TIGERSHUNGRY

Combined cooing over Steph Thirion’s games mod workshop and layer tennis over the past few weeks got me thinking about a project I’m looking into running that sits halfway between the two.

Currently lacking in a catchy title, the basic gist is a chain processed game/interactive art. Starting with an original (but basic) games code in Processing- this would then be passed along a chain of X people who would each make X number of changes to the code before passing it onto the next person and so on until it gets to the end and we’re left with some weird mutilated but (potentially) beautiful evolution of interactive art/ game. (more…)

Cake Orchestra (with additional percussion) from nikkipugh on Vimeo.

Its still early days for me in my move back to Birmingham since starting at Screen WM, so I’m keen to get out and about to see what geeky fun is to be had in the Second city and last night I popped along to fizzPOP in ‘Digital’ Digbeth.

FizzPOP in its own words is “a group of people with a wide range of skills and interests, bound by a common interest in tinkering with stuff to make something new. It’s a hackerspace.” this intro combined with videos (see above) of cake orchestras, knowledge of soldering and ‘Arduino’ (which I need to get my head around if I am ever actually going to build myself a Meggy Jr) was more than enough to get me along yesterday eve.

Although I have NOOOO techy or DIY skills I was warmly welcomed and in no time was soldering and data bending c/o the guys there. So anyone else interested in tinkering and hacking with tech in the midlands area should definitely get down to the next meet up in 2 weeks and I most certainly will.

Although logic dictates I should be writing about the launch of Lynch’s Interview Project today, I’m not. Instead I’m going to write about an old Game Mod workshop created by Steph Thirion (the guy behind the stylish, abstract and addictive Eliss)  for the Elisava Design School in Barcelona that consumed 2 hours of my time (a good 2 hours) last night (more…)