual onedotzero_adventures in motion festival and associated touring, currently taking place globally throughout 2010. It has a cross media and collaborative approach attuned to technological advances and fast paced change within digital arts and the contemporary culture landscape.

onedotzero_adventures in motion festival is directed by Shane RJ Walter who in 2010, was named in the Wired 100 list of individuals that are shaping the digital world in, recognized as a cultural leader by the Honda Dream Factory and included in Hospital Club 100 list of the most influential people in the creative and media industries.

onedotzero recently co-curated Decode: Digital Design Sensations, an exhibition at the V&A Museum, London, which showcased the latest developments in digital and interactive design. www.onedotzero.com

If you live in London then you know how dire are the digital billboards on the underground so here is a chance to change that, for two weeks at least. New collaborative “Smile for London” have just announced a contest to get your work on the London Underground’s digital screens. First and hopefully many more to come, read below how to enter.

It’s a breathtaking city overflowing with creative talent from all corners of the globe. Our mission is to bring some of this talent and creativity to the weary commuters on the London Underground, reminding them of how great it is to be a Londoner. For two weeks in January we’re taking over the CBSO platform screens on Monday mornings with a programme of film and animation, showcasing the best of London’s emerging and existing artistic talent.

What’s in it for you?
Should your piece be one of the fifty selected by online voters, you’ll be invited to the launch at the Museum of London where you’ll have the chance to network with industry leaders and other talented Londoners. The four overall winning entries will be announced and showcased at this event, with a showreel space dedicated to presenting the winners’ showreels. The pieces will then be broadcast on the CBSO screens over our flagship two weeks which will include work by eight leading animators, directors and artists.

You can submit as many pieces as you like, old or new, however avoid nudity, sexually explicit scenes, swearing and violence. Your piece must be non-commercial, all your own work, and you should have obtained copyright or relevant permissions for all images and films used in your piece.

If you love London too, find out how to enter your work here (pdf) and help make this a permanent London feature. You can also add your submissions to the new “Smile for London” Vimeo group.

Dates: The final day for submissions is 15th November 2010. On show for two weeks in January 2011.

Follow the developments on Facebook or the site (coming soon)

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The London Design Festival has commissioned Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram to design this year’s Trafalgar Square installation.

From September 16 to 23, their project entitled OUTRACE, will empower the general public to take control of eight industrial robots on loan from Audi’s production line. Both visitors to the square, as well as a global web audience will be able to interact with the installation online. Each robot arm weighing over 1200kg with maximum reach of 3.1 meters is fitted with fluorescent lamp controlled to “draw” a letter. Logging in to http://www.outrace.org/ with a mobile device or computer, a global audience will be able to send text messages to the robots, directing the paths of the lights held by the robotic tentacles into the letter forms of the user’s text message. Long-exposure cameras capture these interactive light paintings and will email them back to the original author and the project website.

In the weeks leading up to the event, the OUTRACE installation is being built up and tested in a hall at Audi’s Ingolstadt headquarters.

Dates: 16 – 23 September, Trafalgar Square, London, UK.

Follow the development on OUTRACE Facebook page.

(Thanks Pieter)